I have a probably naive question. When someone is having a heart attack -- right during the heart attack -- would their blood pressure either be very high or very low? Meaning, could you be having a heart attack while maintaining a 120/80 blood pressure reading?
to prompt. â assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned 1. to prompt; cue; to remind. â assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned 1. prompt verb (prompts, prompted, prompting). cue verb.
Retard as a verb means to pull back or reduce or delay. The antonym is advance, i.e., advance = increase, retard = decrease. The choice of this word for audible annunciations in an Airbus is unfortunate, but not very surprising given that it was probably chosen by French engineers who don't know English well enough to realize the negative connotations of saying Retard!