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Thesaury RSS Feedsfoiler - Note that Blair won?t be an only child for long if Cyrus does marry Eleanor. His son Aaron (the artist now dating Serena) would become Blair?s step-brother, just like in the books. Oh, and just a warning to anyone searching for ?Gossip Girls? spoilers?Josh wants you all to know that he sometimes puts out fake information to throw everyone off the scent! They are called ?Foilers.?. ...Feed Source: feedproxy.google.com Romanette - One bright spot in the colloquy came during Assistant to the Solicitor General Nicole Saharsky?s defense of an expansive view of the law. In discussing the statute at issue, 18 U.S.C. 922 (a)(33)(A)(i) and (ii), justices had been referring, awkwardly, to sections ?little eye? and ?little eye eye.? But Saharsky had a far better way. She called them ?Romanette one and two,? using an obscure but self-explaining and almost whimsical term for a lower-case Roman numeral. ?Romanette?? asked Chief Justice John Roberts quizzically. ?Oh, little Roman numeral,? Saharsky replied offhandedly. No biggie. ?I?ve never heard that before!? said Roberts. ?That?s? Romanette.?. ... labette - The center is envisioned as a ?labette,? a little laboratory, that will examine whether the old way of telling stories?particularly those delivered to the millions on screen, with a beginning, a middle and an end?is in serious trouble.. ... scope dope - So what exactly is an air battle manager? The term is new, when I was first in the radar business the title was air weapons controller (sometimes referred to as ?scope dope?).. ... platespeak - Is one of Britain?s best-loved dialects, the curious language of personalised number plates, heading for oblivion??Those who cannot afford the best plates have been forced to use a bit of ingenuity to get close to the word or words they really want. Such owners rely on ?platespeak,? as it is known in the business, to compose their unique signage?substituting a ?5? for an ?S,? for example, a ?4? for an ?A,? and so on.. ... triggerfish - A cell site simulator, digital analyzer, or a triggerfish can electronically force a cellular telephone to register its mobile identification number (?MIN,? i.e., telephone number) and electronic serial number (?ESN,? i.e., the number assigned by the manufacturer of the cellular telephone and programmed into the telephone) when the cellular telephone is turned on.. ... belay slave - The technical term for the climber who goes first is the ?leader?; that?s the climber on the ?sharp? end of the rope?the end you can hurt yourself on. The term for the climber who holds the rope and follows the route is ?belay slave.?. ... blend wall - Two members of Growth Energy said shipping and cost constraints could discourage further blending of ethanol with gasoline as soon as 2009, a situation the ethanol industry calls hitting the ?blend wall.?. ... bliss point - Faced with insistent demands to lower the salt, food companies employ three strategies. Strategy No. 1 is to try to reduce sodium. Manufacturers say they can?t do this easily. Unless products are salty enough?reaching what the industry calls the ?bliss point??people will not buy them.. ... shralping - Longboarding has become something more than just a way to get around for Olschner and Grow, it?s now something they consider a part of them. ?I started riding to ride, I had no destination, just the sensation of carving under my feet,? Olschner said. They even coined a term for it: Shralping. ?Shralping is longboarding with no destination, just cruising,? Grow said.. ... keister - The inmates know officials are looking for the phones and are going to great lengths to hide them, he said. It?s tough, officials admit, because some of the phones are small enough to be, in prison parlance, ?keistered.?. ... Xoogler - Many of the Xooglers (the name is a contraction of ex-Googlers but is pronounced ?zooglers?) are young, entrepreneurial and, thanks to Google?s soaring success, wealthy enough to start their own second acts.. ... door-stepper - Jonathan Ross is avoiding the tabloid door- steppers by staying in a Mayfair hotel, and only using the staff entrance.. ... porn slapper - Porn slappers hand out little booklets offering services for ladies of the ?evening.? Or was it the ladies of the afternoon, or morning? Anyways they are promoting prositution.. ... wedgebuster - Goff?s role as a ?wedgebuster? is part of the historic derivative of one of football?s oldest and most dangerous plays: the Flying Wedge, first used by Harvard against Yale in 1892. Back then, 10 men formed a V alignment to protect one ball carrier from 11 tacklers. Sometimes, they linked arms or grasped large loops sewn into the trousers of their teammates. The play caused so many injuries that it was banned in 1894, but variations of it continued because coaches found ways around the letter of the law.. ... sharp - The technical term for the climber who goes first is the ?leader?; that?s the climber on the ?sharp? end of the rope?the end you can hurt yourself on.. ... rap - He kept falling, flailing and failing to make the moves, eventually just hanging on the rope and begging me to lower him down to the last ledge. He was out of steam; we rapped back to the ground.. ... midnight drop - According to the Dow Jones report, the US Treasury is trying to push the regulations through after months of difficult drafting in the hope of finalising the issue before the Bush administration leaves office at the end of the year. The Treasury Department forwarded the final regulations to the Office of Management and Budget on October 21, a necessary step towards implementation. The report describes the move as standard practice for outgoing administrations to finalise controversial regulations before leaving office, a practice known as a midnight drop.. ... sanctuary cell - Back in 1996, when ?cocktails? of antiretroviral drugs were proved effective, some researchers proposed that all cells harboring HIV might eventually die off, leading to eradication of HIV from the body?in short, a cure. Those hopes foundered on the discovery that HIV, which integrates itself into a patient?s own DNA, hides in so-called ?sanctuary cells,? where it lies dormant yet remains capable of reigniting an infection.. ... U-turn transaction - Iranian banks and other institutions could previously send transactions through US banks as long as they were initiated by a non-Iranian or American bank outside the US and ended in a non- Iranian or American bank outside the US. That practice, known as ?U-Turn? transactions, has been banned in attempt to further isolate Iran?s financial sector.. ... foiler - Note that Blair won?t be an only child for long if Cyrus does marry Eleanor. His son Aaron (the artist now dating Serena) would become Blair?s step-brother, just like in the books. Oh, and just a warning to anyone searching for ?Gossip Girls? spoilers?Josh wants you all to know that he sometimes puts out fake information to throw everyone off the scent! They are called ?Foilers.?. ... Romanette - One bright spot in the colloquy came during Assistant to the Solicitor General Nicole Saharsky?s defense of an expansive view of the law. In discussing the statute at issue, 18 U.S.C. 922 (a)(33)(A)(i) and (ii), justices had been referring, awkwardly, to sections ?little eye? and ?little eye eye.? But Saharsky had a far better way. She called them ?Romanette one and two,? using an obscure but self-explaining and almost whimsical term for a lower-case Roman numeral. ?Romanette?? asked Chief Justice John Roberts quizzically. ?Oh, little Roman numeral,? Saharsky replied offhandedly. No biggie. ?I?ve never heard that before!? said Roberts. ?That?s? Romanette.?. ... labette - The center is envisioned as a ?labette,? a little laboratory, that will examine whether the old way of telling stories?particularly those delivered to the millions on screen, with a beginning, a middle and an end?is in serious trouble.. ... scope dope - So what exactly is an air battle manager? The term is new, when I was first in the radar business the title was air weapons controller (sometimes referred to as ?scope dope?).. ... platespeak - Is one of Britain?s best-loved dialects, the curious language of personalised number plates, heading for oblivion??Those who cannot afford the best plates have been forced to use a bit of ingenuity to get close to the word or words they really want. Such owners rely on ?platespeak,? as it is known in the business, to compose their unique signage?substituting a ?5? for an ?S,? for example, a ?4? for an ?A,? and so on.. ... triggerfish - A cell site simulator, digital analyzer, or a triggerfish can electronically force a cellular telephone to register its mobile identification number (?MIN,? i.e., telephone number) and electronic serial number (?ESN,? i.e., the number assigned by the manufacturer of the cellular telephone and programmed into the telephone) when the cellular telephone is turned on.. ... belay slave - The technical term for the climber who goes first is the ?leader?; that?s the climber on the ?sharp? end of the rope?the end you can hurt yourself on. The term for the climber who holds the rope and follows the route is ?belay slave.?. ... blend wall - Two members of Growth Energy said shipping and cost constraints could discourage further blending of ethanol with gasoline as soon as 2009, a situation the ethanol industry calls hitting the ?blend wall.?. ... bliss point - Faced with insistent demands to lower the salt, food companies employ three strategies. Strategy No. 1 is to try to reduce sodium. Manufacturers say they can?t do this easily. Unless products are salty enough?reaching what the industry calls the ?bliss point??people will not buy them.. ... shralping - Longboarding has become something more than just a way to get around for Olschner and Grow, it?s now something they consider a part of them. ?I started riding to ride, I had no destination, just the sensation of carving under my feet,? Olschner said. They even coined a term for it: Shralping. ?Shralping is longboarding with no destination, just cruising,? Grow said.. ... keister - The inmates know officials are looking for the phones and are going to great lengths to hide them, he said. It?s tough, officials admit, because some of the phones are small enough to be, in prison parlance, ?keistered.?. ... Xoogler - Many of the Xooglers (the name is a contraction of ex-Googlers but is pronounced ?zooglers?) are young, entrepreneurial and, thanks to Google?s soaring success, wealthy enough to start their own second acts.. ... door-stepper - Jonathan Ross is avoiding the tabloid door- steppers by staying in a Mayfair hotel, and only using the staff entrance.. ... porn slapper - Porn slappers hand out little booklets offering services for ladies of the ?evening.? Or was it the ladies of the afternoon, or morning? Anyways they are promoting prositution.. ... wedgebuster - Goff?s role as a ?wedgebuster? is part of the historic derivative of one of football?s oldest and most dangerous plays: the Flying Wedge, first used by Harvard against Yale in 1892. Back then, 10 men formed a V alignment to protect one ball carrier from 11 tacklers. Sometimes, they linked arms or grasped large loops sewn into the trousers of their teammates. The play caused so many injuries that it was banned in 1894, but variations of it continued because coaches found ways around the letter of the law.. ... sharp - The technical term for the climber who goes first is the ?leader?; that?s the climber on the ?sharp? end of the rope?the end you can hurt yourself on.. ... rap - He kept falling, flailing and failing to make the moves, eventually just hanging on the rope and begging me to lower him down to the last ledge. He was out of steam; we rapped back to the ground.. ... midnight drop - According to the Dow Jones report, the US Treasury is trying to push the regulations through after months of difficult drafting in the hope of finalising the issue before the Bush administration leaves office at the end of the year. The Treasury Department forwarded the final regulations to the Office of Management and Budget on October 21, a necessary step towards implementation. The report describes the move as standard practice for outgoing administrations to finalise controversial regulations before leaving office, a practice known as a midnight drop.. ... sanctuary cell - Back in 1996, when ?cocktails? of antiretroviral drugs were proved effective, some researchers proposed that all cells harboring HIV might eventually die off, leading to eradication of HIV from the body?in short, a cure. Those hopes foundered on the discovery that HIV, which integrates itself into a patient?s own DNA, hides in so-called ?sanctuary cells,? where it lies dormant yet remains capable of reigniting an infection.. ... U-turn transaction - Iranian banks and other institutions could previously send transactions through US banks as long as they were initiated by a non-Iranian or American bank outside the US and ended in a non- Iranian or American bank outside the US. That practice, known as ?U-Turn? transactions, has been banned in attempt to further isolate Iran?s financial sector.. ... melee: Dictionary.com Word of the Day - melee: a confused conflict.... Copyright © 2008, Selling on Ebay, Make Money on Ebay. All Rights Reserved. |