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centrifugal
Moving outward from a center or central focus.
🌱Their favorite carnival ride was the Round-up, in which centrifugal force flattened them against the outer wall of a rapidly spinning cage. 🌳Centrifugal force is what keeps a string with a ball on the end taut when you whirl it around. A centrifuge is a machine that uses centrifugal force. At the end of a washing machine's cycle, it becomes a weak and simple centrifuge as it whirls the water out of your clothes. Centrifuges hundreds of thousands of times as powerful are essential to nuclear technology and drug manufacturing. Part of an astronaut's training occurs in a centrifuge that generates force equal to several times the force of gravity （about like a washing machine） to get them used to the forces they'll encounter in a real space mission. refuge Shelter or protection from danger or distress, or a place that provides shelter or protection.
🌱Caught in a storm by surprise, they took refuge in an abandoned barn. 🌳The re- in refuge means basically "back" or "backward" rather than "again" （See RE-;） thus, a refugee is someone who is "fleeing backward." Refuge tends to appear with certain other words: you generally "seek refuge," "take refuge," or "find refuge." Religion may be a refuge from the woes of your life; a beautiful park may be a refuge from the noise of the city; and your bedroom may be a refuge from the madness of your family. fugue A musical form in which a theme is echoed and imitated by voices or instruments that enter one after another and interweave as the piece proceeds.
🌱For his debut on the church's new organ, the organist chose a fugue by J. S. Bach. 🌳Bach and Handel composed many fugues for harpsichord and organ in which the various parts （or voices） seem to flee from and chase each other in an intricate dance. Each part, after it has stated the theme or melody, apparently flees from the next part, which takes up the same theme and sets off in pursuit. Simple rounds such as "Three Blind Mice" or "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" could be called fugues for children, but a true fugue can be long and extremely complex. subterfuge 1、 A trick designed to help conceal, escape, or evade.
2、 A deceptive trick.
🌱The conservatives' subterfuge of funding a liberal third-party candidate in order to take votes away from the main liberal candidate almost worked that year. 🌳With its "flee" root, the Latin verb subterfugere meant "to escape or avoid." Thus, a subterfuge is a way of escaping blame, embarrassment, inconvenience—or even prison—by tricky means. The life of spies consists of an endless series of subterfuges. In the more everyday world, putting words like "heart-healthy" on junk-food packaging is a subterfuge to trick unwary shoppers. And getting a friend to call about an "emergency" in order to get out of an evening engagement is about the oldest subterfuge in the book.
🌱Their favorite carnival ride was the Round-up, in which centrifugal force flattened them against the outer wall of a rapidly spinning cage. 🌳Centrifugal force is what keeps a string with a ball on the end taut when you whirl it around. A centrifuge is a machine that uses centrifugal force. At the end of a washing machine's cycle, it becomes a weak and simple centrifuge as it whirls the water out of your clothes. Centrifuges hundreds of thousands of times as powerful are essential to nuclear technology and drug manufacturing. Part of an astronaut's training occurs in a centrifuge that generates force equal to several times the force of gravity （about like a washing machine） to get them used to the forces they'll encounter in a real space mission. refuge Shelter or protection from danger or distress, or a place that provides shelter or protection.
🌱Caught in a storm by surprise, they took refuge in an abandoned barn. 🌳The re- in refuge means basically "back" or "backward" rather than "again" （See RE-;） thus, a refugee is someone who is "fleeing backward." Refuge tends to appear with certain other words: you generally "seek refuge," "take refuge," or "find refuge." Religion may be a refuge from the woes of your life; a beautiful park may be a refuge from the noise of the city; and your bedroom may be a refuge from the madness of your family. fugue A musical form in which a theme is echoed and imitated by voices or instruments that enter one after another and interweave as the piece proceeds.
🌱For his debut on the church's new organ, the organist chose a fugue by J. S. Bach. 🌳Bach and Handel composed many fugues for harpsichord and organ in which the various parts （or voices） seem to flee from and chase each other in an intricate dance. Each part, after it has stated the theme or melody, apparently flees from the next part, which takes up the same theme and sets off in pursuit. Simple rounds such as "Three Blind Mice" or "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" could be called fugues for children, but a true fugue can be long and extremely complex. subterfuge 1、 A trick designed to help conceal, escape, or evade.
2、 A deceptive trick.
🌱The conservatives' subterfuge of funding a liberal third-party candidate in order to take votes away from the main liberal candidate almost worked that year. 🌳With its "flee" root, the Latin verb subterfugere meant "to escape or avoid." Thus, a subterfuge is a way of escaping blame, embarrassment, inconvenience—or even prison—by tricky means. The life of spies consists of an endless series of subterfuges. In the more everyday world, putting words like "heart-healthy" on junk-food packaging is a subterfuge to trick unwary shoppers. And getting a friend to call about an "emergency" in order to get out of an evening engagement is about the oldest subterfuge in the book.
FUG comes from the Latin verb fugere, meaning "to flee or escape." Thus, a refugee flees from some threat or danger, while a fugitive is usually fleeing from the law.🌸