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  • retail therapy — Retail therapy is the activity of shopping for clothes and other things in order to make yourself feel happier.
  • richard tawney — Richard Henry, 1880–1962, English historian, born in Calcutta.
  • rna synthetase — an enzyme that catalyzes the synthesis of RNA in cells infected with RNA viruses, allowing production of copies of the viral RNA.
  • röntgenography — radiography
  • rotary shutter — a camera shutter consisting of a rotating disk pierced with a slit that passes in front of the lens to expose the film or plate.
  • saccharomycete — a single-celled yeast of the family Saccharomycetaceae, having no mycelium.
  • sacred history — history that is retold with the aim of instilling religious faith and which may or may not be founded on fact
  • safety harness — apparatus with straps to secure sb
  • scratch monkey — (humour)   As in "Before testing or reconfiguring, always mount a scratch monkey", a proverb used to advise caution when dealing with irreplaceable data or devices. Used to refer to any scratch volume hooked to a computer during any risky operation as a replacement for some precious resource or data that might otherwise get trashed. This term preserves the memory of Mabel, the Swimming Wonder Monkey, star of a biological research program at the University of Toronto. Mabel was not (so the legend goes) your ordinary monkey; the university had spent years teaching her how to swim, breathing through a regulator, in order to study the effects of different gas mixtures on her physiology. Mabel suffered an untimely demise one day when a DEC engineer troubleshooting a crash on the program's VAX inadvertently interfered with some custom hardware that was wired to Mabel. It is reported that, after calming down an understandably irate customer sufficiently to ascertain the facts of the matter, a DEC troubleshooter called up the field circus manager responsible and asked him sweetly, "Can you swim?" Not all the consequences to humans were so amusing; the sysop of the machine in question was nearly thrown in jail at the behest of certain clueless droids at the local "humane" society. The moral is clear: When in doubt, always mount a scratch monkey. A corespondent adds: The details you give are somewhat consistent with the version I recall from the Digital "War Stories" notesfile, but the name "Mabel" and the swimming bit were not mentioned, IIRC. Also, there's a very detailed account that claims that three monkies died in the incident, not just one. I believe Eric Postpischil wrote the original story at DEC, so his coming back with a different version leads me to wonder whether there ever was a real Scratch Monkey incident.
  • shabby-genteel — trying to maintain dignity and self-respect despite shabbiness.
  • shrove tuesday — the last day of Shrovetide, long observed as a season of merrymaking before Lent.
  • slaughterously — murderously
  • sobriety coach — a person who is employed to help another to refrain from drinking alcohol
  • south ayrshire — a council area of SW Scotland, on the Firth of Clyde: comprises the S part of the historical county of Ayrshire; formerly part of Strathclyde Region (1975–96): chiefly agricultural, with fishing and tourism. Administrative centre: Ayr. Pop: 111 580 (2003 est). Area: 1202 sq km (464 sq miles)
  • south-easterly — A south-easterly point, area, or direction is to the south-east or towards the south-east.
  • speech therapy — treatment for speaking disorders
  • sphaerocrystal — a spherical crystalline mass
  • stay the night — If you stay the night in a place, you sleep there for one night.
  • steely-hearted — hard-hearted
  • stretchability — to draw out or extend (oneself, a body, limbs, wings, etc.) to the full length or extent (often followed by out): to stretch oneself out on the ground.
  • supply teacher — A supply teacher is a teacher whose job is to take the place of other teachers at different schools when they are unable to be there.
  • symmetrophobia — an avoidance of symmetry, esp in Japanese art and Egyptian temples
  • synthesization — to form (a material or abstract entity) by combining parts or elements (opposed to analyze): to synthesize a statement.
  • syrian hamster — golden hamster.
  • telegraph buoy — a buoy placed over an underwater telegraph cable.
  • telepathically — communication between minds by some means other than sensory perception.
  • telephonically — of, relating to, or happening by means of a telephone system.
  • terpin hydrate — a white, crystalline powder, C 10 H 20 O 2 ⋅H 2 O, usually used in combination with codeine, as an expectorant.
  • tetraethyllead — a colorless, oily, water-insoluble, poisonous liquid, (C 2 H 5) 4 Pb, used as an antiknock agent in gasoline.
  • the ivy league — a group of eight universities (Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth College, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale) that have similar academic and social prestige in the US to Oxford and Cambridge in Britain
  • the july sales — a traditional retail event occurring in the month of July, when shops sell things at less than their normal price
  • the lord's day — the Christian Sabbath; Sunday
  • the phoney war — a period of apparent calm and inactivity, esp the period at the beginning of World War II
  • the quaternary — the Quaternary period or rock system, divided into Pleistocene and Holocene (Recent) epochs or series
  • the real mccoy — the genuine thing or person as promised, stated, or implied (usually preceded by the or the real): Those other paintings are copies, but this one is the McCoy.
  • the royal mail — the national postal service of the United Kingdom
  • the very idea! — that is preposterous, unreasonable, etc
  • there's no way — If you say there's no way that something will happen, you are emphasizing that you think it will definitely not happen.
  • thermoanalysis — thermal analysis.
  • thermodynamics — the science concerned with the relations between heat and mechanical energy or work, and the conversion of one into the other: modern thermodynamics deals with the properties of systems for the description of which temperature is a necessary coordinate.
  • thermolability — the state of being unstable or subject to transformation or destruction when heated
  • thomas younger — Thomas Coleman ("Cole") 1844–1916, U.S. outlaw, associated with Jesse James.
  • three-act play — a dramatic production such as play or film which is divided into three acts or sections
  • three-way bulb — a light bulb that can be switched to three successive degrees of illumination.
  • thymelaeaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Thymelaeaceae, a family of trees and shrubs having tough acrid bark and simple leaves: includes spurge laurel, leatherwood, and mezereon
  • thysanopterous — of or relating to the Thysanoptera genus of insects which are characterized by fringed wings
  • to win the day — If a particular person, group, or thing wins the day, they win a battle, struggle, or competition. If they lose the day, they are defeated.
  • trachyspermous — having seeds with a rough coat.
  • treasury bench — (in Britain) the front bench to the right of the Speaker in the House of Commons, traditionally reserved for members of the Government
  • trimethylamine — a colourless, flammable liquid with a strong, fishy odour
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