..::SEV::.. Some English Vocabulary

Math Basic Vocabulary

2009-06-09T16:02:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone, Sorry for not writting all these days, but now I'm back, and I'm gonna post more than one daily. Well, I found this words that I find really interesting, some math vocabulary, the basic one.

+ "plus"
Example: 2 + 2 (Two plus two)

- "minus"
Example: 6 - 4 (Six minus four)

x "times" also *
Example: 5 x 3 OR 5 * 3 (Five times three)

= "equals"
Example: 2 + 2 = 4 (Two plus two equals four)

< "is less than" Example: 7 <>> "is greater than"
Example:12 > 8 (Twelve is greater than eight)

≤ "is less than or equal to"
Example:4 + 1 ≤ 6 (Four plus one is less than or equal to six)

≥ "is more than or equal to"
Example:5 + 7 ≥ 10 (Five plus seven is equal to or greater than ten)

≠ "is not equal to"
Example:12 ≠ 15 (Twelve is not equal to fifteen)

÷ "divided by" also /
Example:4 / 2 OR 4 ÷ 2 (four divided by two)

1/2 "one half"
Example:1 1/2 (One and one half)

1/3 "one third"
Example:3 1/3 (Three and one third)

1/4 "one quarter"
Example:2 1/4 (Two and one quarter)

5/9, 2/3, 5/6 "five ninths, two thirds, five sixths"
Example:4 2/3 (Four and two thirds)

% "percent"
Example:98% (Ninety eight percent)

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Talking about debts

2009-05-21T16:27:00.000-07:00

This post about being in debt, and the first thing you should know about it is that in the US and some countries, when you are late paying your bill, the campanies send you a bill but the ink will be in pink or red.

Credit score: There are some organisations that keep track of how good you are in making your payments and you pay your bills on time. Exmaple: Being late on you bills is bad for your credit score.

Creditor: Is the person or organisation who leands you the money.

Credit counselor: is a person who helps people with a lot of debts to fix the problem. They don't give them the money, but they help people to be organise, and came out with a plan to pay Example: I have found a good credit counselor who will help me with a plan to pay back my debt.

Debt collector: Is a person or campany who have to get you to pay your bills. And they call you, and keep calling you to reminds you to pay your bills.Example:I have debt collectors calling me at all hours of the day.

Behind on: This is an expression which means to be behind schedule, to be doing things later than when you should be doing them.
Example: Are you behind on all of those bills?

Catch up on: Is used to say that you can pay all of the bills that you haven't paid.
Example: I can catch up on all my bills next month.

Interest: Is a amount of additional money that you have to pay when you borrow money from someone else.
Example: If you borrow US$1000 from the bank at 10% interest, you have to give the bank US$1100 back to pay for the loan and the interest.

Loan: Is the money that someone gives you, a bank or a person,
Example: I went to the bank for a loan, because I need to buy a new car.

Default on: means not to make the payment that you are suppose to make. Miss one of your payments or two.
Example: My bank let me default on the loan they borrowed me.

Run up: means to spend a lot of money, or use a lot of something.
Example: I ran up my credit card.

Loan Shark: is someone who leands other ppl money, but at very high interest, and if you don't pay, thay can even use violence, or hurt you.
Example: I was so desperate at that moment that I went to see a loan shark.

Defer: To do it later than when it was an original schedule. You can also say to put it off.
Example:My creditor agreed to defer payment for a couple of months.

Raise: To give money for specific purpose, usually from different sources, you may work, you may ask somebody from another loan.
Example: I need to raise the money to pay my bills.

Pay off: to give the money back to someone who has leant you money.
Example: That will take you years to pay ff all of those bills.

Restraint: Is a when you don't do something, even dou when you can do it.
Example:A little restraint now will save you a lot of pain.

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Medical vocabulary

2009-05-21T16:07:00.000-07:00

This post was written by a friend of mine who is a Doctor, for that reason here is some medical vocabulary. I hope you like it.

ER: Emergency room, the department of a hospital responsible for the provision of medical and surgical care to patients arriving at the hospital in need of immediate care.
Example: If you have a car accident, the ambulance will get you to ER.

Physician: A physician is a person trained in the art of healing. A physician is also referred as a doctor of medicine.
The term “physician” is used somewhat differently in differently English speaking countries. For example, in the UK a physician is a specialist in internal or general medicine while in the USA it is a more general term for a doctor of medicine.
Example: This is Jason, and he is a very good physician.

Surgeon: A physician who treads disease, injury, or deformity by operative or manual methods. A medical doctor specialized in the removal of organs, masses and tumors and in doing other procedures using a knife (scalpel).
Example: My daughter is an excellent doctor, and soon she will became a great surgeon.

Platelets: Platelets are the smallest cell-like structures in the blond and are important for blood clotting

Example: People with high platelets are considered as potential blood donors.

Blood: The familiar red fluid in the body that contains white and red blood cells, platelets, proteins, and other elements.
Example: When I saw him, he had a lot of blood on his head.

Blood bank: A place where blood is collected from donors, typed, separated into components, stored, and prepared for a transfusion to recipients. A blood bank may be a separate free standing facility or part of a larger laboratory in a hospital.
Example: Have you try calling a blood bank?

Blood group: An inherited feature on the surface of the red blood cells. A series of related blood types constitute a blood group system such as the Rh or the ABO system; the most common type is O+.
Example: You will need you blood group, if you want to get you driver license.

Tears: are the liquid products of a process of lacrimation to clean and lubricate the eyes. The word lacrimation (also spelled lachrymation), may also be used in a medical or literary sense to refer to crying.
Example: when I lost my cat the tears came out of my eyes.

AIDS: Disease due to infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). AIDS is an acronym for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome.
Example: AIDS is a virus that has claimed many lives because of their high infection.

Injure: Harm or hurt. The term "injury" may be applied in medicine to damage inflicted. The term "injury" may be synonymous (depending on the context) with a wound or with trauma.
Example: When my friend injure unintentionally, I hurt me too.

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Describing Voices

2009-05-19T11:36:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone, sorry yesterday I couldn't write because I was a little sick. This time is about words you can use when talking about someone's voice.

"Funny voice" - Unusual, strange, not common.
Example: That Dj has such funny voice.

"Deep" -someone who has a voice very low.

"Husky" -When we are talking about a voice, is a low sound voice, deep voice, but is sort of attractive, is often use to describe some men's voices.
Example: Mark has a deep husky voice that i finf really sexy.

"Monotone"-Always thee same note, the tone, never quiet or loud. One kind of tone or note.
Example: Her voice is so monotone.

"Lilt" -This is the way your voice goes up and down, higher and lower. It's the opposite of monotone.

"High-pitch" -Is something that has a sound at very high note, so high that it could hurts your ear, or be unpleasant.

"Squeaky" -Is a voice that sounds a little like a mouse.

"Gravelly" -Is a very low voice, almost a deep kind of sound, usually it sound is something that you can use to describe a women's voice.
Example: I like a gravelly voice.

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Making Dinner

2009-05-17T10:05:00.000-07:00

Today I´m gonna post a few words we can use we are talking about making dinner.

"Tablecloth" -is a large cloth that you put over a table, usually for some formal dinning situation, For exmple if you go to a nice restaurant, they wear usually tablecloths.

"To set the table" -means to put the plate, cups, napkins, spoons, forks, knives, all of those sort of things you need to eat on the table. Usually this is something you do before the person brings out the food to eat.
Example: When I was young it was always my job to set the table.

"Scrubs" -Move you hand quickly in order to clean vegetables. Usually when you put them under the water, so that the dirt comes off of them.
Example: Can you scrubs these potatoes for me, please?

"Rinse" -Clean something by running water over it.
Example: I rinsed my hair this morning.

"Peel" -Is a verb people use in cooking to talk about removing skin from a fruit or vegetable, to remove the outside of something, usually with a small knife or peeler.
Example: Use that knife to peel these carrots.

"Cut up" -To cut something into smaller pieces, usually wiht a knife.
Example: How did you cut up this chiken.

"Steam" -To cook something by putting it in over boiling water. The food isn't in the water, it's in something else but the heat from the boiling water (the vapor) comes up into the food and cooks it.
Example: Have you ever steamed a fish?

"Chop" -Move the knife up and down quicky several times using the same motion to cut something.
Example: Why don't you chop teh vegetables first?

"Beat" -To mix something very quickly.
Example: Could you beat these eggs?

"Slice" -This is another verb you can use to refer to cutting something, this is when you cut something into very thin flat pieces.
Example: I always slice bread in the morning.

"Whip up"-Tto make something to eat very quickly.
Example: I'm gonna whip up some food for dinner.

"Gourmet dishes" -Means very good tasting, something delicious, high quality food.
Example: I want to whip up some gourmet dishes.

"Toss" -Toss something is when you mix different pieces of food together.
Example: I want to toss the salad this time.

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Just a Tip

2009-05-16T18:18:00.001-07:00

Have you ever try to watch a movie without subtitles? I think you probably do.

Well, I have read about this and hear a lot of people who says that this method really works. But what happen when you are begginer? I think you will never understand a word. I'm not telling that this practice doesn't work, but there are some things we have to take into account to do it.

The first thing you should try is watch the movie in English with subtitles, then you will have a general idea about the movie and pronunciation.

Then choose the scene you like the best, just one scene, and replay it few times, try to learn the dialogs, and you will be learning some vocabulary for common situations. If you want, write the dialog of the scene and write the meaning of the words you don't know.

It's better try to learn only one scene from your favorite movie than watch all the movie and don't understand a word about it.

I hope this little advice help you out to improve you English even faster.

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Aches and Pains

2009-05-15T19:42:00.000-07:00

Here is some vocabulary you can use when talking about aches and pains.
If you know more words about it please leave a comment with the words.

Pain is when something feels unconfortable, it hurts.

"A twinge of pain" -twinge is a sudden feeling but it doesn't last very long, it's not constant, it's not all the time, but it happens quicky and then it goes away.

"Bruise" -A bruise is a often painful spot on your skin, usually it has a different color: dark purple, brown or a little green. It's cause by bleeding underneath your skin, there is blond underneath your skin. It often happens when you are hit very hard by something or someone.

"Strain" - to hurt part of your body because you were working so hard or because you try to do somethingthat was too difficult.
Example: I strained my back while exercising.

"Pulle a muscle in" -to hurt a part of your body, in your arms, in you legs, in your back, wherever you have a muscle. A muscle is what conects bones together and allow you to move your bones. Example: I pulled a muscle in my right arm while fixing my car yesterday.

"Sharp pain" -This is pain doesn't last for a long time but it's a very strong pain, it's a very acute pain.

"Dull pain" -Dull is the opposite of sharp, It describes a pain that is not strong but it last a long time.

"Sore" -Sore means in pain usually because you work a part of your body too hard, the part that is sore. For example when you running and you are not use to running the next day your muscle may be sore, they may hurt.

"Stiff" -Unable to move easily, inflexible, not flexible. For example when you hurt your arm, it may be stiff, its means is hard to move up and down or left and right.

"To throb" -Means to have a pain that starts and stops repeatly, in a random way. So if you hit your thumb, it may throb, it may have a strange sort of pulse that causes your pain.

Example: I hit my thumb with a hammer last night, and they don't throbbing.

"Injury" -It's a problem with some part of your body, usually cause by an accident.

I almost forget to write the meaning of ache. Ache is a kind of pain usually is a doll pain, it's not neccesary serious.

For now that's it. If you know any other word please feel free to post it.

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Let's Start

2009-05-15T15:42:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone, my name is Andres and this is my first english blog. I study english by myself so my english is not good at all, but any way I wanna learn and be as good as a native speaker, at the same time I gonna try to help people improve their english while I do.

There will be a new post everyday, with some vocabulary, tips for improve for englis, and stuff like that. Every single thing I learn I'm gonna post it. If you have any question I'll be glad to help you, even when I don't know I'll search for the answer.

If I have any grammar mistake please feel free to let me know.

I'm gonna do my best to help you out, and learn as much as I can.

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