Our new 'Word Of The Day' article update : suspension , n :
The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended. A temporary or conditional delay, interruption or discontinuation. The state of a solid or substance produced when its particles are mixed with, but not dissolved in, a fluid, and are capable of separation by straining. The act of keeping a person who is listening in doubt and expectation of what is to follow. (education) The process of barring a student from school grounds as a form of punishment. (music) The act of or discord produced by prolonging one or more tones of a chord into the chord which follows, thus producing a momentary discord, suspending the concord which the ear expects. […] (vehicles) The system of springs and shock absorbers connected to the wheels in an automobile or car, which allows the vehicle to move smoothly with reduced shock to its occupants.
Our new 'Word Of The Day' article update : vegetable lamb , n :
(mythology) A legendary plant believed to grow sheep from its branches.
Our new 'Word Of The Day' article update : coupist , n :
One who takes part in a coup d'état. General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the sixth President of Egypt, led a coup d’état against the fifth President, Mohamed Morsi, on this day in 2013.
Our new 'Word Of The Day' article update : malapert , adj :
(archaic) Cheeky, impudent, saucy.
Our new 'Word Of The Day' article update : blame Canada , v :
(US, idiomatic, humorous) A catch phrase for shifting attention away from a problem or serious social issue by humorously laying responsibility on Canada. Happy Canada Day!
Our new 'Word Of The Day' article update : kohl , n :
A dark powder (usually powdered antimony) used as eye makeup, especially in Eastern countries; stibnite.
Hey pal, You must know what's the featured article on Wikipedia, anon : The Wikipedia article of the day for July 5, 2017 is Head VI.
Head VI is a 1949 painting by the Irish-born, English figurative artist Francis Bacon. It is the last of six panels making up his "1949 Head" series, which are largely modeled on Diego Velázquez's Portrait of Innocent X. Applying forceful, expressive brush strokes, Bacon placed the figure within a draped glass cage. The intended effect is of a man trapped and suffocated by his surroundings, screaming into an airless void. Head VI was the first of Bacon's paintings to reference Velázquez, whose portrait of Pope Innocent X haunted Bacon and inspired his series of over 45 "screaming popes". Head VI contains many figurations that were to reappear throughout his career; the geometric cages are present as late as the 1985–86 Study for a Self-Portrait—Triptych. In 1949 Bacon was a highly controversial artist, best known for his 1944 Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, and as the enfant terrible of British art. The curator Lawrence Gowing wrote that the "shock of the picture, when it was seen with a whole series of heads ... was indescribable. It was everything unpardonable." Today the panel is considered among Bacon's finest.