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  • boxed comments — (programming)   Comments that occupy several lines by themselves; so called because in assembler and C code they are often surrounded by a box in a style similar to this: /************************************************* * * This is a boxed comment in C style * *************************************************/ Common variants of this style omit the asterisks in column 2 or add a matching row of asterisks closing the right side of the box. The sparest variant omits all but the comment delimiters themselves; the "box" is implied. Opposite of winged comments.
  • brachydactylia — abnormal shortness of the fingers and toes.
  • brachydactylic — having abnormally short fingers or toes
  • bradley effect — the distortion of opinion polls caused by the reluctance of respondents to admit to a preference that is regarded as socially unacceptable
  • bread poultice — a poultice made from breadcrumbs
  • breeding stock — animals specifically kept to breed from
  • bridge circuit — any of several networks, such as a Wheatstone bridge, consisting of two branches across which a measuring device is connected. The resistance, capacitance, etc, of one component can be determined from the known values of the others when the voltage in each branch is balanced
  • broad-spectrum — effective against a wide variety of diseases or microorganisms
  • bronchodilator — any drug or other agent that causes dilation of the bronchial tubes by relaxing bronchial muscle: used, esp in the form of aerosol sprays, for the relief of asthma
  • brushed cotton — cotton fabric that is brushed to remove excess lint and fibres to leave a soft, smooth finish
  • bucket brigade — a line of persons passing buckets of water along in trying to put out a fire
  • budget account — an account with a department store, etc, enabling a customer to make monthly payments to cover his or her past and future purchases
  • budget deficit — the amount by which government expenditure exceeds income from taxation, customs duties, etc, in any one fiscal year
  • cadogan teapot — a lidless teapot that is made from or in imitation of an inverted Chinese wine pot and is filled through the bottom.
  • calculatedness — the state of being calculated
  • calendar month — A calendar month is one of the twelve months of the year.
  • calendar watch — a watch that indicates date of the month, day of the week, etc., as well as the time.
  • camp pendleton — a U.S. Marine Corps base in SW California on the Gulf of Santa Catalina.
  • canada thistle — a prickly European weed (Cirsium arvense) of the composite family, with heads of purplish flowers and wavy leaves: now common as a fast-spreading, injurious weed throughout the N U.S.
  • capacity crowd — a situation when the maximum number of people possible are watching an event such as a sports game or pop concert
  • capital budget — a budget for major capital or investment expenditures
  • carbon trading — Carbon trading is the practice of buying and selling the right to produce carbon dioxide emissions, so that people, countries or companies who use a lot of fuel and electricity can buy rights from those that do not use so much.
  • card catalogue — a catalogue of books, papers, etc, filed on cards
  • cardboard city — an area of a city in which homeless people sleep rough, often in cardboard boxes
  • cardiac arrest — A cardiac arrest is a heart attack.
  • cardiac output — blood volume in liters pumped by the left ventricle of the heart per minute.
  • cardinal point — The cardinal points are the four main points of the compass, north, south, east, and west.
  • cardinal tetra — a small, brilliantly colored red and blue characin fish, Paracheirodon axelrodi, native to tropical forest streams in Brazil and Colombia: a popular aquarium fish.
  • cardinal trait — a basic and dominant characteristic, as greed or ambition, that, according to a theory developed by psychologist Gordon Allport (1936), controls the behavior of many people.
  • cardiocentesis — surgical puncture of the heart
  • cardiomyopathy — a disease of the heart muscle usually caused by a biochemical defect or a toxin such as alcohol
  • cardiothoracic — of or relating to the heart and the chest
  • cardiotoxicity — The state or condition of being cardiotoxic.
  • care attendant — (in Britain) a person who is paid to look after one or more severely handicapped people by visiting them frequently and staying when needed, but who does not live in
  • carotid artery — A carotid artery is one of the two arteries in the neck that supply the head with blood.
  • carriage trade — trade from the wealthy part of society
  • cartridge belt — a belt with pockets for cartridge clips or loops for cartridges
  • cartridge case — a cylindrical, usually metal casing capable of being loaded with an explosive charge and often also a bullet
  • cartridge clip — a metallic container holding cartridges for an automatic firearm
  • case and paste — (programming)   (From "cut and paste") The addition of a new feature to an existing system by selecting the code from an existing feature and pasting it in with minor changes. This usually results in gross violation of the fundamental programming tenet, Don't Repeat Yourself. Common in telephony circles because most operations in a telephone switch are selected using "case" statements. Leads to software bloat. In some circles of Emacs users this is called "programming by Meta-W", because Meta-W is the Emacs command for copying a block of text to a kill buffer in preparation to pasting it in elsewhere. The term is condescending, implying that the programmer is acting mindlessly rather than thinking carefully about what is required to integrate the code for two similar cases. At DEC, this is sometimes called "clone-and-hack" coding.
  • catastrophized — Simple past tense and past participle of catastrophize.
  • cater-cornered — diagonally placed; diagonal
  • cathedral city — a city that has a cathedral
  • cathedral hull — a motorboat hull having a bottom characterized by two or more, usually three, V -shaped hull profiles meeting below the waterline.
  • cathodographer — a person trained in taking cathodographs
  • cattle breeder — a person who breeds and raises cattle
  • catty-cornered — cater-cornered
  • celebratedness — the quality or condition of being celebrated
  • celestial body — an object visible in the sky, such as a planet
  • center fielder — the player whose position is center field.
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