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  • dinnerware set — A dinnerware set is the same as a dinner service.
  • down the drain — If you say that something is going down the drain, you mean that it is being destroyed or wasted.
  • down-and-outer — without any money, or means of support, or prospects; destitute; penniless.
  • downregulating — Present participle of downregulate.
  • downregulation — (genetics) The process, in the regulation of gene expression, in which the number, or activity of receptors decreases in order to decrease sensitivity.
  • draw a bead on — a small, usually round object of glass, wood, stone, or the like with a hole through it, often strung with others of its kind in necklaces, rosaries, etc.
  • draw a pension — If you draw a pension, you receive money from an insurer or the state because you have reached a particular age.
  • drawing chisel — an obliquely edged wood chisel for working across grain, as in forming the ends of tenons.
  • drawing office — an office where drawings are made
  • dress-down day — a day on which employees are allowed to wear informal clothing
  • drinking water — water that is safe to drink
  • drowned valley — a valley that, having been flooded by the sea, now exists as a bay or estuary.
  • dry-stone wall — A dry-stone wall is a wall that has been built by fitting stones together without using any cement.
  • dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
  • dwarf chestnut — the edible nut of the chinquapin tree
  • east greenwich — a town in central Rhode Island.
  • edward yourdon — (person)   A software engineering consultant, widely known as the developer of the "Yourdon method" of structured systems analysis and design, as well as the co-developer of the Coad/Yourdon method of object-oriented analysis and design. He is also the editor of three software journals - American Programmer, Guerrilla Programmer, and Application Development Strategies - that analyse software technology trends and products in the United States and several other countries around the world. Ed Yourdon received a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from MIT, and has done graduate work at MIT and at the Polytechnic Institute of New York. He has been appointed an Honorary Professor of Information Technology at Universidad CAECE in Buenos Aires, Argentina and has received numerous honors and awards from other universities and professional societies around the world. He has worked in the computer industry for 30 years, including positions with DEC and General Electric. Earlier in his career, he worked on over 25 different mainframe computers, and was involved in a number of pioneering computer projects involving time-sharing and virtual memory. In 1974, he founded the consulting firm, Yourdon, Inc.. He is currently immersed in research in new developments in software engineering, such as object-oriented software development and system dynamics modelling. Ed Yourdon is the author of over 200 technical articles; he has also written 19 computer books, including a novel on computer crime and a book for the general public entitled Nations At Risk. His most recent books are Object-Oriented Systems Development (1994), Decline and Fall of the American Programmer (1992), Object-Oriented Design (1991), and Object-Oriented Analysis (1990). Several of his books have been translated into Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Portugese, Dutch, French, German, and other languages, and his articles have appeared in virtually all of the major computer journals. He is a regular keynote speaker at major computer conferences around the world, and serves as the conference Chairman for Digital Consulting's SOFTWARE WORLD conference. He was an advisor to Technology Transfer's research project on software industry opportunities in the former Soviet Union, and a member of the expert advisory panel on CASE acquisition for the U.S. Department of Defense. Mr. Yourdon was born on a small planet at the edge of one of the distant red-shifted galaxies. He now lives in the Center of the Universe (New York City) with his wife, three children, and nine Macintosh computers, all of which are linked together through an Appletalk network.
  • elephant shrew — any small active African mammal of the family Macroscelididae and order Macroscelidea, having an elongated nose, large ears, and long hind legs
  • emergency ward — a ward in a hospital that deals with patients who need emergency treatment
  • enclosure wall — a wall that encloses a piece of land
  • escrow account — account held on sb else's behalf
  • fellow servant — (under the fellow-servant rule) an employee working with another employee for the same employer.
  • flannel flower — any Australian plant of the umbelliferous genus Actinotus having white flannel-like bracts beneath the flowers
  • flowering crab — any of several species and varieties of crab apple trees with small fruits and abundant spring flowers ranging from white to reddish purple
  • flowering flax — a plant, Linum grandiflorum, of northern Africa, having quickly fading, red or pink flowers.
  • flowers of tan — a common slime mold, Fuligo septica, of the central and eastern U.S., having large sporophores and yellowish, foamy plasmodia, that during a wet growing season may spread to cover large areas of lawns, woody debris, and growing plants.
  • forenoon watch — the watch from 8 a.m. until noon.
  • fraternal twin — one of a pair of twins, not necessarily resembling each other, or of the same sex, that develop from two separately fertilized ova.
  • front walkover — Racing. a walking or trotting over the course by a contestant who is the only starter.
  • frontierswoman — A woman living in the region of a frontier, especially that between settled and unsettled country.
  • garden warbler — any of several small brownish-grey European songbirds of the genus Sylvia (warblers), esp S. borin, common in woods and hedges: in some parts of Europe they are esteemed as a delicacy
  • garden webworm — the larva of any of several moths, as Hyphantria cunea (fall webworm) or Loxostege similalis (garden webworm) which spins a web over the foliage on which it feeds.
  • gewurztraminer — a type of white grape used in winemaking.
  • golden ragwort — any of various composite plants of the genus Senecio, as S. jacobaea, of the Old World, having yellow flowers and irregularly lobed leaves, or S. aureus (golden ragwort) of North America, also having yellow flowers.
  • golden warbler — yellow warbler.
  • granary weevil — a reddish-brown weevil, Sitophilus granarius, that infests stored grain.
  • great unwashed — the general public; the populace or masses.
  • gridwall panel — A gridwall panel is a metal grid that can be hung on a wall and used for displaying goods.
  • growing season — The growing season in a particular country or area is the period in each year when the weather and temperature is right for plants and crops to grow.
  • halfpennyworth — As much as could be bought for a halfpenny.
  • hampshire down — Also called Hants. a county in S England. 1460 sq. mi. (3780 sq. km).
  • healing powers — beneficial qualities
  • health warning — a message indicating the dangers to the consumer's health of consuming a particular product printed on the packaging for the product
  • heartwarmingly — In a heartwarming manner.
  • heartwrenching — Having a painful emotional impact; causing grief or distress.
  • hertzian waves — radio waves or other electromagnetic radiation resulting from the oscillations of electricity in a conductor
  • homeward bound — going home
  • hyperawareness — The state of being hyperaware, or extremely sensitive to stimuli.
  • indian-wrestle — to engage in Indian wrestling: to Indian-wrestle for the city championship.
  • inside forward — one of two attacking players whose usual position is between the center forward and one of the wings.
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