Category: Glossary

Verb

to pluck or hit so as to produce a quick, hollow, metallic, or harsh sound

2 : to set down suddenly : PLUMP

intransitive verb

1 : to make a plunking sound

2 : to drop abruptly : DIVE

3 : to come out in favor of someone or something : PLUMP —used with for

Scott, Janny. “Here, Poverty And Privilege Are Neighbors; Income Gaps Are a Source Of Resentment and Guilt.

” It doesn’t make sense for someone rich in Los Angeles to plonk themselves down in the middle”

Noun

nearness of blood : KINSHIP

2 : nearness in place or time

Scott, Janny. “Here, Poverty And Privilege Are Neighbors; Income Gaps Are a Source Of Resentment and Guilt.

“It’s always an empirical question what extent propinquity matters to people”

Adjective

 continuing forever : EVERLASTING

perpetual motion

b(1) : valid for all time

a perpetual right

(2) : holding something (such as an office) for life or for an unlimited time

2 : occurring continually : indefinitely long-continued

perpetual problems

3 : blooming continuously throughout the season

Scott, Janny. “Here, Poverty And Privilege Are Neighbors; Income Gaps Are a Source Of Resentment and Guilt.

“The city is etched with boundaries and borderlands that appear on no maps areas where income groups intersect overlap collide coexist– along lines drawn and redrawn by quirks of history differences in housing stock patterns of immigration and the economys perpetual rise and fall”

Verb

INCLUDE, COMPREHEND

a plan that encompasses a number of aims

b : ENVELOP

2a : to form a circle about : ENCLOSE

b obsolete : to go completely around

3 : BRING ABOUT, ACCOMPLISH

encompass a task

Scott, Janny. “Here, Poverty And Privilege Are Neighbors; Income Gaps Are a Source Of Resentment and Guilt.

“They also include tracts in Jamaica and St. Albans in Queens in Bedford Stuyvesant Brooklyn in the East Harlem and in Chelsea where one tract encompasses everything from new luxury apartment houses and full floor condominium lofts to small decaying apartment buildings”

Noun

: WEALTH, AFFLUENCE

the opulence of prerevolutionary monarchs

2 : ABUNDANCE, PROFUSION

an opulence of fruits

Scott, Janny. “Here, Poverty And Privilege Are Neighbors; Income Gaps Are a Source Of Resentment and Guilt.

” They range from Ms. Davis’s neighborhood where two public housing projects bookend gentrifying corridor of brownstones and row houses to an area along the beach in Brooklyn where West End Avenue appears to be a stark sine of demarcation between the serene old-immigrant opulence of Manhattan Beach and the teemin new-immigrant enclave of Brighton Beach”

RGB(noun)

(är-jē-ˈbē)

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/RGB

definiton

• the color model of three-color video displays using red, green, and blue light
• RGB color system, constructs all the colors from the combination of the Red, Green and Blue colors

“RGB color model is an additive color model^[1] in which red, green, and blue light are added together in various ways to reproduce a broad array of colors.” –https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RGB_color_model

CMYK(noun)

(sē-ˌem-ˌwī-ˈkā)

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/CMYK

definition

• the color model of four-color printing using cyan, magenta, yellow, and black ink
• The four basic colors used for printing color images. Unlike RGB (red, green, blue), which is used for creating images on your computer screen, CMYK colors are “subtractive.” This means the colors get darker as you blend them together
  

  “CMYK is a 4-color printing process made up of cyan, magenta, yellow and key (black). CMYK colors in print will never appear as vibrant as RGB colors on screen because CMYK creates color by adding color together (making images darker) while RGB colors come from light.”

  –https://99designs.com

Lorem ipsum(noun)

(lor·em ip·sum)

https://www.yourdictionary.com/lorem-ipsum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum

definition

• Your dictionary-Text consisting of jumbled fragments of Latin words, used as a placeholder in designing the layout of a document.
• Wikipedia-In publishing and graphic design, lorem ipsum is a placeholder text commonly used to demonstrate the visual form of a document or a typeface without relying on meaningful content.

“Lorem ipsum may be used before final copy is available, but it may also be used to temporarily replace copy in a process called greeking, which allows designers to consider form without the meaning of the text influencing the design.”