
YOU ARE MY ONLY by Beth Kephart
icosahedron - "At the kitchen table, my mother has left my day's work behind -- the cardboard from the backs of paper pads, the pencil, the string, the ruler, the hole punch, the dulled-down blade of the old X-Acto knife, the stuff, she says, of an icosahedron." (p.1)
icosahedron: a solid figure having 20 faces.
What new words did you discover this week?
11 comments:
Interesting word. I haven't heard that before. If you get a chance, my words are here.
You know, anyone who's ever played a role playing game knows that word but mostly because there's a 20 sided die (or 20d).
There are even books you can buy that have forms you can fold into various -hedrons. I can't wait for my granddaughter to be older and ready to build paper models. We'll have so much fun.
I don't think I would have much use for that word! But wow, the 20 sided die that Satia mentioned - I'd like to see one of those!
I read this book awhile back. I actually did know the word, but I didn't understand why folding one was such an important thing to do for the mother!
Never heard of this word, very interesting.
http://tributebooksmama.blogspot.com/2011/10/wondrous-words-wednesday_26.html
It seems that Vance may have had to construct an icosahedron for one of his classes in high school. The word's familiar, but I couldn't have defined it.
A 20-sided figure? Like D&D dice. :)
My words are here.
I could tell from the ending
"-hedron" that it must be a geometrical shape, but I had NO idea what the number could be until you told me. I wonder how high up these words technically go, even though most of us don't use them after about the region of "octagon".
I love your new word. It just sounds like fun. I have this book on ready-to-read list and can't wait to start it. Thanks for getting me started with this defition.
I think this is a word I would have known in high school. Haven't heard of the dice before. And I don't know that I understand the sentence from the book at all- it doesn't make sense to me.
Very interesting word ! I don't know how to say it or how it looks like in French !
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