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#ENIGMA ANTONYM SOFTWARE#

This avoids repetitions in a sentence without changing its meaning. Synonyms are other words that mean the same thing.

Extract from : « The Paliser case » by Edgar SaltusĪ synonym is a word, adjective, verb or expression that has the same meaning as another, or almost the same meaning.

That was the enigma, one which would have been exciting, if the solution had not been so prompt and so tame.

Extract from : « Tales of Unrest » by Joseph Conrad.

The enigma is only made clear by sacrifice, and the gift of heaven is in the hands of every man.

Extract from : « Heart of Darkness » by Joseph Conrad.

Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma.

Extract from : « The Crevice » by William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander.

I told you the truth when I said that the cipher letter was an enigma to me.

Extract from : « Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates » by Plato.

For he seems, as it were, to have composed an enigma for the purpose of making an experiment.

Extract from : « Memoirs Of The Court Of Marie Antoinette, Queen Of France, Complete » by Madame Campan.

The Queen then condescended to explain the whole of the enigma to me.

Extract from : « The Politician Out-Witted » by Samuel Low.

By the dignity of my profession, it must be so:-Now there's a solution to the enigma.

Extract from : « Freeland » by Theodor Hertzka.Whether he will buy his fleet abroad or build it himself is at present an enigma.

Extract from : « Quaint Courtships » by Various.As for Jane Temple's view of this business, that remained an enigma.Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris."Troilus and Cressida" has always been regarded as a sort of enigma.Even better, generalist is an anagram of the Kiwi beer, Steinlager, something only a true word nerd would ever realise. The fit felt right, the label suggesting neither ninny nor monomaniac, but more a dabbler, a non-specialist. What about fantasist? Brickhead? Conservative? Or maybe we need a new word: thick-meister? A droogle?"Īfter days of ruminating I proposed generalist. Peter extended his list of suspects: "Bogan has social class overtones. Question being: what was a nerd's antonym? Not the cousinly geek, that much was clear, but more a non-thinker. Let's face it – the bloke owns a lab coat. Professor Doherty, on the other hand, was alpha nerd. And Spencer, by my reckoning, in cahoots with can-do Kruszelnicki, was a geekish infiltrator that evening. It's trouble-shooter versus high-school tutor, Wi-Fi over sci-fi. Just as a mob like Nerd Squad murmurs a syndicate of essay coaches.

#ENIGMA ANTONYM SOFTWARE#

When I see a car advertising Geeks on Call, I presume there's a software savant inside. The leap from jerk to whizkid took place in the early '80s, where phone freaks (or phreaks) evolved into computing geeks, essentially nerds with practical knacks.īecause that's the key contrast in my books: pragmatism. Maybe the breed of twit to eat live frogs, since geek eventually applied to sideshow freaks. Ironically the English dialect of geck once meant fool. Over time this hairy humanoid equated to any unfashionable schlump, slowly mutating into a misfit possessing a peculiar genius. Among such animals as the natch and obsk, Gerald McGrew also hopes to care for an unkempt biped named a nerd. The author is deemed the word's coiner via his 1950 classic, If I Ran the Zoo.

To grasp the science, let's rewind the clock. Geeks love gadgets, while nerds go ga-ga over grammar. Cheekily you might say that geeks are techies, while nerds are Trekkies. Both nerds and geeks are smart in a narrow kind of way, yet the tribes differ in subtle aspects. Suddenly I'd found a deeper semantic stumper to solve: what distinguishes nerd from geek?ĭistracted, I postponed Peter's antonym enigma to ponder a separate taxonomy. Teaming up with Dr Karl for regular shows and podcasts, Adam even declares his stripes, the duo calling themselves Sleek Geeks. I'd been roped into the same confession box, along with YouTuber Natalie Tran, the public shaming emceed by fellow nerd Adam Spencer.īut wait a minute – what was Spencer doing there? Surely that overt mathlete is more geek than nerd. He'd been invited to declare his nerdiness to an audience at the Sydney Writers' Festival, back in May. Peter's dilemma arose through an obvious cause.