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  • divulgatory — to make publicly known; publish.
  • duck typing — (programming)   A term coined by Dave Thomas for a kind of dynamic typing typical of some programming languages, such as Smalltalk, Ruby or Visual FoxPro, where a variable's run-time value determines the operations that can be performed on it. The term comes from the "duck test": if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck. Duck typing considers the methods to which a value responds and the attributes it posesses rather than its relationship to a type hierarchy. This encourages greater polymorphism because types are enforced as late as possible.
  • dues-paying — gaining experience, especially by hard and often unpleasant or uncongenial work: He spent his dues-paying years as a cocktail pianist.
  • dysregulate — (biology) To cause a dysfunctional level of an activity or chemical in an organism by disrupting normal function of a regulatory mechanism.
  • egregiously — Conspicuously badly (used negatively).
  • emulsifying — Present participle of emulsify.
  • enquiringly — Alternative spelling of inquiringly.
  • eugenically — In a eugenic manner.
  • euryphagous — eating a wide variety of foods
  • exogenously — In an exogenous manner.
  • expurgatory — Serving to expurgate.
  • fatiguingly — In a fatiguing manner.
  • flauntingly — In a flaunting manner.
  • flying suit — a one-piece garment covering the whole body, worn by aircraft pilots and other crew members
  • forgetfully — In a forgetful manner.
  • frightfully — such as to cause fright; dreadful, terrible, or alarming: A frightful howl woke us.
  • fructifying — Present participle of fructify.
  • fungibility — (especially of goods) being of such nature or kind as to be freely exchangeable or replaceable, in whole or in part, for another of like nature or kind.
  • fussbudgety — in the manner of a fussbudget; fussy
  • fuzzy logic — A superset of Boolean logic dealing with the concept of partial truth -- truth values between "completely true" and "completely false". It was introduced by Dr. Lotfi Zadeh of UCB in the 1960's as a means to model the uncertainty of natural language. Any specific theory may be generalised from a discrete (or "crisp") form to a continuous (fuzzy) form, e.g. "fuzzy calculus", "fuzzy differential equations" etc. Fuzzy logic replaces Boolean truth values with degrees of truth which are very similar to probabilities except that they need not sum to one. Instead of an assertion pred(X), meaning that X definitely has the property associated with predicate "pred", we have a truth function truth(pred(X)) which gives the degree of truth that X has that property. We can combine such values using the standard definitions of fuzzy logic: truth(not x) = 1.0 - truth(x) truth(x and y) = minimum (truth(x), truth(y)) truth(x or y) = maximum (truth(x), truth(y)) (There are other possible definitions for "and" and "or", e.g. using sum and product). If truth values are restricted to 0 and 1 then these functions behave just like their Boolean counterparts. This is known as the "extension principle". Just as a Boolean predicate asserts that its argument definitely belongs to some subset of all objects, a fuzzy predicate gives the degree of truth with which its argument belongs to a fuzzy subset. E-mail servers: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>.
  • gallimaufry — a hodgepodge; jumble; confused medley.
  • garrulously — In a garrulous manner.
  • gippy tummy — diarrhoea, esp as experienced by visitors to hot climates
  • glamorously — In a glamorous manner.
  • glamour boy — a man whose appearance or lifestyle is considered glamorous by popular standards.
  • glastonbury — a borough of SW England, in whose vicinity the ruins of an important Iron Age lake village have been found and to which in folklore both King Arthur and Joseph of Arimathaea have been linked, the latter as the founder of the abbey there.
  • glutinosity — The quality of being glutinous or viscous.
  • glutinously — In a glutinous manner.
  • glycogenous — of or relating to the formation of sugar in the liver.
  • go belly up — the front or under part of a vertebrate body from the breastbone to the pelvis, containing the abdominal viscera; the abdomen.
  • gomme syrup — simple syrup.
  • good on you — well done, well said, etc: a term of congratulation
  • gouty stool — a footstool of the 18th century having a top adjustable to a variety of angles.
  • grand duchy — a territory ruled by a grand duke or grand duchess.
  • granularity — of the nature of granules; grainy.
  • granulocyte — a circulating white blood cell having prominent granules in the cytoplasm and a nucleus of two or more lobes.
  • grapefruity — Resembling or characteristic of grapefruit.
  • gratulatory — (archaic) congratulatory.
  • gray mullet — mullet1 (def 1).
  • greedy guts — a glutton
  • grey mullet — any teleost food fish of the family Mugilidae, mostly occurring in coastal regions, having a spindle-shaped body and a broad fleshy mouth
  • grotesquely — odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre.
  • grotesquery — grotesque character.
  • gruellingly — In a gruelling manner.
  • grumblingly — While or as if grumbling.
  • guarantying — a warrant, pledge, or formal assurance given as security that another's debt or obligation will be fulfilled.
  • guilelessly — free from guile; sincere; honest; straightforward; frank.
  • guiltlessly — free from guilt; innocent.
  • gullibility — easily deceived or cheated.
  • gullywasher — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
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