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Word i-e
WordType (abbreviation)
Phonetic BrE / ˌaɪ ˈiː / NAmE / ˌaɪ ˈiː /
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  • the basic essentials of life, i.e. housing, food and water
  • some poems are mnemonics, i.e. they are designed to help you remember something.
  • some poems are mnemonics, that is to say, they are designed to help you remember something.
  • mnemonic poems, that is poems designed to help you remember something, are an excellent way to learn lists.
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(abbreviation)BrE / ˌaɪ ˈiː / NAmE / ˌaɪ ˈiː /
  1. used to explain exactly what the previous thing that you have mentioned means (from Latin ‘id est’)
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    • the basic essentials of life, i.e. housing, food and water
    • Some poems are mnemonics, i.e. they are designed to help you remember something.
    • Some poems are mnemonics, that is to say, they are designed to help you remember something.
    • Mnemonic poems, that is poems designed to help you remember something, are an excellent way to learn lists.
    • A limerick’s rhyme scheme is A–A–B–B–A. In other words, the first, second, and fifth lines all rhyme with one another, while the third and fourth lines have their own rhyme.
    • In this exercise the reader is encouraged to work out the meaning, or rather the range of meanings, of the poem.
    • This is a poem about death, or, more precisely, dying.
    • He says his poems deal with ‘the big issues’, by which he means love, loss, grief and death.

    Word Origin

    • from Latin id est ‘that is’.
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