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unrealistic or poor assessment of the pros and cons associated with using substances or behaviors. blaming other factors or people for their problems. increased levels of anxiety, depression, and ...
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary is a 2003 book by Simon Winchester.It concerns the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary under the editorship of James Murray and others, one aspect of which Winchester had previously written about in 1998 in The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Love of Words.
Solid masses of dense tissue are hypoechoic. Hyperechoic. This term means "lots of echoes." These areas bounce back many sound waves. They appear as light gray on the ultrasound. Hyperechoic ...
Griefer. A griefer or bad-faith player is a player in a multiplayer video game who deliberately and intentionally irritates, harasses, annoys or trolls other players within the game. Griefing is often accomplished by destroying things constructed by other players or stealing items. [1] A griefer derives pleasure from the act of annoying other ...
The United States Bill of Rights comprises the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.Proposed following the often bitter 1787–88 debate over the ratification of the Constitution and written to address the objections raised by Anti-Federalists, the Bill of Rights amendments add to the Constitution specific guarantees of personal freedoms and rights, clear limitations on the ...
A boudoir ( / buːˈdwɑːr /; French: [bu.dwaʁ]) is a woman's private sitting room or salon in a furnished residence, usually between the dining room and the bedroom, but can also refer to a woman's private bedroom. The term derives from the French verb bouder (to sulk or pout) or adjective boudeur (sulking)—the room was originally a space ...
Data dictionary. A data dictionary, or metadata repository, as defined in the IBM Dictionary of Computing, is a "centralized repository of information about data such as meaning, relationships to other data, origin, usage, and format". [1] Oracle defines it as a collection of tables with metadata. The term can have one of several closely ...
alternator. An electrical machine that converts mechanical power into AC electric power. alternator synchronization. The process of synchronizing an alternator to a grid or another alternator. aluminium smelting. Reduction of aluminium ore to metal, by use of large amounts of electric power. ammeter.