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Yeni Kelimeler En İyi Girişçiler Çeviri Gönderenler Kelime Gönderenler İstatistikler | incikayıt: 10 Eyl 2009 Per 20:41
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inci tarafından eklenen kelimelerinci tarafından eklenen cümleler- (subway) In the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, Hong Kong and some Commonwealth countries, the term subway normally refers to a specially constructed underpass for pedestrians and/or cyclists beneath a road or railway, allowing them to reach the other side in safety. (19 Kas 2009 Per 23:44)
- (subway) A rapid transit, metro, subway, underground, or elevated railway system is an electric passenger railway in an urban area with high capacity and frequency, and which is grade separated from other traffic. (19 Kas 2009 Per 23:43)
- (avocado) High avocado intake has been shown to have an effect on blood serum cholesterol levels. (19 Kas 2009 Per 23:39)
- (avocado) While dozens of cultivars are grown in California, the Hass avocado is today the most common. (19 Kas 2009 Per 23:39)
- (avocado) avocado trees are vulnerable to bacterial, viral, fungal and nutritional diseases (excesses and deficiencies of key minerals). Disease can affect all parts of the plant, causing spotting, rotting, cankers, pitting and discoloration. (19 Kas 2009 Per 23:39)
- (avocado) An average avocado tree produces about 120 avocados annually. (19 Kas 2009 Per 23:38)
- (avocado) The name "avocado" also refers to the fruit (technically a large berry that contains a large seed) of the tree which may be egg-shaped or spherical.
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- (azerbaijani) azerbaijani cuisine has over 30 kinds of soups, including those prepared from plain yogurt. (19 Kas 2009 Per 23:35)
- (azerbaijani) Some people also consider Azeri to be a dialect of a greater Turkish language and call it Azərbaycan Türkcəsi ("azerbaijani Turkish"), and scholars such as Vladimir Minorsky used this definition in their works. (19 Kas 2009 Per 23:35)
- (azerbaijani) Azeri, formally azerbaijani, is divided into two varieties, North azerbaijani and South azerbaijani, and a large number of dialects. Turkic Khalaj, Qashqa'i, and Salchuq are considered by some to be separate languages in the azerbaijani language class. (19 Kas 2009 Per 23:34)
- (azerbaijani) The azerbaijani are of mixed ethnic origin, the oldest element deriving from the indigenous population of eastern Transcaucasia and possibly from the Medians of northern Persia. (19 Kas 2009 Per 23:32)
- (azerbaijani) In many references, azerbaijanis are designated as a Turkic people, due to their Turkic language. (19 Kas 2009 Per 23:31)
- (aztec) aztec teachers (tlatimine) propounded a spartan regime of education with the purpose of forming a stoical people. (19 Kas 2009 Per 23:23)
- (aztec) In aztec marketplaces, a small rabbit was worth 30 beans, a turkey egg cost 3 beans, and a tamal cost a single bean. (19 Kas 2009 Per 23:21)
- (aztec) The aztec economy can be divided into a political sector, under the control of nobles and kings, and a commercial sector that operated independently of the political sector. (19 Kas 2009 Per 23:21)
- (aztec) Other variants of the language "Nahuatl" were spoken by many of the central Mexican city-states under the domination of the aztec Empire. (19 Kas 2009 Per 23:19)
- (aztec) The wider population in and outside Mexico generally speaks of aztecs. (19 Kas 2009 Per 23:19)
- (azerbaijan) Since the independence of azerbaijan in 1991, the azerbaijani government has taken drastic measures to preserve the environment of azerbaijan. (19 Kas 2009 Per 23:16)
- (azerbaijan) In October 13, 1921, the Soviet republics of Russia, Armenia, azerbaijan, and Georgia signed an agreement with Turkey known as the Treaty of Kars. (19 Kas 2009 Per 23:15)
- (azerbaijan) The first of these Turkic dynasties was the Ghaznavids, which entered the area now known as azerbaijan by 1030. It is notable that Turkification of Azaris was completed only By the late 1800s. (19 Kas 2009 Per 23:14)
- (azerbaijan) azerbaijan was the first successful attempt to establish a democratic and secular republic in the Muslim world (19 Kas 2009 Per 23:13)
- (azerbaijan) azerbaijan, a nation with a majority Turkic and Shi‘ite Muslim population, is a secular and unitary republic. (19 Kas 2009 Per 23:12)
- (azure) Neither azure nor bleu celeste is precisely defined as a particular shade of blue, but azure is consistently depicted in a much darker shade. (19 Kas 2009 Per 23:11)
- (azure) In addition to the standard blue tincture called azure, there is a lighter blue sometimes found that is called bleu celeste or "sky blue". (19 Kas 2009 Per 23:11)
- (azure) Because it comes from a French word that simply means "blue", a wide range of colour values is used in the depiction of azure in armory and flags.
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- (azure) French-speaking heralds described banners as azure, commoners simply called them blue. (19 Kas 2009 Per 23:10)
- (azure) In heraldry, azure is the tincture with the colour blue, and belongs to the class of tinctures called "colours". (19 Kas 2009 Per 23:09)
- (labor) Employees perform the discrete activity of economic production. Of the three factors of production, employees usually provide the labor.
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- (labor) There are a number of Spanish and Portuguese units of measurement of length or area that are now virtually obsolete. They include the vara, the cordel, the league and the labor. (19 Kas 2009 Per 22:36)
- (labor) The labor is often used as an approximate equivalent to a quarter-section (that is, one quarter of a square mile of land). It is still encountered in modern real estate transactions.
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- (labor) Employees can organize into trade unions or labor unions, who represent most of the available work force in a single organization. (19 Kas 2009 Per 22:33)
- (labor) An employee contributes labor and expertise to an endeavour. Employees perform the discrete activity of economic production. (19 Kas 2009 Per 22:33)
- (labor-intensive) The term "labor-intensive" can be used when proposing the amount of work that is assigned to each worker/employee (labor), emphasizing on the skill involved in the respective line of work.
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- (luftwaffe) In luftwaffe service, 292 of the 916 Starfighters crashed, claiming the lives of 115 pilots and leading to cries that the Starfighter was fundamentally unsafe from the West German public, which referred to it as the Witwenmacher (widow-maker), fliegender Sarg (flying coffin), and Erdnagel (ground nail).
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- (luftwaffe) The F-104 never lived down its reputation as a widow-maker and was replaced much earlier by the luftwaffe than other national air forces. (19 Kas 2009 Per 22:28)
- (luftwaffe) Unlike the West German luftwaffe, the markings sported on the aircraft reflected the identity of the country as belonging to the Communist bloc. (19 Kas 2009 Per 22:28)
- (luftwaffe) In March 1999, for the first time since 1945, the luftwaffe engaged in combat operations as part of the NATO-led Kosovo War. (19 Kas 2009 Per 22:27)
- (luftwaffe) The luftwaffe has since stationed up to 800 personnel at Holloman for training exercises, due to limited training space in Europe.
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- (loudspeaker) Ribbon loudspeakers are often very fragile—some can be torn by a strong gust of air. (19 Kas 2009 Per 22:23)
- (loudspeaker) loudspeaker efficiency is defined as the sound power output divided by the electrical power input. (19 Kas 2009 Per 22:22)
- (loudspeaker) A coaxial driver is a loudspeaker driver with two or several combined concentric drivers. Coaxial drivers have been produced by many companies, such as Altec, Tannoy, Pioneer, KEF, BMS, Cabasse and Genelec. (19 Kas 2009 Per 22:20)
- (loudspeaker) Multiple drivers (e.g., subwoofers, woofers, mid-range drivers, and tweeters) are generally used in a complete loudspeaker system to provide performance beyond three octaves.
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- (loudspeaker) A loudspeaker (or "speaker") is an electroacoustic transducer that converts an electrical signal into sound. (19 Kas 2009 Per 22:19)
- (lullaby) A famous lullaby is "Summertime" from the Porgy and Bess musical of 1935. Sometimes it is also referred to as the Gershwin lullaby. (19 Kas 2009 Per 22:17)
- (lullaby) Asia has its own versions of the lullaby as well. In Tamil (a language of southern India and northern Sri Lanka), a lullaby is called a thaalattu (thal means "tongue"). (19 Kas 2009 Per 22:16)
- (lullaby) The most famous berceuse of all is Johannes Brahms' lied Wiegenlied (cradle song), called Brahms' lullaby in English. (19 Kas 2009 Per 22:16)
- (lullaby) Lullabies written by established classical composers are often given the form-name berceuse, which is French for lullaby, or cradle song. (19 Kas 2009 Per 22:15)
- (lullaby) A lullaby is a soothing song, usually sung to children before they go to sleep, with the intention of speeding that process. (19 Kas 2009 Per 22:15)
- (luanda) The inhabitants of luanda are primarily members of African ethnic groups, including the Ovimbundu, Kimbundu and Bakongo tribes. (19 Kas 2009 Per 22:13)
- (luanda) Under the Koppen climate classification, luanda features a hot semi-arid climate. (19 Kas 2009 Per 22:13)
- (luanda) luanda has recently seen an increase in violent crime, particularly in the shanty towns that surround the colonial urban core. (19 Kas 2009 Per 22:11)
- (luanda) luanda is divided into two parts, the Baixa de luanda (lower luanda, the old city) and the Cidade Alta (upper city or the new part). (19 Kas 2009 Per 22:08)
- (luanda) luanda (formerly spelled Loanda) is the capital and largest city of Angola. (19 Kas 2009 Per 22:07)
- (luxembourg) Studies show that the country luxembourg consumes the most alcohol per capita, according to Guinness World Records 2008. (19 Kas 2009 Per 22:05)
- (luxembourg) luxembourg is divided into 3 districts, which are further divided into 12 cantons and then 116 communes. Twelve of the communes have city status, of which the city of luxembourg is the largest. (19 Kas 2009 Per 22:04)
- (luxembourg) luxembourg is a parliamentary democracy headed by a constitutional monarch. Under the constitution of 1868, executive power is exercised by the Grand Duke and the cabinet, which consists of several other ministers. (19 Kas 2009 Per 22:03)
- (luxembourg) luxembourg is a founding member of the European Union, NATO, OECD, the United Nations, Benelux, and the Western European Union, reflecting the political consensus in favour of economic, political, and military integration. (19 Kas 2009 Per 22:03)
- (luxembourg) luxembourg is a parliamentary representative democracy with a constitutional monarch; it is ruled by a Grand Duke. (19 Kas 2009 Per 22:02)
- (lumen) Peak lumens is a measure of light output normally used with CRT video projectors. (19 Kas 2009 Per 22:01)
- (lumen) For marketing purposes, the luminous flux of projectors that have been tested according to this procedure may be quoted in "ANSI lumens", to distinguish them from those tested by other methods. (19 Kas 2009 Per 22:00)
- (lumen) The lumen can be thought of casually as a measure of the total "amount" of visible light in some defined beam or angle, or emitted from some source. (19 Kas 2009 Per 22:00)
- (lumen) If a light source emits one candela of luminous intensity uniformly across a solid angle of one steradian, its total luminous flux emitted into that angle is one lumen. (19 Kas 2009 Per 22:00)
- (lumen) The lumen (symbol: lm) is the SI unit of luminous flux, a measure of the perceived power of light. (19 Kas 2009 Per 21:59)
- (lumberjack) In professional wrestling, a lumberjack match is a contest between two or more wrestlers where the outside of the ring area is surrounded by other grapplers. (19 Kas 2009 Per 21:58)
- (lumberjack) In popular culture, the stereotypical cliché of a lumberjack is a strong, burly, usually bearded man who lives to brave the natural environment. (19 Kas 2009 Per 21:57)
- (lumberjack) The modern lumberjack can be found in our competitive culture, originally started as a competition in the old lumber camps to see who the best lumberjack was. (19 Kas 2009 Per 21:57)
- (lumberjack) Because of its historical ties, the term lumberjack has become ingrained in popular culture through folklore, media and spectator sports.
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- (lumberjack) A lumberjack is a tradesman in the logging industry who performs the initial harvesting of trees for ultimate processing into forest products. (19 Kas 2009 Per 21:55)
- (ottawa) The ottawa skyline has remained conservative in skyscraper height throughout the years due to a skyscraper height restriction. (19 Kas 2009 Per 21:53)
- (ottawa) ottawa is home to a wealth of national museums, official residences, government buildings, memorials and heritage structures. (19 Kas 2009 Per 21:53)
- (ottawa) ottawa was home to a minor league professional baseball team, the ottawa Voyageurs of the Canadian-American Association of Professional Baseball which plays at the ottawa Baseball Stadium. (19 Kas 2009 Per 21:52)
- (ottawa) ottawa is governed by a 24-member city council consisting of 23 councillors each representing one ward and the mayor, currently Larry O'Brien, elected in a citywide vote. (19 Kas 2009 Per 21:52)
- (ottawa) ottawa is the capital of Canada and a municipality within the Province of Ontario. (19 Kas 2009 Per 21:50)
- (orbit) If some part of a body's orbit enters an atmosphere, its orbit can decay because of drag. (19 Kas 2009 Per 21:45)
- (orbit) In principle once the orbital elements are known for a body, its position can be calculated forward and backwards indefinitely in time. (19 Kas 2009 Per 21:44)
- (orbit) In the elliptical orbit, the center of mass of the orbiting-orbited system will sit at one focus of both orbits, with nothing present at the other focus. (19 Kas 2009 Per 21:41)
- (orbit) The basis for the modern understanding of orbits was first formulated by Johannes Kepler whose results are summarised in his three laws of planetary motion. (19 Kas 2009 Per 21:40)
- (orbit) In physics, an orbit is the gravitationally curved path of one object around a point or another body, for example the gravitational orbit of a planet around a star. (19 Kas 2009 Per 21:38)
- (oxygen tent) An oxygen tent consists in a canopy placed over the head and shoulders or over the entire body of a patient to provide oxygen at a higher level than normal. (19 Kas 2009 Per 21:36)
- (oxygen tent) An oxygen tent consists in a canopy placed over the head and shoulders or over the entire body of a patient to provide oxygen at a higher level than normal. (19 Kas 2009 Per 21:36)
- (overdose) Negative drug-drug interactions have sometimes been misdiagnosed as an acute drug overdose, occasionally leading to the assumption of suicide. (19 Kas 2009 Per 21:35)
- (overdose) A common unintentional overdose in young children involves multi-vitamins containing iron. Iron is a component of the hemoglobin molecule in blood, used to transport oxygen to living cells. (19 Kas 2009 Per 21:33)
- (overdose) Cocaine users that inject intravenous can overdose accidentally as the margin between an optimal flash and an overdose is small. (19 Kas 2009 Per 21:33)
- (overdose) An overdose is widely considered harmful and dangerous as it can result in death.
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- (overdose) The term drug overdose (or simply overdose or OD) describes the ingestion or application of a drug or other substance in quantities greater than are recommended or generally practiced. (19 Kas 2009 Per 21:32)
- (oxygen mask) Medical oxygen masks are held in place by medical personnel or the user by hand, or they may be fitted with a light weight elastic headband so the mask can be removed quickly. (19 Kas 2009 Per 21:28)
- (oxygen mask) In the early years of commercial flight, before pressurized cabins were invented, airliner passengers sometimes had to wear oxygen masks during routine flights. (19 Kas 2009 Per 21:27)
- (oxygen mask) Some types of oxygen masks have a breathing bag made of plastic or rubber attached to the mask or oxygen supply hose to store a supply of oxygen to allow deep breathing without waste of oxygen with use of simple fixed flow regulators. (19 Kas 2009 Per 21:27)
- (oxygen mask) Three main kinds of oxygen masks are used by pilots and crews who fly at high altitudes: continuous flow, diluter demand, and pressure demand. (19 Kas 2009 Per 21:27)
- (oxygen mask) Silicone and rubber oxygen masks are heavier than plastic masks. (19 Kas 2009 Per 21:26)
- (oxide) oxides of more electronegative elements tend to be acidic. They are called acid anhydrides; adding water, they form oxoacids. For example, dichlorine heptoxide is acid; perchloric acid is a more hydrated form. (19 Kas 2009 Per 21:24)
- (oxide) The aluminium oxide layer can be built to greater thickness by the process of electrolytic anodising. (19 Kas 2009 Per 21:23)
- (oxide) A well known example is aluminium foil, which is coated with a thin film of aluminium oxide that passivates the metal, slowing further corrosion. (19 Kas 2009 Per 21:23)
- (oxide) The surface of most metals consists of oxides and hydroxides in the presence of air. (19 Kas 2009 Per 21:22)
- (oxide) An oxide is a chemical compound containing at least one oxygen atom as well as at least one other element. (19 Kas 2009 Per 21:21)
- (oxidation) The net reaction is the oxidation of the flavoenzyme's coenzymes and the reduction of molecular oxygen to form superoxide. This catalytic behavior has been described as futile cycle or redox cycling.
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- (oxidation) Biological energy is frequently stored and released by means of redox reactions. Photosynthesis involves the reduction of carbon dioxide into sugars and the oxidation of water into molecular oxygen. (19 Kas 2009 Per 21:19)
- (oxidation) oxidation is used in a wide variety of industries such as in the production of cleaning products and oxidising ammonia to produce nitric acid, which is used in most fertilizers. (19 Kas 2009 Per 21:19)
- (oxidation) Reduction describes the gain of electrons or a decrease in oxidation state by a molecule, atom or ion. (19 Kas 2009 Per 21:18)
- (oxidation) oxidation describes the loss of electrons or an increase in oxidation state by a molecule, atom or ion. (19 Kas 2009 Per 21:17)
- (oxygen) Liquid oxygen is attracted to a magnet to a sufficient extent that, in laboratory demonstrations, a bridge of liquid oxygen may be supported against its own weight between the poles of a powerful magnet. (19 Kas 2009 Per 21:12)
- (oxygen) Uses of oxygen include the production of steel, plastics and textiles; rocket propellant; oxygen therapy; and life support in aircraft, submarines, spaceflight and diving.
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- (oxygen) oxygen was independently discovered by Carl Wilhelm Scheele, in Uppsala, in 1773 or earlier, and Joseph Priestley in Wiltshire, in 1774, but Priestley is often given priority because his publication came out in print first. (19 Kas 2009 Per 21:11)
- (oxygen) All major classes of structural molecules in living organisms, such as proteins, carbohydrates, and fats, contain oxygen, as do the major inorganic compounds that comprise animal shells, teeth, and bone. (19 Kas 2009 Per 21:11)
- (oxygen) oxygen is the element with atomic number 8 and represented by the symbol O. (19 Kas 2009 Per 21:10)
- (owen) Michael James owen (born 14 December 1979 in Chester) is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for Manchester United. (19 Kas 2009 Per 21:09)
- (owen) owen is a city in Clark County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 936 at the 2000 census, but was 982 as of 2008. (19 Kas 2009 Per 21:08)
- (oxford) oxford City Centre is a very attractive location for the consumer to visit, as well as being a good location for socialising. The historical buildings make this location a popular target for film and TV crews.
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- (oxford) The University of oxford Botanic Garden is an historic botanic garden in oxford. (19 Kas 2009 Per 21:04)
- (oxford) oxford has numerous major tourist attractions, many belonging to the university and colleges. (19 Kas 2009 Per 21:02)
- (oxford) The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through oxford and meet south of the city centre. (19 Kas 2009 Per 21:00)
- (oxford) oxford is a city, and the county town of oxfordshire, in South East England. (19 Kas 2009 Per 20:59)
- (oxfordshire) The Vale of the White Horse district and parts of the South oxfordshire administrative district south of the River Thames were historically part of Berkshire, but were added to the administrative county of oxfordshire in 1974. (19 Kas 2009 Per 20:57)
- (oxfordshire) The county has two universities, significantly the University of Oxford and also Oxford Brookes University, both located in oxfordshire.
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- (oxfordshire) oxfordshire has a completely comprehensive education system with 23 independent schools and 35 state schools. (19 Kas 2009 Per 20:55)
- (oxfordshire) The area was part of the Cotswolds wool trade from the 13th century, generating much wealth, particularly in the western portions of the county in the oxfordshire Cotswolds. (19 Kas 2009 Per 20:53)
- (oxfordshire) oxfordshire is a county in the South East England region. County has a major tourism industry. (19 Kas 2009 Per 20:53)
- (ownership) One disadvantage of communal ownership, known as the Tragedy of the Commons, occurs where unlimited unrestricted and unregulated access to a resource (e.g. pasture land) destroys the resource because of over-exploitation. (19 Kas 2009 Per 20:49)
- (ownership) In the loosest sense of group ownership, a lack of legal framework, rules and regulations may mean that group ownership of property places every member in a position of responsibility (liability) for the actions of each other member. (19 Kas 2009 Per 20:49)
- (ownership) ownership is the key building block in the development of the capitalist socio-economic system.
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- (ownership) ownership is the basis for many other concepts that form the foundations of ancient and modern societies such as money, trade, debt, bankruptcy, the criminality of theft and private vs. public property. (19 Kas 2009 Per 20:47)
- (ownership) ownership is the state or fact of exclusive rights and control over property, which may be an object, land/real estate or intellectual property. (19 Kas 2009 Per 20:47)
- (oxygenation) At times this is insufficient and the Harbour Authority is using a mobile oxygenation barge built by McTay Marine with liquid oxygen stored in a tank. (19 Kas 2009 Per 20:45)
- (oxygenation) Two dedicated McTay Marine vessels, oxygenation barges Thames Bubbler and Thames Vitality are used to replenish oxygen levels, as part of an ongoing battle to clean up the river, which now supports 115 species of fish and hundreds more invertebrates, plants and birds. (19 Kas 2009 Per 20:45)
- (oxygenation) oxygenation occurs when oxygen molecules (O2) enter the tissues of the body. For example, blood is oxygenated in the lungs, where oxygen molecules travel from the air and into the blood. As a result of this oxygenation, the color of the blood changes from dark purple to red. (19 Kas 2009 Per 20:44)
- (oxygenic) In nature, free oxygen is produced by the light-driven splitting of water during oxygenic photosynthesis. (19 Kas 2009 Per 20:41)
- (oxygenous) Pyrimidine ribonucleosides and their respective nucleotides have been prebiotically synthesised by a sequence of reactions which by-pass the free sugars, and is assembled in a stepwise fashion by going against the dogma that nitrogenous and oxygenous chemistries should be avoided. (19 Kas 2009 Per 20:39)
- (oxymoron) An example is the term civil war, which is not an oxymoron, but can be claimed to be so for humorous effect, if civil is construed as meaning 'polite' rather than 'between citizens of the same state'. (19 Kas 2009 Per 20:38)
- (oxymoron) Although a true oxymoron is “something that is surprisingly true, a paradox”, modern usage has brought a common misunderstanding as being near synonymous with a contradiction. (19 Kas 2009 Per 20:37)
- (oxymoron) A great many oxymorons have been popularised in vernacular speech. Unlike literary oxymorons, many of these are not intended to construct a paradox; they are simply puns. (19 Kas 2009 Per 20:36)
- (oxymoron) oxymorons are sometimes inadvertently created by errors or sloppiness in conversation; common examples include extremely average, objective opinion, pretty ugly, and original copy. (19 Kas 2009 Per 20:36)
- (oxymoron) An oxymoron is a figure of speech that combines normally contradictory terms. They appear in a range of contexts, from inadvertent errors such as extremely average, to deliberate puns like same difference, to literary oxymorons that have been carefully crafted to reveal a paradox.
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- (oyster) Fresh oysters must be alive just before consumption or cooking. There is a simple criterion: the oyster must be capable of tightly closing its shell. (19 Kas 2009 Per 20:33)
- (oyster) The largest pearl-bearing oyster is the marine Pinctada maxima, which is roughly the size of a dinner plate. Not all individual oysters produce pearls naturally. In fact, in a harvest of three tons of oysters, only three to four oysters produce perfect pearls. (19 Kas 2009 Per 20:31)
- (oyster) Pearl oysters are not closely related to true oysters, being members of a distinct family, the feathered oysters (Pteriidae). (19 Kas 2009 Per 20:30)
- (oyster) True oysters are incapable of making gem quality pearls, although illustrations or photographs sometimes mistakenly pair them with a gem-quality pearl. (19 Kas 2009 Per 20:30)
- (oyster) Some kinds of oyster are commonly consumed by humans, cooked or raw. Other kinds, such as pearl oysters, are not. (19 Kas 2009 Per 20:29)
- (ozone) ozone cannot be stored and transported like other industrial gases (because it quickly decays into diatomic oxygen) and must therefore be produced on site. Available ozone generators vary in the arrangement and design of the high-voltage electrodes. (19 Kas 2009 Per 20:28)
- (ozone) There is a great deal of evidence to show that high concentrations of ozone, created by high concentrations of pollution and daylight UV rays at the Earth's surface, can harm lung function and irritate the respiratory system. (19 Kas 2009 Per 20:27)
- (ozone) ozone gas attacks any polymer possessing olefinic or double bonds within its chain structure, such materials including natural rubber, nitrile rubber, and Styrene-butadiene rubber. (19 Kas 2009 Per 20:26)
- (ozone) Low level ozone (or tropospheric ozone) is regarded as a pollutant by the World Health Organization[15] and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). (19 Kas 2009 Per 20:26)
- (ozone) The highest levels of ozone in the atmosphere are in the stratosphere, in a region also known as the ozone layer between about 10 km and 50 km above the surface (or between about 6 and 31 miles). (19 Kas 2009 Per 20:25)
- (ozone layer) In 1978, the United States, Canada and Norway, enacted bans on CFC-containing aerosol sprays that are thought to damage the ozone layer. (19 Kas 2009 Per 20:24)
- (ozone layer) The thickness of the ozone layer—that is, the total amount of ozone in a column overhead—varies by a large factor worldwide, being in general smaller near the equator and larger towards the poles. (19 Kas 2009 Per 20:22)
- (ozone layer) The photochemical mechanisms that give rise to the ozone layer were discovered by the British physicist Sidney Chapman in 1930. (19 Kas 2009 Per 20:22)
- (ozone layer) The ozone layer was discovered in 1913 by the French physicists Charles Fabry and Henri Buisson. (19 Kas 2009 Per 20:22)
- (ozone layer) The ozone layer is a layer in Earth's atmosphere which contains relatively high concentrations of ozone (O3). This layer absorbs 93-99% of the sun's high frequency ultraviolet light, which is potentially damaging to life on earth. (19 Kas 2009 Per 20:21)
- (pajama) pajamas Media is an online advertising and publishing company created by bloggers Roger L. Simon and Charles Johnson. (19 Kas 2009 Per 20:18)
- (pajama) In Ireland pajamas are worn in Public by Skangers often in their teens and are noted for loitering around public places and anti-social behavior.
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- (pajama) pajamas are usually worn with bare feet and often without underwear, although these vary by personal preference. (19 Kas 2009 Per 20:17)
- (pajama) Although pyjamas are usually distinguished from non-bifurcated sleeping garments such as nightgowns, in the US, they can sometimes include the latter, as in babydoll pajamas. (19 Kas 2009 Per 20:17)
- (pajama) In many English-speaking nations, pajamas are loose-fitting, two-piece garments derived from the original garment and worn chiefly for sleeping, but sometimes also for lounging, also by both sexes. (19 Kas 2009 Per 20:16)
- (penknife) The most famous example of a multi-function knife is the Swiss Army knife, some versions of which number dozens of functions and are really more of a folding multi-tool, incorporating a blade or two, than a penknife with extras. (19 Kas 2009 Per 20:09)
- (penknife) A penknife, or pen knife, is a small folding pocket knife, originally used for cutting or sharpening a quill to make a pen nib. (19 Kas 2009 Per 20:09)
- (passport) "Family passports" allowed children to travel together with their parents without the need to issue individual passports to each child. (19 Kas 2009 Per 20:05)
- (passport) Some countries allow, under specified circumstances, the holding of more than one passport by a citizen. (19 Kas 2009 Per 20:05)
- (passport) The United Nations held a travel conference in 1963, but passport guidelines did not result from it. passport standardisation came about in 1980, under the auspices of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). (19 Kas 2009 Per 20:03)
- (passport) A passport is a document, issued by a national government, which certifies, for the purpose of international travel, the identity and nationality of its holder. (19 Kas 2009 Per 20:03)
- (passport) A passport does not of itself entitle the passport holder entry into another country, nor to consular protection while abroad or any other privileges, in the absence of any special agreements which cover the situation. (19 Kas 2009 Per 20:02)
- (pamphlet) Not to be confused with the term English pamphlet, from which derives, as it does not contain the negative connotations of the Spanish and translated more correctly as folleto.
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- (pamphlet) pamphlets have also long been an important tool of political protest and political campaigning for similar reasons.
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- (pamphlet) pamphlets are very important in marketing as they are cheap to produce and can be distributed easily to customers. (19 Kas 2009 Per 19:59)
- (pamphlet) pamphlets can contain anything from information on kitchen appliances to medical information and religious treatises. (19 Kas 2009 Per 19:59)
- (pamphlet) A pamphlet is an unbound booklet (that is, without a hard cover or binding). It may consist of a single sheet of paper that is printed on both sides and folded in half, in thirds, or in fourths (called a leaflet), or it may consist of a few pages that are folded in half and stapled at the crease to make a simple book. (19 Kas 2009 Per 19:58)
- (paragraph) Most published books use a device to separate certain paragraphs further when there is a change of scene or time. (19 Kas 2009 Per 19:55)
- (paragraph) In literature, a "detail" is a small piece of information within a paragraph. A detail usually exists to support or explain a main idea. (19 Kas 2009 Per 19:54)
- (paragraph) In an essay each paragraph explains or demonstrates a key point or thought of the central idea, usually to inform or persuade. (19 Kas 2009 Per 19:53)
- (paragraph) To help the reader understand and enjoy it, the explanation or narration is broken down into units of text, the paragraph. (19 Kas 2009 Per 19:53)
- (paragraph) A paragraph (from the Greek paragraphos, "to write beside" or "written beside") is a self-contained unit of a discourse in writing dealing with a particular point or idea. (19 Kas 2009 Per 19:52)
- (parliament) Since 1999, there has been a Scottish parliament in Edinburgh, which is a national, unicameral legislature for Scotland. (19 Kas 2009 Per 19:50)
- (parliament) Most countries in Europe and the Commonwealth have similarly organized parliaments with a largely ceremonial head of state who formally opens and closes parliament, a large elected lower house and a smaller, upper house. (19 Kas 2009 Per 19:49)
- (parliament) In the United Kingdom, parliament consists of the House of Commons, the House of Lords, and the Monarch. (19 Kas 2009 Per 19:46)
- (parliament) A nation's prime minister ("PM") is almost always the leader of the majority party in the lower house of parliament, but only holds his or her office as long as the "confidence of the house" is maintained. (19 Kas 2009 Per 19:44)
- (parliament) Typically, congresses do not select or dismiss heads of governments, and governments cannot request an early dissolution as may be the case for parliaments. (19 Kas 2009 Per 19:43)
- (pistol) There is a hybrid form of the revolver, known as the automatic revolver, which combines the revolving chamber concept of the conventional revolver with the recoil-harnessing, self-cycling ability of the semi-automatic pistol. (19 Kas 2009 Per 19:42)
- (pistol) Single-shot pistols are theoretically the simplest pistols. The earliest handguns were single-shot, muzzle-loading guns with ignition provided by inserting a smoldering match cord into a touch hole. (19 Kas 2009 Per 19:41)
- (pistol) The first pistols were made as early as the 15th century, but their creator is unknown. (19 Kas 2009 Per 19:40)
- (pistol) The word "pistol" is often synonymous with the word "handgun". Some handgun experts make a technical distinction that views pistols as a subset of handguns. (19 Kas 2009 Per 19:40)
- (pistol) Some handgun subtypes include derringers, single-shot pistols, revolvers, semi-automatic pistols, pepperboxes, and machine pistols. (19 Kas 2009 Per 19:38)
- (pig) pigs were brought to southeastern North America from Europe by Hernando de Soto and other early Spanish explorers. (19 Kas 2009 Per 19:36)
- (pig) In ancient Egypt pigs were associated with Set, the rival to the sun god Horus. When Set fell into disfavor with the Egyptians, swineherds were forbidden to enter temples. (19 Kas 2009 Per 19:36)
- (pig) pigs can be aggressive and pig-induced injuries are relatively common in areas where pigs are reared or where they form part of the wild or feral fauna. (19 Kas 2009 Per 19:34)
- (pig) pigs harbour a range of parasites and diseases that can be transmitted to humans. These include trichinosis, Taenia solium, cysticercosis, and brucellosis. (19 Kas 2009 Per 19:33)
- (pig) pigs are intelligent and can be trained to perform numerous simple tasks and tricks. Recently, they have enjoyed a measure of popularity as house pets, particularly the dwarf breeds. (19 Kas 2009 Per 19:32)
- (power-house) In 2002-2003 the power-house concept changed to focus on a broader consumer market and less towards electronics enthusiasts. (19 Kas 2009 Per 19:29)
- (power-house) A power station (also referred to as a generating station, power plant, or power-house) is an industrial facility for the generation of electric power. (19 Kas 2009 Per 19:28)
- (postage) In strict philatelic usage, the postcard is to be distinguished from the postal card, which has a pre-printed postage on the card. (19 Kas 2009 Per 19:25)
- (postage) The postage required for postcards is generally less than postage required for standard letters; however, certain technicalities such as their being oversized or having cut-outs may result in payment of the first-class rate being required. (19 Kas 2009 Per 19:25)
- (postage) postage stamps are also object of a particular form of collecting, and in some cases, when demand greatly exceeds supply, their commercial value on this specific market may become enormously greater than face value, even after use. (19 Kas 2009 Per 19:24)
- (postage) Worldwide the most common method of prepaying postage is by buying an adhesive postage stamp to be applied to the envelope before mailing; a much less common method is to use a postage-prepaid envelope (19 Kas 2009 Per 19:23)
- (postage) Proof of payment is often in the form of adhesive postage stamps, but postage meters are also used for bulk mailing. (19 Kas 2009 Per 19:22)
- (porcelain) Korean and Japanese porcelain also have long histories and distinct artistic traditions. (19 Kas 2009 Per 19:20)
- (porcelain) porcelain can be used as a building material, usually in the form of tiles or large rectangular panels. Modern porcelain tiles are generally produced to a number of recognised international standards and definitions. (19 Kas 2009 Per 19:18)
- (porcelain) porcelain can be divided into the three main categories: hard-paste, soft-paste, and bone, depending on the composition of the paste, the material used to form the body of a porcelain object. (19 Kas 2009 Per 19:16)
- (porcelain) porcelain can informally be referred to as "china" in some English-speaking countries, as China was the birth place of porcelain making. (19 Kas 2009 Per 19:16)
- (porcelain) porcelain derives its present name from old Italian porcellana (cowrie shell) because of its resemblance to the translucent surface of the shell. (19 Kas 2009 Per 19:15)
- (police) police services commonly include units for investigating crimes committed by the police themselves. (19 Kas 2009 Per 19:13)
- (police) police functions include protecting life and property, enforcing criminal law, criminal investigations, regulating traffic, crowd control, and other public safety duties. (19 Kas 2009 Per 19:09)
- (police) In most Western police forces, perhaps the most significant division is between preventive (uniformed) police and detectives. (19 Kas 2009 Per 19:08)
- (police) In Lebanon, modern police were established in 1861, with creation of the Gendarmerie. (19 Kas 2009 Per 19:08)
- (police) The term is most commonly associated with police services of a state that are authorized to exercise the police power of that state within a defined legal or territorial area of responsibility. (19 Kas 2009 Per 19:06)
- (pole) While the South pole lies on a continental land mass, the North pole is located in the middle of the Arctic Ocean amidst waters that are almost permanently covered with constantly shifting sea ice. (19 Kas 2009 Per 19:05)
- (pole) The north geographic pole of a body lies 90 degrees north of the equator, while the south geographic pole lies 90 degrees south of the equator.
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- (pole) It is similar in concept to a celestial pole but based on the planet's orbit instead of the planet's rotation.
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- (pole) An orbital pole is either end of an imaginary line running through the center of an orbit perpendicular to the orbital plane, projected onto the celestial sphere. (19 Kas 2009 Per 19:01)
- (pole) Polar climates have also been observed on other planets, such as Mars, which has big and noticeable ice caps on both poles.
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- (poetry) Some forms of poetry carry a consistent and well-defined rhyming scheme, such as the chant royal or the rubaiyat, while other poetic forms have variable rhyme schemes.
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- (poetry) Alliteration and assonance played a key role in structuring early Germanic, Norse and Old English forms of poetry. (19 Kas 2009 Per 18:58)
- (poetry) Dramatic poetry is drama written in verse to be spoken or sung, and appears in varying, sometimes related forms in many cultures. (19 Kas 2009 Per 18:56)
- (poetry) While the composition of epic poetry, and of long poems generally, became less common in the west after the early 20th century, some notable epics have continued to be written. (19 Kas 2009 Per 18:56)
- (poetry) Epic poetry is a genre of poetry, and a major form of narrative literature. (19 Kas 2009 Per 18:55)
- (port) The port may handle one particular type of cargo or it may handle numerous cargoes, such as grains, liquid fuels, liquid chemicals, wood, automobiles, etc. Such ports are known as the "bulk" or "break bulk ports". (19 Kas 2009 Per 18:54)
- (port) Cargo ports, on the other hand, are quite different to cruise ports, because each handles very different cargo, which has to be loaded and unloaded by very different mechanical means. (19 Kas 2009 Per 18:53)
- (port) Some ports feature canals, which allow ships further movement inland. (19 Kas 2009 Per 18:52)
- (port) ports often have cargo-handling equipment, such as cranes (operated by longshoremen) and forklifts for use in loading/unloading of ships, which may be provided by private interests or public bodies. (19 Kas 2009 Per 18:51)
- (port) A port is a facility for receiving ships and/or transferring cargo. (19 Kas 2009 Per 18:51)
- (porter) The name portage is derived from the french word "portage" and the french verb "porter" : to carry. (19 Kas 2009 Per 18:50)
- (porter) I like thans Until desegregation had its effect in the United States in the 1960s, the occupation of porter was almost the exclusive province of African American men. (19 Kas 2009 Per 18:49)
- (porter) A Baggage porter assisted with luggage; an Operating porter assisted with Safeworking duties; a Station porter assisted with general station duties and a Lad porter was a junior Station porter.
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- (porter) porters who work at railway stations in India are called coolies, a term for unskilled Asian labourers. The term "coolie" was also used in China for porters in general. (19 Kas 2009 Per 18:48)
- (porter) porters are still employed to carry burdens in many third-world countries, especially where animals like camels, oxen, horses and dogs, or vehicles like carts, trucks, ships, trains and aircraft, have not taken over human bearers' traditional functions or where such alternatives are not practicable. (19 Kas 2009 Per 18:47)
- (plumber) Many plumbers begin their careers in plumbing as helpers to established plumbers; others enter formal training institutes.
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- (plumber) plumbers install and repair pipes, fittings, fixtures, and other plumbing equipment used for water distribution, waste water disposal, and venting in residential, commercial, institutional, and industrial buildings. (19 Kas 2009 Per 18:45)
- (plumber) Years of training and/or experience are needed to become a skilled plumber; some jurisdictions also require that plumbers be licensed.
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- (plumber) A plumber is a tradesperson who specialises in installing and maintaining systems used for potable (drinking) water, sewage, drainage. (19 Kas 2009 Per 18:44)
- (plumber) A person with expertise in working with lead was known as a Plumbarius, eventually shortened to plumber. (19 Kas 2009 Per 18:44)
- (possibility) Temporal possibility is possibility given the actual history of the world. David Lewis could have chosen to take his degree in Accounting rather than Philosophy; but there is an important sense in which he cannot now. (19 Kas 2009 Per 17:37)
- (possibility) Philosophers generally consider logical possibility to be the broadest sort of subjunctive possibility in modal logic.
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- (possibility) A possibility measure can be seen as a consonant plausibility measure in Dempster–Shafer theory of evidence. (19 Kas 2009 Per 17:33)
- (possibility) There is an extensive formal correspondence between probability and possibility theories, where the addition operator corresponds to the maximum operator.
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- (possibility) possibility theory is a mathematical theory for dealing with certain types of uncertainty and is an alternative to probability theory. (19 Kas 2009 Per 17:31)
- (potato) Almost all the protein content of a potato is contained in a thin layer just under its skin. (19 Kas 2009 Per 17:29)
- (potato) potatoes contain toxic compounds known as glycoalkaloids, of which the most prevalent are solanine and chaconine. (19 Kas 2009 Per 17:26)
- (potato) The potato contains vitamins and minerals that have been identified as vital to human nutrition, as well as an assortment of phytochemicals, such as carotenoids and polyphenols. (19 Kas 2009 Per 17:26)
- (potato) After potato plants flower, some varieties will produce small green fruits that resemble green cherry tomatoes, each containing up to 300 true seeds. (19 Kas 2009 Per 17:25)
- (potato) potatoes are cross-pollinated mostly by insects, including bumblebees, which carry pollen from other potato plants, but a substantial amount of self-fertilizing occurs as well. (19 Kas 2009 Per 17:25)
- (polish) polish-speakers use the language in a uniform manner throughout most of Poland.
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- (polish) The World Wars saw a surge in demand for the product, in order to polish army boots. (19 Kas 2009 Per 17:22)
- (polish) The popularity of shoe polish paralleled a general rise in leather and synthetic shoe production, beginning in the 19th century and continuing into the 20th. (19 Kas 2009 Per 17:22)
- (polish) Nail polish ingredients often include toluene. Solvents such as toluene and xylene are petroleum-based products that have been linked to cancer. (19 Kas 2009 Per 17:21)
- (polish) Nail polish (nail varnish) is a lacquer applied to toenails or fingernails for appearance, but also as nail protection. (19 Kas 2009 Per 17:20)
- (priest) Pope John Paul II often instructed Catholic priests and religious to always wear their distinctive (clerical) clothing, unless wearing it would result in persecution or grave verbal attacks. (19 Kas 2009 Per 17:18)
- (priest) In Ancient Judaism, the priests (Kohanim) had a whole class of Levites as their assistants in making the sacrifices, in singing psalms and in maintaining the Temple. (19 Kas 2009 Per 17:18)
- (priest) In most Christian traditions, priests wear clerical clothing, a distinctive form of street dress. (19 Kas 2009 Per 17:17)
- (priest) The Hindu priest put clothes to the Murti (the statue of the God/Goddess) and gets the temple ready for worship. (19 Kas 2009 Per 17:16)
- (priest) In many religions, being a priest or priestess is a full-time job, ruling out any other career. In other cases it is a part-time role. (19 Kas 2009 Per 17:16)
- (prescription) Traces of prescription drugs&mdash ninja ;including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones—have been detected in drinking water. If ingested these may be harmful to wildlife and humans. (19 Kas 2009 Per 17:07)
- (prescription) A study conducted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration covered over 100 drugs, prescription and over-the-counter. (19 Kas 2009 Per 17:07)
- (prescription) Herbal preparations, vitamins, minerals, and food supplements are not regulated by the FDA, so the individual consumer must be aware of the potential negative effects of using these preparations and also the potential interactions with prescription drugs they may be taking. (19 Kas 2009 Per 17:06)
- (prescription) prescription drugs are generally authorized by veterinarians, dentists, optometrists, and medical practitioners. (19 Kas 2009 Per 17:06)
- (prescription) Dispensation of prescription drugs often includes a monograph (in Europe, a Patient Information Leaflet or PIL) that gives detailed information about the drug. (19 Kas 2009 Per 17:05)
- (pregnant) pregnant women are also more prone to catching salmonella infections from eggs and poultry, which should be thoroughly cooked. Practicing good hygiene in the kitchen can reduce these risks. (19 Kas 2009 Per 17:03)
- (pregnant) Despite all the signs, some women may not realize they are pregnant until they are quite far along in their pregnancy, in some cases not even until they begin labour. (19 Kas 2009 Per 17:00)
- (pregnant) The beginning of pregnancy may be detected in a number of different ways, either by a pregnant woman without medical testing, or by using medical tests with or without the assistance of a medical professional.
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- (pregnant) Medically, a woman who has never been pregnant is referred to as a "nulligravida", and in subsequent pregnancies as multigravida or "multiparous". (19 Kas 2009 Per 16:59)
- (pregnant) One scientific term for the state of pregnancy is gravid, and a pregnant female is sometimes referred to as a gravida. (19 Kas 2009 Per 16:58)
- (pressure) As an example of varying pressures, a finger can be pressed against a wall without making any lasting impression; however, the same finger pushing a thumbtack can easily damage the wall. (19 Kas 2009 Per 16:56)
- (pressure) Explosion or deflagration pressures are the result of the ignition of explosive gases, mists, dust/air suspensions, in unconfined and confined spaces. (19 Kas 2009 Per 16:55)
- (pressure) Blood pressure is measured in millimeters of mercury in most of the world, and lung pressures in centimeters of water are still common.
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- (pressure) Because pressure is commonly measured by its ability to displace a column of liquid in a manometer, pressures are often expressed as a depth of a particular fluid (e.g., inches of water). (19 Kas 2009 Per 16:54)
- (pressure) pressure is transmitted to solid boundaries or across arbitrary sections of fluid normal to these boundaries or sections at every point. It is a fundamental parameter in thermodynamics and it is conjugate to volume. (19 Kas 2009 Per 16:53)
- (white) Until Newton's work became accepted, most scientists believed that white was the fundamental color of light; and that other colors were formed only by adding something to light. (19 Kas 2009 Per 16:50)
- (white) While the color of a light source can be reasonably measured by its correlated color temperature, a different approach is required for objects since different samples may appear white without a reference. (19 Kas 2009 Per 16:49)
- (white) On the other hand in many cultures white represents purity, freedom, and hygenic purity.
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- (white) The high contrast between white and black is often used to represent opposites. In some cultures, like Chinese, white is considered to be a color that represents death. (19 Kas 2009 Per 16:48)
- (white) Since white objects such as clouds, snow and flowers appear often in nature, human culture has many references to white, often related to purity and cleanness. (19 Kas 2009 Per 16:47)
- (blue) In the English language, blue often represents the human emotion of sadness, e.g. "He was feeling blue". (19 Kas 2009 Per 16:45)
- (blue) Psychics who claim to be able to observe the aura with their third eye report that someone with a blue aura is a person who is oriented toward spirituality. (19 Kas 2009 Per 16:45)
- (blue) People with blue auras are said to be interested in social service work and to be in occupations such as social worker, counsellor, teacher, writer, and psychologist. (19 Kas 2009 Per 16:44)
- (blue) In Hinduism, blue is used to symbolically represent the fifth, throat chakra (Vishuddha). (19 Kas 2009 Per 16:42)
- (blue) The English language commonly uses "blue" to refer to any colour from navy blue to cyan. The word itself is derived from the Old French word bleu. (19 Kas 2009 Per 16:41)
- (provocation) In some common law, jurisdictions such as the UK, Canada, and several Australian states, the defense of provocation is only available against a charge of murder and only acts to reduce the conviction to manslaughter. (19 Kas 2009 Per 16:39)
- (provocation) She is ultimately freed by the judicial system in a landmark case called "R v Ahluwalia", redefining provocation in cases of battered women in the UK. (19 Kas 2009 Per 16:38)
- (provocation) A provocation test, also called a provocation trial or provocation study, is a form of clinical trial whereby participants are exposed to either a substance or "thing" that is claimed to provoke a response, or to a sham substance or device that should provoke no response. (19 Kas 2009 Per 16:37)
- (provocation) provocation, however, is not a defense available to the civil torts of assault or battery. (19 Kas 2009 Per 16:36)
- (provocation) provocation can be a relevant factor in a court's assessment of a defendant's mens rea, intention, or state of mind, at the time of an act of which the defendant is accused. (19 Kas 2009 Per 16:35)
- (prove) In criminal investigation, rather than attempting to prove an abstract or hypothetical point, the evidence gatherers attempt to determine who is responsible for a criminal act. (19 Kas 2009 Per 16:33)
- (pack rat) Historically, houses in or near ghost towns were typically infested with pack rats. (19 Kas 2009 Per 16:30)
- (pack rat) Some species of pack rats were called "prairie flounders" by settlers. This might have occurred because the eyes of pack rats are set somewhat higher in the head than other rodents. (19 Kas 2009 Per 16:29)
- (pack rat) In houses, pack rats are active nocturnally, searching for food and nest material. (19 Kas 2009 Per 16:29)
- (pack rat) pack rats build complex nests of twigs, called "middens", often incorporating cactus. Nests are often built in small caves, but frequently also in the attics and walls of houses. (19 Kas 2009 Per 16:28)
- (pack rat) pack rats are prevalent in the deserts and highlands of western United States and northern Mexico. (19 Kas 2009 Per 16:28)
- (powerful) An individual’s personal attributes make him appear powerful to others. (19 Kas 2009 Per 16:26)
- (powerful) For the powerful, their culture seems obvious; for the powerless, on the other hand, it remains out of reach, élite and expensive.
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- (powerful) The powerful comprise those people in society with easy access to resources, those who can exercise power without considering their actions. (19 Kas 2009 Per 16:24)
- (powerful) A 'powerful' actor can take options away from another's choice set; can change the relative costs of actions; can change the likelihood that a given action will lead to a given outcome; or might simply change the other's beliefs about its incentive structure. (19 Kas 2009 Per 16:23)
- (prosecute) It's at the discretion of the Procurator Fiscal, Advocate Depute or Lord Advocate to take a prosecution to court, and to decide on whether or not to prosecute it under solemn procedure or summary procedure. (19 Kas 2009 Per 16:21)
- (prosecute) In Brazil, there's a similar provision which transfers the power to prosecute to the crime victim if, and only if, the prosecutor in charge of the case fails to make a decision to file or drop the charges in the deadline established by the penal procedure code. (19 Kas 2009 Per 16:20)
- (prosecute) In Japan, only prosecutors can prosecute criminals in principle, and prosecutors can decide whether to prosecute or not. High-ranking officials of the Ministry of Justice are largely prosecutors. (19 Kas 2009 Per 16:19)
- (prostitution) Beginning in the late 1980s, many states increased the penalties for prostitution in cases where the prostitute is knowingly HIV-positive. (19 Kas 2009 Per 16:17)
- (prostitution) Enslavement into prostitution was sometimes used as a legal punishment against criminal free women. (19 Kas 2009 Per 16:16)
- (prostitution) Organisers of prostitution are typically known as pimps (if male) and madams (if female). More formally, they practice procuring, and are procurers, or procuresses. (19 Kas 2009 Per 16:16)
- (prostitution) A variety of terms are used for those who engage in prostitution, some of which distinguish between different kinds, or imply a value judgment about them. (19 Kas 2009 Per 16:15)
- (prostitution) prostitution is the act or practice of engaging in sex acts for hire. While prostitution is legal or tolerated in some cultures, it is illegal or socially discouraged in others.
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- (proportion) Similarly, in art, body proportions are the study of relation of human or animal body parts to each other and to the whole. (19 Kas 2009 Per 16:13)
- (proportion) In measurement, body proportions are often used to relate two or more measurements based on the body. (19 Kas 2009 Per 16:13)
- (proportion) Within law, the principle of proportional justice is used to describe the idea that the punishment of a certain crime should be in proportion to the severity of the crime itself. In practice, systems of law differ greatly on the application of this principle. (19 Kas 2009 Per 16:12)
- (proportion) Basically, the concept of inverse proportion means that as the absolute value or magnitude of one variable gets bigger, the absolute value or magnitude of another gets smaller, such that their product (the constant of proportionality) is always the same.
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- (proportion) In mathematics, two quantities are said to be proportional if they vary in such a way that one of the quantities is a constant multiple of the other, or equivalently if they have a constant ratio. (19 Kas 2009 Per 16:10)
- (proper) Morality (from the Latin moralitas "manner, character, proper behavior") has three principal meanings. (19 Kas 2009 Per 16:06)
- (proper) A charge tinctured proper (also sometimes termed "natural") is coloured as it would be found in nature. (19 Kas 2009 Per 16:04)
- (proper) The 19th century saw the rise of "landscape heraldry" and extensive use of charges tinctured "proper", especially in augmentations (and more often in German heraldry than English), but this practice too has been deprecated as essentially unheraldic. (19 Kas 2009 Per 16:04)
- (proper) Projective morphisms are proper, but not all proper morphisms are projective. Affine varieties of non-zero dimension are never proper. More generally, it can be shown that affine proper morphisms are necessarily finite. (19 Kas 2009 Per 16:02)
- (proper) In mathematics, a continuous function between topological spaces is called proper if inverse images of compact subsets are compact. (19 Kas 2009 Per 16:00)
- (promote) In modern usage the term "acetate" or "promo acetate" usually refers to a cheaply manufactured CD-R made up to efficiently promote the product with minimal expense.
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- (promote) The ability to promote is often the critical factor in endgames and thus is an important consideration in opening and middlegame strategy. Almost all promotions occur in the endgame, but promotion in the middlegame does happen. (19 Kas 2009 Per 15:59)
- (promote) For example, a policy analyst in the federal government who is promoted to the post of senior policy analyst will continue to do similar tasks such as writing briefing notes and carrying out policy research. (19 Kas 2009 Per 15:57)
- (promote) The degree to which job activities change varies between industries and sectors. In some fields, even after an employee is promoted, they continue to do similar work. (19 Kas 2009 Per 15:57)
- (promote) Before a company promotes an employee to a particular position it ensures that the person is able to handle the added responsibilities by screening the employee with interviews and tests and giving them training or on-the-job experience. (19 Kas 2009 Per 15:56)
- (propeller) Whether a rubber bush can be replaced or repaired depends upon the propeller; some cannot. (19 Kas 2009 Per 15:52)
- (propeller) A propeller is the most common propulsor on ships, imparting momentum to a fluid which causes a force to act on the ship. (19 Kas 2009 Per 15:52)
- (propeller) The origin of the actual screw propeller starts with Archimedes, who used a screw to lift water for irrigation and bailing boats, so famously that it became known as Archimedes' screw. (19 Kas 2009 Per 15:51)
- (propeller) The principle employed in using a screw propeller is used in sculling. It is part of the skill of propelling a Venetian gondola but was used in a less refined way in other parts of Europe and probably elsewhere. (19 Kas 2009 Per 15:50)
- (propeller) A propeller is a type of fan which transmits power by converting rotational motion into thrust. (19 Kas 2009 Per 15:50)
- (prolong) The first few focus on those techniques, arpeggiation, interruption, and neighbor note, which are important techniques at the earliest levels of prolongation—that is, those that may prolong the Ursatz itself. (19 Kas 2009 Per 15:49)
- (prolong) Promotion and relegation creates the tendency for (mostly younger) players to be loaned out, for players to move for financial reasons (most often the case if the club is relegated) and for (mostly older) players to play at a lower level in order to prolong their careers.
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- (prolong) An oxygen absorber is a small packet of material used to prolong the shelf life of food. (19 Kas 2009 Per 15:39)
- (prolong) The phrase cheating death is commonly used to describe the manner in which a person avoids a possibly fatal event or who prolongs their life in spite of considerable odds. (19 Kas 2009 Per 15:38)
- (prolong) The costal cartilages are bars of hyaline cartilage which serve to prolong the ribs forward and contribute very materially to the elasticity of the walls of the thorax. (19 Kas 2009 Per 15:37)
- (prohibit) A few developing countries where consumption of the prohibited substances has enjoyed longstanding cultural support, long resisted such outside pressure to pass legislation adhering to these conventions — such as Nepal, which did not do so until 1976. (19 Kas 2009 Per 15:34)
- (prohibit) In the Ottoman Empire, Murad IV attempted to prohibit coffee drinking to Muslims as haraam, arguing that it was an intoxicant, but this ruling was soon overturned after his death. (19 Kas 2009 Per 15:23)
- (prohibit) Morocco prohibits the sale of alcohol during Ramadan. (19 Kas 2009 Per 15:22)
- (profit) In economics, economic profit is the difference between a company's total revenue and its opportunity costs. It is the increase in wealth that an investor has from making an investment, taking into consideration all costs associated with that investment including the opportunity cost of capital. (19 Kas 2009 Per 15:21)
- (profit) Optimum profit is the "right amount" of profit a business can achieve. In business, this figure takes account of marketing strategy, market position, and other methods of increasing returns above the competitive rate. (19 Kas 2009 Per 15:20)
- (profit) Net profit after tax is after the deduction of either corporate tax (for a company) or income tax (for an individual). (19 Kas 2009 Per 15:19)
- (profit) A key difficulty in measuring profit is in defining costs. Pure economic monetary profits can be zero or negative even in competitive equilibrium when accounted monetized costs exceed monetized price. (19 Kas 2009 Per 15:19)
- (profit) profit generally is the making of gain in business activity for the benefit of the owners of the business. The word comes from Latin meaning "to make progress", and is defined in two different ways, one for economics and one for accounting. (19 Kas 2009 Per 15:18)
- (progress) Several Philosophers of Science have supported arguments that the progress of science is discontinuous. (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:51)
- (progress) It is often complained that philosophy has developed more slowly than the special sciences, and has not enjoyed the same sort of remarkable and definitive progress seen in chemistry or physics. (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:51)
- (progress) progress in philosophy, as elsewhere, can be conceived of as linear (and if so, either optimistic or pessimistic), circular (as in Plato's golden age and the Hindu Yugas), or spiral (as in Hegel's dialectic philosophy of history). (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:50)
- (progress) It is common to hear both philosophers and non-philosophers complain that there is no progress in philosophy. Whether such a complaint is justified depends, of course, on one's understanding of the nature of philosophy, and on one's criteria of progress. (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:50)
- (progress) Social progress is defined as the changing of society toward the ideal. (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:50)
- (promotion) Different organizations grant the hiring and promoting managers different levels of discretion to award promotions. (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:49)
- (promotion) A promotion can involve advancement in terms of designation, salary and benefits, and in some organizations the type of job activities may change a great deal. (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:48)
- (promotion) A promotion is the advancement of an employee's rank or position in an organizational hierarchy system. (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:48)
- (promotion) The term "promotion" is usually an "in" expression used internally by the marketing company, but not normally to the public or the market - phrases like "special offer" are more common. (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:47)
- (promotion) promotion involves disseminating information about a product, product line, brand, or company. (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:47)
- (property) According to Adam Smith, the expectation of profit from "improving one's stock of capital" rests on private property rights. It is a belief central to capitalism that property rights encourage the property holders to develop the property, generate wealth, and efficiently allocate resources based on the operation of the market. (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:45)
- (property) Modern property rights conceive of ownership and possession as belonging to legal persons, even if the legal person is not a natural person. (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:45)
- (property) Private property is any property that is not public property. Private property may be under the control of a single person or by a group of persons jointly. (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:45)
- (property) Public property is any property that is controlled by a state or by a whole community. (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:44)
- (property) property is any physical or intangible entity that is owned by a person or jointly by a group of persons. (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:44)
- (prosperity) One study which advances a holistic definition of prosperity is the Legatum prosperity Index. (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:41)
- (prosperity) Many distinct notions of prosperity, such as economic prosperity, health, and happiness, are correlated or even have causal effects on each other. (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:41)
- (prosperity) In Buddhism, prosperity is viewed with an emphasis on collectivism and spirituality. This perspective can be at odds with capitalistic notions of prosperity, due to their association with greed. (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:41)
- (prosperity) prosperity often encompasses wealth but also includes others factors which are independent of wealth to varying degrees, such as happiness and health. (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:40)
- (prosperity) prosperity is the state of flourishing, thriving, success, or good fortune. (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:40)
- (programme) mputer programs (also software programs, or just programmes) are instructions for a computer. (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:39)
- (programme) Governance must include a set of metrics to indicate the health and progress of the programme in the most vital areas. (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:37)
- (programme) The programme manager, on the other hand, may not care about individual projects, but is concerned with the aggregate result or end-state. (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:36)
- (production) In the name "Gross Domestic Product,"; "Gross" means that GDP measures production regardless of the various uses to which that production can be put. (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:35)
- (production) A production line is a set of sequential operations established in a factory whereby materials are put through a refining process to produce an end-product that is suitable for onward consumption; or components are assembled to make a finished article.
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- (production) They have compared production and investment in a range of Western and non-Western countries and presented case studies of growth and performance in important individual industries and market-economic sectors. (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:33)
- (production) Modern manufacturing includes all intermediate processes required for the production and integration of a product's components. Some industries, such as semiconductor and steel manufacturers use the term fabrication instead. (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:33)
- (production) In microeconomics, industrial organization is the field which describes the behavior of firms in the marketplace with regard to production, pricing, employment and other decisions. (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:32)
- (product) In general usage, product may refer to a single item or unit, a group of equivalent products, a grouping of goods or services, or an industrial classification for the goods or services. (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:30)
- (product) products can be classified as tangible or intangible. A tangible product is any physical product like a computer, automobile, etc. An intangible product is a non-physical product like an insurance policy. (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:29)
- (product) A product line is "a group of products that are closely related, either because they function in a similar manner, are sold to the same customer groups, are marketed through the same types of outlets, or fall within given price ranges." (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:29)
- (product) In manufacturing, products are purchased as raw materials and sold as finished goods. Commodities are usually raw materials such as metals and agricultural products, but a commodity can also be anything widely available in the open market. (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:28)
- (product) In marketing, a product is anything that can be offered to a market that might satisfy a want or need. (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:28)
- (profession) A profession arises when any trade or occupation transforms itself through "the development of formal qualifications based upon education and examinations, the emergence of regulatory bodies with powers to admit and discipline members, and some degree of monopoly rights." (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:26)
- (profession) Many professions have individual fee-paying clients.[dubious – discuss] For example, in accountancy, "the profession" usually refers to accountants who have individual and corporate clients, rather than accountants who are employees of organizations. (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:25)
- (profession) A profession is characterised by the power and high prestige it has in society as a whole. It is the power, prestige and value that society confers upon a profession that more clearly defines it.
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- (profession) "A profession is a vocation founded upon specialised educational training, the purpose of which is to supply disinterested counsel and service to others, for a direct and definite compensation, wholly apart from expectation of other business gain". (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:23)
- (protect) Security is the degree of protection against danger, loss, and criminals. (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:22)
- (protect) A player may also be said to "protect" his or her cards by placing an object like a specialty chip or miniature figure upon them. (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:21)
- (protect) A bet by an opponent serves to protect the all-in player by reducing the number of opponents the all-in player must beat. (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:20)
- (protect) If he failed to protect his hand, another player could draw out on him at no cost, meaning he gets no value from his made hand.
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- (protect) There are a number of ways to protect a climb, varying according to the type of climbing:Lead climbing, Top roping, Bouldering, Soloing. (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:18)
- (protest) New social movements are then protest that has gathered support and ingrained itself in a rather significant proportion of society. (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:16)
- (protest) If the protest is held to be valid, then the results of the event are changed. Each sport has different rules for protests.
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- (protest) During a sporting event, under certain circumstances, one side may choose to play a game "under protest", usually when they feel the rules are not being correctly applied. (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:15)
- (protest) protest song is a song which protests perceived problems in society. (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:14)
- (protest) protest expresses relatively overt reaction to events or situations: sometimes in favor, though more often opposed. (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:13)
- (produce) In some parts of the world, including the United States, produce is marked with small stickers bearing Price Look-Up codes. These four or five digit codes are a standardized system intended to aid checkout and inventory control in produce markets. (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:12)
- (produce) Although in the United States most produce is available year-round, produce is at its best and cheapest in the season it is harvested. (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:12)
- (produce) When a theatre company is the sole company in residence at a theatre venue, this theatre (and its corresponding theatre company) are called a resident theatre or a producing theatre, because the venue produces its own work. (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:10)
- (produce) Some produce, such as onions, lettuce and spinach, are seasonal year-round in some places. (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:08)
- (produce) produce is a generalized term for a group of farm-produced goods, not limited to fruit and vegetables. (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:06)
- (process) A business process begins with a customer’s need and ends with a customer’s need fulfillment. process oriented organizations break down the barriers of structural departments and try to avoid functional silos. (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:04)
- (process) While few people would deny that cognitive processes are a function of the brain, a cognitive theory will not necessarily make reference to the brain or other biological process (compare neurocognitive). (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:03)
- (process) Regulation of biological processes occurs where any process is modulated in its frequency, rate or extent. (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:01)
- (process) The mastoid process is a conical prominence projecting from the undersurface of the mastoid portion of the temporal bone. (19 Kas 2009 Per 13:01)
- (process) In anatomy, a process (Latin: processus) is a projection or outgrowth of tissue from a larger body.
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- (probable) The reprint (1757) of this memoir lays down the axioms that positive and negative errors are equally probable, and that there are certain assignable limits within which all errors may be supposed to fall; continuous errors are discussed and a probability curve is given.
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- (probable) A probable action or opinion was one such as sensible people would undertake or hold, in the circumstances." However, in legal contexts especially, 'probable' could also apply to propositions for which there was good evidence. (19 Kas 2009 Per 12:58)
- (probable) Governments typically apply probabilistic methods in environmental regulation where it is called "pathway analysis", often measuring well-being using methods that are stochastic in nature, and choosing projects to undertake based on statistical analyses of their probable effect on the population as a whole.
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- (probable) According to Richard Jeffrey, "Before the middle of the seventeenth century, the term 'probable' (Latin probabilis) meant approvable, and was applied in that sense, univocally, to opinion and to action. (19 Kas 2009 Per 12:43)
- (prize) If the prize were an enemy merchantman, the prize money came from the sale of both ship and cargo. (19 Kas 2009 Per 12:42)
- (prize) prize money also has a distinct meaning in naval warfare; it was a monetary reward paid out to the crew of a ship for capturing an enemy vessel.
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- (prize) In general, prizes are regarded in a positive light,[1] and their winners are admired. However, many prizes, especially the more famous ones, have often caused controversy and jealousy. (19 Kas 2009 Per 12:38)
- (prize) prizes are also given to publicize noteworthy or exemplary behaviour, and to provide incentives for improved outcomes and competitive efforts. (19 Kas 2009 Per 12:38)
- (prize) A prize is an award to be given to a person or a group of people to recognise and reward actions or achievements. (19 Kas 2009 Per 12:38)
- (privilege) In a broader sense, 'privilege' can refer to special powers or 'de facto' immunities held as a consequence of political power or wealth. (19 Kas 2009 Per 12:36)
- (privilege) In a broader sense, 'privilege' can refer to special powers or 'de facto' immunities held as a consequence of political power or wealth. (19 Kas 2009 Per 12:36)
- (privilege) Miscellaneous privileges, e.g. the old common law privilege to title deeds, may still exist, though of little relevance today. (19 Kas 2009 Per 12:36)
- (privilege) A privilege can be revoked in some cases. In modern democracies, a privilege is conditional and granted only after birth. (19 Kas 2009 Per 12:35)
- (privilege) A privilege—etymologically "private law" or law relating to a specific individual—is a special entitlement or immunity granted by a government or other authority to a restricted group, either by birth or on a conditional basis. (19 Kas 2009 Per 12:35)
- (private) In some countries individual privacy may conflict with freedom of speech laws and some laws may require public disclosure of information which would be considered private in other countries and cultures. (19 Kas 2009 Per 12:33)
- (private) For Europe, Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights guarantees the right to respect for private and family life, one's home and correspondence. (19 Kas 2009 Per 12:33)
- (private) In the UK, it is sometimes a defense that disclosure of private information was in the public interest. (19 Kas 2009 Per 12:32)
- (private) New technologies can also create new ways to gather private information. For example, in the U.S. it was thought that heat sensors intended to be used to find marijuana growing operations would be acceptable. (19 Kas 2009 Per 12:32)
- (private) When something is private to a person, it usually means there is something within them that is considered inherently special or personally sensitive. (19 Kas 2009 Per 12:30)
- (publicity) In television serials several couples have emerged during crucial ratings and important publicity times, as a way to make constant headlines. (19 Kas 2009 Per 12:26)
- (publicity) publicity draws on several key themes including birth, love, and death. These are of particular interest because they are themes in human lives which feature heavily throughout life. (19 Kas 2009 Per 12:25)
- (publicity) From a marketing perspective, publicity is one component of promotion. The other elements of the promotional mix are advertising, sales promotion, and personal selling. (19 Kas 2009 Per 12:25)
- (publicity) The subjects of publicity include people (for example, politicians and performing artists), goods and services, organizations of all kinds, and works of art or entertainment.
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- (publicity) publicity is the deliberate attempt to manage the public's perception of a subject. (19 Kas 2009 Per 12:24)
- (publish) Technically, radio, television, cinemas, VCDs and DVDs, music systems, games, computer hardware and mobile telephony publish information to their audiences. (19 Kas 2009 Per 12:23)
- (publish) For a submission to reach publication it must be championed by an editor or publisher who must work to convince other staff of the need to publish a particular title. (19 Kas 2009 Per 12:22)
- (pull) In philately a pull is created when an impression of a handstamp or die is made. (19 Kas 2009 Per 12:21)
- (pull) A drawer pull often consists of a plate to which a handle is fastened. The handle may swing from one or two points ("drop handle" or "swing handle"), making a drop drawer pull. (19 Kas 2009 Per 12:20)
- (pull) Slow butterfly (also known as moth stroke): Similar to butterfly, but with an extended gliding phase, Breathing during the pull/push phase, return head into water during recovery.
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- (pull) Human stroke: Similar to the dog paddle, but the arms reach out more and pull farther down. (19 Kas 2009 Per 12:18)
- (pull) A pull is a force that acts in the direction of the origin of the force. (19 Kas 2009 Per 12:18)
- (pullover) Some motorists are unable to fully exit the mainline when they need to pull over, so they end up in a position that is halfway in the rightmost lane and halfway in the hard shoulder. (19 Kas 2009 Per 12:10)
- (pullover) Sleeveless pullovers are known in American English and Australian English as vests or sweater vests. In British English they are known as tank tops or slipovers. (19 Kas 2009 Per 12:07)
- (pullover) The term "sweater" is a catch-all for various types of garments. A fundamental division is between a cardigan (which opens in front) and a pullover (which does not). (19 Kas 2009 Per 12:06)
- (pullover) A sweater, jumper, pullover, sweatshirt, jersey or guernsey is a garment intended to cover the torso and arms. (19 Kas 2009 Per 12:05)
- (pulse) The term pulse is also used to denote the time frequency of the heart beat, usually measured in beats per minute. (19 Kas 2009 Per 11:57)
- (pulse) The pulse is an expedient tactile method of determination of Systolic Blood Pressure to a trained observer. Diastolic blood pressure is nonpalpable and unobservable, occuring between heartbeats.
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- (pulse) The pulse is a decidedly low tech/high yield and antiquated term still useful at the bedside in an age of computational analysis of cardiac performance. (19 Kas 2009 Per 11:50)
- (pulse) The pulse rate can also be measured by measuring the heart beats directly (the apical pulse).
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- (pulse) In medicine, a person's pulse is the arterial palpation of a heartbeat. (19 Kas 2009 Per 11:48)
- (pump) A hydraulic ram is a water pump powered by hydropower. (19 Kas 2009 Per 11:47)
- (pump) The low pulsation rate and gentle performance of this Roots-type positive displacement pump is achieved due to a combination of its two 90° helical twisted rotors, and a triangular shaped sealing line configuration, both at the point of suction and at the point of discharge. (19 Kas 2009 Per 11:47)
- (pump) Positive displacement rotary pumps are pumps that move fluid using the principles of rotation. The vacuum created by the rotation of the pump captures and draws in the liquid. (19 Kas 2009 Per 11:46)
- (pump) pumps alone do not create pressure; they only displace fluid, causing a flow. Adding resistance to flow causes pressure. (19 Kas 2009 Per 11:46)
- (pump) A pump is a device used to move fluids, such as liquids or slurries, or gases. A pump displaces a volume by physical or mechanical action. (19 Kas 2009 Per 11:45)
- (pumpkin) pumpkin seeds have many health benefits, some of which include a good source of protein, zinc, and other vitamins, and are even said to lower cholesterol. (19 Kas 2009 Per 11:44)
- (pumpkin) pumpkins are very versatile in their uses for cooking, from the fleshy shell, to the seeds, to even the flowers; most parts of the pumpkin are edible. (19 Kas 2009 Per 11:43)
- (pumpkin) pumpkins are grown all around the world for a variety of reasons ranging from agricultural purposes (such as animal feed) to commercial and ornamental sales. (19 Kas 2009 Per 11:42)
- (pumpkin) Although pumpkins are usually orange or yellow, some fruits are dark green, pale green, orange-yellow, white, red and gray. (19 Kas 2009 Per 11:42)
- (pumpkin) The word pumpkin originates from the word pepon, which is Greek for “large melon". (19 Kas 2009 Per 11:41)
- (punch) A punch has its design in cameo, much like on the coins themselves. (19 Kas 2009 Per 11:39)
- (punch) A hole punch (known also as a hole puncher, paper puncher, holing pincer, or rarely perforator) is a common office tool that is used to create holes in sheets of paper, often for the purpose of collecting the sheets in a binder or folder. (19 Kas 2009 Per 11:38)
- (punch) A leather punch is like a hole punch for making holes in leather. Some versions of this tool allow the size of the holes to be changed by selecting from various sizes of hollow cylinders which act as the cutting surface. (19 Kas 2009 Per 11:34)
- (punch) A center punch is typically used as an aid to drilling operations; a drill, when brought into contact with a flat surface, will have a tendency to wander on the surface until it gains sufficient purchase to start cutting a hole. (19 Kas 2009 Per 11:33)
- (punch) A punch is a hard metal rod with a shaped tip at one end and a blunt butt end at the other that is usually struck by a hammer. (19 Kas 2009 Per 11:32)
- (pupil) The iris is a contractile structure, consisting mainly of smooth muscle, surrounding the pupil. Light enters the eye through the pupil, and the iris regulates the amount of light by controlling the size of the pupil. (19 Kas 2009 Per 11:28)
- (pupil) The sympathetic nerve system can dilate the pupil in two ways: by the stimulation of the sympathetic nerve in the neck, or by influx of adrenaline.
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- (pupil) In humans the pupil is round, but other species, such as some cats, have slit pupils. In optical terms, the anatomical pupil is the eye's aperture and the iris is the aperture stop. (19 Kas 2009 Per 11:26)
- (pupil) It appears black because most of the light entering the pupil is absorbed by the tissues inside the eye. (19 Kas 2009 Per 11:24)
- (pupil) The pupil is an opening located in the center of the iris of the eye that allows light to enter the retina. (19 Kas 2009 Per 11:23)
- (purchase) On the other hand, the purchaser added this inventory on receipt if the policy was FOB destination, and the seller remove this item from its inventory when it was delivered.
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- (purchase) For the purchaser, this new inventory is added on shipment if the policy was FOB shipping point, and the seller remove this item from its inventory. (19 Kas 2009 Per 11:21)
- (purchase) In accounting, purchases is the amount of goods a company bought throughout this year. (19 Kas 2009 Per 11:20)
- (purchase) There is still oversight in the forms of audits and monthly statement reviews, but most of their time is now available to negotiate major purchases and setting up of other long term contracts. (19 Kas 2009 Per 11:20)
- (purchase) Historically, the purchasing department issued purchase Orders for supplies, services, equipment, and raw materials. (19 Kas 2009 Per 11:16)
- (pure) In Judeo-Christian creeds it originally led to the Fall of Man, and as a purely diabolical spiritual vice, it outweighs anything else often condemned by the Church.
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- (pure) Strictly speaking, then, a material's level of purity can only be stated as being more or less pure than some other material.
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- (pure) If there are no impurities then the liquid is said to be pure and can be supercooled below its melting point without becoming a solid. (19 Kas 2009 Per 11:14)
- (pure) The purest color is achieved by using just one wavelength at a high intensity, such as in laser light. If the intensity drops, so does the saturation. (19 Kas 2009 Per 11:12)
- (pure) The resulting Buddha (after the kleshas have been eliminated) is referred to in the Tathagatagarbha literature and in the works of the Tibetan Jonangpa lama Dolpopa as the 'pure Self'. (19 Kas 2009 Per 11:11)
- (purpose) The Dalai Lama, a Buddhist, states in The Art of Happiness that the purpose of life is the pursuit of happiness, which would seem to present a circular argument with the definition of purpose according to other philosophies mentioned above if purpose and happiness are the same thing. (19 Kas 2009 Per 11:08)
- (purpose) purpose is similar to teleology, the idea that a final goal is implicit in all living organisms. (19 Kas 2009 Per 11:04)
- (purpose) Modern spiritual philosophy sees the purpose in life as improving the environment and world condition for all beings. (19 Kas 2009 Per 11:02)
- (purple) The purple frog is a new species of amphibian discovered in India in 2003. (19 Kas 2009 Per 11:01)
- (purpose) According to some philosophies, purpose is central to a good human life. Helen Keller wrote that happiness comes from "fidelity to a worthy purpose", some people hold that God assigns purposes to people and that it is their mission to fulfill them. (19 Kas 2009 Per 11:00)
- (purple) The purple frog is a new species of amphibian discovered in India in 2003. (19 Kas 2009 Per 10:58)
- (purple) The pansy flower has varieties that exhibit three different colors: pansy (a deep shade of violet), pansy pink, and pansy purple. (19 Kas 2009 Per 10:55)
- (purple) In human color psychology, purple is also associated with royalty and nobility (stemming from classical antiquity when Tyrian purple was only affordable to the elites). (19 Kas 2009 Per 10:54)
- (purple) In color theory, a "purple" is defined as any non-spectral color between violet and red (excluding violet and red themselves). (19 Kas 2009 Per 10:53)
- (purple) purple is a general term used in English for the range of shades of color occurring between red and blue. (19 Kas 2009 Per 10:53)
- (purse) Darren John purse (born 14 February, 1977) is an English professional football player who is currently playing for Football League Championship side Sheffield Wednesday. (19 Kas 2009 Per 10:52)
- (purse) Generally, prize money or purse is a monetary prize awarded for winning or coming a place in a competition. (19 Kas 2009 Per 10:51)
- (purse) In horse racing, the term purse distribution may refer to the total amount of money paid out to the owners of horses racing at a particular track over a given period of time, or to the percentages of a race's total purse that are awarded to each of the highest finishers. (19 Kas 2009 Per 10:51)
- (purse) A coin purse - or simply purse in Commonwealth English - is a small money container similar to a wallet, but typically used by women and including a compartment for coins. (19 Kas 2009 Per 10:49)
- (purse) Handbags are usually carried by women, though men sometimes carry one as a smaller alternative to a backpack; such a handbag is sometimes termed a manbag or - in American English - murse or man-purse (portmanteaus "handbag" and "man" with "purse" respectively). (19 Kas 2009 Per 10:48)
- (push) Double push is an inline speed skating technique. It is uncertain who first invented the doublepush. Chad Hedrick is generally acknowledged as having brought it to the public eye. (19 Kas 2009 Per 10:46)
- (push) push is the second album by the grunge band Gruntruck. It was released in 1992 by Roadrunner Records. (19 Kas 2009 Per 10:44)
- (push) push technology, or server push, describes a style of Internet-based communication where the request for a given transaction is initiated by the publisher or central server. (19 Kas 2009 Per 10:43)
- (push) In professional wrestling, a push is an attempt by the booker to make the wrestler win more matches and become more popular or more reviled with the fans depending on whether they are a heel or a face. (19 Kas 2009 Per 10:42)
- (push) push processing in photography, sometimes called uprating, refers to a film developing technique that increases the effective sensitivity of the film being processed. (19 Kas 2009 Per 10:41)
- (puzzle) There are organizations and events catering puzzle enthusiasts such as the International puzzle Party, the World puzzle Championship and the National puzzlers' League. (19 Kas 2009 Per 10:37)
- (puzzle) Solutions to puzzles may require recognizing patterns and creating a particular order. (19 Kas 2009 Per 10:35)
- (puzzle) puzzles are often contrived as a form of entertainment, but they can also stem from serious mathematical or logistical problems — in such cases, their successful resolution can be a significant contribution to mathematical research. (19 Kas 2009 Per 10:35)
- (puzzle) In a basic puzzle, one is intended to piece together objects (puzzle pieces) in a logical way in order to come up with the desired shape, picture or solution. (19 Kas 2009 Per 10:34)
- (puzzle) A puzzle is a problem or enigma that tests the ingenuity of the solver. (19 Kas 2009 Per 10:34)
- (pyjamas) pyjamas played a prominent role on a popular kids television show known as Bananas in pyjamas. The show detailed the adventures of two bananas while wearing their pyjamas. (19 Kas 2009 Per 10:32)
- (pyjamas) pyjamas may also be found in plainer designs, such as plaid or plain gray, but when worn in public, they are usually designed in such a way that makes their identity unambiguous. (19 Kas 2009 Per 10:30)
- (pyjamas) pyjamas often contain visual references to a thing that may hold some special appeal to the wearer. Images of sports, animals, balloons, polka dots, stripes, and other things may all be used to decorate them. (19 Kas 2009 Per 10:30)
- (pyjamas) Even more generally, Pajamas may refer to women's combination daywear, consisting of short-sleeved or sleeveless blouses and lightweight pants; examples of these are capri pajamas, beach pyjamas, and hostess pajamas. (19 Kas 2009 Per 10:30)
- (pyjamas) Although pyjamas are usually distinguished from non-bifurcated sleeping garments such as nightgowns, in the US, they can sometimes include the latter, as in babydoll pajamas. (19 Kas 2009 Per 10:29)
- (puppy) A well trained puppy will ideally not soil in the home, be well-behaved around dogs and people of all kinds, will not chew furniture or other expensive and/or valuable items, and should respond to basic commands such as sit, lay down, off, no, drop, stay, heel, come and so on. (19 Kas 2009 Per 00:11)
- (puppy) puppy food, found in dry, canned, raw and homemade forms, and often geared for certain breeds or types of dogs, should contain nutrients that allow puppies to develop strong bones, teeth, functional joints, a shiny coat, and a healthy immune system. (19 Kas 2009 Per 00:11)
- (puppy) Puppies are born with a fully functional sense of smell but can't open their eyes yet. During their first two weeks, a puppy's senses all develop rapidly. (19 Kas 2009 Per 00:10)
- (puppy) In vernacular English, puppy refers specifically to dogs while pup may often be used for other mammals such as seals, giraffes, gerbils, or even rats. (19 Kas 2009 Per 00:09)
- (puppy) A puppy's coat color may change as the puppy grows older, as is commonly seen in breeds such as the Yorkshire Terrier. (19 Kas 2009 Per 00:09)
- (puppet) "puppet government", "puppet regime" and "puppet state" are derogatory terms for a government which is in charge of a region or country, but only through being installed, supported and controlled by a more powerful outside government (19 Kas 2009 Per 00:06)
- (puppet) The word puppet can mean a political leader installed, supported and controlled by more powerful forces, without legitimacy in the country itself. (19 Kas 2009 Per 00:06)
- (puppet) Hand or glove puppet - These are puppets controlled by one hand which occupies the interior of the puppet. (19 Kas 2009 Per 00:05)
- (puppet) The word puppet can mean a political leader installed, supported and controlled by more powerful forces, without legitimacy in the country itself. (19 Kas 2009 Per 00:03)
- (puppet) A puppet is an inanimate object or representational figure animated or manipulated by a puppeteer. (19 Kas 2009 Per 00:01)
- (parrot)
Most parrot species are tropical but a few species, like this Austral Parakeet, range deeply into temperate zones.parrots are found on all tropical and subtropical continents including Australia and the islands of the Pacific Ocean, South Asia, southeast Asia, southern regions of North America, South America and Africa.
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- (parrot) The phylogeny of the parrots is still under investigation. (18 Kas 2009 Çar 23:59)
- (parrot) The parrot family's fossil record, however, is sparse and their origin can so far only be inferred.
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- (parrot) Trapping of wild parrots for the pet trade, as well as other hunting, habitat loss and competition from invasive species, have diminished wild populations, and parrots have been subjected to more exploitation than any other group of birds. (18 Kas 2009 Çar 23:57)
- (parrot) Most parrots are predominantly green, with other bright colors, and some species are multi-colored. (18 Kas 2009 Çar 23:56)
- (palm tree) Phoenix dactylifera, commonly known as the Date palm tree, is a palm in the genus Phoenix, extensively cultivated for its edible sweet fruit. (18 Kas 2009 Çar 23:49)
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