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  • biological parent — a parent who has conceived (biological mother) or sired (biological father) rather than adopted a child and whose genes are therefore transmitted to the child.
  • brightening agent — a compound applied to a textile to increase its brightness by the conversion of ultraviolet radiation to visible (blue) light, used in detergents
  • brighton and hove — a city and unitary authority in S England, in East Sussex. Pop: 251 500 (2003 est). Area: 72 sq km (28 sq miles)
  • bring up the rear — to be at the back in a procession, race, etc
  • budget resolution — a resolution adopted by both houses of the U.S. Congress setting forth, reaffirming, or revising the budget for the U.S. government for a fiscal year.
  • bursting strength — the capacity of a thing or substance to resist change when under pressure.
  • california nutmeg — a tall, pungently aromatic California evergreen tree, Torreya californica, of the yew family, having a fissured, gray-brown bark and small, purple-streaked, green fruit.
  • cantilever bridge — a bridge having spans that are constructed as cantilevers and often a suspended span or spans, each end of which rests on one end of a cantilever span
  • carbon offsetting — a program in which a company, country, etc., reduces or offsets its carbon emissions through the funding of activities and projects that improve the environment: Carbon offsetting does not always have a quantifiable impact on the planet.
  • casting the runes — (jargon)   What a guru does when you ask him or her to run a particular program because it never works for anyone else; especially used when nobody can ever see what the guru is doing different from what J. Random Luser does. Compare incantation, runes, examining the entrails; also see the AI koan about Tom Knight.
  • categoric contact — behavior toward an individual on the basis of the type or group of people that person represents rather than on the basis of personal makeup.
  • cathedral ceiling — a high ceiling formed by or suggesting an open-timbered roof.
  • celebrity wedding — a wedding of famous people, usually reported at length in celebrity magazines
  • center of gravity — The center of gravity of an object is a point in it. If this point is above the base of the object, it stays stable, rather than falling over.
  • centre of gravity — The centre of gravity of an object is a point in it. If this point is above the base of the object, it stays stable, rather than falling over.
  • centrifugal brake — a safety mechanism on a hoist, crane, etc, that consists of revolving brake shoes that are driven outwards by centrifugal force into contact with a fixed brake drum when the rope drum revolves at excessive speed
  • centrifugal force — In physics, centrifugal force is the force that makes objects move outwards when they are spinning around something or travelling in a curve.
  • cigarette machine — a vending machine from which cigarettes can be purchased
  • circle the wagons — to take defensive action; prepare for an attack: from arranging a wagon train in a circular formation
  • circular triangle — a triangle in which each side is the arc of a circle
  • clear box testing — white box testing
  • coarse-grain salt — salt with a much larger grain size than table salt
  • cognitive therapy — a form of psychotherapy in which the patient is encouraged to change the way he or sees the world and himself or herself: used particularly to treat depression
  • colleterial gland — a paired accessory reproductive gland, present in most female insects, secreting a sticky substance that forms either the egg cases or the cement that binds the eggs to a surface
  • come to handgrips — to engage in hand-to-hand fighting
  • committal hearing — (in British law) a preliminary inquiry by a magistrate to decide if there is enough evidence for a case to go to trial
  • congestion charge — Congestion charges refer to money motorists must pay in order to drive in some city centres. Congestion charges are intended to reduce traffic within those areas.
  • congregationalism — a system of Christian doctrines and ecclesiastical government in which each congregation is self-governing and maintains bonds of faith with other similar local congregations
  • congregationalist — a form of Protestant church government in which each local religious society is independent and self-governing.
  • connection charge — a charge made as soon as a caller is connected to the number dialled and which is additional to any charges calculated based on the duration of the call
  • consignment store — a retail store that sells secondhand items on behalf of others and receives a percentage of the sales price.
  • content marketing — marketing that tries to attract customers by distributing informational content potentially useful to the target audience, rather than by advertising products and services in the traditional way: content marketing through blogs and email newsletters.
  • contingent worker — a temporary or contract worker, especially one hired for one task or project.
  • contrasuggestible — responding or tending to respond to a suggestion by doing or believing the opposite
  • controlling image — a literary device employing repetition so as to stress the theme of a work or a particular symbol.
  • counter-espionage — Counter-espionage is the same as counter-intelligence.
  • counter-migration — a migration in the opposite direction.
  • counter-signature — a signature added by way of countersigning.
  • counterinsurgency — action taken by a government to counter the activities of rebels, guerrillas, etc
  • countersignatures — Plural form of countersignature.
  • cracking severity — Cracking severity is the temperature used in a cracking process to yield a product, higher temperatures being used to produce ethane and benzene, and lower temperatures to produce propene and liquid products.
  • creeping eruption — a skin eruption with intense itching, caused by the burrowing of various larvae under the skin
  • crisis management — People use crisis management to refer to a management style that concentrates on solving the immediate problems occurring in a business rather than looking for long-term solutions.
  • cruciate ligament — A cruciate ligament is either of a pair of ligaments that cross at the knee.
  • dagestan republic — a constituent republic of S Russia, on the Caspian Sea: annexed from Persia in 1813; rich mineral resources. Capital: Makhachkala. Pop: 2 584 200 (2002). Area: 50 278 sq km (19 416 sq miles)
  • dante (alighieri) — (born Durante Alighieri) 1265-1321; It. poet: wrote The Divine Comedy
  • debt rescheduling — the process of changing the time frame or deadline for the repayment of debt, usually to ease the burden on the debtor
  • dedifferentiating — Present participle of dedifferentiate.
  • definite integral — the evaluation of the indefinite integral between two limits, representing the area between the given function and the x-axis between these two values of x
  • deindustrializing — Present participle of deindustrialize.
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