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- puff-adder — a large, thick-bodied, African viper, Bitis arietans, that inflates its body and hisses when disturbed.
- pull media — (messaging) A model of media distribution were the bits of content have to be requested by the user, e.g. normal use of HTTP on the web. Opposite: "push media".
- push ahead — move sth forward
- push aside — shove to one side
- 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.
- pyranoside — a glycoside containing a pyran ring structure.
- quadcopter — A rotorcraft propelled by four rotors.
- quadriceps — a large muscle in front of the thigh, the action of which extends the leg or bends the hip joint.
- quadriplex — A building divided into four self-contained residences.
- quadripole — an electric circuit with two input and two output terminals
- quadrupeds — Plural form of quadruped.
- quadrupled — fourfold; consisting of four parts: a quadruple alliance.
- quadruples — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quadruple.
- quadruplet — any group or combination of four.
- quadruplex — fourfold; quadruple.
- quadrupole — a set of four associated positive and negative electric charges or two associated magnetic dipoles
- radarscope — the viewing screen of radar equipment.
- radiopager — a small radio receiver fitted with a buzzer to alert a person to telephone their home, office, etc, to receive a message
- radiopaque — opaque to radiation; visible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy (opposed to radiotransparent).
- radiophare — a radiotelegraphic station used by vessels to determine their positions; radio beacon.
- radiophone — a radiotelephone.
- radioscope — an instrument, such as a fluoroscope, capable of detecting radiant energy
- rapid-fire — characterized by, delivered, or occurring in rapid succession: rapid-fire questions; rapid-fire events.
- rapidwrite — (language, tool) A method for translating set of abbreviations into the much more verbose COBOL code.
- re-planned — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- read up on — If you read up on a subject, you read a lot about it so that you become informed about it.
- readership — the people who read or are thought to read a particular book, newspaper, magazine, etc.: The periodical has a dwindling readership.
- readoption — the adoption of something or someone again
- recarpeted — a heavy fabric, commonly of wool or nylon, for covering floors.
- red carpet — a red strip of carpet placed on the ground for high-ranking dignitaries to walk on when entering or leaving a building, vehicle, or the like.
- red packet — a sum of money folded inside red paper and given at the Chinese New Year to unmarried younger relatives
- redispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- repeatedly — done, made, or said again and again: repeated attempts.
- reply card — a usually postage-paid postcard or coupon that can be mailed back to the sender to place an order, request information, or the like.
- reply-paid — having the cost of sending a reply (of a letter, etc) prepaid by the sender
- reprepared — to put in proper condition or readiness: to prepare a patient for surgery.
- reprimands — a severe reproof or rebuke, especially a formal one by a person in authority.
- reproached — to find fault with (a person, group, etc.); blame; censure.
- repudiable — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
- rhapsodize — to talk with extravagant enthusiasm.
- rhodophane — the red colour found in the inner cones of the retina in animals
- rice paddy — a field planted with rice
- road apple — a piece of horse manure on or at the side of a road.
- ropedancer — a person who walks across or performs acrobatics upon a rope stretched at some height above the floor or ground.
- rose aphid — a dark green aphid, Macrosiphum rosae, that feeds on roses and related plants.
- round tape — (storage, jargon) Industry-standard 1/2-inch magnetic tape (7- or 9-track) on traditional circular reels. See macrotape, opposite: square tape.
- sand perch — squirrelfish.
- sand viper — hognose snake.
- sandgroper — a nickname for a Western Australian
- sandpapery — of or suggesting the grating sound of sandpaper rubbing against wood or the rough texture of sandpaper.