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  • project manager — sb who oversees project plan
  • reaping machine — any of various machines for reaping grain, often fitted with a device for automatically throwing out bundles of the cut grain.
  • richard hamming — (person)   Professor Richard Wesley Hamming (1915-02-11 - 1998-01-07). An American mathematician known for his work in information theory (notably error detection and correction), having invented the concepts of Hamming code, Hamming distance, and Hamming window. Richard Hamming received his B.S. from the University of Chicago in 1937, his M.A. from the University of Nebraska in 1939, and his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1942. In 1945 Hamming joined the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. In 1946, after World War II, Hamming joined the Bell Telephone Laboratories where he worked with both Shannon and John Tukey. He worked there until 1976 when he accepted a chair of computer science at the Naval Postgraduate School at Monterey, California. Hamming's fundamental paper on error-detecting and error-correcting codes ("Hamming codes") appeared in 1950. His work on the IBM 650 leading to the development in 1956 of the L2 programming language. This never displaced the workhorse language L1 devised by Michael V Wolontis. By 1958 the 650 had been elbowed aside by the 704. Although best known for error-correcting codes, Hamming was primarily a numerical analyst, working on integrating differential equations and the Hamming spectral window used for smoothing data before Fourier analysis. He wrote textbooks, propounded aphorisms ("the purpose of computing is insight, not numbers"), and was a founder of the ACM and a proponent of open-shop computing ("better to solve the right problem the wrong way than the wrong problem the right way."). In 1968 he was made a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and awarded the Turing Prize from the Association for Computing Machinery. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers awarded Hamming the Emanuel R Piore Award in 1979 and a medal in 1988.
  • saigon cinnamon — the aromatic inner bark of any of several East Indian trees belonging to the genus Cinnamonum, of the laurel family, especially the bark of C. zeylanicum (Ceylon cinnamon) used as a spice, or that of C. loureirii (Saigon cinnamon) used in medicine as a cordial and carminative.
  • sarcoptic mange — mange caused by burrowing mites of the genus Sarcoptes.
  • sausage machine — a machine for making sausages
  • scatter diagram — a graphic representation of bivariate data as a set of points in the plane that have Cartesian coordinates equal to corresponding values of the two variates.
  • school-gate mum — a young family-oriented working mother, considered by political parties as forming a significant part of the electorate
  • second mortgage — a mortgage the lien of which is next in priority to a first mortgage.
  • seeding machine — a machine for sowing seeds
  • semilogarithmic — (of graphing) having one scale logarithmic and the other arithmetic or of uniform gradation.
  • sharing economy — a system in which people rent, borrow, or share commodities, services, and resources owned by individuals, usually with the aid of online technology, in an effort to save money, cut costs, and reduce waste.
  • social climbing — advancement of one's social status
  • stalagmitically — in a way that relates to, consists of, or is like stalagmites
  • sub-machine gun — a lightweight automatic or semiautomatic gun, fired from the shoulder or hip.
  • surface grammar — grammar understood at the level of normal communication, rather than at the underlying level of 'deep' semantic and syntactic analysis
  • symptomological — relating to symptomology
  • talking machine — Older Use. a phonograph.
  • thanatognomonic — signalling the nearness of death
  • the magic flute — an opera (1791) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
  • tissue-matching — identification of specific genetically linked antigens in tissue in order to minimize antigenic differences between donor and recipient tissue in organ transplantation.
  • topographic map — a map showing topographic features, usually by means of contour lines.
  • trading company — a company that is owned by the people who have bought shares in that company
  • traffic calming — Traffic calming consists of measures designed to make roads safer, for example making them narrower or placing obstacles in them, so that drivers are forced to slow down.
  • traffic manager — a person who supervises the transportation of goods for an employer.
  • training scheme — a scheme for teaching people skills in a particular field or profession
  • traumatological — relating to traumatology
  • unaccommodating — easy to deal with; eager to help or please; obliging.
  • uncommunicating — to impart knowledge of; make known: to communicate information; to communicate one's happiness.
  • uncomplainingly — in an unresentful or resigned manner
  • ungrammatically — in an ungrammatical manner
  • valency grammar — a system of linguistic syntax, conceived by analogy with chemical valency, according to which verbs have valencies dependent on the number of noun phrases with which they combine
  • vanishing cream — a cosmetic similar to cold cream but less oily, applied usually to the face and neck as a base, night cream, or moisturizer.
  • vegetative coma — a condition in which an injured person is alive but comatose, and does not respond to stimuli
  • vending machine — a coin-operated machine for selling small articles, beverages, etc.
  • washing machine — an apparatus, especially a household appliance, for washing clothing, linens, etc.
  • wrestling match — sport: contention by grappling opponent
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