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  • french broad — a river in W North Carolina and E Tennessee, flowing N and NW to join the Holston River at Knoxville to form the Tennessee River. 210 miles (338 km) long.
  • french chalk — a talc for marking lines on fabrics.
  • french drain — a drainage trench filled to ground level with fragments of brick, rock, etc.
  • french franc — the former standard monetary unit of France, most French dependencies, Andorra, and Monaco, divided into 100 centimes; replaced by the euro in 2002
  • french india — the five small former French territories in India, including Chandernagor, Karikal, Pondicherry, and Yanaon on the E coast, and Mahé on the W coast.
  • french leave — Sometimes Offensive. a departure without ceremony, permission, or notice: Taking French leave, he evaded his creditors.
  • french pleat — curtain, draperies
  • french sudan — former name of Mali.
  • french toast — bread dipped in a batter of egg and milk and sautéed until brown, usually served with syrup or sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon.
  • galactophore — a galactophorous duct.
  • galactorrhea — an abnormally abundant flow of milk in a lactating woman.
  • game-changer — Sports. an athlete, play, etc., that suddenly changes the outcome of a game or contest.
  • gate-crasher — a person who attends or enters a social function without an invitation, a theater without a ticket, etc.
  • gatecrashers — Plural form of gatecrasher.
  • gatecrashing — Present participle of gatecrash.
  • geographical — of or relating to geography.
  • glacé cherry — a crystallized or candied cherry, used in cookery and cocktail-making
  • global reach — When people talk about the global reach of a company or industry, they mean its ability to have customers in many different parts of the world.
  • gnatcatchers — Plural form of gnatcatcher.
  • grace hopper — (person)   US Navy Rear Admiral Grace Brewster Hopper (1906-12-09 to 1992-01-01), née Grace Brewster Murray. Hopper is believed to have concieved the concept of the compiler with the A-0 in 1952. She also developed the first commercial high-level language, which eventually evolved into COBOL. She worked on the Mark I computer with Howard Aiken and with BINAC in 1949. She is credited with having coined the term "debug", and the adage "it is always easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission" (with various wordings), which has been the guiding principle in sysadmin decisions ever since. See also the entries debug and bug. Hopper is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. In 1994, the US Navy named a new ship, the guided-missile destroyer USS Hopper, after her.
  • grade school — an elementary school that has its pupils grouped or classified into grades.
  • grass hockey — field hockey.
  • great schism — a period of division in the Roman Catholic Church, 1378–1417, over papal succession, during which there were two, or sometimes three, claimants to the papal office.
  • grudge match — You can call a contest between two people or groups a grudge match when they dislike each other.
  • gutta-percha — the milky juice, nearly white when pure, of various Malaysian trees of the sapodilla family, especially Palaquium gutta.
  • h paul grice — H(erbert) Paul, 1913–88, English philosopher.
  • hacker ethic — (philosophy)   1. The belief that information-sharing is a powerful positive good, and that it is an ethical duty of hackers to share their expertise by writing free software and facilitating access to information and to computing resources wherever possible. 2. The belief that system-cracking for fun and exploration is ethically OK as long as the cracker commits no theft, vandalism, or breach of confidentiality. Both of these normative ethical principles are widely, but by no means universally, accepted among hackers. Most hackers subscribe to the hacker ethic in sense 1, and many act on it by writing and giving away free software. A few go further and assert that *all* information should be free and *any* proprietary control of it is bad; this is the philosophy behind the GNU project. Sense 2 is more controversial: some people consider the act of cracking itself to be unethical, like breaking and entering. But the belief that "ethical" cracking excludes destruction at least moderates the behaviour of people who see themselves as "benign" crackers (see also samurai). On this view, it may be one of the highest forms of hackerly courtesy to (a) break into a system, and then (b) explain to the sysop, preferably by e-mail from a superuser account, exactly how it was done and how the hole can be plugged - acting as an unpaid (and unsolicited) tiger team. The most reliable manifestation of either version of the hacker ethic is that almost all hackers are actively willing to share technical tricks, software, and (where possible) computing resources with other hackers. Huge cooperative networks such as Usenet, FidoNet and Internet (see Internet address) can function without central control because of this trait; they both rely on and reinforce a sense of community that may be hackerdom's most valuable intangible asset.
  • haemorrhagic — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of hemorrhagic.
  • hagiocracies — Plural form of hagiocracy.
  • half-century — a period of 100 years.
  • half-covered — to be or serve as a covering for; extend over; rest on the surface of: Snow covered the fields.
  • hall process — a process in which aluminum is refined by electrolytic reduction of alumina fused with cryolite.
  • halobacteria — Plural form of halobacterium.
  • halotrichite — a mineral, iron alum, isomorphous with pickeringite, occurring in the form of yellowish fibers.
  • hammer price — the price offered as the winning bid in a public auction
  • handicappers — Plural form of handicapper.
  • handicrafter — One who engages in handicrafts.
  • handkerchief — a small piece of linen, silk, or other fabric, usually square, and used especially for wiping one's nose, eyes, face, etc., or for decorative purposes.
  • happy camper — Slang. a person who is cheerful and satisfied: There were no happy campers after the company was reorganized.
  • hard science — any of the natural or physical sciences, as chemistry, biology, physics, or astronomy, in which aspects of the universe are investigated by means of hypotheses and experiments.
  • hard-surface — to make the surface of (something) hard or firm, as by compacting or paving it: to hard-surface a parking area.
  • hardscrabble — providing or yielding meagerly in return for much effort; demanding or unrewarding: the hardscrabble existence of mountainside farmers.
  • haricot bean — Haricot beans are small white beans that are eaten as a vegetable. They are often sold dried rather than fresh.
  • haricot vert — green bean.
  • harness race — a trotting or pacing race for Standardbred horses harnessed to sulkies.
  • harvest tick — chigger (def 1).
  • head teacher — A head teacher is a teacher who is in charge of a school.
  • headkerchief — A kerchief worn on the head.
  • health scare — a state of alarm caused by a revelation concerning public heath
  • hearken back — to go back in thought or speech; revert; hark back
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