Monday, February 28, 2011

Bazlama


Bazlama can be defined as a single layered, flat, circular and leavened bread with a creamish yellow colour. It has an average thickness of 2 cm and diameters ranging from 10 to 25 cm.

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Foxer

Foxer, was the codename for a British built acoustic decoy, used to confuse German acoustic homing torpedoes like the G7es torpedo during the Second World War.

Saturday, February 26, 2011

chipboard


Particle board, or particleboard, (or chipboard in the UK, Australia and some other countries) is an engineered wood product manufactured from wood particles, such as wood chips, sawmill shavings, or even saw dust, and a synthetic resin or other suitable binder, which is pressed and extruded. Particleboard is a composite material.

Friday, February 25, 2011

Paperboard


Paperboard is (like paper) a 'vegetable-fibre web' formed from a water suspension. While there is no rigid differentiation between paper and paperboard, paperboard is generally thicker (usually over 0.25 mm or 10 points) than paper. According to ISO standards, paperboard is a paper with a basis weight (grammage) above 224 g/m², but there are exceptions.[1] Paperboard can be single or multi-ply. Paperboard used for the manufacture of folding cartons and rigid set-up boxes is often called boxboard. Paperboards used for the manufacture of corrugated fiberboard are called containerboard. It can be easily cut and formed, is lightweight, and is strong used in packaging. Another enduse would be graphic printing, such as book and magazine covers or postcards. Sometimes it is referred to as cardboard, which is a generic, lay term used to refer to any heavy paper pulp based board.

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Microfoam


Microfoam, in coffee jargon, is a term used to describe an ideal standard for steamed milk. It is used for making espresso-based coffee drinks, particularly those with latte art. Although steamed milk can be made in a variety of ways, microfoam is by definition made using a steam wand on an espresso machine. It is created by denaturing milk proteins such as casein and whey; the protein attracts and holds gas on its surfaces, creating microfoam. Strictly speaking, microfoam is actually a very fine emulsion of denatured milk protein and air which has few or no visible bubbles.[citation needed] The qualitative opposite of microfoam is macrofoam, which has visibly large bubbles, a style of milk commonly used for cappuccinos. During the steaming process, the foam phase naturally separates from the liquid phase, and rises to the surface. As a result, the pitcher is usually swirled in a smooth, circular motion until the mixture of foam and warmed milk becomes homogenous, before being added to a drink.

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Friday, February 18, 2011

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Sunday, February 13, 2011

seachange

seachange

  1. (Australian) A significant change, one that alters the very nature of the subject.

Friday, February 11, 2011

Thursday, February 10, 2011

couchlike

couchlike (comparative more couchlike, superlative most couchlike)

Positive
couchlike


Comparative
more couchlike


Superlative
most couchlike

  1. Resembling a couch or some aspect of one.

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

respec

to respec (third-person singular simple present respecs, present participle respecing, simple past and past participle respeced)

(video games, slang) To reallocate the distribution of skill points on a character's skill tree, changing their specialization.

Sunday, February 6, 2011

illuminate

to illuminate (third-person singular simple present illuminates, present participle illuminating, simple past and past participle illuminated)

  1. (transitive) to shine light on something
  2. (transitive) to decorate something with lights
  3. (transitive) to clarify or make something understandable
  4. (transitive) to decorate the page of a manuscript book with ornamental designs
  5. (intransitive) to glow
  6. (intransitive) to be exposed to light

Saturday, February 5, 2011

anamonic

anamonic (plural anamonics)

  1. A mnemonic used for recalling lists of words, particularly in Scrabble, consisting of a "stem" of base letters and an accompanying phrase, each of whose letters can combine with the stem to form an anagram of a word.
    For example, the DAMOSEL stem only appears in the second of the two Internet lists mentioned above. The given anamonic is PRIZED GALS. — Andrew Fisher and David Webb, The Art of Scrabble (2004)

Friday, February 4, 2011

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

alphagram

alphagram (plural alphagrams)

  1. The letters of a word, or any other set of letters, arranged into alphabetical order.
    The alphagram of the word alphabetical is AAABCEHILLPT.

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

ploce

Etymology

From Latin plŏcē, from Ancient Greek πλοκή (ploke), complication).

Noun

Singular
ploce


Plural
ploces

ploce (plural ploces)

  1. (rhetoric) A figure of speech in which a word is repeated so as not only to signify the individual thing denoted by it, but also its peculiar attribute or quality.
    Examples:
    "In that great victory, Caesar was Caesar!"
    "Make war upon themselves - brother to brother / Blood to blood, self against self." - Richard III, by Shakespeare
    "Let the staff be staff, and let Reagan be Reagan."

lordosis

  Lordosis is historically defined as an abnormal inward curvature of the lumbar spine.