Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

View all terms

(noun) the scope, extent, or bounds of something

(noun) a sentence or phrase (as “nothing is good enough for you”) that can be interpreted in more than one way

(adjective) of, relating to, or characterized by the direction of love toward an object (as the mother) that satisfies nonsexual needs (as hunger)

(adjective) of, relating to, or resembling the poetry of Anacreon / (adjective) convivial or amatory in tone or theme / (noun) a poem in the manner of Anacreon / (noun) a drinking song or light lyric

flashback

(e.g.,) using language of the other to speak of oneself

(adjective) producing, relating to, or marked by intentional distortion (as by unequal magnification along perpendicular axes) of an image

(noun, literary theory) repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses especially for rhetorical or poetic effect

a word refers back to a previous word for its meaning

(noun) inversion of the usual syntactical order of words for rhetorical effect (literary device)

not entropic

(adjective) full of windings and intricate turnings; tortuous

a type of synthetic dye ("aniline" being an organic compound - an amine)

(noun) a minute, usually microscopic organism

(adjective) exhibiting properties with different values when measured in different directions

(noun) a native or inhabitant of Annam, which was a French protectorate encompassing the central region of Vietnam / (noun) vietnamese

(verb) to heat and then cool (as steel or glass) usually for softening and making less brittle / (verb) to cool slowly usually in a furnace / (verb) to heat and then cool (double-stranded nucleic acid) in order to separate strands and induce combination at lower temperature with complementary strands / (verb) strengthen toughen / (verb) to be capable of combining with complementary nucleic acid by a process of heating and cooling

referring to a ringlike anatomical structure

an act or instance of announcing; proclamation

(noun) a painkilling drug or medicine

lack of the usual social or ethical standards in an individual or group, which lessens social cohesion and fosters decline; popularized by French sociologist Émile Durkheim in his influential book Suicide

soon; shortly

pre-cloud (a term made up by Franzen in purity)

(adjective) grotesque bizarre / characterized by clownish extravagance or absurdity / whimsically gay; frolicsome

(noun) one who rejects a socially established morality