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Sep 13, 2014 · OCD (10th ed.) at hand defines “banzai” as; exclaim: 1. Japanese battle cry. 2. A form of greeting used to the Japanese emperor. We Japanese stand up and shout “banzai” when watching TV featuring the scene Japanese baseball (women’s soccer) team wins the world baseball (women’s soccer) games. We also use “banzai” for the meaning ...
Jun 11, 2016 · The Greek word "myrioi" for 10,000 is the source of "myrietes" and "myrieteris," which mean "a period of 10,000 years." Similarly, there is "chilieteris," a period of 1,000 years, which uses the "chili-" prefix that became our "kilo-." By the way, there's a very long word for a myriad of myriads = 10^8 in Greek.
Jun 27, 2016 · Officially it is a noun. The word comes from the combination of two Japanese words: “Bon” is a dish or thin bowl (“a modified vessel which has been divided or cut down from a deeper form”).
第442团的士兵们大胆发起“万岁冲锋”（banzai charge)，也就是美军不敢尝试的自杀式冲锋一举突破德军防线。 1945年4月，第442步兵团又被调回了意大利战场，被命令去进攻德军的哥特防线（German Gothic Line），这条防线足足抵挡了盟军的6个月的进攻。
Feb 21, 2014 · Wiktionary sez:. First attested in the 1960s in the context of aviation. Probably coined by pilots whose throttle levers had round, ball-like tops and for whom putting the "balls to the wall" (the firewall of the aircraft) meant making the aircraft fly as quickly as possible.
How can we describe someone who always takes the initiative? He is very _. The only word I can come up with is pro-active but it sounds/feels a little awkward to me. Edit: Dictionary[dot]com has a
1. (Talking about a chimp): "In human age, he would have been on the brink of puberty." I was told that this sentence is odd because 'be on the brink of' is usually used for something negative: suicides, disasters etc. Though this is most often the case, I don't think this is necessarily true. For example, you can say "on the brink of greatness".
Jul 4, 2014 · What made Tinder Tinder was the work of a team: Joe Munoz, who built the technical back end; Jonathan Badeen, who wrote the iOS code; Christopher Gulczynski, who created the design; Rad, who pl...
Improve this answer. answered Aug 4, 2012 at 8:31. Barrie England. 141k 10 245 406. 1. "Origin story" is not really an innovation, and "origin" is not being used as an adjective. – JSBձոգչ. Aug 4, 2012 at 23:30. @JSBձոգչ Right, it’s just the regular noun being used attributively.
Mar 21, 2016 · As far as I know the former remains fictional, but Yoyodyne (as well as later figuring in the film The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension) has actually been adopted by at least one real company. A policy of italicising invented names seems both immediately and increasingly unworkable.
