Gryphon's Word of the Day, January 23, 2008

The word of the day for January 23, 2008 is "entry" — noun — 1: the right or privilege of entering : ENTRÉE. 2: the act of entering : ENTRANCE. 3: a place of entrance: as a: VESTIBULE PASSAGE. b: DOOR GATE. 4 a: the act of making or entering a record b: something entered: as (1): a record or notation of an occurrence, transaction, or proceeding. (2): a descriptive record (as in a card catalog or an index). (3): HEADWORD. (4): a headword with its definition or identification. (5): VOCABULARY ENTRY 5: a person, thing, or group entered into something (as a contest or market) [the latest entries in the computer market] [judge the entries in the writing contest].

                             — WINTER SUNSET —

AOL Community Photo Challenge gives us a chance to show off our photos in a weekly contest. I found this site in Jeannette's Jottings. I thought I might like to enter this sunset taken across the Arkansas River in Wichita, KS, USA on Dec. 28, 2005. We had fed the Canadian geese that winter over and were on our way home.

Our quote for the day is from Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977), Russian-born U.S. novelist, poet. Invitation to a Beheading, foreword (1959):

     If someday I make a dictionary of definitions wanting single words to head
     them, a cherished entry will be “To abridge, expand, or otherwise alter or
     cause to be altered for the sake of belated improvement, one’s own writings
     in translation.”

;^) Jan

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