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| + | A variable-naming style that separates the parts of a name with capitals, as in FirstSecondThird. See also: pothole case, kebab case. | ||
| + | ==Contradictorily== | ||
| + | "In selling stock, the filer is not ''contradictorily'' asserting it is solvent; the *buyers* are saying that." | ||
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| + | ==[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kairos '''Kairos.''']== | ||
| + | καιρός. "a passing instant when an opening appears which must be driven through with force if success is to be achieved." | ||
| − | ''' | + | {{quotation| While chronos is quantitative, kairos has a qualitative, permanent nature.<ref> [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dkairo%2Fs1 Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon ]</ref> ''Kairos'' also means ''weather'' in Modern Greek... In weaving, kairos denotes the moment in which the shuttle could be passed through threads on the loom."<ref>Stephenson,Hunter W. (2005) "Forecasting Opportunity: Kairos, Production, and Writing, p.4. University Press of America: Oxford</ref> ..."Kairos" (used 86 times in the New Testament) refers to an opportune time, a "moment" or a "season" such as "harvest time," whereas "chronos" (used 54 times) refers to a specific amount of time, such as a day or an hour (e.g. Acts 13:18 and 27:9).}} |
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| + | ==Kebab case== | ||
| + | A variable-naming style that separates the parts of a name with dashes, as in first-second-third. See also: camel case, pothole case. | ||
Revision as of 09:31, 25 January 2021
Camel case
A variable-naming style that separates the parts of a name with capitals, as in FirstSecondThird. See also: pothole case, kebab case.
Contradictorily
"In selling stock, the filer is not contradictorily asserting it is solvent; the *buyers* are saying that."
Kairos.
καιρός. "a passing instant when an opening appears which must be driven through with force if success is to be achieved."
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Kebab case
A variable-naming style that separates the parts of a name with dashes, as in first-second-third. See also: camel case, pothole case.
Pothole case. A variable-naming style that separates the parts of a name with underscores, as in first_second_third. See also: camel case, kebab case.
PUMP AND DUMP. 1. The stock manipulation trick of using rumor or purchase to inflate a stock's purchase and then selling it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump_and_dump. 2. The political dirty trick of getting a crowd so excited that it charges off to wreck a building or kill someone, so it gets in trouble and discredits the movement, and then quietly leaving before the arrests and shooting. 3. A Full Service Company Offering Residential & Commercial Septic Services. https://www.pumpndumpusa.com/.
RAREBIT. Ambrose Bierce (1911): "Rarebit n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad in the hole is really not a toad, and that ris de veau à la financière is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker."
