An EnglishClub Site of the Month (May 2013)
Just The Word
Just the Word is a tool that can help you choose the right words and phrases in English. It can also help you correct your writing mistakes. It is a combination of dictionary and thesaurus, and is very useful for learning collocations. Collocations are pairings or groups of words that are commonly found together. To test out Just the Word, go to the search box on the home page and type in a word such as “life”. Then hit Return on your keyboard. Look through the results that come up. The clusters show words that are related in meaning. The unclustered words are not closely related to each other. Click on the links to review example sentences. On the right side of your screen, you will see the parts of speech related to your word or phrase. To use this part of the tool, you will need to learn the short forms used for different parts of speech (eg. ADJ for adjective). Just the Word also helps you understand how common a collocation is in English. Note: Some words that you type in may not bring up any results.
www.just-the-word.com
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SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINES — August 25th, 2013
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We will be challenged to do three (3) things consistently:
(Lk 2:52)
(Jn 15:16)
(Mk 16:15)
(Lk 6:38)
(Jn 3:16)
1. Grow (Lk 2:52)
2. Go (Jn 15:16; Mk 16:15)
3. Give (Lk 6:38; Jn 3:16)
There will be:
1. Homework
2. Quizzes
3. Tests
4. Opportunities to mark our progress
This will all be made available to us throughout the week, because relationship is a __________ exercise.
A. Weekly
B. Daily
C. Futile
D. Rigged
The best relationships:
BUILDING A RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD IS THE SAME!
Our website is the:
A. Bomb
B. Classroom
C. Playground
Our daily life is the:
A. Joke
B. Movie
C. Lab
These seminar/workshops are the:
A. Prep sessions
B. Practice sessions
C. Study sessions
About Earl Middleton:
Jesus Follower
Former Pastor
Weird Vision
Basketball Balanced
Family Challenged
Rigamarole Rejecter
What is a Spiritual Discipline?
A. A swat on the bottom with a paddle by a nun
B. A pathway
C. Writing 500 Hail Mary’s in your notebook
D. Touring with the Dalai Lama
The purpose of a Spiritual Discipline is:
A. To be a disciple
B. To get to a place only the leader has been to before
Who is the leader? (Hebrews 12:2)
A. Jesus
B. Earl Middleton
C. Me
D. Whoever has what I want
We must know him to follow him/her. How do we get to know someone?
(Ps 78)
(Jg 20)
(Rev 12:7)
(Prov 13:10)
A. Talk
B. Watch
C. Listen
D. Unite
To follow someone we must: (Lk 14:25-43)
A. Understand where s/he is leading
B. Decide if we are willing to go there
C. Decide if we are willing to pay the price
To what place can Jesus lead you that you really want to be in right now?
A. Inner peace
B. Contentment
C. Connection
D. Forgiveness
E. ___________________
What are the Five Spiritual Disciplines?
(Mt 6:5-15)
(Mt 6:16-18)
(Mt 6:1-4)
(Js 1:22-25)
(Mk 11:22-23)
1. Praying (Mt 6:5-15)
2. Fasting (Mt 6:16-18)
3. Giving (Mt 6:1-4)
4. Swording (Js 1:22-25)
5. Faithing (Mk 11:22-23)
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Today’s post will briefly review a website I recently came across which caught my eye right away. This website is www.just-the-word.com. Just-the-Word is a collocations dictionary, like www.ozdic.com, but it is slightly different. What makes it special is that you can type in a word and it will tell you not only the different possible combinations, but it will also give you an idea of the frequency with which those combinations occur. Let’s see an example with the word «awareness«:
In this example, which only shows «verb + awareness» collocations, we can see at first sight that «raise», «increase» and «develop» collocate extremely well with «awareness«, given the long green bar next to them. If this bar were red, it would mean that it is a bad combination. Also, although this picture shows only collocations of verbs with «awareness«, there are plenty more which I haven’t included: adjective+awareness, noun+awareness, awareness+preposition, etc. In order to visualise these, you can either scroll up/down, or choose them in the menu on the right, which looks like this:
By clicking on one of the combinations in the picture above, you will be taken directly to that particular section.
Another interesting option is that you can create a word cloud with these collocations. This is created through another useful website, www.wordle.com.
The nice thing about this is that it gives you a visual representation of the collocations, as the size of the phrases is in accordance with their frequency. This might be useful for a lesson, a blog or a social networking update. Besides, you can choose from a variety of options to visualise this word cloud.
So that’s it. Just-the-Word has other interesting features, but the ones in this post are the ones I believe are most useful for both English language teachers and learners. For more info, follow this link and let the creators convince you themselves.
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На основании Вашего запроса эти примеры могут содержать разговорную лексику.
просто слово
само слово
только слово
только слова
всего лишь слова
просто слова
Предложения
That’s just the word men use for powerful women because they feel threatened.
Это просто слово, которые мужчины используют по отношению к сильным женщинам, потому что чувствуют угрозу.
Actually it is just the word «resume».
For many people, just the word «bankruptcy» can be intimidating.
Тогда для многих людей само слово «банкротство» звучало пугающе.
It’s not just the word «icon.»
В нем вообще отсутствует само слово «икона».
Her daughter hadn’t searched for anything explicit, just the word «huge.»
Ее дочь не искала ничего явного, только слово «огромный» (huge).
What followed in the RankBrain update (2015) was a change to the algorithm which was designed to learn how to understand the context of a search query and not just the word that people were searching for.
В обновлении RankBrain (2015) последовало изменение в алгоритме, который был разработан, чтобы научиться понимать контекст поискового запроса, а не только слово, которое искали люди.
It’s just the word… «All» suggests a lot.
Similarly, I’ve also seen sites with nothing in there at all, or just the word «untitled».
Точно так же я также видел сайты, в которых ничего нет, или просто слово «без названия».
And «me» is not just the word or the concept; it is referring to something.
И это «я» — это не просто слово или понятие: мы что-то имеем в виду, мы к чему-то относим его.
The blue oval then disappeared from the various bonnets and grilles of cars until the mid-1970s, with just the word ‘Ford’ appearing instead.
После этого синий овал исчез с капотов и решеток радиатора автомобилей до середины 1970-х, а вместо него появилось просто слово «Ford».
TL: It’s not just the word «terrorism» but it’s really the tactics that they’re employing.
Т.Л.: Это не просто слово «терроризм», на самом деле это тактика, которую они используют.
Then they were modified again, removing the candidate altogether and leaving just the word «Think.»
Затем они снова были изменены, полностью исключив кандидата и оставив только слово «Думай».
It may be a Sony logo, which is just the word SONY.
Логотип Sony, представляющий собой просто слово SONY.
«That makes technology»-even just the word itself-«a good lure for capital, talent, and passion.»
«Это делает технологию» — даже само слово — «хорошей приманкой для капитала, таланта и страсти».
Some who are defending this are saying the word Chousenjin is talking about North Korea and this is a misunderstanding and what not, but it’s not just the word.
Во время пресс-конференции в Якудзе в эти выходные«Некоторые, кто защищает это, говорят, что слово Чжоусенджин говорит о Северной Корее, и это недоразумение, а что нет, но это не просто слово.
Displaced is just the word.
Answer: Just the word «revitalization» means return to life, rejuvenation.
Ответ: Само слово «ревитализация» означат возвращение к жизни, омолаживание.
Just the word «hijacking» grabs our attention.
Just the word «mob» evokes such fairness and justice.
Само слово «толпа» излучает справедливость.
Предложения, которые содержат just the word
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Индекс слова: 1-300, 301-600, 601-900
Индекс выражения: 1-400, 401-800, 801-1200
Индекс фразы: 1-400, 401-800, 801-1200
Just the Word, developed by Pete Whitelock of Sharp (UK). This gives you a detailed description of the company a word keeps in modern-day English. It combines the advantages of thesaurus and dictionary. Read the easy-to-use Getting Started, and get started.
Enter a word and it returns significant data on collocations and colligation which we need when learning vocabulary thoroughly.This data is especially valuable in that it is preprocessed: we normally go through many separate steps to arrive at the tables that it genereates. Furthermore, upon clicking on the word combination in the list, concordances appear in the so-called KWIC format (key word in context), which allows you to observe further features, such as the domains and genres in which this is used.