Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Extra Listening ICT: My Blackberry Is Not Working

 
 
 Here is the list of words with double sense:
Word
First meaning
Second meaning
blackberry
A type of wild fruit (mora)
Type of phone
Run out of juice
No juice left
No machine life left/ no battery left
To be frozen
It turned to ice
Computer applications are paralyzed
orange
A type of fruit
Phone company
To launch
To send an object into the space
To start a computer programme
Black spot
Small area in black
A place that has more problems than other places
apple
A type of fruit
Computer company
date
A sweet brown sticky fruit that grows on palm trees (dátil)
A particular day of the year
dongle
A large penis
A piece of equipment that must be connected to a computer before a particular programme can work
To boot
To kick something
If you boot a computer, it starts working and becomes ready to use.
mouse
An animal
A piece of computer equipment
desktop
Desktop computer: 'ordenador de mesa/escritorio'
Computer desktop: the background of a computer screen.

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