tailieunhanh - The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_10

Tham khảo tài liệu 'the penguin dictionary of american english usage and style_10', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 446 type slangy phrases like reading-type material in lieu of type of reading material. 2. TYPE and KIND other meanings Used strictly type fits a clearly defined group Citrine is a type of quartz while kind or sort has more general application. That is the kind of weather I like. She is the sort of person who gets along with everyone. Strict users appear to be in the minority. The noun type can also denote printed characters The manuscript has been set up in type or the metallic blocks producing them in traditional printing. Type can serve as an adjective when it pertains to printing as in type style and type faces or when it is united with a technical term as in Type AB blood. As a verb type present participle typing can mean to operate a typewriter or computer keyboard She types eighty words a minute or to classify They typed him as a vagrant . See also KIND OF. U ULTIMATUM. An ultimatum is not just any demand. This noun along with the adjective ultimate stems from the Medieval Latin ultimatus meaning final. An ultimatum is the ultimate demand or proposition or statement of terms presented by the government of one country to the government of another country before launching war or using force. The threat of hostilities is expressed or implied in the statement. Ultimatum is too important a word to be treated in the casual way it often is. Iran issued an ultimatum to Britain a newscaster announced on television. Iran s demand that Britain ban a book was backed by the threat of severed relations but not hostilities. Therefore calling it an ultimatum is not a precise use of the word. At least the demand had an element of finality. Not so in the next instance reported in a newspaper article When city officials discovered that an unauthorized street clock last month they issued an ultimatum to the restaurant s owners. If you want permission to erect the clock . . . you must first remove it. There ultimatum is evidently supposed to be humorous so its irrelevance to .