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atelier
noun
a workshop or studio, especially of an artist, artisan, or designer.
More about atelier
The English noun atelier, not quite naturalized, comes from French atelier 鈥渨orkshop,鈥� from Old French astelier 鈥減ile of wood chips, workshop, carpenter鈥檚 workshop,鈥� a derivative of Old French astele 鈥渃hip,鈥� which comes from Late Latin astella 鈥渟plinter,鈥� a variant of astula, assula 鈥渟plinter, chip,鈥� diminutives of Latin assis, axis 鈥減lank, board.鈥� Atelier entered English in the 19th century.
how is atelier used?
Upon his arrival she began by introducing him to her atelier and making a sketch of him.
The secret atelier is the pezzo forte of the place, a beautifully cluttered warren of objects, art pieces and ephemera.
More about tsuris
Tsuris is from Yiddish tsures, tsores. This, in turn came from Hebrew 峁谤腻, plural 峁谤艒迟丑 meaning 鈥渢roubles.鈥� Tsuris entered English in the 1970s.
how is tsuris used?
Graham, I want Jack’s work in the show, don’t give me any tsuris on this.
Initially, the series only broadly winked at the reasons for Jack鈥檚 slow-burning tsuris.
misinformation
noun
false information that is spread, regardless of whether there is intent to mislead: In the chaotic hours after the earthquake, a lot of misinformation was reported in the news.
More about misinformation
Misinformation simply means wrong or false information; it does not necessarily imply deception or lying. Indeed, it is often difficult to determine from the context whether the misinformation is simply a mistake or a deliberate lie. Misinformation is a compound formed from the Germanic prefix mis– (also miss-) 鈥渨rong, bad.鈥� (Mis– does not occur in Latin or Greek: in Latin misinformation would be something like mala nunti膩ti艒; the Greek would be kak岣� angel铆a.) Information comes ultimately from Late Latin 颈苍蹿辞谤尘腻迟颈艒 (stem 颈苍蹿辞谤尘腻迟颈艒n-), one of whose meanings is 鈥渋nstruction, teaching.鈥� Disinformation on the other hand, is deliberately false and meant to deceive. English disinformation is a calque, a loan translation of Russian 诲别锄颈苍蹿辞谤尘谩迟蝉颈测补, which is based on the French verb 诲茅蝉颈苍蹿辞谤尘(别谤) 鈥渢o misinform.鈥� Misinformation entered English in the 16th century (disinformation entered English in the mid-20th century).
how is misinformation used?
Facebook and other social platforms have been fighting online misinformation and hate speech for two years.
We鈥檝e got Pinkerton so full of misinformation now that he truly thinks General Lee has a million men under arms, and that we鈥檙e fixing to kidnap Lincoln.