Juxtaposition (3.29.2007)

Definitions of juxtaposition on the Web:

• the act of positioning close together (or side by side); "it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors"
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• A placing or being placed in nearness or contiguity, or side by side, often done in order to compare/contrast the two, to show similarities or ...
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• juxtapose - place side by side; "The fauvists juxtaposed strong colors"
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• Juxtapose is the fifth album of Bristol, England rapper/producer Tricky, in collaboration with DJ Muggs and Grease (DMX). ...

Decimation (3.23.2009)

Definitions of decimation on the Web:

• destroying or killing a large part of the population (literally every tenth person as chosen by lot)
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• Decimation is the name of the late 2005 Marvel Comics storyline spinning out of the House of M limited series, that focuses on the ramifications of the Scarlet Witch's stripping nearly all of the mutant population of their powers, reducing a society of millions to one of scant hundreds.
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• In digital signal processing, decimation is a technique for reducing the number of samples in a discrete-time signal.
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• Decimation (Latin: decimatio; decem = "ten") was a form of military discipline used by officers in the Roman Army to punish mutinous or cowardly ...
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• The killing or destruction of a large portion of a population; A tithing; A selection of every tenth person by lot, as for punishment; The creation of a new sequence comprising only every nth element of the original sequence; A digital signal processing technique for reducing the number of ...

Inebriated (3.16.2009)

efinitions of Inebriated on the Web:

• intoxicated: stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol); "a noisy crowd of intoxicated sailors"; "helplessly inebriated"
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• Drunkenness is the state of being intoxicated by consumption of alcoholic beverages to a degree that mental and physical faculties are noticeably impaired. Severe drunkenness may lead to acute alcohol intoxication. ...
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• Behaving as though affected by alcohol including exhilaration, and a dumbed or stupefied manner
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• inebriate - exhilarate: fill with sublime emotion; "The children were thrilled at the prospect of going to the movies"; "He was inebriated by his phenomenal success"

Phantasm (3.15.2009)

Definitions of Phantasm on the Web:

• apparition: a ghostly appearing figure; "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us"
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• Phantasm is a low-budget cult classic horror movie produced in 1977 and released in 1979. It was directed, written, photographed, co-produced and edited by Don Coscarelli. ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantasm_(comics)
• Phantasm is a four member viol consort based in England founded in 1994 by Laurence Dreyfus. Their sound tends to be more "edgy" than that of other early music groups such as Fretwork
• Something seen but having no physical reality; a phantom or apparition

Calumnious (3.14.2009)

Definitions of Calumnious on the Web:

• calumniatory: (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign
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• possessing the traits of calumny
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• calumny - defamation: a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions
• calumny - aspersion: an abusive attack on a person's character or good name
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Anisotropy (3.13.2009)

• having a different value when measured in different directions
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• Anisotropy (pronounced with stress on the third syllable, ) is the property of being directionally dependent, as opposed to isotropy, which means homogeneity in all directions. It can be defined as a difference in a physical property (absorbance, refractive index, density, etc. ...
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• anisotropic - not invariant with respect to direction; "anisotropic crystals"
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• anisotropic - Having properties that differ according to the direction of measurement; exhibiting anisotropy

Educed (3.12.2009)

Definitions of Educed on the Web:

• evoked; deduced
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• educe - deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant"
• educe - derive: develop or evolve from a latent or potential state
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• educe - To draw out or bring out; elicit or evoke; To infer or deduce

Spline (3.11.2009)

Definitions of spline on the Web:

• a flexible strip (wood or rubber) used in drawing curved lines
• slat: a thin strip (wood or metal) 
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• In the mathematical field of numerical analysis, a spline is a special function defined piecewise by polynomials. ...
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• A rectangular piece that fits grooves like key seats in a hub and a shaft, so that while the one may slide endwise on the other, both must revolve ...
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• A shaft with a series of longitudinal, straight projections that fit into slots in a mating part to transfer rotation to or from the shaft.

Insalubrious (3.10.2009)

Definitions of Insalubrious on the Web:

• detrimental to health 
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• unhealthful
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• insalubriousness - insalubrity: the quality of being insalubrious and debilitating 
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Brigandage (3.6.2009)

Definitions of brigandage on the Web:

• Brigandage refers to the life and practice of brigands: highway robbery and plunder.
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• The lifestyle of a brigand
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• Les brigands (The Bandits) is an opéra bouffe, or operetta, by Jacques Offenbach to a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy.
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• Brigands - An outlaw or bandit is a person living the lifestyle of outlawry; the word literally means "outside the law", by folk-etymology from the original ...
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• When more than three armed persons form a band of robbers for the purpose of committing robbery in the highway, kidnapping persons for the purpose ...
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Yawl (3.4.2009)

Definitions of Yawl on the Web:

• a ship's small boat (usually rowed by 4 or 6 oars)
• howl: emit long loud cries; "wail in self-pity"; "howl with sorrow"
• a sailing vessel with two masts; a small mizzen is aft of the rudderpost
  

• A yawl (from Dutch Jol) is a two-masted sailing craft similar to a sloop or cutter but with an additional mizzen mast well aft of the main mast, often right on the transom. A small mizzen sail is hoisted on the mizzen mast.

Sludge (3.3.2009)

Definitions of sludge on the Web:

• the precipitate produced by sewage treatment
• any thick, viscous matter 
  

• unpleasant viscous oozy sewage ejection
  
• Sludge is a 2005 documentary film by Appalshop filmmaker Robert Salyer chronicling the Martin County Sludge Spill that was an accident that occurred after midnight on October 11, 2000 when a coal sludge impoundment in Martin County, Kentucky, broke through an underground mine below, propelling ...
  

• Sludge is the residual semi-solid material left from industrial, water treatment, or wastewater treatment processes.
  

Bobble (3.2.2009)

Definitions of Bobble on the Web:

• botch: make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second ...
• the momentary juggling of a batted or thrown baseball; "the second baseman made a bobble but still had time to throw the runner out" 
  

• In knitting, a bobble is a localized set of stitches forming a raised bump. The bumps are usually arranged in a regular geometrical pattern (e.g., a hexagonal grid) or may be figurative, e.g., represent apples on a knitted tree.
  

• A furry ball attached on top of a hat; Elasticated band used for securing hair (for instance in a ponytail); To bob up and down
  

• bobbly - Containing bobbles