Friday, February 9, 2007

Randomly Selected Words

Randomly Selected Words: Acquisition, Bay, Compost, Discrete, Edgar, Fauvism, Gentleman, Hessian, idiomatic, Jacana, Kowtow, Lamentation, Magnetometer, Neutron, Objective, Pellagra, Quail, Ragged, Saveloy, Tetrode, Uncertainty, Venous, Worm, Xenon, Youth, Zoology.

Millions of users, billions of files Share files with tens of millions of Mac and Windows users around the planet.Whatever it is…… you can get it on e bay. Compost is one of nature's best mulches and soil amendments, and you can use it instead of commercial fertilizers. Best of all, compost is cheap. You can make it without spending a cent. The word discrete comes from the 15th Century Latin word discretus which means separate. It is used with different meanings in different contexts: All companies, foreign and domestic, are required to file registration statements, periodic reports, and other forms electronically through EDGAR. Anyone can access and download this information for free. Between 1901 and 1906, several comprehensive exhibitions were held in Paris, making the work of Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, and Paul Cézanne widely accessible for the first time. The term gentleman (from Latin gentilis, belonging to a race or "gens", and "man", cognate with the French word gentilhomme, the Spanish gentilhombre and the Italian gentil uomo or gentiluomo), in its original and strict signification, denoted a man of good family, the Latin generosus (its invariable translation in English-Latin documents). This article is about the German mercenaries. For other uses, see Hessian (disambiguation).The term Hessian refers to the inhabitants of the German state of Hesse. In American English, it most commonly refers to 18th century German regiments in service to the British Empire.Idiom is an expression (i.e. term or phrase) whose meaning cannot be deduced from the literal definitions and the arrangement of its parts, but refers instead to a figurative meaning that is known only through conventional use. Jacana Media is an African publisher, specializing in transforming complex information into down-to-earth, user-friendly publications since 1991. We are probably best known as the experts in developing educational works in the fields of medical and primary health care, the environment, eco-tourism, community and life skills, literacy, and curriculum-based materials for primary and secondary school sectors.Kowtow, from the Chinese term Kòu tóu (Cantonese: Kau tàuh) (叩頭), is the act of deep respect shown by kneeling and bowing so low as to touch the head to the ground. While the phrase Kē tóu (磕頭) is often used in lieu of the former in modern Chinese, the meaning is somewhat altered: kòu originally meant "knock with reverence", whereas kè has the general meaning of "touch upon (a surface)". With varied gestures, indicating individual degrees of sorrow, the women and John approach the body of Christ. Their gestures seem to pave the way for the most intense impression of grief, the embrace and gaze of the mother. A magnetometer is a scientific instrument used to measure the strength and/or direction of the magnetic field in the vicinity of the instrument. In physics, the neutron is a subatomic particle with no net electric charge and a mass of 939.573 MeV/c² (1.6749 × 10-27 kg, slightly more than a proton). Its spin is ½. Its antiparticle is called the antineutron. Objective (optics), the primary optical element in a camera, telescope, microscope, etc. Pellagra is a vitamin deficiency disease caused by dietary lack of niacin (vitamin B3) and protein, especially proteins containing the essential amino acid tryptophan. Quail is a collective name for several genera of mid-sized birds in the pheasant family Phasianidae, or in the family Odontophoridae. This article deals with the Old World species in the former family.To all of our customers and employees: Many have recently read of the auction scheduled for March 1st. I would like to assure you that this is just a step in our restructuring process, and that the season is not in jeopardy. A saveloy is a vividly red sausage served in English fish and chip shops, also available in parts of Australia and New Zealand, where it is also known colloquially as a sav. It is made of pork and is highly seasoned A tetrode is an electronic device having four electrodes. The term most commonly applies to a two-grid vacuum tube. Uncertainty is a term used in subtly different ways in a number of fields, including philosophy, statistics, economics, finance, insurance, psychology, engineering and science. It applies to predictions of future events, to physical measurements already made, or to the unknown. Ultrasound imaging, also called ultrasound scanning or sonography, involves exposing part of the body to high-frequency sound waves to produce pictures of the inside of the body. A computer worm is a self-replicating computer program. It uses a network to send copies of itself to other nodes (computer terminals on the network) and it may do so without any user intervention. Xenon (IPA: /ˈzɛnɒn, ˈziːnɒn/) is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Xe and atomic number 54. A colorless, heavy, odorless noble gas, xenon occurs in the earth's atmosphere in trace amounts and was part of the first noble gas compound synthesized. Popular use of the word youth refers to a person who is neither an adult nor a child, but somewhere in between, scientifically referred to as an adolescent and, in most English speaking countries, commonly referred to as a teen or teenager. Zoology (rarely spelled zoölogy) is the biological discipline which involves the study of non-human animals.The word zoology comes from Greek ζῴον, zoon ("animal"), and λογία, -logy ("the study of"), from λόγος, word, speech.

1 comment:

nancybui said...

I was looking at your randomly selected words and I noticed that for the word that started with an x you picked xenon. What a coincidence, I did too! I guess there is a chance of that happening because there were only a few words under the x section of the dictionary. Good job on posting your homework early, I could see you’re on top of things. When I read your randomly selected words things it is confusing because you read it thinking it is a story and nothing makes sense; mine doesn’t either. I don’t think anyone’s will though.