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Word of the Day : December 6, 2018
dossier
noun DOSS-yay
Definition :
: a file containing detailed records on a particular person or subject.
Did You Know ?
Gather together various documents relating to the affairs of a certain individual, sort them into separate folders, label the spine of each folder, and arrange the folders in a box. Dossier, the French word for such a compendium of spine-labeled folders, was picked up by English speakers in the 19th century. It comes from dos, the French word for "back." The verb endorse (which originally meant "to write on the back of") and the rare adjective addorsed ("set or turned back to back," a term primarily used in heraldry) are also derived, via the Anglo-French endosser and French adosser respectively, from dos. The French dos has its origins in the Latin dorsum, a word which also gave English the adjective dorsal ("situated on the back"), as in "the dorsal fin of a whale."
Examples :
The agency maintains extensive dossiers on all of its employees and contractors.
"The council overwhelmingly supported a resolution to set up an 'independent mechanism' that will collect and analyze evidence of the 'most serious international crimes' and prepare dossiers that will make it easier for prosecutors to bring cases to trial in national, regional or international courts." — Nick Cumming-Bruce, The New York Times, 28 Sept. 2018.
Word of the Day : December 6, 2018
dossier
noun DOSS-yay
Definition :
: a file containing detailed records on a particular person or subject.
Did You Know ?
Gather together various documents relating to the affairs of a certain individual, sort them into separate folders, label the spine of each folder, and arrange the folders in a box. Dossier, the French word for such a compendium of spine-labeled folders, was picked up by English speakers in the 19th century. It comes from dos, the French word for "back." The verb endorse (which originally meant "to write on the back of") and the rare adjective addorsed ("set or turned back to back," a term primarily used in heraldry) are also derived, via the Anglo-French endosser and French adosser respectively, from dos. The French dos has its origins in the Latin dorsum, a word which also gave English the adjective dorsal ("situated on the back"), as in "the dorsal fin of a whale."
Examples :
The agency maintains extensive dossiers on all of its employees and contractors.
"The council overwhelmingly supported a resolution to set up an 'independent mechanism' that will collect and analyze evidence of the 'most serious international crimes' and prepare dossiers that will make it easier for prosecutors to bring cases to trial in national, regional or international courts." — Nick Cumming-Bruce, The New York Times, 28 Sept. 2018.
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SGT John " Mac " McConnell
Not many pictures of Hawkeye saulting. Very little in the TV series. Good morning Mark.
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SPC Erich Guenther
Most folks did not know this but Alan Alda had substantial background on which to draw his acting skills. He served as a real Army Captain in the Active Army in Korea I believe. Pretty sure it was after the Korean War though. When the series came out, some of the "Sam the Eagle" type Veterans from Vietnam and earlier wars didn't think it accurately portrayed the Army during wartime and were offended by it. There would be these long letters to the Editor, I remember reading as a kid from them. Which just stoked my interest in the Army further.
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