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  • smartdrive — (storage, product)   A Microsoft MS DOS disk cache program to speed up disk access. For most users, a 1MB cache is sufficient. Devoting more memory to the cache offers diminishing returns, since the additional cache hits become fewer (and the extra memory could be better used to reduce swapping). Typing SMARTDRV /S at a DOS prompt shows the cache size, a hit-and-miss report, and information about which drives are being cached. The hit-and-miss statistics are crucial for gauging the effectiveness of SmartDrive settings. A score in the high 80s shows that SmartDrive is well configured. Run SMARTDRV /S several times during a Windows session and note the-hit-and-miss figures each time. If your percentage usually falls below 80 percent, you should consider increasing the cache size. You can edit the SMARTDRV line in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file to increase both the InitCacheSize and the WinCacheSize parameters. SmartDrive Monitor is an undocumented Windows program that comes with DOS 6.0 for logging and controling the cache.
  • smash down — If you smash down a door, building, or other large heavy object, you hit it hard and break it until it falls on the ground.
  • smear word — a slanderous, vilifying epithet.
  • smokeboard — a board situated above a fireplace to prevent the emission of smoke into a room
  • snare drum — a small double-headed drum, carried at the side or placed on a stationary stand, having snares across the lower head to produce a rattling or reverberating effect.
  • sociodrama — a method of group psychotherapy in which each patient assumes and dramatizes a variety of roles, usually focusing on problems and conflicts arising in group situations.
  • solidarism — the social theory of the solidarity of interests
  • somaliland — a coastal region in E Africa, including Djibouti, Somalia, and the Ogaden part of Ethiopia.
  • sordamente — (of a piece of music) to be played softly or gently
  • spasm band — an old-time jazz band, flourishing especially in the late 19th century, the members of which used improvised instruments, as cigar boxes, barrels, kazoos, whistles, and jugs, and often marched in the street while performing.
  • spasmodist — a person who is spasmodic, especially in style, as a writer, painter, etc.
  • speed ramp — a raised band across a road, designed to make motorists reduce their speed, esp in built-up areas
  • spermaduct — a spermatic passage found in male animals
  • spermatoid — resembling sperm.
  • splash dam — a flood dam built to contain water that is released for driving logs.
  • spodomancy — divination by studying ashes
  • squad room — a room in a police station where police officers assemble, as for inspection, roll call, or duty assignments.
  • stadimeter — an instrument for determining the distance between an observer and an object of known height by measurement of the angle subtended by the object.
  • stalemated — in a situation in which two opposing forces find that further action is impossible or futile; in deadlock
  • stamp duty — land tax
  • stampeders — a sudden, frenzied rush or headlong flight of a herd of frightened animals, especially cattle or horses.
  • stand firm — be resolute
  • stand mute — to refuse to plead guilty or not guilty
  • steamed up — obscured by vapour
  • stimulated — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
  • stomatopod — any crustacean of the order Stomatopoda, having a carapace that does not cover the posterior thorax and a broad abdomen bearing gills on the appendages.
  • stomodaeum — stomodeum.
  • streamered — having streamers
  • streamside — the land on the sides of a stream.
  • streamwood — a city in NE Illinois.
  • stromateid — any of numerous small marine fishes of the family Stromateidae, having a laterally compressed body and an expanded muscular esophagus, often lined with teeth.
  • submediant — the sixth tone of a diatonic scale, being midway between the subdominant and the upper tonic.
  • sudatorium — a hot-air bath for inducing sweating.
  • summarised — to make a summary of; state or express in a concise form.
  • swammerdam — Jan [yahn] /yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1637–80, Dutch anatomist and entomologist.
  • synandrium — a peculiar fusion of stamens
  • talmi gold — a metal made by rolling gold on brass, used in making costume jewelry.
  • tamil nadu — a large state in S India: formerly a presidency; boundaries readjusted on a linguistic basis 1956. 50,216 sq. mi. (130,058 sq. km). Capital: Chennai.
  • tandemwise — in the manner of a tandem
  • tarmacadam — a paving material consisting of coarse crushed stone covered with a mixture of tar and bitumen.
  • taxidermic — the art of preparing and preserving the skins of animals and of stuffing and mounting them in lifelike form.
  • tepidarium — a warm room in Roman baths
  • the damned — souls doomed to eternal punishment
  • third mate — the officer of a merchant vessel next in command beneath the second mate.
  • threadworm — any of various nematode worms, especially a pinworm.
  • timberhead — the top end of a timber, rising above the deck and serving for belaying ropes.
  • timberland — land covered with timber-producing forests.
  • timberyard — an establishment where timber and sometimes other building materials are stored or sold
  • time delay — a delay that separates the occurrence of two events
  • time draft — a draft payable within a specified number of days after it is presented.
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