ONE - LETTER WORDS A Dictionary phần 9 pot

... Clarke, Cadillac Automobiles 194 9– 195 9 42. n. V pug: a moth whose wings feature a V- shaped mark. 43. n. V- shaped bottom: a stock market pattern involv- ing a sharp drop followed by an almost ... —Ian McDonald, Evolution’s Shore 32. n. V- beam radar: a height- finding radar that emits a vertical beam and another at 45 degrees.” —Dr. John Burkardt 33. n. V belt: a be...

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... folic acid include vegetables (particularly the dark- green ones); organ meats, whole- wheat products, legumes, and mushrooms. —American Medical Association SCIENTIFIC MATTERS 14. n. A Roman ... numeral for 1,000. 15. n. With a line above it, a Roman numeral for 1,000,000. 16. n. A computer programming language. M is a procedural, general purpose language with well- develop...

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... zeros appear above the diagonal. L is a lower triangular matrix. —Marie A. Vitulli, A Brief History of Linear Algebra and Matrix Theory” 20. n. (mechanics) L head: a gasoline engine com- monly ... intestinal bacteria, as well as being avail - able in many foods, deficiency is uncommon in healthy adults. [Deficiency] may develop as a result of tak - ing antibiotics, which de...

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... language is a one- letter word. I is the supreme example of the importance of short words. Not only is it a single letter, but it is always a capital letter. It stands symmetrical and alone, ... (cooked); smaller amounts are found in whole- wheat prod - ucts, dairy products, fish, and tomatoes. —Ameri- can Medical Association And it doesn’t really matter, anyway, because w...

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... appropriate. 213 X Thank You Rana Bakhtiari, Firda Beka, Colleen Bell, John and Virginia Berland, Dan and Jan Bond, Wyman Brantley, Matt Brelje, Sheryl Burgstahler, John Burkardt, Tara Calishain, ... rst appeared in Verbatim: The Language Quarterly and are reprinted with permission. Adobe Acrobat eBook Reader October 2005 ISBN 0-0 6-0 8 898 7-X Library of Congress Cataloging- in...

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... nice, natu- ral pattern to it, across his chest and then a trail down his stomach, a T. —Augusten Burroughs, Sell - evision: A Novel 9. n. T- bone: a thick loin steak containing a T- shaped bone. ... T- shaped. 28. n. T rail: a rail with a T- shaped cross- section. 29. n. T plate: a T- shaped plate used as a splice and for stiffening a joint where the end of on...

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... Grammar The two of them had gone head- to- head for an hour now, and all he had left were the letters X and Q and there was nowhere on the Scrabble board to put them. —Susan Donovan, Take a ... class the letter Q had a tail. Why stop there? Ramona had thought. —Beverly Cleary, Ramona the Brave, referring to a Q drawn with ears and whiskers in addition to a tail. [I]t may be...

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... universal affi rmative A, the universal negative E, the par- ticular affi rmative I, and the particular negative O. 30. n. (mathematics) The natural number e, used as the base for natural logarithms ... liver oils, and fatty fish such as herring, mackerel, and salmon. —American Medical Association 29. n. (biology) Aspartate, an amino acid. 30. n. A layer of the ionosphere, as in the “...

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... Something having the shape of an A. 32. n. A- frame: a triangular supporting frame; a trian- gular, all- roof building. A- frame enthusiasts in the 195 0s and 196 0s were cor- rect in asserting that ... are yeast, alfalfa, and two Japanese seaweeds—wakame and kombu. —Ameri - can Medical Association 29. n. A blood type. Genes for types A and B are dominant, and will always...

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