Day 1 Flashcards
(29 cards)
resolve
/rɪˈzɒlv/
verb
to solve or end a problem or difficulty
Have you resolved the problem of transport yet?
non-trivial
/ˌnɒnˈtrɪv.i.əl/
adjective
having value or importance
The police are trying to concentrate their efforts on non-trivial crimes
specify
/ˈspes.ɪ.faɪ/
verb
to explain or describe something clearly and exactly
He said we should meet but didn’t specify a time
illegal
/ɪˈliː.ɡəl/
adjective
not allowed by law
A campaign to stop the illegal sale of cigarettes to children under 16
crime
/kraɪm/
noun
illegal activities
A rising crime rate
traverse
/trəˈvɜːs/
verb
to move or travel through an area
Stanley traversed the continent from west to east
continent
/ˈkɒn.tɪ.nənt/
noun
one of the seven large land masses on the earth’s surface, surrounded, or mainly surrounded, by sea and usually consisting of various countries
The North American continent
property
/ˈprɒp.ə.ti/
noun
an object or objects that belong to someone
The club does not accept responsibility for loss of or damage to club members’ personal property
corresponding
/ˌkɒr.ɪˈspɒn.dɪŋ/
adjective
similar to, connected with, or caused by something else
Company losses were 50 percent worse than in the corresponding period last year
populate
/ˈpɒp.jə.leɪt/
verb
- if an area is populated by people or animals, they live in that area
- to automatically add information to a list or table on a computer
In this example, we populate an author’s posts array with a field resolver that calls a service which takes the author’s id as an argument.
hence
/hens/
adverb
that is the reason or explanation for
Hence the need to identify the parent object in the “@Resolver()” decorator
extract
/ɪkˈstrækt/
verb
to remove or take out something
They extract the oil from the seeds for use in cooking and manufacturing
reference
/ˈref.ər.əns/
noun
a mention of something
Knowing what had happened, I avoided making any reference to (= mentioning) weddings
aggregate
/ˈæɡ.rɪ.ɡeɪt/
verb
to combine into a single group or total
They will be aggregated into a single “Query type” definition
entry
/ˈen.tri/
noun
the act of entering a place or joining a particular society or organization
The appropriate entries in the resolver map
appropriate
/əˈprəʊ.pri.ət/
adjective
suitable or right for a particular situation or occasion
I didn’t think his comments were very appropriate at the time
conventionally
/kənˈven.ʃən.əl.i/
adverb
in a way that is traditional and ordinary
Conventionally, we prefer to decouple these names
decouple
/ˌdiːˈkʌp.əl/
verb
to separate from someone or something else; to separate something from something else that it was joined to or part of
Some people hope to decouple migration policy from party politics
deprecation
/ˌdep.rəˈkeɪ.ʃən/
noun
the action of not approving of something or saying that you do not approve of something
She couldn’t hide the deprecation in her voice
construct
/kənˈstrʌkt/
verb
to build something or put together different parts to form something whole
to construct a new bridge/building
sufficient
/səˈfɪʃ.ənt/
adjective
enough for a particular purpose
The following construction is sufficient, and simply plucks the named field from the inbound GraphQL request for use as a method argument
inbound
/ˈɪn.baʊnd/
adjective
travelling towards a particular point
We expect delays to both inbound and outbound trains
towards
/təˈwɔːdz/
preposition
in the direction of, or closer to someone or something
She stood up and walked towards him
thus
/ðʌs/
adverb
in this way, or with this result
