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Mmmm... no. * Phoropter * Tribution * Slickle * Cadine * Fination * Apricity * Revergent * Unitory * Trephony These are not words. They are not highly specifi

Mmmm... no. * Phoropter * Tribution * Slickle * Cadine * Fination * Apricity * Revergent * Unitory * Trephony These are not words. They are not highly specific jargon either. They are just made up nonsense.

taco_emoji 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoropter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoropter https://wordnik.com/words/apricity https://wordnik.com/words/apricity Seems you're right about the rest.
shred45 11y ago
I'm not sure if it has been removed from most dictionaries, but apricity is commonly accepted as "The warmth felt from sunlight". Wiktionary lists it as obsolete though. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/apricity https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/apricity
WorldMaker 11y ago
Because guessing games are fun: Slickle is clearly onomatopoeia for something I probably don't want to know what. Cadine is a name (which is certainly a type of word): http://www.babycenter.com/baby-names-cadine-891835.htm http://www.babycenter.com/baby-names-cadine-891835.htm Tribution and Revergent are likely plays on con- prefix removal and substitution (contribution, convergent). If they are not part of some jargon, they will be. Similarly, the morphological construction for Unitory (-tory is the latin agency prefix) I can certainly believe it to have jargon usage. Trephony could be a form of this noun for different grammatical situations: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trephone http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trephone That would suggest to me that it may be a biosciences jargon term already.
debacle 11y ago
I would argue as a descriptivist that revergent is a legit English word - something that was previously divergent that is now tending towards convergence.
agarden 11y ago
"Slickle" has an entry as slang in the urban dictionary. "Revergent" gets a definition here[1] as "a mutation that precisely restores a mutant DNA sequence to a WT DNA sequence". [0] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Slickle http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Slickle [1] http://www.flashcardmachine.com/questions-set-2.html http://www.flashcardmachine.com/questions-set-2.html

taco_emoji 11y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoropter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoropter https://wordnik.com/words/apricity https://wordnik.com/words/apricity Seems you're right about the rest.

shred45 11y ago

I'm not sure if it has been removed from most dictionaries, but apricity is commonly accepted as "The warmth felt from sunlight". Wiktionary lists it as obsolete though. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/apricity https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/apricity

WorldMaker 11y ago

Because guessing games are fun: Slickle is clearly onomatopoeia for something I probably don't want to know what. Cadine is a name (which is certainly a type of word): http://www.babycenter.com/baby-names-cadine-891835.htm http://www.babycenter.com/baby-names-cadine-891835.htm Tribution and Revergent are likely plays on con- prefix removal and substitution (contribution, convergent). If they are not part of some jargon, they will be. Similarly, the morphological construction for Unitory (-tory is the latin agency prefix) I can certainly believe it to have jargon usage. Trephony could be a form of this noun for different grammatical situations: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trephone http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trephone That would suggest to me that it may be a biosciences jargon term already.

debacle 11y ago

I would argue as a descriptivist that revergent is a legit English word - something that was previously divergent that is now tending towards convergence.

agarden 11y ago

"Slickle" has an entry as slang in the urban dictionary. "Revergent" gets a definition here[1] as "a mutation that precisely restores a mutant DNA sequence to a WT DNA sequence". [0] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Slickle http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Slickle [1] http://www.flashcardmachine.com/questions-set-2.html http://www.flashcardmachine.com/questions-set-2.html