Brunch is a meal
Brunch is an early lunch time, or a late breakfast. The term was created by the merging of Breakfast and Lunch. Read More
Category: language
What does HDTV mean?
HDTV means high-definition television
HDTV is television with a much higher (up to 1920×1080) resolution than normal TV (often called SD). With an HDTV, you can see grass feelers on a football field sharply, with a normal television you see just grass. If you have an HDTV you don't want to say that everything is sharp. Read More
What is a granny-square?
A granny-square is a crochet square chocolate
A Granny square is a classic among crochet patterns and is popular by simplicity but with many possibilities. A granny square is to do with all possible stitches and is often the basis for many crochet work. Read More
What does DRM mean?
DRM means Digital Rights Management
DRM is a way to encode music (or movie files) and thus manage user licenses. The technique allows the files to play only a certain number of times (or for a limited time). Read More
What is a phoneme?
A phoneme is a sound unit
Multiple phonemes in succession can form a spoken word. Phonemes are used to analyze speech: producing speech or recognizing words by playing a number of phonemes. Read More
What is Gangnam Style?
Gangnam style is a hit from 2012
Gangnam Style beats the district in Seoul where people are trendy and hip. People from the district themselves are not talking about the Gangnam Style, especially the wannabe people who are talking about the Read More
What does Bazinga mean?
Bazinga is an expression of The Big Bang Theory
The Big Bang Theory is a comedy television series about a number of nerds. One of the Nerds (Sheldon Cooper) is not quite of this world and does not understand sarcasm and human contact. If he has a good joke, he ends with the expression: Bazinga. The Read More
What does Gb mean?
Gb means GigaByte
A gigabyte is a unit of information and is derived from Giga which means 1 billion. In that case, 1GB is equal to 1 billion bytes. However, there are people who find that 1 gigabyte 1024 * 1024 * 1024 (= 1,073,741,824) bytes should be. To denote this difference, GiB is also used for this latest version (Gibibyte). Read More
What does Lipdub mean?
Lipdub is a combination of audio dubbing and lip sync
Lipdub is a craze especially among schoolchildren, and assumes that a clip is included in 1 take. In This clip the People playback A (known) song. The success of a lipdub is in the preparatory work. The original music is later added to the recording. A lipdub can last for 1 minute and be made by 2 people, but there are also involve where a whole office building, or a complete university and different spaces are used. A lipdub seems Read More
What is sexting?
Sexting is sending hot text messages
The word "sexting" originated in the time when sending SMS messages started to come up, but nowadays it is also used when people post messages on Twitter or Facebook. Sexting therefore comes from SMS, but is increasingly widely drawn. It is still about messages with evocative texts, pictures in hot poses, etc. Read More