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noun

a social blunder; faux pas.

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Origin of gaffe

1905–10; <French: blunder, probably special use of gaffegaff¹

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Gaelic coffee, Gaelic football, Gaeltacht, Gaeta, gaff, gaffe, gaffer, gaffer tape, gaffle, Gaffney, gaff rig

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Words related to gaffe

blooper, blunder, impropriety, indiscretion, boner, boo-boo, howler, indecorum, slip, solecism, faux pas

How to use gaffe in a sentence

• Fortunately, the agency admitted the gaffe within hours and corrected it, and the counting continued without drama.

  New York's Mayoral Race Shows that Ranked Choice Voting Works—Even With Snafus|Kevin Kosar and Elayne Allen|July 10, 2021|Time

• In January, four of China’s biggest online tutoring platforms made an embarrassing gaffe.

  China’s online tutoring crackdown punishes parents trapped in a merciless system|Nicole Jao|July 8, 2021|Quartz

• Instead, he wrote his own or simply spoke from the cuff, often leading to notable gaffes.

  The epic, unlikely love story between Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip|Michael Rosenwald|April 9, 2021|Washington Post

• The Ravens had to move only 16 yards after the gaffe by Steelers punt returner Ray-Ray McCloud.

  Steelers stay unbeaten, hold off Ravens in rare Wednesday NFL game|Mark Maske|December 3, 2020|Washington Post

• Locals familiar with the scenery immediately called out the visual gaffe, which highlighted a preference on the part of Daines, Rosendale, and their fellow Republicans for appearance over substance on public-lands issues.

  Want to Win in Montana? It's the Environment, Stupid.|Elliott D. Woods|October 28, 2020|Outside Online

• At this point, probably the only thing that can really flip the dynamic of a particular race is a major gaffe.

  Hooray for Liberal Fear-Mongering!|Michael Tomasky|October 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST

• However, Ernst may have finally committed her own devastating gaffe this week.

  Did Joni Ernst’s Des Moines Register Diss Just Destroy Her ‘Iowa-Nice’?|Ben Jacobs|October 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST

• Did her handlers fear what for the gaffe-prone Republican might say?

  Did Joni Ernst’s Des Moines Register Diss Just Destroy Her ‘Iowa-Nice’?|Ben Jacobs|October 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST

• Christopher Dickey joins CNN International to discuss Biden's Erdogan gaffe and how it will affect Turkey's role in fighting ISIS.

  Biden's Misstep Has Implications For Turkish Policy|Christopher Dickey|October 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST

• The moment seems to be a familiar breed of Internet gaffe when a eager but inept social media staffer makes a blunder.

  RNC Chair Tweets Picture Of Maryland's Democratic Governor|Ben Jacobs|May 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST

• She has been so charming to me that if I make a gaffe she must forgive me.

  Sylvia &amp; Michael|Compton Mackenzie

• Her recent commands with respect to turbulent Venice were the subject of criticism among the circle outside the Piazza Gaffe.

  Vittoria, Complete|George Meredith

• It was an odd correspondence, in which I made my customary gaffe.

  The High Heart|Basil King

• Think what his position would have been if any member of his Embassy had made a "gaffe."

  Letters of a Diplomat's Wife|Mary King Waddington

British Dictionary definitions for gaffe

gaffe

/ (ɡæf) /

noun

a social blunder, esp a tactless remark

Word Origin for gaffe

C19: from French

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Words starting with the letter "G", Library of articles for artists

GALLERY - State, public or private enterprise, constantly engaged in the exhibition, storage, study and promotion of art. Depending on the status and tasks set, the gallery can conduct commercial activities.

COLOR RANGE is a series of interrelated shades of color that create a harmonious whole and are used in the creation of a work of art. As a rule, this term is accompanied by the usual color definitions (since the color scale is called warm, hot, cold, bright, faded, light, etc.)

HARMONY - consistency, proportion, unity of parts and whole in a work of art.

HYPERREALISM is a trend in European and American art of the 1960s-1980s, using a color photograph or model to reproduce individual fragments of Reality. The largest representatives: D. Eddy, R. Estes, R. Goingo, R. Cottingham, B. Shontsai. M. Morley, C. Close, D. de Andrea, D. Hanson.

GIPS - In nature, a mineral or sedimentary rock, consisting mainly of hydrous calcium sulfate. Gypsum is used in the production of binders, plaster gypsum, estrichgypsum, gypsum cement, as well as for the production of sulfuric acid.

HORIZON - in the theory of perspective, a conditional straight line corresponding to the visible horizon; can be located by the artist near the top or bottom edge of the picture and be high or low, respectively.

GOTHIC is a style that arose in the middle of the 12th century. Changed the Romanesque style, in the XV-XVI centuries. gave way to the Renaissance. She inherited and developed a religious-cult hierarchical character, irrationalism and symbolism, and a coalegorical character of thinking. Its features: the organic connection of fine art with architecture and interior design, the complexity and rhythmic richness of the composition, the spirituality and sublimity of the images. Late Gothic (“flaming”, or international, “perpendicular style”), along with the complication and emphasized verticalism of the decor, introduces features of individuality, greater intimacy and secular elegance.

GUOHUA, Zhongguohua is a traditionalist movement in Chinese painting that emerged at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Painting with mineral and vegetable water colors and black ink on silk and paper scrolls, fans, screens, album sheets.

ENGRAVING - cutting out images, ornaments, inscriptions on the surface of hard materials (metal, wood, stone, glass, linoleum, plastics) with cutters and other tools; can create both in-depth and convex pattern.

ENGRAVING - a section of graphics, including works (engravings) executed by printing from a board processed by various engraving methods. Varieties of engraving are aquatint, woodcut, lithography, etching, polytype, reservation.

GRADATION - sequential, gradual alternation, change in color, tone, chiaroscuro; coordinated following of shades, together creating a harmonic whole.

GRATTAGE - (French grattage, from gratter - scrape, scratch), a method of making a drawing by scratching paper or cardboard filled with ink on wax with a pen or sharp instrument. The process of working in G. is reminiscent of scraping asphalt in lithography. Works made in the G. technique are distinguished by the contrast of the white lines of the drawing and the black background and are similar to woodcuts or linocuts. G. is found in the graphics of the 20th century. In Russia, gravitation was first used by M. V. Dobuzhinsky in the works of 1920s
Paper or cardboard is coated with wax or paraffin, primed with some tone (usually dark) and scratched to reveal white paper (or vice versa).

GRAPHICS - a type of visual spatial (plastic) arts; associated with an image on a plane: a drawing or print is applied to a sheet of paper, sometimes cardboard; distinguish between easel and book graphics, according to the intended purpose - applied (industrial), ex-libris, poster, according to the method of execution and reproduction capabilities - unique and printed. A variety of graphics is a popular print - a folk picture.

GRAPHITE - Graphite is a product of natural origin and is essentially a form of crystalline carbon mixed with various other substances. Graphite pencils in our time are very popular and have the widest application. They are made in a large number of varieties, and almost always in a wooden frame, but graphite is also available for sale without any frame.
Pencils are distinguished by numbers, which determine the degree of their softness, with the first number indicating the softer grade. In the best grades of graphite pencils, the numbers are replaced by letters: H (hard - hard) and B (black - black). The softest and blackest pencils are designated: five B, the hardest - one B.
The blackest (and most expensive) graphite still lacks the intensity of blackness; besides, it has brilliance. A drawing made with graphite (especially hard) shines, which is why graphite is suitable only for small drawings - al-ohm for the most part, which are well preserved without fixing, if too soft graphite was not taken for the drawing. Graphite is also prepared in the form of watercolor paint, and in this form it has a very pleasant tone.

GRAFFITI is an art movement that originated in US youth culture and spread to Europe 1960-1970s Graffiti is the art of the streets, and artists, mostly young people, use multi-colored sprays (spray paints) as a painting medium. The role of the canvas is played by the walls of buildings, public transport, fences. Some representatives of this trend draw with multi-colored crayons, such as Keith Haring.

GRAPHIC - artistic quality in the plastic arts, associated with the use of graphics; laconic expressiveness of line and chiaroscuro.

GRIZAILLE - one-color, monochrome painting, usually imitating a sculptural relief, serves as a decorative painting or panel.

GROTESQUE is a type of artistic imagery based on a contrasting, bizarre combination of fantasy and reality, the beautiful and the ugly, the tragic and the comic.

GROUND (Polish qrunt; from German Grund - bottom, base) - 1) in painting, a thin layer of a special composition applied over canvas or wood as a base in order to give the surface the technological qualities the artist needs; it can be glue, oil or emulsion; 2) in the technique of in-depth engraving - a layer of acid-resistant composition, which is used to cover a metal board before starting work

GOUCHE - paints for painting, diluted with water, differ from watercolors in the presence of white in the composition, a greater density of the paint layer.

GUM ARABIC - Juice flowing from under the bark of the Arabian and African acacias. Colorless or slightly yellow-colored transparent lumps. Consists of potassium and calcium salts of arabic acid. Dissolves in water. In icon painting, it is used as a binder of created gold and silver for gold-white writing - a special manner of filling gaps.

GUN-BI — in classical medieval painting and modern traditional Chinese painting guohua one of two (along with ce-i) complementary manners; based on the finest graphic elaboration of details, a clear readable line.

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1.Introduction

A good school saying: "Repetition is the mother of learning." It is this idea that is embedded in all parts of the Alfavit resource, the publication of which began in our journal from the 49th issue. Our slogan is: “The Internet has infected the “great and mighty” with illiteracy bacilli, and it must also cure it!”. Therefore, the resource is hosted on the global network, the first part is on the site http://icdau.kubsu.ru. But the main question is how to treat. We can offer to study the rules of Russian grammar, which the generation of graduates of the Soviet school mastered at school for many years. But hardly anyone will remember at least one of these rules. But most of them write correctly and are outraged by the current "Internet philological catastrophe." At that time, everyone read a lot, and books helped to master the language. The current younger generation perceives mainly information from the Internet, preferring more fun content. We must use this interest.

From a conversation with a grandmother of retirement age: “I study with my grandson, a third-grader, lessons. The math is all right. But neither I, nor, moreover, my grandson can understand the rules of the Russian language.” It is clear that the path "through grammar to literate writing" disappears. The situation is similar with the development of a foreign language. We recall the school and student years, when, in accordance with the curriculum, a foreign language was studied for eight years. Education was also built mainly on the development of grammar. They passed tests and exams, received excellent grades, but they did not know the language.

In Soviet times, there was a practice of sending university professors to lecture in French at colleges and universities in African countries. Our colleagues, physicists, did not know French at all, so they underwent language training in Moscow for four months. After three or four years they returned, and we were interested in how they managed, in a short time of preparation, to learn a foreign language in such a way that they could give training courses to foreign students. They answered: "But we did not teach, we sang and danced." It is clear that almost all training took place in games, mobile, speech, etc. But now a computer can perfectly cope with such a task, especially since young people prefer this form of communication and learning. Therefore, in the next part of the project, "Alfavit-G", we include "word" games based on several simple templates of the HTML software environment using the Java Script programming language, the main of which can be the "Drag and drop" program. These programs have open codes, so they are easily modified, and on their basis you can create a large complex of variable word games and technologies.

2. Sample of words

Words in the sample can be grouped according to some subject. In this part of the resource, we have kept the same principle of their distribution. The first group included words that can be used in the story about oneself “All about myself” (table 1)), about personal hobbies and interests, studies, profession, family and relatives, as well as various epithets. The "World around me" group includes words related to surrounding objects, housing, nature, transport, cities and countries, etc. A separate group consists of words from the section "Science and Art", abstract concepts, special terms used in computer and other sciences. From the dictionary of S.I. Ozhegov, we select those words in the spelling of which there may be doubts, derivative forms or those rarely found in modern speech are excluded. For each of the groups, we first design the traditional technologies of innovative computer didactics (ICD), i.e. in printed form. At the same time, we strive to ensure that the same word is used several times. We also vary the form of presentation of information and the composition of educational activities.

For example, some technologies provide a simple reading of words, others require the selection of words from lists, matching words and images, moving words on the screen. Next, we propose to write down words or missing letters, which can be considered doubtful for words. At the same time, methods of self-control of the results of educational actions are used. Then we will demand to write down the words completely from the keyboard without any prompts. The program already checks the learning activities and reports the result. For words of foreign origin, we use technologies with an explanation of their meanings. The above technologies are created "manually" using simple web templates, for which instructions are given below. To do this, open the program with a text editor and make small changes to it, mainly in the text part. A special group of technologies are those that are created on the site http://ya-znau.ru. These are larger didactic structures that provide for a final check and grading. (The full text of the journal article provides instructions for changing the content of a resource through simple manipulation of the program codes).

Drop-down list . The purpose of educational web technology is to master the meanings of words of foreign origin by students. Previously, students get acquainted with a selection of words by opening the "Selection" page in the content (or by opening the "files" folder, the file "vibor.html"), using a dictionary of foreign words, they learn the meanings of unfamiliar words or find a word on the Internet. Then, the technology "Drop-down list" is performed, where it is required to select the appropriate word from the list, and the program will show "True" or "False". The resource provides two such technologies.