"Provides a drawing surface for embellishing bitmap images."
RAD Studio VCL Reference
Embellish is to make something more beautiful and attractive; to decorate. Or to make something sound or look better or more acceptable than it is in reality; to distort.
From Old French embellir.
I find the situation where this word was used somewhat ironic. We are taking about a programmer's reference here. We are talking about a computer's idea about what a drawing surface is. It's nothing I can take a pen and brush and decorate for real. I can make it beautiful and attractive with binary bitmap images. Or do I only make it look better than it really is?
On the other hand, isn't it rather sweet to look on software code this way? To give it a feel of reality and importance?
Sources: Wiktionary
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Nice post.
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