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Narrator: Today's word is "Promiscuous" — adjective, pronounced /prəˈmɪskjuəs/, with the stress on "mis".
Narrator: Promiscuous means having many casual sexual partners, or not choosing carefully.
Narrator: In plain English, promiscuous means indiscriminate.
Narrator: It comes from the Latin promiscuus, mixed.
Narrator: A common collocation is "promiscuous mode", which describes a network card reading all traffic.
Narrator: It differs from "unfaithful", because unfaithful betrays a partner, while promiscuous describes a pattern.
Narrator: In older English, it simply meant mixed or random, as in a promiscuous crowd.
Narrator: Networking, biology, sociology and literature all rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: promiscuous means without discrimination.
Speaker A: Why does my network tool mention promiscuous mode?
Speaker B: It captures all packets! PROMISCUOUS comes from the Latin for mixed.
Speaker A: So not just those addressed to me?
Speaker B: Exactly.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "Enable promiscuous mode to sniff traffic", networking. "The character was portrayed as promiscuous", literature. "A promiscuous mixture of styles", random.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: Promiscuous about people can offend; use neutral language in health contexts.
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Indiscriminate is its cousin, casual is its twin, and wanton is the old alternative, but promiscuous keeps its mixed charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "promiscuous" in AI prompts — useful for network security and editing tools.
Speaker A: How would security use it?
Speaker B: Detect sniffers.
Prompt: Write a script that alerts when any network interface enters promiscuous mode.
Speaker A: And editing tools?
Speaker B: Tone checks.
Prompt: Flag uses of promiscuous describing people in this article and suggest neutral wording.
Speaker A: Could it help teaching?
Speaker B: Yes, networking labs.
Prompt: Explain promiscuous mode to students before a Wireshark lab.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Biology.
Prompt: Summarise research on promiscuous proteins that bind many molecules.
Promiscuous — meaning in Arabic & definition More P courses GL Dictionary