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  • postmarked — an official mark stamped on letters and other mail, serving as a cancellation of the postage stamp and indicating the place, date, and sometimes time of sending or receipt.
  • prestamped — stamped in advance
  • psalmodize — to sing psalms
  • pseudimago — (of insects) a form similar to the adult, but which is not a true adult
  • pseudoalum — any of a class of alums in which the usual monovalent metal of a true alum is replaced by a bivalent metal
  • 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.
  • randomness — proceeding, made, or occurring without definite aim, reason, or pattern: the random selection of numbers.
  • randomwise — in a random manner
  • red salmon — sockeye salmon.
  • remediates — to settle (disputes, strikes, etc.) as an intermediary between parties; reconcile.
  • reprimands — a severe reproof or rebuke, especially a formal one by a person in authority.
  • roberdsman — a robber
  • saddleroom — a room for storing saddlery
  • salamander — any tailed amphibian of the order Caudata, having a soft, moist, scaleless skin, typically aquatic as a larva and semiterrestrial as an adult: several species are endangered.
  • sand smelt — variety of saltwater fish
  • second man — a person who assists the driver in crewing a locomotive
  • sedimental — of, relating to, or of the nature of sediment.
  • self-named — a word or a combination of words by which a person, place, or thing, a body or class, or any object of thought is designated, called, or known.
  • semi-naked — being without clothing or covering; nude: naked children swimming in the lake.
  • semi-nomad — a member of a people or tribe that has no permanent abode but moves about from place to place, usually seasonally and often following a traditional route or circuit according to the state of the pasturage or food supply.
  • semifeudal — partly feudal
  • semisacred — partly or somewhat sacred; sacred to a limited degree; having some characteristics of the sacred
  • shamefaced — modest or bashful.
  • sidestream — (of cigarette smoke) inhaled by passive smokers
  • slam dance — a dance performed to punk rock by groups of people who flail and toss themselves about and slam into one another.
  • smaragdine — of or relating to emeralds.
  • smaragdite — a green, foliated member of the amphibole group.
  • smartdrive — (storage, product)   A Microsoft MS DOS disk cache program to speed up disk access. For most users, a 1MB cache is sufficient. Devoting more memory to the cache offers diminishing returns, since the additional cache hits become fewer (and the extra memory could be better used to reduce swapping). Typing SMARTDRV /S at a DOS prompt shows the cache size, a hit-and-miss report, and information about which drives are being cached. The hit-and-miss statistics are crucial for gauging the effectiveness of SmartDrive settings. A score in the high 80s shows that SmartDrive is well configured. Run SMARTDRV /S several times during a Windows session and note the-hit-and-miss figures each time. If your percentage usually falls below 80 percent, you should consider increasing the cache size. You can edit the SMARTDRV line in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file to increase both the InitCacheSize and the WinCacheSize parameters. SmartDrive Monitor is an undocumented Windows program that comes with DOS 6.0 for logging and controling the cache.
  • smear word — a slanderous, vilifying epithet.
  • smokeboard — a board situated above a fireplace to prevent the emission of smoke into a room
  • snare drum — a small double-headed drum, carried at the side or placed on a stationary stand, having snares across the lower head to produce a rattling or reverberating effect.
  • sordamente — (of a piece of music) to be played softly or gently
  • speed ramp — a raised band across a road, designed to make motorists reduce their speed, esp in built-up areas
  • spermaduct — a spermatic passage found in male animals
  • spermatoid — resembling sperm.
  • stadimeter — an instrument for determining the distance between an observer and an object of known height by measurement of the angle subtended by the object.
  • stalemated — in a situation in which two opposing forces find that further action is impossible or futile; in deadlock
  • stampeders — a sudden, frenzied rush or headlong flight of a herd of frightened animals, especially cattle or horses.
  • stand mute — to refuse to plead guilty or not guilty
  • steamed up — obscured by vapour
  • stimulated — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
  • stomodaeum — stomodeum.
  • streamered — having streamers
  • streamside — the land on the sides of a stream.
  • streamwood — a city in NE Illinois.
  • stromateid — any of numerous small marine fishes of the family Stromateidae, having a laterally compressed body and an expanded muscular esophagus, often lined with teeth.
  • submediant — the sixth tone of a diatonic scale, being midway between the subdominant and the upper tonic.
  • summarised — to make a summary of; state or express in a concise form.
  • swammerdam — Jan [yahn] /yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1637–80, Dutch anatomist and entomologist.
  • tandemwise — in the manner of a tandem
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