ratio / 'reɪʃiəʊ / noun = the relationship between two groups of people or things that is represented by two numbers showing how much larger one group is than the other. Example: "The ratio of applications to available places currently stands at a hundred to one (100:1)."
Word of the Day #2
ratioed / 'reɪʃiəʊd / verb = on Twitter, getting ratioed is when replies to a tweet vastly outnumber likes or retweets.
According to Urban Dictionary, being ratioed (sometimes spelled "ratio'd") is when a reply to a tweet gets more likes than the tweet it was replying to. That usually indicates the unpopularity or stupidity of the original tweet. Example: "You got 12 likes, and his reply got 271 likes? He totally ratioed you, bro."
How did I run across this word — for the first time ever, I might add — since I'm not on Twitter? I read it on Colleen's blog, because she shared something she had seen on Twitter: "I know I’m going to get ratioed for this but I miss the two spaces after a period." I still use two spaces after every period here on my blog, because that's the way I was taught to do it in my typing classes back in the 1950s. So I looked up the word, even though Colleen gave one definition. Have you ever heard "ratioed" before?
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