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catholicity (kath-uh-LIS-i-tee) adjective

1. Wide-ranging; universality.

2. Broad-mindedness; inclusiveness.

[From Latin catholicus, from Greek katholikos (general),
from kata (according to, by) + holou (whole). Ultimately
from Indo-European root sol- (whole) that brought us
words such as solid, salute, save, salvo, and soldier.]

"[Broadcaster John Ebdon] notched up more than 1,000 broadcasts
on topics that reflected the catholicity of his interests --
they included astronomy, religion and poetry."
Obituaries: John Ebdon; The Times (London, UK); Mar 24, 2005.

catholic vs. Catholic... i guess capital letters are good for something.
m.

Who knew?

exsibilation

Exsolution

\Ex`so*lu"tion\, n. [L. exsolutio a release.] Relaxation. [R.] --Richardson (Dict. ).

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

spoliate

\Spo"li*ate\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Spoliated; p. pr. & vb. n. Spoliating.] [L. spoliatus, p. p. of spoliare spoil. See Spoil, v. t.] To plunder; to pillage; to despoil; to rob.

in·ter·face ( P ) Pronunciation Key (ntr-fs)
n.
A surface forming a common boundary between adjacent regions, bodies, substances, or phases.
A point at which independent systems or diverse groups interact: “the interface between crime and politics where much of our reality is to be found” (Jack Kroll).
Computer Science.
The point of interaction or communication between a computer and any other entity, such as a printer or human operator.
The layout of an application's graphic or textual controls in conjunction with the way the application responds to user activity: an interface whose icons were hard to remember.

v. in·ter·faced, in·ter·fac·ing, in·ter·fac·es (ntr-fs)
v. tr.
To join by means of an interface.
To serve as an interface for.

v. intr.
To serve as an interface or become interfaced.
To interact or coordinate smoothly: “Theatergoers were lured out of their seats and interfaced with the scenery” (New York Times).

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inter·facial adj.
Usage Note: The noun interface has been around since the 1880s, meaning “a surface forming a common boundary, as between bodies or regions.” But the word did not really take off until the 1960s, when it began to be used in the computer industry to designate the point of interaction between a computer and another system, such as a printer. The word was applied to other interactions as wellbetween departments in an organization, for example, or between fields of study. Shortly thereafter interface developed a use as a verb, but it never really caught on outside its niche in the computer world, where it still thrives. The Usage Panel has been unable to muster much enthusiasm for the verb. Thirty-seven percent of Panelists accept it when it designates the interaction between people in the sentence The managing editor must interface with a variety of freelance editors and proofreaders. But the percentage drops to 22 when the interaction is between a corporation and the public or between various communities in a city. Many Panelists complain that interface is pretentious and jargony. Certainly, it has no shortage of acceptable synonyms; cooperate, deal, exchange information, interact, and work present themselves as ready substitutes.

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in·ter·face (ntr-fs)
n.

A surface forming a common boundary between adjacent regions or bodies.

Source: The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.

Main Entry: in·ter·face
Pronunciation: 'int-&r-"fAs
Function: noun
: a surface forming a common boundary of two bodies, spaces, or phases —interface transitive verb -faced; -fac·ing
—in·ter·fa·cial /"int-&r-'fA-sh&l/ adjective

Source: Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.

interface

n 1: (chemistry) a surface forming a common boundary between two things (two objects or liquids or chemical phases) 2: (computer science) a program that controls a display for the user (usually on a computer monitor) and that allows the user to interact with the system [syn: user interface] 3: the overlap where two theories or phenomena affect each other or have links with each other; "the interface between chemistry and biology" 4: (computer science) computer circuit consisting of the hardware and associated circuitry that links one device with another (especially a computer and a hard disk drive or other peripherals) [syn: port]

Source: WordNet ® 2.0, © 2003 Princeton University

interface

A boundary across which two systems communicate. An
interface might be a hardware connector used to link to other
devices, or it might be a convention used to allow
communication between two software systems. Often there is
some intermediate component between the two systems which
connects their interfaces together. For example, two EIA-232
interfaces connected via a serial cable.

See also graphical user interface, Application Program
Interface.

(1996-05-22)

Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2005 Denis Howe

interface

interface: in CancerWEB's On-line Medical Dictionary

ps - exsibilation means the collective hissing of a disapproving audience.

really? im going to have to remember that....thats excellent

i didn't even search for it...perhaps we need some rules

10. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.

taken from:The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again asked
readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by
adding, subtracting, or changing of one letter, and supply a
new definition. Here are this year's {2005} winners:

they all basically suck

ie: 9. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are
running late.

most of them seem like jokes from an email forwarded between suburban women that work for insurance ajusters and see such things as a step up from trading cassarole recipies

Esprit de l'escalier (es-pree der less-kal-lay) -- A witty remark that occurs to you too late, literally on the way down the stairs. From "In Other Words: A Language Guide to the Most Intriguing Words Around the World" by Christopher J. Moore (Levenger Press, Walker and Co., New York, 2004).

Often translated in English as "staircase wit."

en·cyc·li·cal
adj.
Intended for general or wide circulation.

n. Roman Catholic Church
A papal letter addressed to the bishops of the Church or to the hierarchy of a particular country.

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[From Medieval Lattin encyclicus, circular, from Greek enkuklios : en-, in; see en-2 + kuklos, circle; see kwel-1 in Indo-European Roots.]

splenetic

adj 1: of or relating to the spleen [syn: splenic, lienal] 2: very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues" [syn: bristly, prickly, waspish]

kinda obvious, na klar, but a good word

tokology (to-KOL-uh-jee) noun, also tocology

Midwifery or obstetrics.

[From Greek toko, child, childbirth + logy.]

-Anu Garg (gargATwordsmith.org)

"Stockham sent a copy of her own book, Tokology: A Book for Every Woman ...
This practical guide to childbearing and health had enjoyed great popular
success."
Robert Whittaker; Tolstoy's American Preachers: Letters on Religion and
Ethics; TriQuarterly (Evanston, Illinois); Jan 1, 2000.

Foo is the first metasyntactic variable, commonly used to represent an as-yet-unspecified term, value, process, function, destination or event but seldom a person (see Ned Baker, below). It is sometimes combined with bar to make foobar. This suggests that foo may have originated with the World War II slang term fubar, as an acronym for fucked/fouled up beyond all recognition, although the Jargon File makes a reasonably good case that foo predates fubar. Foo was also used as a nonsense word in the surrealistic comic strip Smokey Stover that was popular in the 1940s and 1950s. It appears to be unrelated to Kung fu.

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yep

this thing is totally weird.

shehnai

http://chandrakantha.com/articles/indian_music/shehnai_media/shehnai.jpg

shinai

http://kendo.union.rpi.edu/images/shinai.jpg

ad·um·brate ( P ) Pronunciation Key (dm-brt, -dm-)
tr.v. ad·um·brat·ed, ad·um·brat·ing, ad·um·brates
To give a sketchy outline of.
To prefigure indistinctly; foreshadow.
To disclose partially or guardedly.
To overshadow; shadow or obscure.

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[Latin adumbrre, adumbrt-, to represent in outline : ad-, ad- + umbra, shadow.]

my self indulgent thread continues with todays fab word of the day email word:

gyrovague (JYE-ro-vayg) noun

A monk who travels from one place to another.

[From French, from Late Latin gyrovagus gyro- (circle) + vagus (wandering).]

Pyrrhic victory (PIR-ik VIK-tuh-ree) noun

A victory won at too great a cost.

[After Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, who suffered staggering losses in
defeating the Romans.]

pyrrhic's a good one.

niceone, jon

megaflop, n. DRAFT REVISION June 2001

Computing.

Brit. /mgflp/, U.S. /mgflp/ Forms: 19- megaflop, megaflops, megaFLOPS, megaflop/s. [Earliest as megaflops < MEGA- + flops, acronym < the initial letters of floating-point operations per second, with final -s later being apprehended as a plural ending. Cf. GIGAFLOP n.]

A unit of computing speed equal to one million (formally: 1,048,576, or 220) floating-point operations per second.

1976 IEEE Spectrum Oct. 69/1 Users of large, fast, number-crunching computers often talk in terms of megaflops (millions of floating-point operations per second). 1985 Science 26 Apr. 421/1 On a powerful sequential computer that operates at a rate of 1 megaflop..,this formidable task would take about 70 hours of computing. 1996 Sci. Amer. Feb. 107/1 Each processor, capable of 20 megaflops, can feed one datum to other processors every 200 nanoseconds.

special shout out to a certain "steve" fromthe oed word of the day today...

wakeboarding, n. DRAFT ENTRY Mar. 2003

Brit. /wekbdi/, U.S. /wekbrd/ [< WAKEBOARD n. + -ING1.]

The sport or practice of coasting on the surface of water, or performing acrobatic stunts and manoeuvres, by riding on a short, wide board resembling a surfboard whilst being towed by a motorized craft.
Quot. 1966 refers to a similar sport in which the rider is propelled by the wake of a motor boat rather than towed.

1966 N.Y. Times 8 May S11/2 Wake boarding, a relatively new water sport, consists of riding without tow atop a modified surfboard on the wake of a power-driven boat. 1991 Seattle Times (Nexis) 2 July F/1 Skiboarding? Skurfing? Maybe wakeboarding?.. What would you call the activity performed by someone whose feet are strapped to a surfboard and who bobs behind the wake of a speedboat? 1995 Daily Mail Holiday Action Summer 9/2 Imagine leaping up to 25ft in the air, turning somersaults as if launched from a trampoline and performing contortionist tricks like the chicken salad grabor just drifting from side to side behind a speedboat hopping over its wash. Well that's wakeboarding, the radical alternative to waterskiing. 1996 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 2 Sept. 16 The latest crazes are wakeboarding and kneeboarding, where the skier is positioned side-on like a surfer. 2000 Brit. Waterskier Sept.-Oct. 31/1 (advt.) High-end training for water skiing and wakeboarding

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