2016年7月10日 星期日

vivisection, vivify, dine and dash


"Insight into the origin of a work concerns the physiologists and vivisectionists of the spirit; never the aesthetic man, the artist!"
― from "On the Genealogy of Morals"

Urban Dictionary: dine and dash

dine and dash - 7 definitions - The action to go in a restaurant,sit at a table, order whatever you want, eat and then leave quick without payin.


A dine and dash (also referred to as "dine and ditch", "chew and screw", or "running the check") is a form of theft, more specifically a form of fraud, in which a patron eats at a restaurant and then leaves without paying.



 vivisection, vivify

vivify
(vĭv'ə-fī') pronunciation
tr.v., -fied, -fy·ing, -fies.
  1. To give or bring life to; animate: vivify a puppet; vivifying the brown grasslands.
  2. To make more lively, intense, or striking; enliven: A smile may vivify a face.
[Middle English vivifien, from Old French vivifier, from Late Latin vīvificāre : Latin vīvus, alive + Latin -ficāre, -fy.]
[動](他)…に生命[生気]を与える, を元気[活気]づける, 生き生きとさせる, 鮮明にする.
vìv・i・fi・cá・tion
[名][U]蘇生;復活;活気づけ.
vív・i・fì・er

vivisection

(vĭv'ĭ-sĕk'shən, vĭv'ĭ-sĕk'-) pronunciation
n.
The act or practice of cutting into or otherwise injuring living animals, especially for the purpose of scientific research.

[MASS NOUN]
1The practice of performing operations on live animals for the purpose of experimentationor scientific research (used only by opponents of such work):the abolition of vivisection
1.1Ruthlessly sharp and detailed criticism or analysis:the vivisection of America’s seamy underbelly


[Latin vīvus, alive; see vivify + (DIS)SECTION.]
vivisectional viv'i·sec'tion·al adj.
vivisectionally viv'i·sec'tion·al·ly adv.
vivisectionist viv'i·sec'tion·ist n.
[名][U][C]
1 生体解剖;((広義に))生体実験.
2 情け容赦のない[仮借なきまでの]批判[吟味, 検討, 追及].
viv・i・sec・tion・al
[形]
viv・i・sec・tion・al・ly
[副]
viv・i・sec・tion・ist
[名]生体解剖[実験]者;生体解剖[実験](賛成)論者;情け容赦なく批判[吟味]する人.
dash
v., dashed, dash·ing, dash·es.v.tr.
  1. To break or smash by striking violently.
  2. To hurl, knock, or thrust with sudden violence.
  3. To splash; bespatter.
    1. To write hastily. Often used with off: dashed off a note to the dean.
    2. To drink hastily. Often used with down: dashed down a glass of milk.
    1. To add an enlivening or altering element to.
    2. To affect by adding another element or ingredient to: ice cream that was dashed with rum.
    1. To destroy or wreck: Our dreams were dashed. See synonyms at blast.
    2. To confound; abash.
v.intr.
  1. To strike violently; smash.
  2. To move with haste; rush: dashed

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