Trying to teach myself Excel, learned concatenate, meaning "to link things together in a chain or series"
catafalque: a decorated wooden framework supporting the coffin of a distinguished person during a funeral or while lying in state.
Ullage noun The amount by which a container falls short of being full. (If we were to illustrate this with wine bottles, it would be this part here.)
I made it my job last night to increase ullage until it hit the bottom of a couple of bottles. It was satisfying.
One of the things you look for when inspecting wine. When the ullage level drops, the bottle is trash.
Had it happen to a case of DRC once. $4k a bottle, 2 of them down the drain. Wasn't my fault luckily. Wine room has been a perfect 62F since I've been around. Before that? Who knows.
Quellenforschung, the study of the sources of, or influences upon, a literary work (wikitionary). I didn't even know this term existed until a few days ago. I think it should be more well known since it feels like a really important study.
athenaeum or ath·e·ne·um [ ath-uh-nee-uhm, -ney- ] noun 1. an institution for the promotion of literary or scientific learning. 2. a library or reading room. 3. (initial capital letter) a sanctuary of Athena at Athens, built by the Roman emperor Hadrian, and frequented by poets and scholars.
Sardonyx - a type of onyx where white layers alternate with black ones. Although I thought he was a resident of a village of invincible Gauls.
Not new to me. I lurnd it in kollege. It may be new to many here. you can look up it's meaning. Enthalpy.
Petrichor noun a pleasant smell that frequently accompanies the first rain after a long period of warm, dry weather.
My mom is a health care professional and i dont like needles (phlebotomist kept missing my vein and i was terrified after that). Whenever i needed blood drawn, my mom would sit me down the the kitchen with her kit and a sterile sheet and draw my blood and send it to the lab
In the hospital, I once got Doug, the Samurai phlebotomist, who had no fear of inflicting pain in the course of his duties. When a different phlebotomist walked in the next morning, I said, "Thank goodness you aren't Doug." She said, "I've been hearing that a lot this morning," so it wasn't just me being wimpy.
