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More about garth
The original meaning of the common noun garth, 鈥渁n open courtyard enclosed by a cloister,鈥� has been replaced by courtyard or quadrangle or just plain quad. Garth comes from the Middle English noun garth (also gard, gart and a half dozen other spellings) 鈥渆nclosed courtyard or garden; a hedge or fence,鈥� from Old Norse garthr. The Old English noun cognate with the Old Norse is geard 鈥渆nclosure, enclosed space, court, dwelling, home鈥� (geard is pronounced about the same as yard). The Old English and Old Norse nouns come from Germanic gardaz 鈥渉ouse, garden,鈥� from Proto-Indo-European ghordh-, an extension of the Proto-Indo-European root gher-, ghor- 鈥渢o enclose.鈥� The extended root ghordh- yields Old Church Slavonic 驳谤补诲怒 鈥渃ity, garden鈥� (as in the name Stalingrad “Stalin City”), Russian 驳贸谤辞诲, and Polish 驳谤贸诲, both meaning 鈥渃ity.鈥� The extended root ghorto- yields Greek 肠丑贸谤迟辞蝉 鈥渆nclosure, court,鈥� Latin hortus 鈥済arden鈥� (horticulture is the cultivation of gardens), Welsh garth, and Irish gort, both meaning 鈥渇ield.鈥� Garth entered English in the 14th century.
how is garth used?
The highest ambition of such men as the Daltons was to possess a cottage and a small garth or close of land for a cow’s summer grazing.
For a comfortable habitation, a garden for potatoes, of a rood or half an acre, called a garth …
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proxemics
noun
(used with a singular verb)
the study of the spatial requirements of humans and animals and the effects of population density on behavior, communication, and social interaction.
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It is hard to find a more apposite word right now than proxemics 鈥渢he study of the spatial requirements for humans and the effects of population density on behavior and social interaction.鈥� Proxemics is made up of prox(imity) and –emics, which is extracted from (phon)emics 鈥渢he study of the system of sounds of a language,鈥� or is formed on the pattern of a word like phonemics. Proxemics was coined in 1973 by the U.S anthropologist Edward Hall.
how is proxemics used?
We鈥檙e likely to see a recalibration of the bubble of personal space we keep around ourselves鈥攁 field scientists call proxemics.
Proxemics, however, is not merely about interactions between individuals. On a larger scale, it helps developers, urban planners and executives in various industries understand how people move through public spaces, how they shop, even what type of restaurants they find most comfortable.
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solace
noun
something that gives comfort, consolation, or relief.
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Solace, both noun and verb, comes from Old French noun solas, solaz and the Old French verb solacier, solasier from the Latin noun 蝉艒濒腻肠颈耻尘 (also spelled 蝉艒濒腻迟颈耻尘) 鈥渞elief in sorrow or misfortune, comfort,鈥� a derivative of the verb 蝉艒濒腻谤墨 鈥渢o give comfort, console.鈥� One of the meanings of 蝉艒濒腻肠颈耻尘 is 鈥渃ompensation, indemnification,鈥� found in the writings of the Imperial Roman jurist Ulpian. This legal sense of 蝉艒濒腻迟颈耻尘 (spelled solatium) has existed in English since the 19th century. The noun and verb solace entered English around the same time, in the late 13th century.
how is solace used?
Here it shows the attributes that have enabled medicine as a science steadily to push the frontier of knowledge farther into the area once marked unknown, and have kept medicine as an art of human relations a constant solace to men in pain, fear, and sorrow.
The only solace of the day was to make food鈥攖he basic things, soups, simple pastas and bread.
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