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- big-endian — 1. (data, architecture) A computer architecture in which, within a given multi-byte numeric representation, the most significant byte has the lowest address (the word is stored "big-end-first"). Most processors, including the IBM 370 family, the PDP-10, the Motorola microprocessor families, and most of the various RISC designs current in mid-1993, are big-endian. See -endian. 2. (networking, standard) A backward electronic mail address. The world now follows the Internet hostname standard (see FQDN) and writes e-mail addresses starting with the name of the computer and ending up with the country code (e.g. [email protected]). In the United Kingdom the Joint Networking Team decided to do it the other way round (e.g. [email protected]) before the Internet domain standard was established. Most gateway sites required ad-hockery in their mailers to handle this. By July 1994 this parochial idiosyncracy was on the way out and mailers started to reject big-endian addresses. By about 1996, people would look at you strangely if you suggested such a bizarre thing might ever have existed.
- birkenhead — a port in NW England, in Wirral unitary authority, Merseyside: former shipbuilding centre. Pop: 83 729 (2001)
- blandisher — someone who blandishes
- blind date — A blind date is an arrangement made for you to spend a romantic evening with someone you have never met before.
- bona fides — Someone's bona fides are their good or sincere intentions.
- boundaries — something that indicates bounds or limits; a limiting or bounding line.
- brain-dead — If someone is declared brain-dead, they have suffered brain death.
- brandering — furring (def 4b).
- brandished — to shake or wave, as a weapon; flourish: Brandishing his sword, he rode into battle.
- brandywine — creek in SE Pa. & N Del.: site of a battle (1777) of the Revolutionary War, in which Washington's army failed to check the British advance on Philadelphia
- bread line — a line of people waiting to be given food as government relief or private charity
- breadknife — a knife, usually with a serrated blade, used for cutting slices from a loaf of bread
- break wind — to emit wind from the anus
- brian reid — (person) The person who cofounded Usenet's anarchic alt.* newsgroup hierarchy with John Gilmore.
- brigandage — plundering by brigands
- brigandine — a coat of mail, invented in the Middle Ages to increase mobility, consisting of metal rings or sheets sewn on to cloth or leather
- cabin deck — the deck above the weather deck in the bridge house of a ship.
- cadaverine — a toxic diamine with an unpleasant smell, produced by protein hydrolysis during putrefaction of animal tissue. Formula: NH2(CH2)5NH2
- calcedonio — a type of Venetian opaque glassware, with veins of colour, intended to imitate chalcedony
- calcimined — Simple past tense and past participle of calcimine.
- caledonian — of or relating to Scotland
- campaigned — Simple past tense and past participle of campaign.
- candelilla — either of two wax-coated Mexican shrubs, Euphorbia antisyphilitica or Pedilanthus pavonis (or bracteatus)
- candidated — a person who seeks an office, honor, etc.: a candidate for governor.
- candidates — Plural form of candidate.
- candidness — frank; outspoken; open and sincere: a candid critic.
- candlefish — a salmonoid food fish, Thaleichthys pacificus, that occurs in the N Pacific and has oily flesh
- candlepins — a type of bowling game, employing a smaller ball than tenpins, in which three balls are allowed to a frame and fallen pins are not removed from the alley
- candlewick — unbleached cotton or muslin into which loops of yarn are hooked and then cut to give a tufted pattern. It is used for bedspreads, dressing gowns, etc
- canefields — Plural form of canefield.
- cantonized — canton (def 7).
- carbonised — Alternative spelling of carbonized.
- carbonized — Simple past tense and past participle of carbonize.
- card index — A card index is a number of cards with information written on them which are arranged in a particular order, usually alphabetical, so that you can find the information you want easily.
- cardueline — of or relating to the passerine subfamily Carduelinae, including the goldfinches, siskins, canaries and crossbills.
- carnalized — Simple past tense and past participle of carnalize.
- carotenoid — any of a group of red or yellow pigments, including carotenes, found in plants and certain animal tissues
- casinghead — the protruding part of a casing to which piping is attached
- celadonite — a hydrous silicate of iron and potassium; an iron-rich soft mica.
- celandines — Plural form of celandine.
- centigrade — Centigrade is a scale for measuring temperature, in which water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 100 degrees. It is represented by the symbol °C.
- centroidal — of or relating to a centroid
- cestoidean — one of the Cestoda, a class of tapeworm
- chagrinned — a feeling of vexation, marked by disappointment or humiliation.
- championed — a person who has defeated all opponents in a competition or series of competitions, so as to hold first place: the heavyweight boxing champion.
- chandelier — A chandelier is a large, decorative frame which holds light bulbs or candles and hangs from the ceiling.
- cheddaring — The stage of manufacturing Cheddar cheese and similar cheeses where the curd is cut into small pieces, often cubes, to drain the whey before being stacked and turned.
- chiffonade — finely shredded leaf vegetables used as a base for a dish or as a garnish
- chinandega — a city in W Nicaragua.
- chinwagged — Simple past tense and past participle of chinwag.