ELL HubSandy Pentland
Sandy Pentland
Episode 246
Vocabulary
accent (verb)
- Definition:
- to emphasize something so people notice it
- Example from the episode:
- “What it is, is certain patterns of interaction, and those are accented by excitement or delay.”
- Example sentence:
- “The director accented the scene with music.”
bottleneck (noun)
- Definition:
- a place or problem that slows down progress or causes delay
- Example from the episode:
- “How can this data be used to identify communication bottlenecks in a company or help create more effective and efficient teams once you understand the network?”
- Example sentence:
- “The slow server is a bottleneck.”
frontier (adjective)
- Definition:
- near the edge of knowledge or technology; very new and not fully explored
- Example from the episode:
- “And you don't need the frontier model to do this at all. You can do this with any of the open source ones.”
- Example sentence:
- “This is a frontier area of research.”
on top of something (idiom)
- Definition:
- in addition to something else
- Example from the episode:
- “Language seems to be built on top of that, but we didn't get rid of it.”
- Example sentence:
- “On top of his homework, he had to wash the dishes.”