Memos by Brian Swichkow

• friendship

  friendship is a relationship between friends, and also the feeling or relationship that friends have, or the state of being friends; Dictionary.com adds friendly feeling or disposition. The Oxford...

• uncertainty

  uncertainty is the state of being uncertain, and also something that you cannot be sure about; dictionaries also define it as the feeling of not being sure what will happen in the future. The Oxford...

• consistency

  consistency is the quality of always behaving in the same way or of having the same opinions or standards, and also how thick, smooth or firm a mixture or liquid substance is. The Oxford Advanced...

• Surrender

  surrender is to admit that you have been defeated and want to stop fighting, or to give up something or somebody when you are forced to; as a noun it is an act of admitting defeat. The Oxford...

• hiding

  hiding is the state of being hidden or the act of hiding something; dictionaries also define it as a physical punishment, usually involving being hit hard many times, and informally as a total...

• CAPTCHA

  CAPTCHA is a computer program that is designed to recognize the difference between human users and machines; dictionaries also define it as an online test designed so that humans but not computers...

• food

  food is things that people or animals eat; dictionaries also define it as something people and animals eat, or plants absorb, to keep them alive, and as any nourishing substance taken into the body...

• Intellectual Property (IP)

  intellectual property, abbreviated IP, is someone's idea, invention, creation, etc., that can be protected by law from being copied by someone else; dictionaries also define it as property that...

• sports

  sports means relating to sport, as in sports equipment; dictionaries also record it as the plural of sport, the North American English form for activity done for pleasure that needs physical effort...

• peptides

  peptides, in the singular peptide, is defined by dictionaries as a chemical consisting of two or more amino acids joined together, a chemical compound that is usually smaller than a protein. The...

• Protagonist

  protagonist is the main character in a play, film or book; dictionaries also define it as one of the main people in a real event and as an active supporter of a policy or movement. The Oxford...

• alt text

  alt text is short for alternative text: text that describes the appearance or purpose of an image on a website, or a written description of an image or other nontext content included as an attribute...

• feedback

  feedback is defined by Oxford Learner's Dictionaries, as an uncountable noun, as "advice, criticism or information about how good or useful something or somebody’s work is" and "the unpleasant noise...

• conflict

  conflict is defined by Oxford Learner's Dictionaries, as a countable and uncountable noun, as "a situation in which people, groups or countries disagree strongly or are involved in a serious...

• spam

  spam is defined by Oxford Learner's Dictionaries, as an uncountable noun labelled "informal, disapproving," as "advertising material sent by email to people who have not asked for it; advertising...

• malicious

  malicious is defined by Oxford Learner's Dictionaries as "having or showing a desire to harm somebody or hurt their feelings, caused by a feeling of hate," with the synonyms malevolent and spiteful....

• Domain Name System (DNS)

  Domain Name System (DNS) appears in Cambridge Dictionary under the headword DNS, which it gives as "abbreviation for domain name system: the system used for building internet addresses according to...

• Blue-Sky Thinking

  Blue-Sky Thinking, written "blue-sky thinking" in the dictionaries, is defined in Cambridge Dictionary's Business English section, under the adjective blue-sky, as "ways of thinking about a subject...

• angel investor

  angel investor is defined by Oxford Learner's Dictionaries as "a person who supports a business by investing money in it, especially somebody who supports a new small business with their own money."...

• doppelgänger

  doppelgänger is defined by Oxford Learner's Dictionaries, which labels the noun "(from German)," this way: "a person’s doppelgänger is another person who looks exactly like them." Cambridge...