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Dictionaries RSS Feedsflipping - Those wetlands that remained were often tracts of infertile, troublesome land such as the West Coast pakihi swamps. Yet today even these are under pressure. Mechanical diggers are now used to smash the buried, impervious mineral pan (a method called flipping) creating land that can be used profitably to graze dairy cattle. This type of ?improvement??which destroys the drainage, vegetation and natural history?is still widely regarded as converting ?wasteland? to productive use.. ...Feed Source: feedproxy.google.com bumping - The indictments of 50 adults last month stemmed from an undercover infiltration of a sophisticated dogfighting ring that planned fights six to eight weeks in advance. But the crime is more commonly found here among kids or young adults who spontaneously engage in the activity?referred to as ?bumping??on street corners, in parks or near school grounds, Smith said.. ... gork - Mark Roth?s career as a deanimator. As a gorker. Gorking is?well, gorking. You take away some creature?s supply of oxygen, you?re gorking it, man.?Nothing should live in those caves; instead, the caves were full of all sorts of fascinating creatures that tempted spelunkers to go down to see them. And the spelunkers had to be really, really, really careful or else they?d get gorked. They had to wear all sorts of special gear or else they?d get gorked with one breath of hydrogen sulfide. Deanimated with a single breath!. ... health halo - The other half of the Park Slopers were shown the same salad and drink plus two Fortt?s crackers prominently labeled ?Trans Fat Free.? The crackers added 100 calories to the meal, bringing it to 1,034 calories, but their presence skewed people?s estimates in the opposite direction. The average estimate for the whole meal was only 835 calories?199 calories less than the actual calorie count, and 176 calories less than the average estimate by the other group for the same meal without crackers. Just as Dr. Chandon had predicted, the trans-fat-free label on the crackers seemed to imbue them with a health halo that magically subtracted calories from the rest of the meal.. ... insourcing - Under the Aer Lingus deal workers who returned to the airline would have to operate on the basis of full flexibility and mobility within and between departments, buildings and work locations.?For unions, such leave-and-return arrangements, or ?insourcing? as they are called, are preferable to alternatives where staff are let go and replaced by personnel supplied through employment agencies.. ... CO2e - The IPCC has crunched the numbers and says this means a tax of about $50 levied on every metric ton of GHGs, or carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e to use their terminology).. ... supercheck - The Delaware State Police have been conducting secret background checks of some gun owners since 2001, a process known as ?superchecks? that may violate federal law. The checks have resulted in confiscation of weapons, some for legitimate reasons, but have subjected many citizens to a search of mental health records that in most cases police would be unable to access.. ... take the number 11 bus - ?Taking the No. 11 bus? is slang for walking, with the 1?s representing your own two legs.. ... antihomonuptial - I have actually considered that laws against (or implicitly disallowing) gay marriage are, actually, sexist. For example, suppose I lived somewhere with antihomonuptial legislation.. ... cellblock - Pulled off the streets, stripped of guns and badges, kept inside four walls and away?as much as possible?from the public, officers who are put on desk duty because their conduct is under investigation find themselves far from the enforcement activities they signed up to do. ?We like to call it the ?cellblock? because it is like you are in prison,? said an officer who spent more than 18 months watching surveillance video while authorities investigated an accusation that he had struck a suspect.. ... cut and shut - Stretch limos, which can have up to 16 seats, are often imported from the US, where different safety laws apply. Some are adapted to become stretch limos by a process called ?cut and shut,? where two vehicles are sliced in half and stretched by adding extra parts.. ... photoporation - St Andrews researchers have created a new technique that relies on a method called ?photoporation.? This innovative method allows insoluble compounds such as genes and drugs to be injected into individual cells with the assistance of light. This will allow the potential detection of specific diseases and assist in the development of medication.. ... dry powder - Capital available for secondary deals?what the industry calls dry powder?is about $12 to $15 billion, said Small, whose company manages some $4.2 billion of secondaries.. ... phytocapping - Landfill sites produce the greenhouse gases, methane and carbon dioxide, as putrescible waste decays. Growing plants and trees on top of a landfill, a process known as ?Phytocapping,? could reduce the production and release of these gases.. ... toe pick - Linebacker Lance Briggs was all smiles after the first 2-interception game of his NFL career, even when he discussed the second pick, when it looked as if he might score until he tripped. ?That was what we like to call a ?toe pick,?? Briggs said, laughing. ?My toe got caught on the ?ice,? and I fell. I don?t know what happened; I tripped?poor return on my part.?. ... smokepole - Sighting in my muzzleloader the other day at Oakdale Gun Club, I was one of a half-dozen or so shooters blowing charges through ?smokepoles,? as muzzleloaders are often called.. ... heavy furniture - Some have thought of her at times as what celebrity-wranglers bemoan as ?heavy furniture.?. ... gulch - For Glyn Willacott, there was never a dull moment aboard HMS Cardiff. The 59-year-old served as a weapons engineer between 1982 and 1985, travelling to the Falklands, the Persian Gulf and, of course, back to the ship?s home city of Cardiff.??We were at sea all the time once we were there?it was very rare you managed to set foot off the ship. But we would all really look forward to the trips there and back because we would call inland (during the journeys),? he said. He said there were 60 men in each mess?or the ?gulches? as they were called?and they would sleep in the bottom, middle or top bunk depending on rank.. ... hyper-edit - Each high-octane action sequence is made up of quick cuts and edits, hyper-edits as they call it in the business, leaving the viewer with no sense of the surroundings and at times no clue as to what exactly is happening.. ... doga - In Seattle, Brenda Bryan specializes in ?doga,? or doggie yoga, developing her own technique, known as ?barking buddha doga.? Combining hatha yoga?poses include the ?woofing warrior one??with massage and stretching for dog and owner, barking buddha is designed to create ?an opportunity to connect in a whole new way? with your dog.. ... flipping - Those wetlands that remained were often tracts of infertile, troublesome land such as the West Coast pakihi swamps. Yet today even these are under pressure. Mechanical diggers are now used to smash the buried, impervious mineral pan (a method called flipping) creating land that can be used profitably to graze dairy cattle. This type of ?improvement??which destroys the drainage, vegetation and natural history?is still widely regarded as converting ?wasteland? to productive use.. ... bumping - The indictments of 50 adults last month stemmed from an undercover infiltration of a sophisticated dogfighting ring that planned fights six to eight weeks in advance. But the crime is more commonly found here among kids or young adults who spontaneously engage in the activity?referred to as ?bumping??on street corners, in parks or near school grounds, Smith said.. ... gork - Mark Roth?s career as a deanimator. As a gorker. Gorking is?well, gorking. You take away some creature?s supply of oxygen, you?re gorking it, man.?Nothing should live in those caves; instead, the caves were full of all sorts of fascinating creatures that tempted spelunkers to go down to see them. And the spelunkers had to be really, really, really careful or else they?d get gorked. They had to wear all sorts of special gear or else they?d get gorked with one breath of hydrogen sulfide. Deanimated with a single breath!. ... health halo - The other half of the Park Slopers were shown the same salad and drink plus two Fortt?s crackers prominently labeled ?Trans Fat Free.? The crackers added 100 calories to the meal, bringing it to 1,034 calories, but their presence skewed people?s estimates in the opposite direction. The average estimate for the whole meal was only 835 calories?199 calories less than the actual calorie count, and 176 calories less than the average estimate by the other group for the same meal without crackers. Just as Dr. Chandon had predicted, the trans-fat-free label on the crackers seemed to imbue them with a health halo that magically subtracted calories from the rest of the meal.. ... insourcing - Under the Aer Lingus deal workers who returned to the airline would have to operate on the basis of full flexibility and mobility within and between departments, buildings and work locations.?For unions, such leave-and-return arrangements, or ?insourcing? as they are called, are preferable to alternatives where staff are let go and replaced by personnel supplied through employment agencies.. ... CO2e - The IPCC has crunched the numbers and says this means a tax of about $50 levied on every metric ton of GHGs, or carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e to use their terminology).. ... supercheck - The Delaware State Police have been conducting secret background checks of some gun owners since 2001, a process known as ?superchecks? that may violate federal law. The checks have resulted in confiscation of weapons, some for legitimate reasons, but have subjected many citizens to a search of mental health records that in most cases police would be unable to access.. ... take the number 11 bus - ?Taking the No. 11 bus? is slang for walking, with the 1?s representing your own two legs.. ... antihomonuptial - I have actually considered that laws against (or implicitly disallowing) gay marriage are, actually, sexist. For example, suppose I lived somewhere with antihomonuptial legislation.. ... cellblock - Pulled off the streets, stripped of guns and badges, kept inside four walls and away?as much as possible?from the public, officers who are put on desk duty because their conduct is under investigation find themselves far from the enforcement activities they signed up to do. ?We like to call it the ?cellblock? because it is like you are in prison,? said an officer who spent more than 18 months watching surveillance video while authorities investigated an accusation that he had struck a suspect.. ... cut and shut - Stretch limos, which can have up to 16 seats, are often imported from the US, where different safety laws apply. Some are adapted to become stretch limos by a process called ?cut and shut,? where two vehicles are sliced in half and stretched by adding extra parts.. ... photoporation - St Andrews researchers have created a new technique that relies on a method called ?photoporation.? This innovative method allows insoluble compounds such as genes and drugs to be injected into individual cells with the assistance of light. This will allow the potential detection of specific diseases and assist in the development of medication.. ... dry powder - Capital available for secondary deals?what the industry calls dry powder?is about $12 to $15 billion, said Small, whose company manages some $4.2 billion of secondaries.. ... phytocapping - Landfill sites produce the greenhouse gases, methane and carbon dioxide, as putrescible waste decays. Growing plants and trees on top of a landfill, a process known as ?Phytocapping,? could reduce the production and release of these gases.. ... toe pick - Linebacker Lance Briggs was all smiles after the first 2-interception game of his NFL career, even when he discussed the second pick, when it looked as if he might score until he tripped. ?That was what we like to call a ?toe pick,?? Briggs said, laughing. ?My toe got caught on the ?ice,? and I fell. I don?t know what happened; I tripped?poor return on my part.?. ... smokepole - Sighting in my muzzleloader the other day at Oakdale Gun Club, I was one of a half-dozen or so shooters blowing charges through ?smokepoles,? as muzzleloaders are often called.. ... heavy furniture - Some have thought of her at times as what celebrity-wranglers bemoan as ?heavy furniture.?. ... gulch - For Glyn Willacott, there was never a dull moment aboard HMS Cardiff. The 59-year-old served as a weapons engineer between 1982 and 1985, travelling to the Falklands, the Persian Gulf and, of course, back to the ship?s home city of Cardiff.??We were at sea all the time once we were there?it was very rare you managed to set foot off the ship. But we would all really look forward to the trips there and back because we would call inland (during the journeys),? he said. He said there were 60 men in each mess?or the ?gulches? as they were called?and they would sleep in the bottom, middle or top bunk depending on rank.. ... hyper-edit - Each high-octane action sequence is made up of quick cuts and edits, hyper-edits as they call it in the business, leaving the viewer with no sense of the surroundings and at times no clue as to what exactly is happening.. ... doga - In Seattle, Brenda Bryan specializes in ?doga,? or doggie yoga, developing her own technique, known as ?barking buddha doga.? Combining hatha yoga?poses include the ?woofing warrior one??with massage and stretching for dog and owner, barking buddha is designed to create ?an opportunity to connect in a whole new way? with your dog.. ... curio: Dictionary.com Word of the Day - curio: something unusual that is collected
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