Home > Blossary: Word Up!
Collection of things I find interesting.

Category: Languages

36 Terms

Created by: General

Number of Blossarys: 5

My Terms
Collected Terms

burn the midnight oil is an idiom to describe staying up late due to work, especially studying, late at night. Burn the midnight oil alludes to working by the light of an oil lamp late in the night.

Domain: Language; Category: Idioms Collected Term

Logo-tecture is a term used to describe architecture that is instantly recognizable and identical, regardless of context, to a particular architect or designer. Like good branding, logo-tecture ...

Domain: Architecture; People; Category: ; Designers Collected Term

A listicle is a short form of writing that uses a list as its main point and structure, sometimes using numbers in its title, "10 Best iPhone Apps for 2015". Listicle comes from the fusion of two ...

Domain: Education; Category: Knowledge Collected Term

The Bechdel test asks if a work of fiction features at least two women who talk to each other about something other than a man. The requirement that the two women must be named is sometimes ...

Domain: Literature; Entertainment; Entertainment; Category: Fiction; Movies; TV Collected Term

Physiognomy is the assessment of a person's character or personality from his or her outer appearance, especially the face. The term can also refer to the general appearance of a person, object, or ...

Domain: Psychology; Category: Social psychology Collected Term

One who prates much in his own favor, and makes unwarrantable pretensions; a quack; an impostor; an empiric; a mountebank.

Domain: Language; Category: Dictionaries Collected Term

Weekly Packet or "Paquete Semanal" as it is known in Cuba is a term used by Cubans to describe the information that is gathered from the internet outside of Cuba and saved onto hard drives to be ...

Domain: Language; Online services; Category: Slang; Internet Collected Term

Member comments


( You can type up to 200 characters )

Post  

General

Collecting BIG.

07:41, 13 February 2015
My other Blossarys

A Blossary collecting all things related to ...

Category: Sports

By: General

Know your lolz from your lulzsec, and your ...

Category: Technology

By: General

A random collection of anything related with ...

Category: Culture

By: General

A Blossary highlighting the collection of words ...

Category: Culture

By: General