#portend

[daily-cool-words]

Today's word of the day is...

Portend

[Verb]

Definition: Be a sign or warning that something momentous is about to happen.

Example Sentence: The man's tone would portend his impending act of violence.

[usgsbiml]

I love this shot, my eye spends time enjoying the sculptured landscape of the head and thorax with the contrasting of bright ruff hairs against general blackness.  Oh,.... this is Megachile apicalis.  A non-North American species, but caught, actually, in North America.  One would suppose that invasive bees like our friend here would be generalists, but you would be wrong.   Some are true specialists and some just have strong preferences.   I am not sure it is well quantified, but my guess would be that invasive bees (including honey bees) , on average favor invasive plants over natives.   What a lovely survey paper that would be.  Our specialist at hand here is a lover of knapweeds (Centaurea), most of which are also not native to the continent.  Yet, some of our non-native weeds are huge pollen and nectar providers.   But who do ("doth" sounds better here don't you think?; sad that its illegal to use that word anymore) they provide for?  Mostly non-native insects with the odd generalist native I believe.  Arguments are made that such non-native species are really not so bad (look! they get bees on them!), but this strikes me as similar to saying that house sparrows, starlings and pigeons are all the birds we really need.  Maybe that is true, but I am not interested in the world of lawn lovers ("lawn lover" is now in the breech as a new insult, but not yet, so I can still use it in a sentence) who are satisfied with an edging of cultivated weeds.  Photo by Heagan Ahmed.  

[dragonfantasiessherryhumeart]

Uh oh, you know that cold weather is coming when the birds all flock to your feeder. 😊 🐥🐥🐥🐥🐥🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️#birds #birdsinmotion #flying #sparrow #sparrows #flocking #autumn #fallday #fall #birdflight #birdfeeder #coldweatherforecast #forerunner #prediction #portend

[kathleenwcurry]

Easily Confused Words: Portend vs. Pretend

Easily Confused Words: Portend vs. Pretend

Portend and pretend are easily confused words.

The spell-check application of most word processing software programs would not catch a slip-up of these two words. Spell-check is looking for words that aren’t in its dictionary, and words that resemble words in its dictionary but are possibly spelled wrong. Spell-check isn’t perfect. It doesn’t know and can’t guess what word you wanted or what…

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[exyzuk]

Impeachment: Where does it go? What does it portend? | USA

Impeachment: Where does it go? What does it portend? | USA

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A moment of uncertainty has entered the Trump impeachment proceedings.

There is now a witness. It is Trump’s former national security adviser, John Bolton. He has a book coming out in March, outlines of which were leaked to the New York Times.

“President Trump told his national security adviser in August that he wanted to continue freezing $391 million in security assistance to Ukraine…

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[lofihipbot]

lofi hip hop beats to portend to

[homebrewings]

You want some TIME SPELLS?

I made two time-based subclasses, one for wizard and one for sorcerer, and I figured they could use some more spells to flavor them up with. Some of the spells are adapted from 2e, some are adapted from class abilities, and some are just my own ideas. They are as follows:

Age

Exhaust

Know Age

Portend

Skip

Split-Second Skip

Wall of Sloth

Withdraw

This is a link to the PDF with all of them, as well as listings for which ones belong to what classes.

[kathleenwcurry]

Easily Confused Words: Portend vs. Pretend

Easily Confused Words: Portend vs. Pretend

Portend and pretend are easily confused words. The spell-check application of most word processing software programs would not catch a slip-up of these two words. Spell-check is looking for words that aren’t in its dictionary, and words that resemble words in its dictionary, but are possibly spelled wrong. Spell-check isn’t perfect. It doesn’t know and can’t guess what word you wanted, or what…

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