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  • bracknell forest — a unitary authority in SE England, in E Berkshire. Pop: 110 100 (2003 est). Area: 109 sq km (42 sq miles)
  • branchiopneustic — breathing by means of gills, as certain aquatic insect larvae.
  • break one's fast — to eat food for the first time after fasting, or for the first time in the day
  • bring sb to heel — If you bring someone to heel, you force them to obey you.
  • bring to justice — to capture, try, and usually punish (a criminal, an outlaw, etc)
  • bristlecone pine — a coniferous tree, Pinus aristata, of the western US, bearing cones with bristle-like prickles: one of the longest-lived trees, useful in radiocarbon dating
  • brown house moth — a species of micro moth, Hofmannophila pseudospretella, which, although it usually inhabits birds' nests, sometimes enters houses where its larvae can be very destructive of stored fabrics and foodstuffs
  • building society — In Britain, a building society is a business which will lend you money when you want to buy a house. You can also invest money in a building society, where it will earn interest. Compare savings and loan association.
  • bundled software — software sold as part of a package with computers or other hardware or software
  • burn oneself out — to undergo rapid combustion or consume fuel in such a way as to give off heat, gases, and, usually, light; be on fire: The fire burned in the grate.
  • burning question — urgent matter for discussion
  • business account — a bank account or type of bank account used for business transactions rather than personal ones
  • bust one's chops — Usually, chops. the jaw.
  • button one's lip — to stop talking: often imperative
  • button snakeroot — blazing star (sense 1)
  • bypass operation — an operation involving redirection of blood flow, either to avoid a diseased blood vessel or in order to perform heart surgery
  • cable television — Cable television is a television system in which signals are sent along wires rather than by radio waves.
  • cache on a stick — (architecture)   (COAST) Intel Corporation attempt to's standardise the modular L2 cache subsystem in Pentium-based computers. A COAST module should be about 4.35" wide by 1.14" high. According to earlier specifications from Motorola, a module between 4.33" and 4.36" wide, and between 1.12" and 1.16" high is within the COAST standard. Some module vendors, including some major motherboard suppliers, greatly violate the height specification. Another COAST specification violated by many suppliers concerns clock distribution in synchronous modules. The specification requires that the clock tree to each synchronous chip be balanced, i.e. equal length from edge of the connector to individual chips. An unbalanced clock tree increases reflections and noise. For a 256 kilobyte cache module the standard requires the same clock be used for both chips but some vendors use separate clocks to reduce loading on the clock driver and hence increase the clock speed. However, this creates unbalanced loading in other motherboard configurations, such as motherboards with soldered caches in the system.
  • call in question — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
  • call one's shots — a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
  • cantankerousness — disagreeable to deal with; contentious; peevish: a cantankerous, argumentative man.
  • capsizing moment — the moment of an upsetting couple.
  • carnot's theorem — the principle that no engine operating between two given temperatures can be more efficient than a Carnot engine operating between the same temperatures.
  • casting director — the person in charge of choosing of actors for a production
  • cataractogenesis — The formation of a cataract.
  • catch oneself on — to realize that one's actions are mistaken
  • category listing — A category listing is a list of different product categories such as menswear, womenswear, and childrenswear.
  • cavity resonator — a conducting surface enclosing a space in which an oscillating electromagnetic field can be maintained, the dimensions of the cavity determining the resonant frequency of the oscillations. It is used in microwave devices for frequencies exceeding 300 megahertz
  • cayenne software — (company)   The company formed when CADRE merged with Bachman Information Systems in July 1996.
  • cesarean section — Also called Cesarean section, C-section. an operation by which a fetus is taken from the uterus by cutting through the walls of the abdomen and uterus.
  • chanson de geste — one of a genre of Old French epic poems celebrating heroic deeds, the most famous of which is the Chanson de Roland
  • characterisation — (British spelling) Alternative form of characterization.
  • chase the dragon — to smoke opium or heroin
  • chattel personal — an item of movable personal property, such as furniture, domestic animals, etc
  • checking deposit — a deposit on which cheques may be drawn
  • chemoluminescent — (chemistry) Exhibiting chemoluminescence.
  • choriomeningitis — (medicine) A form of cerebral meningitis associated with inflammation of the choroid plexus.
  • christening robe — a long white dress worn by a baby at his or her christening
  • chymotrypsinogen — the inactive precursor of chymotrypsin
  • citronella grass — a tropical Asian grass, Cymbopogon (or Andropogon) nardus, with bluish-green lemon-scented leaves
  • civilian clothes — not military uniform
  • cloak-and-suiter — a manufacturer or seller of clothing.
  • close by/at hand — Something that is close by or close at hand is near to you.
  • closed community — a plant community that does not allow for further colonization, all the available niches being occupied
  • closed-captioned — (of a video recording) having subtitles which appear on screen only if the cassette is played through a special decoder
  • closing argument — In a court case, a lawyer's closing argument is their final speech, in which they give a summary of their case.
  • cochineal cactus — a treelike cactus, Nopalea cochenillifera, of Mexico and Central America, that is a principal source of food of the cochineal insect.
  • cochineal insect — a Mexican homopterous insect, Dactylopius coccus, that feeds on cacti
  • collectivisation — Alternative spelling of collectivization.
  • colonial heights — a town in central Virginia.
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