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  • grind to a halt — If a country's economy or something such as a process grinds to a halt, it gradually becomes slower or less active until it stops.
  • gross indecency — sexual offence
  • ground engineer — an engineer qualified and licensed to certify the airworthiness of an aircraft
  • ground meristem — an area of primary meristematic tissue, emerging from and immediately behind the apical meristem, that develops into the pith and the cortex.
  • ground squirrel — any of several terrestrial rodents of the squirrel family, as of the genus Citellus and chipmunks of the genus Tamias. circ;circ;
  • ground-breaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
  • groundbreakings — Plural form of groundbreaking.
  • growth industry — an industry that is experiencing rapid growth
  • guru meditation — (operating system)   The Amiga equivalent of Unix's panic (sometimes just called a "guru" or "guru event"). When the system crashes, a cryptic message of the form "GURU MEDITATION #XXXXXXXX.YYYYYYYY" may appear, indicating what the problem was. An Amiga guru can figure things out from the numbers. In the earliest days of the Amiga, there was a device called a "Joyboard" which was basically a plastic board built onto a joystick-like device; it was sold with a skiing game cartridge for the Atari game machine. It is said that whenever the prototype OS crashed, the system programmer responsible would concentrate on a solution while sitting cross-legged, balanced on a Joyboard, resembling a meditating guru. Sadly, the joke was removed in AmigaOS 2.04. The Jargon File claimed that a guru event had to be followed by a Vulcan nerve pinch but, according to a correspondent, a mouse click was enough to start a reboot.
  • gynandromorphic — (of an organism) Having male and female characteristics.
  • hard of hearing — partially deaf
  • hearing ear dog — a dog that has been trained to alert a hearing-impaired person to sounds, as a telephone ringing or dangerous noises.
  • hearing-ear dog — a dog that has been trained to alert a hearing-impaired person to sounds, as a telephone ringing or dangerous noises.
  • holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
  • holding pattern — a traffic pattern for aircraft at a specified location (holding point) where they are ordered to remain until permitted to land or proceed.
  • hunting leopard — the cheetah.
  • huntingdonshire — a former county in E England, now part of Cambridgeshire.
  • hydrofracturing — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
  • hydrogen iodide — a colorless gas, HI, having a suffocating odor: the anhydride of hydriodic acid.
  • in good spirits — cheerful
  • indicator light — a device for indicating that a motor vehicle is about to turn left or right; blinker
  • integral domain — a commutative ring in which the cancellation law holds true.
  • interdigitation — An interlinking that resembles the fingers of two hands being locked together.
  • interior design — the design and coordination of the decorative elements of the interior of a house, apartment, office, or other structural space, including color schemes, fittings, furnishings, and sometimes architectural features.
  • interrecord gap — the area or space separating consecutive physical records of data on an external storage medium.
  • into the ground — beyond what is requisite or can be endured; to exhaustion
  • ipod generation — members of the generation of adults born after 1970, who are less financially secure than their parents, due to student debt, high house prices, and job insecurity
  • island grey fox — a similar and related animal, U. littoralis, inhabiting islands off North America
  • kangaroo island — an island in the Indian Ocean, off South Australia. Area: 4350 sq km (1680 sq miles)
  • kingsford-smith — Sir Charles (Edward). 1897–1935, Australian aviator and pioneer (with Charles Ulm) of trans-Pacific and trans-Tasman flights
  • laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
  • linear ordering — an ordering that is reflexive, antisymmetric, transitive, and connected, as less than or equal to on the involved integers
  • liquid nitrogen — nitrogen in a liquid state
  • loading program — a series of instructions entered automatically in a program that starts the processing.
  • longshore drift — beach drift.
  • lord-in-waiting — a nobleman in attendance on a British monarch or the Prince of Wales.
  • lowland gorilla — the eastern lowland gorilla or western lowland gorilla. See under gorilla.
  • managing editor — an editor assigned to the supervision and coordination of certain editorial activities of a newspaper, magazine, book publishing company, or the like. Abbreviation: M.E., m.e.
  • mandarin orange — mandarin (def 4).
  • marching orders — military orders, esp to infantry, giving instructions about a march, its destination, etc
  • marigold window — wheel window.
  • mid-ocean ridge — any of several seismically active submarine mountain ranges that extend through the Atlantic, Indian, and South Pacific oceans: each is hypothesized to be the locus of seafloor spreading.
  • mineral kingdom — minerals collectively.
  • miscoordinating — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
  • mouse droppings — 1.   (graphics, operating system, jargon)   Pixels (usually single) that are not properly restored when the mouse pointer moves away from a particular location on the screen, producing the appearance that the mouse pointer has left droppings behind. The major causes for this problem are MS-DOS programs that write to the screen memory corresponding to the mouse pointer's current location without hiding the mouse pointer first, and mouse drivers that do not quite support the graphics mode in use. 2.   (web, jargon)   The client address recorded in a web server's log whenever a client connects to a site. Users may be unaware that their activity is being logged in this way but the potential for misuse of the information is limited.
  • nitrogen oxides — Nitrogen oxides are compounds of nitrogen and oxygen produced during combustion.
  • nizhni novgorod — a city in the Russian Federation in Europe, E of Moscow, on the Volga River.
  • nizhny novgorod — city in central European Russia, at the Volga & Oka rivers: pop. 1,438,000
  • non-disparaging — that disparages; tending to belittle or bring reproach upon: a disparaging remark.
  • nondegenerative — tending to degenerate.
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