ONE - LETTER WORDS A Dictionary phần 7 ppt

... 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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... Darkness: Raymond Chandler, Detec - tive Fiction, and Film Noir 10. n. T- bone crash: a side- impact car crash, the two cars forming a T- shape. [S]ide- impact or T- bone crashes—where one ... forming a giant U valley. —Piers Anthony, Up in a Heaval: A Xanth Novell 11. n. U boat: a military submarine. Although Admiral Karl Doenitz, commander of the German U- boat flee...

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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 6-0 889 8 7- X Library of Congress Cataloging- i...

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... —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 belt with a V- ... spiritual,” according to Herman R. Bangerter, “Significance of Ancient, Geometric Symbols.” 2 07 X days on a calendar, one after the one. —Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase 22....

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... the uni- versal affi rmative A, the universal negative E, the particular affi rmative I, and the particular negative O. 39. n. Something arbitrarily designated O (e.g., a per- son, place, or ... 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 Roma...

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... 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 ... con- stant for the dissociation of an acid into a hydro- gen ion and an anion. 16. n. Ionization constant, or the equilibrium constant for the hydrolysis reaction associated with a base....

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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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... 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 ... a word. It was the top of the cap - ital letter F. —Barbara D’Amato, Help Me Please 5. n. A device, such as a printer’s type, for reproduc - ing the letter. LAYERS AND L...

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... certain one. A Mr. Po called. 30. prep. Another. a Mona Lisa in beauty SHAPES AND SIZES 31. n. Something having the shape of an A. 32. n. A- frame: a triangular supporting frame; a trian- gular, ... herring, and oysters), lean meats, poultry, cheese, and eggs are also good sources. The only known plant sources are yeast, alfalfa, and two Japanese seaweeds—wakame and kombu....

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