WordReference.com Open Dictionary from Macmillan Dictionary: Free English Dictionary Online with Thesaurus troll factory noun a company that pays its employees to write online comments in favour or against somebody or something posing as ordinary Internet users Russia's troll factory runs thousands of fake Facebook and Twitter accounts to flood social media with anti-Ukrainian propaganda. Submitted by: Boris Marchenko from Russian Federation on 29/03/2015 19:40:00 Gaeltacht, the an area of southern and western Ireland where large numbers of people speak Irish Every year, businesses that sell three- or four-week language learning vacation packages (cleverly combining edu-tourism and heritage tourism) attract thousands of international travelers to towns in the Gaeltacht. Submitted from United Kingdom on 29/03/2015 18:18:00 abbreviation pesonal protective equipment: protective clothing worn by people at risk of injury or infection, for example those dealing with patients with highly infectious diseases such as Ebola I was in my PPE suit and I could only work for short bursts of time. Hoosier shiv lads' mag
Poet • Szinonimaszótár World Wide Words Merriam-Webster Online "… so we repaired to a publick-house, took a friendly glass, and thus parted." — Peter Drake, Amiable Renegade: The Memoirs of Captain Peter Drake, 1671–1753, 1960 "… Warren repaired to the dining alcove off the kitchen … and ate dinner with Nina and the children, discussing their schoolwork and events of the day." — Kevin Starr, Embattled Dreams, 2002 We are all familiar with the verb repair used as a synonym of fix. But today's word, while it is a homograph and a homophone of the more familiar repair, is a slightly older and unrelated verb. Repair, the synonym of fix, comes via Anglo-French from the Latin reparare, a combination of the re- prefix and parare ("prepare"). Repair, the synonym of go (which in English also once meant "to return"), has Anglo-French and Latin roots too, but makes its way back to the Late Latin repatriare (which means "to go home again" and is a source of the English repatriate).