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    Word for the Day, Tuesday January 4th

    SUCCOR (suhk’-er) n.: aid, assistance, relief

    Succor means help, especially help given to someone in distress.


    “The Opti-board is always there to give succor to those having trouble with their progressive lens.”

    “In time of trouble, some find succor in their failth.”

    Succor is also the person or thing that gives help.

    “Fuel assistance is a great succor to families in need.”

    “Those who have taken the time to aquire an in depth understanding are a succor to patients with a challenging RX.”

    Succor is also used as a verb.

    “All attempts to succor the poor customer proved fruitless.”


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    WOrd for the Day Wednesday January 5th

    DILATORY (dil’-uh-tOr-E) adj.: slow tardy, causing delay

    Dilatory is applied to people and their actions. A dilatory person delays, out of laziness, indifference, or simply out of a desire to delay.

    “Tim was so dilatory in returning books that finally the library took away his card.”

    “Realizing the company was short of cash, the accountant was dilatory about paying the bills.”

    Dilatory actions are characterized by delay or are intended to delay.

    “The senator’s dilatory tactics prevented the bill from being considered before Congress adjourned.


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    WOrd for the Day Thursday January 6th

    BADINAGE (bad-uh-nah zh’ or bad’-uh-nij) n.: banter, light repartee

    Badinage is lighthearted, playful banter, playful kidding.

    “Their badinage was very entertaining: witty puns and playful insults bounced back and forth like tennis balls.”

    “Even if they don’t look alike, the badinage in their conversation marked them as brother and sister: only siblings are so affectionately disrespectful.”

    “On occasion the badinage went beyond what is acceptable in a public forum.”

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    Word for the Day Friday January 7th

    OSTENSIBLE (o-sten’-suh-bul) adj.: pretended, seeming, apparent

    Ostensible comes from a Latin word meaning to show; it is related to the word ostentation, which is boastful showiness. Ostensible originally meant, “open to view, able to be seen,” but in modern use it suggests that what is apparent on the surface is not true underneath, that there is a hidden purpose or character to something.

    “She was ostensibly a patient, but in fact she was doing a survey on the over-all quality of the opticians fitting skills in her area.”

    “The ostensible purpose of his visit was to welcome them to neighborhood, but he really wanted to see how rich they were.”

    “His ostensible business was running a golf pro shop, but it was discovered he was really an optician looking for customers.”

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    Word for the Day Saturday, January 8th

    NASCENT (nas’-uhnt or nAs’-uhnt) adj.: beginning to exist, incipient

    Nascent comes from a Latin word meaning to be born, and is related to such words as natal and native. Something that is nascent is just beginning to be born, is coming into existence.

    “The nascent solar energy industry was greatly aided by the oil shortage.”

    “Karen’s parents tried to encourage her nascent interest in classical music.”

    Other forms of the word: NASCENCE, n. and NASCENCY n.

    “Her interest in becoming an optician was beyond nascency, it was becoming a reality.”

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    WOrd for the Day SUnday January 9th

    PROFLIGATE (pro’-fli-git) adj.: extravagant, wasteful, dissolute, immoral, and abandoned

    Someone who is profligate is shamelessly immoral, totally given over to dissipation.

    “The profligate opticians wasted their lives gambling and drinking when not at work.”

    Very often the word refers only to a person’s spending and wastefulness and means “recklessly extravagant.”

    “The heiress was so profligate that she soon spent all her inheritance and had to go back to work.”

    Profligate is also a noun, meaning an extravagant or immoral person.”

    “The young profligate will never recoup her losses unless she mends her ways.”

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    Word for the Day, Monday January 10th

    OTIOSE (O’shE-Os or O’-tE-Os) adj.: Idle, indolent; ineffective, futile, useless

    Otiose has two related meanings. The first is idle, at leisure.

    “He condemned those otiose young men who had never done a good day’s work in their lives.”

    From this otiose has come to mean “lacking in effectiveness“ futile or functionless.

    “The moderator felt that words were otiose at a moment of such high drama, so he said nothing.”

    “The new CEO said the whole department was otiose and should be terminated.”

    Other forms of the word: OSTIOSITY, n.
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    Harry and K'squared:


    I love you both for this post but don't you think we could put opthalmic words here instead? I have found that appearently no major manufacturer knows what a chassis is (try ordering one by that name and see what happens).\

    Words like squint, strabissmus, horebellum, and stuff like that could possibly be more usefull to our field.

    Chip

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    great idea

    love you both for this post but don't you think we could put opthalmic words here instead? I have found that appearently no major manufacturer knows what a chassis is (try ordering one by that name and see what happens).\

    Words like squint, strabissmus, horebellum, and stuff like that could possibly be more usefull to our field.

    Chip
    HI Chip, That's a great idea! I need to learn some of those optical words myself and what better way than to type them out and use them. Plus I hope 1968 will continue with his most creative prose. Thank-you very much for the suggestion.
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    :cheers:

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    Word for the Day Tuesday January 11th

    DESCRY (des-krI’) v.: to notice, discern, espy

    To descry means to catch sight of. The word implies keen vision that allows one to see something despite great distance or hindrance.

    “The townspeople could just barely descry the masts of the ships on the horizon.”

    “The hiker decried the climbers on the adjacent peak in spite of the cloud cover”.

    Descry can also be used in a figurative sense of anything that is discovered by keen mental observation.”

    “She thought she decried a pattern in what was causing the server to crash.”


    PS: Chip, I'll start mixing in those "optical" words next week. I have a nice list started but will need to do a bit more work on the example sentences. Also I'm out of the office untill Wednesday January 19th with no laptop so if anyone else wants to post words while I gone - feel free. I'll be happy to resume on my return. Cheers.
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    Word for the Day, January 12th

    AVER (uh-ver’) v.: to assert, affirm, declare

    The ver part of aver comes from a Latin word meaning true; it is also found in such words as verify and verdict. To aver something is to declare confidently that it is true.

    “Several witnesses heard him aver that he would get even if it was the last thing he did.”

    “The coach averred that his team would win the championship easily.”

    Deny is the exact opposite. Many People are familiar with the word aver but perhaps haven’t seen it often enough to remember whether to aver something is to say it is true or say it is false.

    “She averred that this was the case with many a word (or not depending on her mood).”
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    Hey chip.......Great idea!

    Why not take a shot at it while ksquared and I are away......She'll be gone for a week and I won't be back till next friday (aweek). If you have the time, thanks in advance! The weather here in San Diego is a heck of a lot better than Cape Cod this time of year! hj
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    Word for the day Friday 1/14/05

    1. To satisfy; to quench; to extinguish; as, to slake thirst.
    2. To cause to lessen; to make less active or intense; to
    moderate; as, slaking his anger.
    3. To cause (as lime) to heat and crumble by treatment with
    water.

    intransitive verb:
    To become slaked; to crumble or disintegrate, as lime.

    My companions never drink pure water and the... beer
    serves as much to slake their thirst as to fill their
    stomachs and lubricate conversation.
    --Philippe Descola, [1]The Spears of Twilight

    She had the money he gave her (never enough to slake her
    anxieties).
    --Nuala O'Faolain, [2]Are You Somebody
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    Slake comes from Middle English slaken, "to become or render
    slack," hence "to abate," from Old English slacian, from slæc,
    "slack."
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    Word of the Day for Saturday January 15, 2005

    profuse \pruh-FYOOS; proh-\, adjective:
    1. Pouring forth with fullness or exuberance; giving or given
    liberally and abundantly; extravagant.
    2. Exhibiting great abundance; plentiful; copious; bountiful.

    Lo and behold, when the time came to pay the check, it
    turned out that my pants had been torn by a nail
    strategically located under the table. Profuse apologies
    and "please don't pay for this dinner" followed.
    --George Lang, [1]Nobody Knows the Truffles I've Seen

    [T]hickets of brambles and vines grew in profuse, obscuring
    tangles between our house and the road.
    --Reeve Lindbergh, [2]Under a Wing
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    Profuse comes from Latin profusus, past participle of
    profundere, "to pour forth," from pro-, "forth" + fundere, "to
    pour."

    Synonyms: exuberant, lavish, liberal, lush.
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    Word for the day 1/17

    purblin


    pur·blind ** *P***Pronunciation Key**(pûrblnd)
    adj.
    Having poor vision; nearly or partly blind.

    Slow in understanding or discernment; dull: “a purblind oligarchy that flatly refused to see that history was condemning it to the dustbin” (Jasper Griffin).

    Obsolete. Completely blind.



    [Middle English pur blind, totally blind, nearsighted *: pur, pure; see pure + blind, blind; see blind.
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    Word of the Day for Tuesday January 18, 2005

    voluble \VOL-yuh-buhl\, adjective:
    1. Characterized by a ready flow of speech.
    2. Easily rolling or turning; rotating.
    3. (Botany) Having the power or habit of turning or twining.

    Rostow was voluble, exuberant and full of good and
    sometimes foolish ideas.
    --Kai Bird, [1]The Color of Truth

    Two glasses of wine made him voluble and three made him
    bellicose, sentimental and sometimes slurred.
    --"How Nixon turned into Tricky Dicky," [2]Daily Telegraph,
    March 9, 1999

    He listened patiently and with quiet amusement to my
    enthusiasm. Indeed, this turned out to be our pattern: I,
    more ignorant but more voluble, would babble on, while he
    would offer an occasional objection or refinement.
    --Phillip Lopate, [3]Totally, Tenderly, Tragically

    Her tongue, so voluble and kind,
    It always runs before her mind.
    --Matthew Prior, "Truth and Falsehood"
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    Voluble derives from Latin volubilis, "revolving, rolling,
    fluent," from volvere, "to roll."
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    Word for the Day Thursday January 20th

    REFRACTION (re-frac-tion) n.: the change in direction of a wave as it passes from one medium and enters another.

    How it works: Waves, such as sound and light waves, travel at different speeds in different media. When a wave enters a new medium at an angle of less than 90°, the change in speed occurs sooner on one side of the wave than on the other, causing the wave to bend, or refract.

    A little history: In addition to his contributions to celestial mechanics, the German astronomer Johannes Kepler also is credited with establishing modern optics. Among Kepler's many accomplishments in that arena are these highlights: Kepler set forth the principles of the telescope, and he explained the process of vision by refraction within the eye.

    Follow the leader: Speaking generally, refraction refers to the deflection from a straight path that is undergone by a light ray (or an energy wave) as it passes obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different.

    Reflecting on the word refraction leds us to refringere, meaning "to break off"; when we break apart that Latinism, we get re- plus frangere, meaning "to break." Although frangere plays a role in plenty of words besides refract, the meaning of those words isn't always easy to discern. For example, refrangible means "capable of being refracted," while frangible means "capable of being broken."

    But the favorite frangere terms of all are all obsolete: there's confraction ("a breaking into pieces"), naufrage (an old term for "shipwreck," from the idea of a navis, a ship, being broken), and finally, fedifragous (meaning "faithless; perfidious," from the idea of a broken compact or federation).

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    Interesting Fact for Day January 21st

    Topic: Hyperpronunciation

    Let's take a wee break to take a look (and to see if everyone is paying attention) at the phenomenon in which English speakers give foreign names pronunciations so foreign they draw attention to themselves. Consider such examples as \pah-REE\, instead of \PAR-is\, and \MEH-hee-ko\, instead of the more familiar \MEK-sih-ko\.

    There are a number of ways to understand this linguistic approach, and those ways depend on one's perspective and attitude. Some folks consider \MEH-hee-ko\ and \pah-REE\ thoughtful acknowledgements of other cultures and languages. They believe making an effort to speak as locals do is a worthy goal.

    Other folks disapprove of such variants, pronouncing them affected at best, and at worst, logically inconsistent—or perhaps it's the other way around. After all, they say, if we're going to put the French into \pah-REE\, why not put it into Brussels too, and pronounce that city-name \bruek-SEL\? Or perhaps we should do as the Flemish do, and say \BRUE-sel\. Where does one draw the line? Far better, say these folks, for English speakers to stick with Anglicized pronunciations than to give in to the foreign allure of the hyperpronunciation.

    We'll let H.W. Fowler have the last word on this one. That respected commentator wrote, "While we are entitled to display a certain fastidious precision in our saying of words that only the educated use, we deserve not praise but censure if we decline to accept the popular pronunciation of popular words."

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    Word for the Day January 22nd

    SATURNINE (SAT-er-nyne) adj.:
    1.born under or influenced astrologically by the planet Saturn
    2.cold and steady in mood: slow to act or change
    3.of a gloomy or surly disposition
    4.having a sardonic aspect

    He only knew his mother from photos, which showed her to be a saturnine woman with a permanent frown.

    Did you know?
    Eeyore is saturnine. The gloomy, cynical character of A. A. Milne's gray donkey typifies the personality type the ancient Romans ascribed to individuals born when the planet Saturn was rising in the heavens. Both the name of the planet and today's featured adjective derive from the name of the Roman god of agriculture, who was often depicted as a bent old man with a stern, sluggish, and sullen nature.

    The Latin name for Saturn was "Saturnus," which is assumed to have yielded the word "Saturninus" (meaning "of Saturn") in Medieval Latin; that form was adapted to create English "saturnine" in the 15th century.

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    WOrd for the Day SUnday January 23rd

    CIRCUMLOCUTION (sir-kum-lo-KYOO-shun) n.: The use of many words to express an idea that might be expressed by few; indirect or roundabout language; a periphrase.

    Dickens gave us the classic picture of official heartlessness: the government Circumlocution Office, burial ground of hope in "Little Dorrit."
    --"'Balance of Hardships'," New York Times, September 28, 1999


    In a delightful circumlocution, the Fed chairman said that "investors are probably revisiting expectations of domestic earnings growth".
    --"US exuberance is proven 'irrational'," Irish Times, October 31, 1997


    Courtesies and circumlocutions are out of place, where the morals, health, lives of thousands are at stake.
    --Charles Kingsley, Letters


    Prefer the single word to the circumlocution.
    --H.W. Fowler, The King's English
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    Visual word for the Day, Monday January 24th

    ACUITY (a-cu’-I-tee) n.: A quick and penetrating intelligence or sharpness of vision; the visual ability to resolve fine detail (usually measured by a Snellen chart).

    “A well developed vocabulary allowed some of the opti-boarders to argue with great acuteness while others had a more difficult time expressing themselves.”

    Visual acuity is the spatial resolving capaicty of the eye to see fine detail usually expressed as the reciprocal of the minimum angular separation in minutes of two lines just resolvable as separate and that forms in the average human eye an angle of one minute.

    The visual acuity test measures the distance you stand from the eye chart (usually 20 feet) and the smallest line you are able to read at that distance.

    Visual acuity is expressed as a fraction. The top number refers to the distance you stand from the chart. This is usually 20 feet. The bottom number indicates the distance at which a person with normal eyesight could read the line with the smallest letters that you could correctly read. 20/20 is considered normal. 20/40 indicates that the line you correctly read at 20 feet could be read by a person with normal vision at 40 feet.

    Example: 20/-1250

    What can be seen by the myopic eye at 20 feet can be seen by the normal eye at 1250.

    (since so few are actually reading these I might as well have some fun and as you can see I'm easily intertained. ;) )

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    Optical word for the day, January 25th

    Snellen's Chart : The most commonly used eye chart for measuring how well you see at various distances. The chart and the letters are named for a 19th-century Dutch ophthalmologist Hermann Snellen (1834-1908) who came up with them as a test of visual acuity, a measure of how well a person sees.

    Snellen's chart is imprinted with block letters that line-by-line decrease in size, corresponding to the distance at which that line of letters is normally visible. Each block letter is quite scientific in design (so that at the appropriate distance the letter subtends a visual angle of 5 degrees and each component part subtends an angle of 1 minute).

    While the Snellen chart is perfectly adequate for refraction purposes, there are some that beleive a number of flaws exist in its design which could affect it's accuracy as a test of visual performance.

    One of the most obvious perceived problem is that there are a different number of letters on each row. This could mean that patients with poor acuity are required to read fewer letters than those with good acuity. The letters on the lower lines are also more crowded than those towards the top of the chart. This crowding could increase the difficulty of the task, particularly for children and some amblyopes. The small number of larger letters could also limit the usefulness of the chart when assessing low vision patients

    Another perceived problem could be that the spacing between each letter and each row of letters bears no systematic relationship to the width / height of the letters. Thus, the task required of the patient may change as they read down the chart.

    Recording the results of a Snellen test can also be seen as problematic. In general, Snellen acuity is taken as the lowest row of letters that can be read. However in practice, patients seldom read all of one row and no letters on the row below and the endpoint may even spread over three lines. In these cases the clinician has to try and convey the result in the format 6/6-3 + . As there are no agreed standards for the exact notation in these situations, there exists the possibility for confusion!

    WHile there have been many attempts to improve on the design of the Snellen chart, there is one chart design (Bailey-Lovie or LogMAR ) which appear to have overcome the shortcomings of the Snellen chart listed above. I'll take a closer look at this one tomorrow. ;)
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    Optical word for the day, Wednesday January 26th

    LogMAR Chart - Originally proposed in 1976, the Bailey-Lovie (or LogMAR) chart might be an improvement over the Snellen chart.

    Unlike the Snellen chart, each line contains the same number of letters – five. Each row is simply a scaled down version of the row above since the spacing between each letter and each row is related to the width and height of the letters respectively. This task of reading each line should therefore remain the same as the patient reads down the chart.

    The letter size progression increases by a constant ratio of 1.26 (0.1 log unit steps). Any line is always 1.26 times greater than the line below. This multiplier is the root of 10 or 0.1 log unit.

    The patient’s feedback is recorded in terms of a logMAR score (MAR or minimum angle of resolution using log10 form). Using this notation, 20/20 is equivalent to a logMAR of zero (log101=0), while smaller letters have a negative logMAR notation; the larger letters have a positive.

    As letter size changes in units of 0.1 logMAR units per row, each letter can be assigned a score of 0.02 (there being five letters on each line). For example, if all five letters on the 20/20 line are read, the LogMAR score is zero. If one letter is missed on the zero line (all other letters being read on the lines above), the logMAR score is taken as +0.02, two letters +0.04 etc.

    In other words, 0.02 is added for each letter incorrectly read. If a patient reads the 0.4 line in its entirety they will have a score of 0.4. If they read the 0.4 line plus three letters of the 0.3 line, they will have a score of 0.34 (0.4 – (0.02 x 3) = 0.34). The final logMAR score takes into account every letter that has been correctly read.

    Snellen
    Notation ------------LogMAR Chart------------ logMAR
    20/100---------
    F N P R Z
    ------------ 0.4
    20/80--------------
    E Z H P V
    ---------------- 0.3
    20/60-----------------
    D P N F R --------------------
    0.2
    20/40-------------------
    R D F U V ---------------------
    0.1
    20/20-------------------- U R Z V H ----------------------- 0.0
    20/16----------------------
    H N V R D ------------------------ -0.1

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    WOrd for the Day THursday January 27th

    EGREGIOUS(ih-GREE-juss) adj.:conspicuous; especially: conspicuously bad

    The armchair commentators at the office spent their coffee break grousing about the egregious errors of judgment they felt had been made by the coach of the losing team.

    "Egregious" derives from the Latin word "egregius," meaning "distinguished" or "eminent." In its earliest English uses, "egregious" was a compliment to someone who had a remarkably good quality that placed him or her eminently above others. That's how English philosopher and theorist Thomas Hobbes used it in flattering a colleague when he remarked, "I am not so egregious a mathematician as you are." Since Hobbes' day, however, the meaning of the word has become noticeably less complimentary, possibly as a result of ironic use of its original sense.

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    Interesting piece on the LogMAR chart. How did you come across it?
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