10-letter words containing d, u, i, s, m
- push media — (messaging) A model of media distribution where items of content are sent to the user (viewer, listener, etc.) in a sequence, and at a rate, determined by a server to which the user has connected. This contrasts with pull media where the user requests each item individually. Push media usually entail some notion of a "channel" which the user selects and which delivers a particular kind of content. Broadcast television is (for the most part) the prototypical example of push media: you turn on the TV set, select a channel and shows and commercials stream out until you turn the set off. By contrast, the web is (mostly) the prototypical example of pull media: each "page", each bit of content, comes to the user only if he requests it; put down the keyboard and the mouse, and everything stops. At the time of writing (April 1997), much effort is being put into blurring the line between push media and pull media. Most of this is aimed at bringing more push media to the Internet, mainly as a way to disseminate advertising, since telling people about products they didn't know they wanted is very difficult in a strict pull media model. These emergent forms of push media are generally variations on targeted advertising mixed in with bits of useful content. "At home on your computer, the same system will run soothing screensavers underneath regular news flashes, all while keeping track, in one corner, of press releases from companies whose stocks you own. With frequent commercial messages, of course." (Wired, March 1997, page 12). As part of the eternal desire to apply a fun new words to boring old things, "push" is occasionally used to mean nothing more than email spam.
- salmagundi — a mixed dish consisting usually of cubed poultry or fish, chopped meat, anchovies, eggs, onions, oil, etc., often served as a salad.
- semidouble — having more petals than those of a single flower but fewer than those of a double flower.
- semifeudal — partly feudal
- semiliquid — having a thick consistency between liquid and solid
- seminudity — partial nudity; the state of being partly nude
- similitude — likeness; resemblance: a similitude of habits.
- sir edmund — Clara, 1821–1912, U.S. philanthropist who organized the American Red Cross in 1881.
- sound film — a film on which sound has been or is to be recorded, as for the soundtrack of a motion picture.
- stichidium — a podlike branch containing tetraspores, found in some rose algae
- stimulated — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- subkingdom — a category of related phyla within a kingdom.
- 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.
- summerised — to prepare (a house, car, etc.) so as to counteract the hot weather of summer: to summerize a house by adding air conditioning.
- summerized — to prepare (a house, car, etc.) so as to counteract the hot weather of summer: to summerize a house by adding air conditioning.
- summertide — summer time
- synandrium — a peculiar fusion of stamens
- time study — time and motion study.
- tweedsmuir — Baron, Buchan, John.
- undismayed — to break down the courage of completely, as by sudden danger or trouble; dishearten thoroughly; daunt: The surprise attack dismayed the enemy.
- undomestic — not domestic; not skilled in domestic tasks or housework
- unidealism — the state of being unidealistic or tendency not to be idealistic
- unmortised — not mortised
- unpromised — not engaged or promised in marriage
- unsmirched — to discolor or soil; spot or smudge with or as with soot, dust, dirt, etc.
- unsublimed — not having changed directly from a solid to a vapour or gas without first melting
- unsurmised — to think or infer without certain or strong evidence; conjecture; guess.