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  • offset lithography — offset (def 6).
  • oil of wintergreen — methyl salicylate.
  • operating software — software used in the operation of a computer system, typically by performing such tasks as memory allocation, job scheduling, and input/output control
  • order of magnitude — You can use order of magnitude when you are giving an approximate idea of the amount or importance of something.
  • out of the running — the act of a person, animal, or thing that runs.
  • people trafficking — the practice of bringing immigrants into a country illegally
  • population figures — population totals; statistics relating to the size of populations
  • primate of england — a title of the archbishop of Canterbury.
  • range of stability — the angle to the perpendicular through which a vessel may be heeled without losing the ability to right itself.
  • recruiting officer — a person whose job is to recruit staff, esp on behalf of the military
  • reference counting — (programming)   A garbage collection technique where each memory cell contains a count of the number of other cells which point to it. If this count reaches zero the cell is freed and its pointers to other cells are followed to decrement their counts, and so on recursively. This technique cannot cope with circular data structures. Cells in such structures refer (indirectly) to themselves and so will never have a zero reference count. This means they would never be reclaimed, even when there are no references from outside the structure.
  • refrigerated lorry — a lorry which is chilled in the back as for storing food
  • resistance fighter — someone who fights (for freedom, etc) against an invader in an occupied country, or against their government, etc, often secretly or illegally
  • safety regulations — regulations or rules that are put in place to ensure a product, event, etc, is safe and not dangerous
  • self-deprecatingly — in a self-deprecating manner
  • self-disparagement — the act of disparaging.
  • self-glorification — a glorified or more splendid form of something.
  • self-gratification — the act of pleasing or satisfying oneself, especially the gratifying of one's own impulses, needs, or desires.
  • self-incriminating — serving to incriminate oneself or to expose oneself to prosecution: self-incriminating testimony.
  • self-interrogation — the act of interrogating; questioning.
  • self-tapping screw — a screw designed to tap its corresponding female thread as it is driven.
  • self-understanding — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
  • shift one's ground — to change one's argument or defense
  • six-finger country — an isolated area considered as being inhabited by people who practise inbreeding
  • sixth-form college — (in England and Wales) a college offering A-level and other courses to pupils over sixteen from local schools, esp from those that do not have sixth forms
  • squinting modifier — a word or phrase that can modify either the words that precede it or those that follow, as frequently in the sentence Studying frequently is tedious.
  • strait of magellan — a strait between the mainland of S South America and Tierra del Fuego, linking the S Pacific with the S Atlantic. Length: 600 km (370 miles). Width: up to 32 km (20 miles)
  • sweptwing aircraft — an aircraft which has wings that are swept (usually) backwards
  • tip of the iceberg — a large floating mass of ice, detached from a glacier and carried out to sea.
  • to agree to differ — If two people who are arguing about something agree to disagree or agree to differ, they decide to stop arguing because neither of them is going to change their opinion.
  • torsion-free group — a group in which every element other than the identity has infinite order.
  • treaty of waitangi — a treaty signed in 1840 by Māori chiefs and a representative of the British Government, providing the basis for the British annexation of New Zealand
  • triangle of forces — a triangle whose sides represent the magnitudes and directions of three forces whose resultant is zero and which are therefore in equilibrium
  • tune someone grief — to annoy or harass someone
  • two-tier financing — a form of lending in which the debt is divided into two separate parts, as in a first and second mortgage held by an individual on a single property
  • under the aegis of — guided or protected by
  • visiting professor — a professor from another institution invited to teach at a university or college for a limited period, usually for a semester or one academic year.
  • whitewater rafting — the sport of rafting down fast-flowing rivers, esp over rapids
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