2005-09-30

身柄送検

逮捕された状態で検察へ送られること。検察は起訴するかどうかを原則10日以内に決めなければならないらしい。これに対して書類送検では起訴の期限は時効まで。

2005-09-29

bolster

強化する, 補強する
Many business leaders have commented on the lack of engineers and several companies have even started initiatives to help bolster our diminishing ranks.

feral

野生の

エコノミー症候群関連の単語

Economy Class syndrome causes blood clots that develop in the legs (deep venous thrombosis, DVT) as a result of prolonged air travel. "Prolonged" can mean a 2-hour flight – and after 2 hours, the risk increases hourly, even if you change flights. If the clot breaks off and goes to the lungs (pulmonary embolus, PE) it can cause death.
venous: 静脈の
thrombosis: 血栓症
pulmonary: 肺の
embolus: 塞栓

bozo

まぬけなやつ
My most-recent book had nearly all 5-star reviews until two weeks when some Bozo rated it 1-star.

2005-09-28

wade

やっと骨折って通る
It rang true for me, as I'm spending my evenings wading through a pile of OSCON speaker evaluations.

riff

Rapid, clever, often rhythmic speech, as by a disc jockey
I've had the ETech riff on attenuation going through my head lately. Google's Information Market is an example of attenuation: taking hundreds of different opinions and boiling them down to a forecast that's probably right.

cobbler's children

The cobbler's chidren go barefoot. (ことわざ)

tenet

見解,主義,信条
The talk focuses on the four main tenets of reducing mass, embracing constraints, getting real in the process of development and managing debt.

gorge

飲み込む,(食べ物を)詰め込む
Blog Binging Gorges the Net

2005-09-27

2005-09-26

prankster

いたずら者
By using a practice called googlebombing, however, determined pranksters can occasionally produce odd results. (about Google's search result)

discerning

眼力のある
There's been no shortage of candidates. Hundreds of chefs from all over the world sent resumes, and we invited a number of them to come and audition for a discerning group of employee-tasters.

tread

(過trod) 踏む, 歩く
We need to continue down the path that Google first trod when they introduced PageRank, giving better search results by using the preferences expressed by millions of net users in the form of their links to each other, rather than just studying the characteristics of the documents themselves.

fend

verb, intransitive
To make an effort to resist: fend against the cold.

Mr. Semel describes a strategy built on four pillars: First, is search, of course, to fend off Google, which has become the fastest-growing Internet company.

penchant

強い好み, 傾向
As chairman of ABC's entertainment group, Mr. Braun had a penchant for big offbeat concepts like "Lost," which won the Emmy for best drama.

メルクマール

(ドイツMerkmal)目印, 記号, 標識

2005-09-25

complicit

共謀した, 共犯の

2005-09-24

landfall

(台風の)上陸
The day before Katrina made landfall, cell towers went down and with them went the area's cellular phone service.

serendipity

ものをうまく発見する能力
The first groups of journalists we shared it with were interested, but unmoved: Most were confident their news products would always offer a credibility and serendipity that The Miami Project couldn't match.

facet, salient

facet: (宝石などの)小平面, (人・事の)一面
salient: 顕著な, 目立つ
After a few minutes, we hit upon a facet of the game we agreed was salient to Nisenholtz's point -- it is the most advanced example of a medium people create by merely participating in it.
EPIC 2014: The Future is Nowより。

foil

失敗させる, 打ち負かす
Wireless Devices Could Foil Hijack Attempts

nefarious, apace

nefarious: 邪悪な
apace: 速く, 迅速に
It appears that Paul Graham's nefarious plan to promote delinquency among college students is proceeding apace.

2005-09-23

cogent

説得力のある, 的を射た
Stephen J Marshall, writing in the BCS online magazine, provides a cogent argument detailing the ills of Open Source Software for the software industry - namely, the lack of conceptual integrity, professionalism, and innovation together with the issue of ownership of OSS developed under the current Intellectual Property laws.
From Trouble With Open Source? on Slashdot.

panspermia

The theory that microorganisms or biochemical compounds from outer space are responsible for originating life on Earth and possibly in other parts of the universe where suitable atmospheric conditions exist.
from American Heritageョ Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition.
A new study by US and Japanese scientists has put a serious dent into one version of the popular panspermia theory that credits comets for bringing the seeds of life to Earth.

2005-09-22

rectitude

公正, 厳正, 正直, 正しさ
When Google set itself as an example of rectitude, as a new kind of company that would live by the motto ``Don't be evil,'' we took it at face value and cheered.
Blacklisting media outlet could send chilling messageより。

2005-09-17

陥穽

【かんせい】おとしあな。人をだましたり、失敗させたりするための計略。