Thorne - Dictionary of Contemporary Slang 3e

... environmental regulations of the country of origin. Text typeset by A & C Black Publishers Printed in Spain by GraphyCems eISBN-13: 97 8-1 -4 08 1-0 22 0-6 ISBN-10 0 7136 7529 2 ISBN-13 978 0 7136 7592 ... in spite of the appearance of more picturesque but ephemeral alternatives. In the late 1980s, adherents of the acid house cult adopted the word as a slogan (usually a c...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2013, 22:15

... privacy of their own homes, of course. coffin nail 1. and coffin tack n. a ciga- rette. (Old.) ᮀ No more coffin nails for me. ᮀ Every coffin tack you smoke takes a little off the end of your ... drink of liquor. ᮀ How about another coffin nail? ᮀ Coffin nail sounds bad. Drink sounds good. coffin tack Go to coffin nail. coffin varnish n. inferior liquor. ᮀ You want some more o...

Ngày tải lên: 30/11/2013, 17:03

... in- formation. 194 BAR {-1 0 12} V {-+ } N {-+ } PRD {- . 4-} qUA {- +} ADV {- ÷} FXN {- +} PAST {- +} PLU {- +} a. open class vocabulary AT {-+ } LAT {- ÷} AGR a catesory STEM a ... a system of gram- matical tagging of major syntactic classes, offering de- tailed information about subcategorisation, morpho- logical irregularity and br...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 02:20

... US, 1902 box of birds; box of ducks noun a state of great contentment NEW ZEALAND , 1943 box of fruit; bowl of fruit noun a suit. Rhyming slang NEW Z EALAND, 1963 box of L noun a box of 100 ampoules ... 2002 boomps-a-daisy! used as a childish catchphrase or light-hearted response to trivialise a minor physical accident. Blending WHOOPS-A- DAISY! with ‘bump’. ‘Hands, Knees and...

Ngày tải lên: 24/01/2014, 08:20

... and the pre-mium paid for the goodwill is writtenoff against the year’s earningsacross-the-board/əkrɒs ðə bɔd/adjectiveapplying to everything or ev-eryonećan across-the-board price in-crease ... ofimports of French wine.ćThe sup-plier’s absolute monopoly of the prod-uct meant that customers had to accepthis terms.absolute title/bsəlut tat(ə)l/nouna form of ownership of a piece...

Ngày tải lên: 03/10/2012, 10:53

... (Stocks)The beta of a stock is determined as follows:[(n) (sum of (xy)) ]-[ (sum of x) (sum of y)][(n) (sum of (xx)) ]-[ (sum of x) (sum of x)]where: n = # of observations (2 4-6 0 months)x = rate of return ... x) (sum of y)][(n) (sum of (xx)) ]-[ (sum of x) (sum of x)]where: n = # of observations (36 months)x = rate of return for the S&P 500 Indexy =...

Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2012, 08:22

... (Stocks)The beta of a stock is determined as follows:[(n) (sum of (xy)) ]-[ (sum of x) (sum of y)][(n) (sum of (xx)) ]-[ (sum of x) (sum of x)]where: n = # of observations (2 4-6 0 months)x = rate of return ... x) (sum of y)][(n) (sum of (xx)) ]-[ (sum of x) (sum of x)]where: n = # of observations (36 months)x = rate of return for the S&P 500 Indexy =...

Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2012, 08:22

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Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2012, 09:47

... vice versa. Out -of- the-money option A call option is out -of- the-money if the strike price is greater than the market price of the underlying security. A put option is out -of- the-money if the strike ... (xx)) ]-[ (sum of x) (sum of x)] [(n) (sum of (xy)) ]-[ (sum of x) (sum of y)] The beta of a fund is determined as follows: Beta equation (Mutual Funds) Beta (Mutua...

Ngày tải lên: 23/10/2012, 14:24