voc_u1_rev Flashcards

(41 cards)

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A centralized repository that allows you to store all your structured and unstructured data at any scale.

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Data lake

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Something that is taken from something that already exists, instead of something you have created yourself.

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Off the shelf

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Gateway between you and the Internet.

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Proxy

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Keywords used to look for data.

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Query

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Guidelines that have been officially agreed by a group of people.

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Policy

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To improve the quality or usefulness of something, or change it for something that is newer or of a better standard.

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To upgrade

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To put two or more numbers or amounts together to get a result.

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To add

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To make or draw plans for something.

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To design

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To judge or calculate the quality, importance, amount or value of something.

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To evaluate

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To discover something, either unexpectedly or by searching.

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To find out

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To recognize and name the exact character of something, by examining it.

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To diagnose

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To study something in a systematic and careful way.

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To analyze

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To know why or how something happens or works.

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To understand

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To put something that is damaged, broken, or not working correctly, back into good condition or make it work again.

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To repair

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To make something more modern or suitable for use now by adding new information or changing its design.

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To update

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To control or influence something directly, or to decide what will happen.

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To determine

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To work with someone else for a special purpose or on a particular project.

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To collaborate

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To start using a plan or system.

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To do something in order to discover if something is safe, works correctly, etc., or if something is present.

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To think about and decide what you are going to do, and/or how, when, where, etc. you are going to do it.

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To put furniture, a machine or a piece of equipment into position and make it ready to use.

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To prepare someone or yourself for a job, activity or sport by learning skills and/or by mental or physical exercise.

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Someone who has a desk job at an office.

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White-collar worker/clerk

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To solve a problem or to identify and determine the problem with something. Troubleshooting often involves the process of elimination, where a technician follows a set of steps to determine/resolve the problem.

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To troubleshoot

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Bachelor of Science.
BSc
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Master of Science.
MSc
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The way that organizations or countries are managed at the highest level, and the systems for doing this.
Governance
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Solving problems in a sensible way that suits the current existing conditions, rather than obeying fixed theories, ideas or rules.
Pragmatic
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A person such as an employee, customer or citizen who is involved with an organization, society, etc. and therefore has responsibilities towards it and an interest in its success.
Stakeholder
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To put yourself or someone else onto the official list of members of a course, college or group.
To enroll at/in
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Money that a student pays to a university for his/her teaching.
Tuition fees
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The most up-to-date stage of development in a particular type of work or activity.
Cutting edge
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Not planned before it happened.
Ad hoc
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A person who calculates how likely accidents, such as fire, flood, or loss of property, are to happen and tells insurance companies how much they should charge their customers.
Actuary
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A person who has obtained a first degree from university or college.
Graduate
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A student who is studying for their first degree at a college or university.
Undergraduate
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The main subject that a college or university student is studying or the student him-/herself.
Major (AmE)
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The way in which someone finds their way around a website using breadcrumbs or links to previous pages visited.
Breadcrumb navigation
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Relating to the part of a computer program or system that the user does not see or use.
Back-end
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When you send a mail or use a credit card, this shows where you have been and what you have been doing.
Electronic footprint
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Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (subjects of study).
STEM