{"id":43225,"date":"2022-03-16T00:23:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T00:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=43225"},"modified":"2022-03-16T00:23:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T00:23:53","slug":"vocabulary-detent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/vocabulary-detent\/","title":{"rendered":"Vocabulary: detent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Tutoring English, vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor mentions detent.<\/h2>\n<p>\n<em>detent:<\/em> a catch which holds part of a device in place until it is released, intentionally, by a trigger of some kind. The trigger can appear remote from what it affects. Mostly used to describe mechanical devices, this could also refer to a turngate used to stop, then admit, people.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/detent\">merriam-webster.com<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring English, vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor mentions detent. detent: a catch which holds part of a device in place until it is released, intentionally, by a trigger of some kind. The trigger can appear remote from what it &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/vocabulary-detent\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vocabulary: detent<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2825],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43227,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43225\/revisions\/43227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}