a combination trailer truck and railroad car with two sets of retractable wheels, one steel, the other rubber, making possible bimodal transportation on rails and highways.
n. 1. (Photography) A photograph printed by a process in which a strip or roll of sensitized paper is automatically fed over the negative so that a series of prints are made, and are then developed, fixed, cut apart, and washed at a very rapid rate.
n. 2. photograph of manuscript, etc., made direct on bromide paper without negative.
The Organon is the name given by Aristotle's followers, the Peripatetics, to the standard collection of his six works on logic. The works are Categories, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Posterior Analytics, Topics and Sophistical Refutations. - Organon on Wikipedia
an additional, fourth name given to a person by the ancient Romans in allusion to some achievement or other circumstance, as “Africanus�? in “Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus.�?
"Oh, Apothanate! that hatest death, and cleansest from the Pollution of Sorrow" - A lost essay by Thomas de Quincey. It would have been included in his Suspiria de Profundis.
Dictionary.com gives "/muhng/ vt. (in 1960 at MIT, `Mash Until No Good'; sometime after that the derivation from the recursive acronym `Mung Until No Good' became standard; but see munge)
1. To make changes to a file, esp. large-scale and irrevocable changes."
I particularly enjoyed "idiot of the cretin class". I believe I'll start using the phrase in less-than-polite conversation. There's this warlike ring to it...
Where does "the grotesqueness of their perruquerie" come from? I quite liked that as well.
In botany, a haustorium (plural haustoria) is the hyphal tip of a parasitic fungus or of the root of a parasitic plant (such as in the broomrape family), that penetrates the host's tissue, but stays outside the host cell membrane. - Wikipedia
Thanks! Gene Wolfe is a writer of astounding creativity, with great style and acumen. If I ever come across words that are not on this list yet, I'll include them here.
How about including "palaestra", "rajan", "azoth", "augur", "caldé", "needler", "slug gun" and "inhumi/inhuma/inhumu" (In Green's Jungles) and "ghoulbear" (The Fifth Head of Cerberus)?
From French, 'three crayons'. A technique of drawing with black, white and red chalks on middle-tone paper. Antoine Watteau and François Boucher sometimes employed this technique.
Comments by mutandis26
mutandis26 commented on the word homologumena
the books of the New Testament whose authenticity was universally acknowledged in the early Church.
September 20, 2009
mutandis26 commented on the word gorcrow
a carrion-crow.
September 20, 2009
mutandis26 commented on the list o-u
noctilucin
September 20, 2009
mutandis26 commented on the word planifolious
flat-leaved.
September 14, 2009
mutandis26 commented on the word rill fricative
When air flows through a narrowed channel at the center of the place of articulation: a sibilant such as found in (s)in or (s)hin.
September 13, 2009
mutandis26 commented on the word roadrailer
Trademark.
a combination trailer truck and railroad car with two sets of retractable wheels, one steel, the other rubber, making possible bimodal transportation on rails and highways.
September 9, 2009
mutandis26 commented on the word roadability
–noun
the ability of a motor vehicle to maintain a steady, balanced, and comfortable ride, esp. under a variety of road conditions.
Origin:
1920–25; road + ability
September 9, 2009
mutandis26 commented on the word roach back
an arched back, as of a dog.
September 9, 2009
mutandis26 commented on the word roach clip
–noun Slang.
a small tweezerlike clip for holding the butt of a marijuana cigarette.
Origin:
1965–70
Source: dictionary.reference.com.
September 9, 2009
mutandis26 commented on the word bumposopher
Found this one at The Phrontistery.
September 9, 2009
mutandis26 commented on the word paleaceous
like or resembling chaff.
September 4, 2009
mutandis26 commented on the word pabulous
"of, like or pertaining to nourishment". Found in http://phrontistery.info
September 4, 2009
mutandis26 commented on the word obsecration
rogation, supplication, entreaty.
September 4, 2009
mutandis26 commented on the word poetomachia
A contest or quarrel among poets.
September 4, 2009
mutandis26 commented on the list i-can-t-believe-it-s-not-listed
gräoid was unlisted? really? oh my.
September 4, 2009
mutandis26 commented on the list im-struggling
Pornify. Truly, why struggle? It's utterly graceless. And... funding exclusion? Yuck. Can one pornify it, maybe?
September 4, 2009
mutandis26 commented on the word rotoscope
Rotoscoping is an animation technique in which animators trace over live-action film movement, frame by frame, for use in animated films.
September 2, 2009
mutandis26 commented on the word rotograph
n. 1. (Photography) A photograph printed by a process in which a strip or roll of sensitized paper is automatically fed over the negative so that a series of prints are made, and are then developed, fixed, cut apart, and washed at a very rapid rate.
n. 2. photograph of manuscript, etc., made direct on bromide paper without negative.
See also rotoscope.
September 2, 2009
mutandis26 commented on the word flinking bugnuts insane
with thanks to PZ Myers, and his Pharyngula blog.
September 2, 2009
mutandis26 commented on the word boiserie
* Function: noun
* Etymology: French, from bois wood, from Old French, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German busk forest
* Date: 1832
: a panel or paneling of carved wood
September 1, 2009
mutandis26 commented on the word beniseed
sesame seeds.
September 1, 2009
mutandis26 commented on the word rondure
Noun. A circular or gracefully rounded object.
September 1, 2009
mutandis26 commented on the word preconscious
What can I say, I like it. This should be for that split-second just before you wake up, or come to - say, after a monumental binge.
August 31, 2009
mutandis26 commented on the word bung
Also a stopper, alternative to a cork, often made of rubber used to prevent fluid passing through the neck of a bottle, a hole in a vessel etc.
August 22, 2009
mutandis26 commented on the word bungstarter
A tool for opening barrels by removing the bung.
August 22, 2009
mutandis26 commented on the word uvid
moist, wet.
August 21, 2009
mutandis26 commented on the word organon
The Organon is the name given by Aristotle's followers, the Peripatetics, to the standard collection of his six works on logic. The works are Categories, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Posterior Analytics, Topics and Sophistical Refutations. - Organon on Wikipedia
August 21, 2009
mutandis26 commented on the word agnomen
an additional, fourth name given to a person by the ancient Romans in allusion to some achievement or other circumstance, as “Africanus�? in “Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus.�?
August 21, 2009
mutandis26 commented on the word apothanate
"Oh, Apothanate! that hatest death, and cleansest from the Pollution of Sorrow" - A lost essay by Thomas de Quincey. It would have been included in his Suspiria de Profundis.
August 15, 2009
mutandis26 commented on the word sabbulonarium
A gravel pit, or money paid to someone who digs gravel.
July 20, 2009
mutandis26 commented on the word sitiophobia
A fear of food.
July 20, 2009
mutandis26 commented on the word kleptosophy
from Greek kleptein, to steal, + Greek sophia, wisdom, knowledge.
July 20, 2009
mutandis26 commented on the word romantischism
romanticism + schism.
July 20, 2009
mutandis26 commented on the word mung
Dictionary.com gives "/muhng/ vt. (in 1960 at MIT, `Mash Until No Good'; sometime after that the derivation from the recursive acronym `Mung Until No Good' became standard; but see munge)
1. To make changes to a file, esp. large-scale and irrevocable changes."
July 20, 2009
mutandis26 commented on the word skun
apparently, the same as scum.
July 20, 2009
mutandis26 commented on the word fataluku
A papuan language spoken by approximately 30,000 people in East Timor.
July 20, 2009
mutandis26 commented on the list fun-with-anthropology
I particularly enjoyed "idiot of the cretin class". I believe I'll start using the phrase in less-than-polite conversation. There's this warlike ring to it...
Where does "the grotesqueness of their perruquerie" come from? I quite liked that as well.
July 20, 2009
mutandis26 commented on the word hyphal
A hypha (plural hyphae) is a long, branching filamentous cell of a fungus, and also of unrelated Actinobacteria. - Wikipedia
July 20, 2009
mutandis26 commented on the word haustorium
In botany, a haustorium (plural haustoria) is the hyphal tip of a parasitic fungus or of the root of a parasitic plant (such as in the broomrape family), that penetrates the host's tissue, but stays outside the host cell membrane. - Wikipedia
July 20, 2009
mutandis26 commented on the list gene-wolfe
Thanks! Gene Wolfe is a writer of astounding creativity, with great style and acumen. If I ever come across words that are not on this list yet, I'll include them here.
July 17, 2009
mutandis26 commented on the list gene-wolfe
How about including "palaestra", "rajan", "azoth", "augur", "caldé", "needler", "slug gun" and "inhumi/inhuma/inhumu" (In Green's Jungles) and "ghoulbear" (The Fifth Head of Cerberus)?
July 17, 2009
mutandis26 commented on the list mingustav-s-words
incunabula is such a musical word.
July 16, 2009
mutandis26 commented on the word borborygmi
I didn't even know there was a name for those. And you know what, it is a testament to human creativity that there should be one.
July 16, 2009
mutandis26 commented on the list words-with-a-p-in-them
yup
July 15, 2009
mutandis26 commented on the word panditji
see also pandit.
July 14, 2009
mutandis26 commented on the word trois crayons
From French, 'three crayons'. A technique of drawing with black, white and red chalks on middle-tone paper. Antoine Watteau and François Boucher sometimes employed this technique.
July 14, 2009
mutandis26 commented on the word preverb
an element that comes before the root of a verb and forms a lexical unit with it.
July 14, 2009
mutandis26 commented on the user knitandpurl
Thank you for listing the word "yowdendrift". I didn't know of it. It's beautiful.
July 14, 2009