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  • secondary boycott — a boycott by union members against their employer in order to induce the employer to bring pressure on another company involved in a labor dispute with the union.
  • secondary rainbow — a faint rainbow formed by light rays that undergo two internal reflections in drops of rain, appearing above the primary rainbow and having its colors in the opposite order.
  • self-incompatible — not capable of self-pollination.
  • shake one's booty — to dance
  • sinbad the sailor — a merchant in The Arabian Nights who makes seven adventurous voyages
  • sleeping problems — difficulties in getting to sleep or in staying asleep
  • special constable — a person recruited for temporary or occasional police duties, esp in time of emergency
  • split keyboarding — the act or practice of editing data from one terminal on another terminal
  • squash vine borer — the larva of a clearwing moth, Melittia satyriniformis, that bores into the stems of squash and related plants.
  • steamboat springs — a town in NW Colorado: ski resort.
  • strawberry blonde — woman: with reddish fair hair
  • subclavian groove — either of two grooves in the first rib, one for the main artery (subclavian artery) and the other for the main vein (subclavian vein) of the arm
  • subordinated debt — a debt that an unsecured creditor can only claim, in the event of a liquidation, after the claims of secured creditors have been paid
  • subscription rate — the price charged for a subscription
  • sunbury-on-thames — a town in SE England, in N Surrey. Pop: 27 415 (2001)
  • sunday observance — the fact of keeping Sunday as a special day when people go to church
  • surrender to bail — to present oneself at court at the appointed time after having been on bail
  • suspension bridge — a bridge having a deck suspended from cables anchored at their extremities and usually raised on towers.
  • symbolic language — a specialized language dependent upon the use of symbols for communication and created for the purpose of achieving greater exactitude, as in symbolic logic or mathematics.
  • synovial membrane — anatomy: connective tissue
  • synthetic biology — the application of computer science techniques to create artificial biological systems
  • take some beating — to be difficult to improve upon
  • take to one's bed — to remain in bed, esp because of illness
  • teething problems — If a project or new product has teething problems, it has problems in its early stages or when it first becomes available.
  • teething troubles — Teething troubles are the same as teething problems.
  • telephone numbers — extremely large numbers, esp in reference to salaries or prices
  • terrorist bombing — the bombing of a place carried out in order to achieve some goal
  • the carboniferous — the Carboniferous period or rock system
  • the joke is on sb — If you say that the joke is on a particular person, you mean that they have been made to look very foolish by something.
  • the whole shebang — The whole shebang is the whole situation or business that you are describing.
  • theory of numbers — number theory.
  • to best advantage — If something is shown to good advantage or to best advantage, it is shown in a way that reveals its best features.
  • to get to know sb — If you get to know someone, you find out what they are like by spending time with them.
  • to read sb's mind — If you can read someone's mind, you know what they are thinking without them saying anything.
  • transferable vote — a vote that is transferred to a second candidate indicated by the voter if the first is eliminated from the ballot
  • transonic barrier — sound barrier.
  • triboluminescence — luminescence produced by friction, usually within a crystalline substance.
  • uncle tom's cabin — an antislavery novel (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
  • uncomfortableness — causing discomfort or distress; painful; irritating.
  • unreconstructible — not capable of being reconstructed.
  • visible radiation — electromagnetic radiation that causes the sensation of sight; light. It has wavelengths between about 380 and 780 nanometres
  • wang laboratories — (body)   Computer manufacturer, known for their office automation products and the Wang PC. Quarterly sales $208M, profits $3M (Aug 1994).
  • welshman's button — an angler's name for a species of caddis fly, Sericostoma personatum
  • what does sb know — You can use expressions such as What does she know? and What do they know? when you think that someone has no right to comment on a situation because they do not understand it.
  • wheatstone bridge — a circuit for measuring an unknown resistance by comparing it with known resistances.
  • whiskey rebellion — a revolt of settlers in western Pennsylvania in 1794 against a federal excise tax on whiskey: suppressed by militia called out by President George Washington to establish the authority of the federal government.
  • working substance — a substance, usually a fluid, that undergoes changes in pressure, temperature, volume, or form as part of a process for accomplishing work.
  • zero-coupon bonds — Zero-coupon bonds are bonds with no coupons that do not pay interest, and are sold at a large discount from their face value.
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