what's new
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- noun
- It is updated at the beginning of each month and is posted at www.menc.org under "What's New."
- What's New Award
- What's New section
- Best of What's New
Examples
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The company's website has a section titled what's new that outlines all the latest updates and features.
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Take a look at the 'What's New' deck in the NetWorker Online.
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Check out Evernote's What's New page for the complete feature list.
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Social Software: What's New from Many-to-Many
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Here, we take a look at what's new in Android 4.2 Jelly Bean.
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Live Webinar: What's New in the Next Generation of MySQL Cluster?
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Mark your calendars! Mostly because I can't fit all this in the "What's New" widget on the side over there.
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Visit www.menc.org, and go to "What's New, MENC Periodicals Archives" to view the archives.
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Two short-form guides—"What's New in Data Acquisition" and "What's New in Imaging"—are available.
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You can find information about what's new in the latest version of the software on the official page.
Synonyms
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Information you did not know before
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Most recent information about an event or topic
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A list of new posts and stories on a website or app that updates all the time
How Detailed
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a direct contraction of 'what is new' and its meaning ('the recent or newly added items/changes') follows transparently from 'what's' (what is) + 'new' (recent). As a common webpage or section title, this compositional interpretation is cross-linguistically familiar and readily accessible to a B1 learner who knows the constituents.
Etymology
What's new as a webpage or app label comes from the same simple question what is new. Website makers used the friendly phrase to show a list of 'updates' or 'recent changes', so it now means a page that lists new features or fixes.