Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

The word 'arrant,' originating from a Middle English term for 'wandering,' has evolved to signify something complete or absolute, typically with a negative connotation. This adjective is used to ...

ABSTRACT: The paper analyzes how the United States wields rules of origin—together with tariffs, export controls and procurement rules—to secure technological sovereignty, steer supply-chain ...

Abstract: The problem of relating media content to users' affective responses is here addressed. Previous work suggests that a direct mapping of audio-visual properties into emotion categories ...

Fun was first a verb meaning "to cheat or hoax." It came from fon, an old word for "fool." It still retains some of that sense in “make fun of,” but now also means "a merry good time." Fond also goes ...

Abstract: The apparent difficulty in assessing emotions elicited by movies and the undeniable high variability in subjects' emotional responses to film content have been recently tackled by exploring ...

A forensic linguist said on Tuesday that Eastern Cape Judge President Selby Mbenenge’s use of banana, peach, eggplant and dripping syringe emojis had “sexual connotations” and indicated that he wanted ...

Mark Zuckerberg once used as a motto for Facebook, “Move fast and break things.” It had a positive connotation, meaning that progress was being made so rapidly that mistakes would be corrected later.

Here's a handy glossary of heart emoji meanings for every communication style, according to an actual emoji expert With an endless array of emojis at our fingertips—and new ones constantly popping ...

Cooked: This word has raced out of the kitchen and into teenagers' vocabulary. What does it mean? That depends. Urban Dictionary states that “cooked” can mean someone is exhausted, high on marijuana ...