ELL HubTech Tools Miniseries - Loom
Tech Tools Miniseries - Loom
Episode 242
Vocabulary
polish (verb)
- Definition:
- to make something smoother, cleaner, or better
- Example from the episode:
- “Loom utilizes AI to transcribe your video and auto draft a relevant title, summary, chapters, and action items, including helping you polish the video, removing filler words and silences, so you can communicate even more effectively.”
- Example sentence:
- “The editor helped polish the article.”
pivot (noun)
- Definition:
- a big change in a plan, idea, or direction
- Example from the episode:
- “But from November, 2015 when we started building to June of 2016, so nine months, we had a couple major pivots about how we would apply it and bring it to the workplace.”
- Example sentence:
- “The team made a pivot in their plan.”
latent (adjective)
- Definition:
- something that exists but is not yet seen or used
- Example from the episode:
- “By the time you were ready to actually share a link, it had already been 20, 25 minutes, and we felt like there was a ton of latent potential within this space to bring video recording and sharing to the workplace based off of the fact that consumer behavior tends to lead the enterprise.”
- Example sentence:
- “There is latent interest in the new game.”
side by side (idiom)
- Definition:
- next to each other so you can compare or work together
- Example from the episode:
- “And with a tool like yours, it allows you the opportunity to try slightly different variations and compare them literally side by side so you can see how that looks different.”
- Example sentence:
- “The pictures are shown side by side.”