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  • schrödinbug — (jargon, programming)   /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
  • scrub round — to waive; avoid or ignore
  • sealed book — something beyond understanding and therefore unknown.
  • second base — the second in order of the bases from home plate.
  • second best — the next to the best in performance, achievement, craftsmanship, etc.
  • second-best — the next to the best in performance, achievement, craftsmanship, etc.
  • shogun bond — a bond sold on the Japanese market by a foreign institution and denominated in a foreign currency
  • shovelboard — the game of shuffleboard.
  • single bond — a chemical linkage consisting of one covalent bond between two atoms of a molecule, represented in chemical formulas by one line or two vertical dots, as C–H or C:H.
  • slant board — a tiltable board that allows a person to lie with the feet higher than the head while doing exercises.
  • sleeveboard — a small-scale ironing board for pressing sleeves, especially a narrow board that fits inside a coat sleeve.
  • smell blood — sense a chance for victory
  • smorgasbord — a buffet meal of various hot and cold hors d'oeuvres, salads, casserole dishes, meats, cheeses, etc.
  • snow bridge — a mass of snow bridging a crevasse, sometimes affording a risky way across it
  • snowblading — the activity or sport of skiing with short skis (snowblades) and no poles
  • soft-boiled — to boil (an egg) just long enough for the yolk and white to partially solidify, usually three or four minutes.
  • soil binder — a plant that prevents or inhibits erosion by providing a ground cover and forming a dense network of roots that hold the soil.
  • sorbic acid — a white, crystalline compound, C 6 H 8 O 2 , slightly soluble in water, soluble in many organic solvents: used as a preservative in pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and food.
  • sound block — a small block of wood for rapping with a gavel.
  • southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
  • splashboard — a board, guard, or screen to protect from splashing, as a dashboard of a vehicle or a guard placed over a wheel to intercept water, dirt, etc.
  • spoon bread — Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. a baked dish made with cornmeal, milk, eggs, and shortening, served as an accompaniment to meat.
  • spouted bed — A spouted bed is a bed in which the particles are quite big, and contact only happens in an upward movement of fluid in the middle of the bed.
  • springboard — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
  • stable door — a door with an upper and lower leaf that may be opened separately
  • stereoblind — lacking the ability to see in three dimensions through both eyes
  • stone-blind — completely blind.
  • store brand — an item offered for sale under a store's own label.
  • stourbridge — an industrial town in W central England, in Dudley unitary authority, West Midlands. Pop: 55 480 (2001)
  • strikebound — closed by a strike: a strikebound factory.
  • stringboard — a board or facing covering the ends of the steps in a staircase.
  • sub-product — a thing produced by labor: products of farm and factory; the product of his thought.
  • subaudition — an act or instance of understanding or mentally supplying something not expressed.
  • subchloride — a chloride containing a relatively small proportion of chlorine, as mercurous chloride.
  • subchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
  • subdeaconry — the position or office of a subdeacon
  • subdecision — a decision secondary to a main decision
  • subdiaconal — of or relating to a subdeacon.
  • subdirector — an assistant or secondary director
  • subdivision — the act or fact of subdividing.
  • subdominant — Music. the fourth tone of a diatonic scale, next below the dominant.
  • subemployed — of or relating to workers affected by subemployment
  • subordinacy — a subordinate person or thing.
  • subordinary — any of several heraldic bearings of secondary importance to the ordinary, such as the lozenge, the orle, and the fret
  • subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • superabound — to abound beyond something else.
  • sweat blood — to perspire, especially freely or profusely.
  • switchboard — a structural unit on which are mounted switches and instruments necessary to complete telephone circuits manually.
  • swordbearer — an official who carries the sword of state on ceremonial occasions, as before the sovereign, a magistrate, or the like.
  • the borders — the area either side of the border between England and Scotland
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