dedalo s.m.  Labirinto, intrico;

" Attraverso il dedalo di fatti e di concetti dovevamo scegliere la via maestra che ci pareva più caratteristica, spedita e segnificativa."

pag.13 , Prefazione degli autori
L'evoluzione della fisica, Albert Einstein, Leopold Infeld
2013 Bollati Boringhieri editore
Torino, Italia

ribadire v.tr.   Confermare, ripetere con decisione:
                              ha ribadito le sue accuse

lad

noun

1 informal       a boy or young man (often as a form of address):

come in, lad, and shut the door

 (lads) British a group of men sharing recreational, working, or other interests:

she wouldn’t let him go out with the lads any morea furious row ensued between the referee and our lads

 British a boisterously macho or high-spirited young man:

Tony was a bit of a lad—always had an eye for the women

2 British       a stable worker (regardless of age or sex):

it’s great for the lads that the horse has won the National

tidy

adjective (tidier, tidiest)
1   arranged neatly and in order:
his scrupulously tidy apartmentfigurativethe lives they lead don’t fit into tidy patterns
 inclined to keep things or one’s appearance neat and in order:
she was a tidy little girl
 neat and controlled:
he wrote down her replies in a small, tidy hand

2 [attributive] informal   (of an amount, especially of money) considerable:
the book will bring in a tidy sum
 used as a general term of approval:
City have the backbone of a tidy side