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New words in OALD- Oxford
Advanced Learner's Dictionary
part one
Lifestyle
Here are some of the new words in the Oxford Advanced Learner’s
Dictionary 7th edition. Click on any of the words to find out what they mean.
The demographics say it all. We're all in with the in-crowd
- but is that Hooray Henrys, Valley Girls, crusties or chavs?
Look at these words to get with the programme.
- A-list: used
to describe the group of people who are considered to be the most famous,
successful or important
- Botox™: a
substance that makes muscles relax. It is sometimes injected into the skin
around somebody's eyes to remove lines and make the skin look younger.
- futurology: the
study of how people will live in the future
- ladette: a
young woman who enjoys drinking alcohol, sport or other activities usually
considered to be typical of young men
- life coach: a
person who is employed by somebody to give them advice about how to
achieve the things they want in their life and work
- mwah: used
to represent the sound that some people make when they kiss somebody on
the cheek
- nip and tuck: (especially North American
English) = neck and neck
- soccer mom: a
mother who spends a lot of time taking her children to activities such as
sports and music lessons, used as a way of referring to a typical mother
from the middle classes
- speed dating: meeting
people at an event organized for single people who want to begin a
romantic relationship, where you are allowed to spend only a few minutes
talking to one person before you have to move on to meet the next person
- trophy wife: a
young attractive woman who is married to an older man and thought of as a
trophy (= something that shows that you are successful and impresses other
people)
- twenty-four seven: twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week (used to mean ‘all the
time’)
- wow factor: the
quality something has of being very impressive or surprising to people
Fashion
Whether your style is bling-bling or radical chic, if
you're fashion-forward you'll want to shop till you drop. Just
make sure you don't take the dress code too far and end up a fashion
victim. This selection of new fashion vocabulary may come in handy.
fashionista: (used especially in
newspapers) a fashion designer, or a person who is always dressed in a
fashionable way
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- hoody: a
jacket or a sweatshirt with a hood
- khanga: a
large piece of light cloth with designs printed on it and worn by women
around the waist and legs or over the head and shoulders
- kitten heels: small
thin curved heels on women's shoes
- octopus trousers: trousers/pants which have many strips of material hanging from them
- palazzo pants: women's
trousers/pants with wide loose legs
- pashmina: a long
piece of cloth made of fine soft wool from a type of goat and worn by a
woman around the shoulders
- personal shopper : a person whose job is to help somebody else buy things, either by
going with them around a shop/store or by doing their shopping for them
- tankini: a
swimsuit in two pieces, consisting of a short top without sleeves and the
bottom half of a bikini
- wraparounds: a pair
of sunglasses that fit closely and curve round the sides of the head
Computing
If you know the difference between an MPEG and a JPEG,
you're no newbie. But if you haven't joined the digerati yet,
here are some words to help you.
- bloatware: programs
which use too much memory
- blog: (also weblog) a website where a person
writes regularly about recent events or topics that interest them, usually
with photos and links to other websites that they find interesting
- cybersquatting: the
illegal activity of buying and officially recording an address on the
Internet that is the name of an existing company or a well-known person,
with the intention of selling it to the owner in order to make money
- docking station: a device to which a laptop computer can be connected so that it can be
used like a desktop computer
- drag-and-drop: relating
to the moving of icons, etc. on a screen using the mouse
- emoticon: a
short set of keyboard symbols that represents the expression on somebody's
face, used in email, etc. to show the feelings of the person sending the
message. For example :-) represents a smiling face (when you look at it
sideways).
- mouse potato: a
person who spends too much time using a computer
- netiquette: the
rules of correct or polite behaviour among people using the Internet
- phishing: the
activity of tricking people by getting them to give their identity, bank
account numbers, etc. over the Internet or by email, and then using these
to steal money from them
- radio button: a
small circle that you click on in order to make a particular choice. The radio button is then
marked with a dot to show that it has been selected.
- Wi-Fi: the
abbreviation for ‘wireless fidelity’ (a system for sending data over computer networks using radio waves
instead of wires)
- worm: 1 [countable] a long thin creature with
no bones or legs, that lives in soilbirds looking for worms see
also earthworm, lugworm2 worms [plural] long thin creatures that
live inside the bodies of humans or animals and can cause illnessThe
dog has worms. see also hookworm, tapeworm3 [countable] the young form of an insect
when it looks like a short wormThis apple is full of worms. see
also glow-worm, silkworm, woodworm4 [countable] (computing) a computer program that is
a type of virus and that spreads across a network by copying itself5
[countable, usually singular] (informal, disapproving) a person you do not like
or respect, especially because they have a weak character and do not
behave well towards other people
Idioms
the worm will turn
(saying) a person who is normally quiet and does not complain will protest when the
situation becomes too hard to bear
Home entertainment
What do you watch on your plasma TV? Do you channel-hop,
or are you set up for home cinema? Or do you prefer to listen to music
on the move on your MP3 player? Things change quickly nowadays, so these
words will help you find your way around the world of consumer electronics.
- docusoap: a
television programme about the lives of real people, presented as
entertainment
- dramedy: a
television programme that is intended to be both humorous and serious
- letterbox: [uncountable] = widescreen
- Palmcorder™: a
small camcorder (= video
camera that records pictures and sound) that
can be held in the palm of one hand
- reality TV: television
shows that are based on real people (not actors) in real situations,
presented as entertainment
- shock jock: a disc
jockey on a radio show who deliberately expresses opinions or uses
language that many people find offensive
- surround sound: a
system for reproducing sound using several speakers (= the pieces of equipment that the sound comes out of) placed around the person listening in order to produce a more
realistic sound
- Trekkie: a
person who is very keen on following the television science fiction series
Star
Trek. Serious
Trekkies attend special conferences to share their enthusiasm and discuss the series in great detail.
- talk radio: radio
programmes in which somebody discusses a particular subject with people
who telephone the radio station to give their opinions
- veejay: video jockey
- video diary: a
series of video recordings made by somebody over a period of time, in
which they record their experiences, thoughts and feelings
widescreen: a way of presenting
images on television with the width a lot greater than the height
Synonym
- letterbox
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