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Dictionaries RSS Feedsrelokill - Eight years ago, it adopted a relocation program. About 230 deer were trapped and removed from the city at a cost of $360 per deer. A study found that roughly 20 percent died from the trauma of being moved. Some residents refer to the effort as the ?relokill.?. ...Feed Source: feeds.feedburner.com toothpick rule - Even so, awareness of the new law is so high that Parven Pomper Vice President Alixandria Lapp, for one, made sure to run its reception menu by a lawyer before taking it to the caterers. Under what is known as the ?toothpick rule,? a reception can offer only food and refreshment of a nominal value. ?We are just following the guidelines of the ethics committee, and we are completely staying within what they have deemed appropriate,? Lapp said.. ... age-doping - Under pressure to address ?age-doping,? the IOC asked the International Federation of Gymnastics (FIG) on Friday to re-open the Federation?s previous investigation into the matter of the girls? ages. Prior to the competition, when rumors of the under-aged gymnasts first surfaced, the FIG had looked at the passports of the gymnasts and declared itself satisfied that the girls were at the lower-age limit of 16, not 14, as some earlier news reports on the girls had noted.. ... narcisurfing - Ms. Kroll also urges students to search their name on search engines?a practice known as ?narcisurfing??to see what?s in cyberspace for anyone to read.. ... chemical rapping - At a subsequent press conference senior FEI officials said capsaicin was a prohibited substance because its pain-relieving properties were potentially performance-enhancing. It also had ?hypersensitisation? properties: if applied to a horse?s shins it could inflame them, thereby inducing the animal to jump higher to avoid painful contact with a fence?a practice known as ?chemical rapping.?. ... LPU - It?s refreshing to read about a discovery that isn?t just a tiny increment. Today?s scientists are under pressure to publish something new, leading to what some cynically call the LPU, or Least Publishable Unit. You find some new detail and publish it, showing the boss that you?re in a science journal, even though the ?discovery? is just a tweak of stuff already known. (Nothing new here. The best description of this is from Kingsley Amis?s Lucky Jim, about a clueless young lecturer desperate for a job in 1950s England.). ... peanut buttering - Peanut buttering (v)?The tendency to evenly distribute resources across the full range of a product rather than focusing on a few core Value Propositions. While discussing this issue recently someone described it as ?peanut buttering? the product. By spreading out all our resources evenly across the product we lose the opportunity to focus on a few key areas where we can deliver a substantial value proposition. Notice this does NOT mean that we forget the basics.. ... whipsawing - Whipsawing is a term for the corporate tactic of pitting employees at one plant against workers at another plant of the same company. Workers who produce similar vehicles or components find themselves in competition to get new work into their plant. When one group of workers agrees, under intense pressure, to certain concessions, the second group will often agree to give up even more to hold on to their jobs. It?s a vicious downward spiral, and only the bosses come out on top.. ... momtourage - There?s a new word out there?momtourage?to describe that group of people who provide a mother with the support she needs to get the job done, especially as the new school year starts.. ... thin file - Even if you have not used credit much and therefore don?t have an extensive credit history, known in banking as a ?thin file,? you could still qualify for a home mortgage.. ... two minute man - The field race in a pure time trial format with the lowest ranked athletes going first up to the highest ranked who goes last. Athletes go at two minute intervals (this possibly needs to be tweaked a bit based on some better statistics but it?s a pretty good starting point.) They swim, transition, bike, transition and run against the clock. The fastest overall wins. And, just to add a little extra frisson of excitement, if an athlete gets caught by their pursuer?your ?two minute man? in cycling parlance?then it?s game over.. ... family forest - That complexity is why he and other Northeast foresters are increasingly being called on by private landowners to help them manage their wooded acreage, commonly called ?family forests.? Many of the owners have civic motives, wanting to protect their forests and ensure that invasive plant species and insects do not get a foothold.. ... squircle - This must be photographed quite a bit, but i do wonder if it has been squircled.. ... pocket litter - Because the format of the data in the current database is ?complex, undocumented, and brittle,? some significant data will be lost when the system is replaced by Railhead, according to the congressional report. For example, scraps of information such as phone and credit-card numbers found when law-enforcement and intelligence officials empty a suspect?s pocket, often called ?pocket litter,? will not be moved to the new system.. ... cuckoo smurfing - AFP agent Mark Creighton told the court ?cuckoo smurfing? was when criminals replaced legitimate money intended for legal transfer into Australian bank accounts with the proceeds of crime. The original funds are then used overseas. The court heard that Tanesh Dias, 34, collected money from members of the criminal syndicate and deposited it in the bank accounts of people who were expecting an international money transfer.. ... kill screen - We talk about what is known in classic-gaming argot as the ?kill screen.? This is the edge of the universe, the place where instructions end. Billy has seen a lot of kill screens. Pac-Man comes to a halt at level 256, as the program runs out of code and the entire right side of the screen is engulfed by senseless symbols. Circus Charlie just freezes. Donkey Kong ends after five seconds on level 22. The first time Billy reached the impassable ?nal level of Dig Dug, he lost all 400 of his free men. Then there is Galaga, which eventually closes in solitude. After everything comes nothing: No enemy armada. No music. No score. Just you and the existential void. Other games end in violence.. ... yac - The buzzword in Ames this preseason has been ?yac? ?- as in ?yards after catch.? Chizik calls that stat ?Cyclone yards.?. ... shoe-shining - When the only target of Tier 4 was tape, the focus was on delivering the data to that tape drive as fast as possible. Tape drives themselves have been plenty fast enough for years now, they?re just not very forgiving if you can?t deliver data to them fast enough. They slow down and have to reposition, commonly called shoe-shining.. ... stumper - First, what the loggers call a stumper uses its arm to chop down some trees. The first batch of trees, from the start line to the edge of the property line, are laid across the swamp. The stumper?s large, tank-like track tires distribute the weight enough to let it tiptoe across the trees it has just put down. Once a road of about five layers is built, the other machinery, 25-ton tree-toters, carry the timber back to a loading dock. At the dock, small cranes hoist the tree carcasses, dip them onto a saw and then drop them into a tractor-trailer. Finally, the stumper picks up the trees it used for a bridge on the swampy land and loads them onto a truck. This job, which will take about three weeks to finish, will yield about 80 truckloads a week.. ... polliwogging - Iowa DNR fisheries technician Adam Thiese found the first Higgins eye within 30 minutes of the opening bell. Using a technique dubbed ?polliwogging,? he slipped downstream on his knees, probing the bottom with his hands until he found the mussel near a shoreline log.. ... relokill - Eight years ago, it adopted a relocation program. About 230 deer were trapped and removed from the city at a cost of $360 per deer. A study found that roughly 20 percent died from the trauma of being moved. Some residents refer to the effort as the ?relokill.?. ... toothpick rule - Even so, awareness of the new law is so high that Parven Pomper Vice President Alixandria Lapp, for one, made sure to run its reception menu by a lawyer before taking it to the caterers. Under what is known as the ?toothpick rule,? a reception can offer only food and refreshment of a nominal value. ?We are just following the guidelines of the ethics committee, and we are completely staying within what they have deemed appropriate,? Lapp said.. ... age-doping - Under pressure to address ?age-doping,? the IOC asked the International Federation of Gymnastics (FIG) on Friday to re-open the Federation?s previous investigation into the matter of the girls? ages. Prior to the competition, when rumors of the under-aged gymnasts first surfaced, the FIG had looked at the passports of the gymnasts and declared itself satisfied that the girls were at the lower-age limit of 16, not 14, as some earlier news reports on the girls had noted.. ... narcisurfing - Ms. Kroll also urges students to search their name on search engines?a practice known as ?narcisurfing??to see what?s in cyberspace for anyone to read.. ... chemical rapping - At a subsequent press conference senior FEI officials said capsaicin was a prohibited substance because its pain-relieving properties were potentially performance-enhancing. It also had ?hypersensitisation? properties: if applied to a horse?s shins it could inflame them, thereby inducing the animal to jump higher to avoid painful contact with a fence?a practice known as ?chemical rapping.?. ... LPU - It?s refreshing to read about a discovery that isn?t just a tiny increment. Today?s scientists are under pressure to publish something new, leading to what some cynically call the LPU, or Least Publishable Unit. You find some new detail and publish it, showing the boss that you?re in a science journal, even though the ?discovery? is just a tweak of stuff already known. (Nothing new here. The best description of this is from Kingsley Amis?s Lucky Jim, about a clueless young lecturer desperate for a job in 1950s England.). ... peanut buttering - Peanut buttering (v)?The tendency to evenly distribute resources across the full range of a product rather than focusing on a few core Value Propositions. While discussing this issue recently someone described it as ?peanut buttering? the product. By spreading out all our resources evenly across the product we lose the opportunity to focus on a few key areas where we can deliver a substantial value proposition. Notice this does NOT mean that we forget the basics.. ... whipsawing - Whipsawing is a term for the corporate tactic of pitting employees at one plant against workers at another plant of the same company. Workers who produce similar vehicles or components find themselves in competition to get new work into their plant. When one group of workers agrees, under intense pressure, to certain concessions, the second group will often agree to give up even more to hold on to their jobs. It?s a vicious downward spiral, and only the bosses come out on top.. ... momtourage - There?s a new word out there?momtourage?to describe that group of people who provide a mother with the support she needs to get the job done, especially as the new school year starts.. ... thin file - Even if you have not used credit much and therefore don?t have an extensive credit history, known in banking as a ?thin file,? you could still qualify for a home mortgage.. ... two minute man - The field race in a pure time trial format with the lowest ranked athletes going first up to the highest ranked who goes last. Athletes go at two minute intervals (this possibly needs to be tweaked a bit based on some better statistics but it?s a pretty good starting point.) They swim, transition, bike, transition and run against the clock. The fastest overall wins. And, just to add a little extra frisson of excitement, if an athlete gets caught by their pursuer?your ?two minute man? in cycling parlance?then it?s game over.. ... family forest - That complexity is why he and other Northeast foresters are increasingly being called on by private landowners to help them manage their wooded acreage, commonly called ?family forests.? Many of the owners have civic motives, wanting to protect their forests and ensure that invasive plant species and insects do not get a foothold.. ... squircle - This must be photographed quite a bit, but i do wonder if it has been squircled.. ... pocket litter - Because the format of the data in the current database is ?complex, undocumented, and brittle,? some significant data will be lost when the system is replaced by Railhead, according to the congressional report. For example, scraps of information such as phone and credit-card numbers found when law-enforcement and intelligence officials empty a suspect?s pocket, often called ?pocket litter,? will not be moved to the new system.. ... cuckoo smurfing - AFP agent Mark Creighton told the court ?cuckoo smurfing? was when criminals replaced legitimate money intended for legal transfer into Australian bank accounts with the proceeds of crime. The original funds are then used overseas. The court heard that Tanesh Dias, 34, collected money from members of the criminal syndicate and deposited it in the bank accounts of people who were expecting an international money transfer.. ... kill screen - We talk about what is known in classic-gaming argot as the ?kill screen.? This is the edge of the universe, the place where instructions end. Billy has seen a lot of kill screens. Pac-Man comes to a halt at level 256, as the program runs out of code and the entire right side of the screen is engulfed by senseless symbols. Circus Charlie just freezes. Donkey Kong ends after five seconds on level 22. The first time Billy reached the impassable ?nal level of Dig Dug, he lost all 400 of his free men. Then there is Galaga, which eventually closes in solitude. After everything comes nothing: No enemy armada. No music. No score. Just you and the existential void. Other games end in violence.. ... yac - The buzzword in Ames this preseason has been ?yac? ?- as in ?yards after catch.? Chizik calls that stat ?Cyclone yards.?. ... shoe-shining - When the only target of Tier 4 was tape, the focus was on delivering the data to that tape drive as fast as possible. Tape drives themselves have been plenty fast enough for years now, they?re just not very forgiving if you can?t deliver data to them fast enough. They slow down and have to reposition, commonly called shoe-shining.. ... stumper - First, what the loggers call a stumper uses its arm to chop down some trees. The first batch of trees, from the start line to the edge of the property line, are laid across the swamp. The stumper?s large, tank-like track tires distribute the weight enough to let it tiptoe across the trees it has just put down. Once a road of about five layers is built, the other machinery, 25-ton tree-toters, carry the timber back to a loading dock. At the dock, small cranes hoist the tree carcasses, dip them onto a saw and then drop them into a tractor-trailer. Finally, the stumper picks up the trees it used for a bridge on the swampy land and loads them onto a truck. This job, which will take about three weeks to finish, will yield about 80 truckloads a week.. ... polliwogging - Iowa DNR fisheries technician Adam Thiese found the first Higgins eye within 30 minutes of the opening bell. Using a technique dubbed ?polliwogging,? he slipped downstream on his knees, probing the bottom with his hands until he found the mussel near a shoreline log.. ... naif: Dictionary.com Word of the Day - naif: a naive or inexperienced person.... Copyright © 2008, Chicago Best Price. All Rights Reserved. |