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  • from pillar to post — an upright shaft or structure, of stone, brick, or other material, relatively slender in proportion to its height, and of any shape in section, used as a building support, or standing alone, as for a monument: Gothic pillars; a pillar to commemorate Columbus.
  • from rags to riches — a worthless piece of cloth, especially one that is torn or worn.
  • geomagnetic equator — an imaginary line on the earth's surface, the plane of which passes through the center and is midway between the geomagnetic poles.
  • geraldton waxflower — an evergreen shrub, Chamelaucium uncinatum, native to W Australia, cultivated for its pale pink flowers
  • get (or be) hip to — to become (or be) informed or knowledgeable about
  • get next to someone — immediately following in time, order, importance, etc.: the next day; the next person in line.
  • giotto (di bondone) — 1266?-1337; Florentine painter & architect
  • give (free) rein to — to allow to act without restraint
  • glottochronological — Of or pertaining to glottochronology.
  • go into liquidation — to close one's business by collecting assets and settling all debts
  • go to great lengths — If you say that someone goes to great lengths to achieve something, you mean that they try very hard and perhaps do extreme things in order to achieve it.
  • go to rack and ruin — If you say that a place is going to rack and ruin, you are emphasizing that it is slowly becoming less attractive or less pleasant because no-one is bothering to look after it.
  • gratuitous contract — a contract for the benefit of only one of the parties, the other party receiving nothing as consideration.
  • hamiltonian problem — (computability)   (Or "Hamilton's problem") A problem in graph theory posed by William Hamilton: given a graph, is there a path through the graph which visits each vertex precisely once (a "Hamiltonian path")? Is there a Hamiltonian path which ends up where it started (a "Hamiltonian cycle" or "Hamiltonian tour")? Hamilton's problem is NP-complete. It has numerous applications, sometimes completely unexpected, in computing.
  • harmonic distortion — distortion caused by nonlinear characteristics of electronic apparatus, esp of audio amplifiers, that generate unwanted harmonics of the input frequencies
  • have a bone to pick — to have grounds for a quarrel
  • have a few too many — If you say that someone has had a few too many or has had a few, you mean that they have drunk too many alcoholic drinks.
  • have a good mind to — (in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.: the processes of the human mind.
  • have an ax to grind — an instrument with a bladed head on a handle or helve, used for hewing, cleaving, chopping, etc.
  • have half a mind to — to have the intention of
  • heavy-water reactor — a nuclear reactor that uses heavy water as moderator
  • heel-and-toe racing — race walking.
  • henry the navigator — Prince, 1394–1460, prince of Portugal.
  • hepatoportal system — a vascular arrangement in vertebrates through which blood is transported into the liver from capillaries of the stomach, spleen, duodenum, pancreas, and intestines.
  • histopathologically — In a histopathological manner.
  • historic episcopate — the derivation of the episcopate of a Church in historic succession from the apostles
  • historiographically — In a historiographical manner; by means of a historiography.
  • horsehair toadstool — a small basidiomycetous fungus, Marasmius androsaceus, having a rusty coloured cap and very slender black stems. It is related to the fairy ring mushroom, but is commonly found among conifers and heather
  • hound's-tooth check — a pattern of broken or jagged checks, used on a variety of fabrics.
  • huntington's chorea — a hereditary disease of the central nervous system characterized by brain deterioration and loss of control over voluntary movements, the symptoms usually appearing in the fourth decade of life.
  • immunocytochemistry — the detection of chemical components of cells by means of antibodies coupled to substances that can be made visible.
  • immunohistochemical — (biology) Of, pertaining to, or by means of immunohistochemistry, the use of immunological techniques to study the chemistry of tissues.
  • index expurgatorius — a list of books now included in the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, forbidden to be read except from expurgated editions.
  • instant photography — photography using an instant camera.
  • internal translator — (language, mathematics)   (IT) An early compiler for mathematics developed by A.J. Perlis et al at Carnegie Tech ca 1957. IT was originally written for the Burroughs 205, then the IBM 650. IT was the forerunner of RUNCIBLE, GATE, CORRELATE and GAT. IT source code was converted to PIT, thence to SPIT. IT-2 produced machine language directly, IT-3 developed at Carnegie added double-precision floating-point.
  • ionotropic receptor — a receptor that functions directly by opening ion channels that enable specific ions to stream in an out of the cell
  • it stands to reason — it is logical
  • it would be wise to — If someone says to you that it would be wise to do something, they are advising you to do it, because it is the most sensible and reasonable action or decision in a particular situation.
  • joint-stock company — an association of individuals in a business enterprise with transferable shares of stock, much like a corporation except that stockholders are liable for the debts of the business.
  • jump to conclusions — to come to a conclusion prematurely, without sufficient thought or on incomplete evidence
  • junction transistor — a bipolar transistor consisting of two p-n junctions combined to form either an n-p-n or a p-n-p transistor, having the three electrodes, the emitter, base, and collector
  • kill sth stone-dead — If you kill something such as an idea or emotion stone-dead, you completely destroy it.
  • kirlian photography — a photographic process that supposedly records electrical discharges naturally emanating from living objects, producing an auralike glow surrounding the object on a photographic plate or film with which the object is in direct contact.
  • know better than to — not to be so stupid as to
  • language laboratory — a special room or rooms with sound-recording and -reproducing equipment for use by students to practice speaking foreign languages, usually with an instructor monitoring the program.
  • lightning conductor — A lightning conductor is a long thin piece of metal on top of a building that attracts lightning and allows it to reach the ground safely.
  • lose one's heart to — to fall in love with
  • lupus erythematosus — any of several autoimmune diseases, especially systemic lupus erythematosus, characterized by red, scaly skin patches.
  • magnetohydrodynamic — Of or pertaining to magnetohydrodynamics.
  • magnetomotive force — a scalar quantity that is a measure of the sources of magnetic flux in a magnetic circuit. Abbreviation: mmf.
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