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  • mexican standoff — a stalemate or impasse; a confrontation that neither side can win.
  • microsoft access — 1.   (database)   A relational database running under Microsoft Windows. Data is stored as a number of "tables", e.g. "Stock". Each table consists of a number of "records" (e.g. for different items) and each record contains a number of "fields", e.g. "Product code", "Supplier", "Quantity in stock". Access allows the user to create "forms" and "reports". A form shows one record in a user-designed format and allows the user to step through records one at a time. A report shows selected records in a user-designed format, possibly grouped into sections with different kinds of total (including sum, minimum, maximum, average). There are also facilities to use links ("joins") between tables which share a common field and to filter records according to certain criteria or search for particular field values. Version: 2 (date?). 2.   (communications)   A communications program from Microsoft, meant to compete with ProComm and other programs. It sucked and was dropped. Years later they reused the name for their database.
  • microsoft office — (product)   Microsoft's bundles of productivity tools including Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Powerpoint, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Publisher, Microsoft Front Page, Microsoft Team Manager, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Schedule+, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Small Business Financial Manager, Automap Streets Plus. Editions of Office include Microsoft Office Professional Edition, Microsoft Office Standard Edition, Microsoft Office Small Business Edition, Microsoft Office Developer Edition. Different editions contain different subsets of the above applications. Current version, as of 2004-08-30: Office 2003.
  • misspecification — An incorrect specification.
  • multiple factors — polygene.
  • narcotraffickers — Plural form of narcotrafficker.
  • neo-confucianist — of or relating to neo-Confucians or neo-Confucianism.
  • newspaper office — an office where the editorial and production staff of a newspaper work
  • nick someone for — to defraud someone to the extent of
  • nonfinite clause — a clause with a nonfinite verb or with no verb, as the hour being late in The hour being late, we left.
  • order of service — a prescribed form of liturgical service, or of administration of a rite or ceremony
  • ovshinsky effect — an effect that turns special types of glassy, thin films into semiconductors upon application of low voltage.
  • pacific sturgeon — a dark gray sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus, inhabiting marine and fresh waters along the northwestern coast of North America, valued as a food and sport fish.
  • perfecting press — a rotary press for printing both sides of a sheet or web in one operation.
  • persulfuric acid — Also called Caro's acid, permonosulfuric acid, peroxymonosulfuric acid, peroxysulfuric acid. a white, crystalline solid, H 2 SO 5 , used as an oxidizing agent for certain organic compounds.
  • phase difference — the difference between two sinusoidally varying quantities that have the same frequency, measured either as an angle or a time
  • physical fitness — good physical condition
  • place of worship — religious house: church, temple
  • presence of mind — a calm state of mind that allows one to think clearly or act effectively in an emergency.
  • prespecification — the act of specifying.
  • prima facie case — a case in which the evidence produced is sufficient to enable a decision or verdict to be made unless the evidence is rebutted.
  • prince's feather — a tall, showy plant, Amaranthus hybridus erythrostachys, of the amaranth family, having reddish foliage and thick spikes of small, red flowers.
  • prince's-feather — a tall, showy plant, Amaranthus hybridus erythrostachys, of the amaranth family, having reddish foliage and thick spikes of small, red flowers.
  • proficiency test — an exam which test how proficient or skilled someone is in a particular activity, field of study, language, etc
  • pseudoscientific — any of various methods, theories, or systems, as astrology, psychokinesis, or clairvoyance, considered as having no scientific basis.
  • quasi-scientific — of or relating to science or the sciences: scientific studies.
  • question of fact — a question concerning the reality of an alleged event or circumstance in a trial by jury, usually determined by the jury.
  • reclassification — categorization in a different way
  • rectified spirit — a constant-boiling mixture of ethanol and water, containing 95.6 per cent ethanol
  • releasing factor — a substance usually of hypothalamic origin that triggers the release of a particular hormone from an endocrine gland.
  • sabattier effect — the alteration of the image tones of a photographic print by briefly reexposing the negative after it has been partially developed.
  • safety mechanism — a psychological or physiological response in an individual that protects the individual from harm
  • safety-conscious — conscious of being safe and preventing danger
  • scheme of things — Someone's scheme of things is the way in which they think that things in their life should be organized.
  • schiff's reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
  • schreiner finish — a lustrous surface imparted to a fabric by schreinerizing.
  • score points off — to gain an advantage at someone else's expense
  • security officer — civilian, policeman or soldier who is responsible for security in a town or country
  • self-confinement — the act of confining.
  • self-constituted — constituted as such by oneself or itself
  • self-consumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
  • self-containment — the state of being self-contained.
  • self-cultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
  • self-deliverance — suicide.
  • self-deprecating — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
  • self-deprecation — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
  • self-description — a statement, picture in words, or account that describes; descriptive representation.
  • self-descriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
  • self-destruction — the destruction or ruination of oneself or one's life.
  • self-destructive — harmful, injurious, or destructive to oneself: His constant arguing with the boss shows he's a self-destructive person.
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