| Term | Definition |
|---|
| other than | What can you do with a Microsoft Surface touch-screen computing table, __ use it as an expensive interactive kiosk in AT&T wireless stores |
| pump sthƒ'out | (informal) to produce sth in large amounts |
| pump out | Our cars __ thousands of tonnes of poisonous fumes every year. |
| all | It has been pumping out prototype Surface apps for the last five months, and now has a Surface blog to document it __. |
| more | Then, of course, you can always use the Surface for __ pedestrian apps |
| pulled off of | The BMW video has been __ __ __ YouTube. |
| revealed | Perhaps BMW didn't like its plans being __ |
| nearly all of which | In the last year, we've covered well over a dozen activity aggregators, __ share a single goal: helping you keep track of your friends' exploits across the web |
| taking | Today, we see the launch of Fwix, an aggregator that is __ a (thankfully) different approach |
| be concerned with sth | to be about sth: |
| concerned | The book is primarily __ with Soviet-American relations during the Cold War |
| it keeps track of what's going on | instead, __ in your physical region |
| pulls .. from | The site __ data __ over 30 APIs including Yelp, Twitter, and Eventful, with more on the way |
| comb through | to examine or search sth very carefully |
| combs through | Every 15 minutes it __ thousands of potential stories, using a series of algorithms to determine what the hottest items are in your city |
| sort of like | used when you cannot think of a good word to use to describe sth, or what to say next: |
| is sort of like | it __ a regional News Feed. |
| resemblance (between A and B) | the fact of being or looking similar to sb/sth |
| bears | She __ little resemblance to (= is not much like) her mother |
| in function | But Fwix doesn't just bear a resemblance to Facebook's News Feed __ |
| reveals | a quick tour around the site __ that it's nearly visually identical as well. |
| coincidence | the fact of two things happening at the same time by chance, in a surprising way |
| coincidence | This isn't a __ : Darian Shirazi, one of the site's co-founders, was an early Facebook employee who was involved with the News Feed project. |
| lay sth out | to spread sth out so that it can be seen easily or is ready to use |
| intuitive | easy to understand and to use |
| as a whole | as one thing or piece and not as separate parts: |
| on the whole | considering everything; in general |
| stratification | the division of sth into different layers or groups: social stratification |
| willing (adj) | not objecting to doing sth; having no reason for not doing sth: |
| grapple | to take a firm hold of sb/sth and struggle with them: |
| lump A and B together | lump A (in) with B | to put or consider different things together in the same group: |
| ac'count for sth | to be the explanation or cause of sth |
| stem from sth | (not used in the progressive tenses) to be the result of sth |
| materialize | to take place or start to exist as expected or planned: |
| materialized | Brightcove invested heavily in producing a platform for paid media content, but the market for this hasn't __ |
| inroad | something that is achieved, especially by reducing the power or success of sth else |
| make inroads into / on sth | if one thing makes inroads into another, it has a noticeable effect on the second thing, especially by reducing it, or influencing it: |
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