31 January 2013

reify

[ree-uh-fahy, rey-]

verb (used with object)

re·i·fied, re·i·fy·ing

– to convert into or regard as a concrete thing: to reify a concept.

Origin:
1850–55; < Latin rē ( s ) thing + -ify

Related forms
re·i·fi·ca·tion, noun

Today’s aphorism

‘Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere’.

– Anne Lamott

On this day

31 January 1961 – Ham the Astrochimp, returns safely to Earth after completing a NASA mission into outer space. HAM is an acronym for Holloman Aerospace Medical Centre, which was located at the Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico.

31 January 1991 – McDonald’s opens its first restaurant in Moscow.