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Dictionaries RSS Feedsstumper - First, what the loggers call a stumper uses its arm to chop down some trees. The first batch of trees, from the start line to the edge of the property line, are laid across the swamp. The stumper?s large, tank-like track tires distribute the weight enough to let it tiptoe across the trees it has just put down. Once a road of about five layers is built, the other machinery, 25-ton tree-toters, carry the timber back to a loading dock. At the dock, small cranes hoist the tree carcasses, dip them onto a saw and then drop them into a tractor-trailer. Finally, the stumper picks up the trees it used for a bridge on the swampy land and loads them onto a truck. This job, which will take about three weeks to finish, will yield about 80 truckloads a week.. ...Feed Source: feeds.feedburner.com polliwogging - Iowa DNR fisheries technician Adam Thiese found the first Higgins eye within 30 minutes of the opening bell. Using a technique dubbed ?polliwogging,? he slipped downstream on his knees, probing the bottom with his hands until he found the mussel near a shoreline log.. ... grizzle - Get this formula wrong, however, and the finished glass would be unstable. It would continue to absorb moisture from the air and become cloudy in a process called grizzling. Thanks to the wonders of modern atmospherically controlled display cases, you can see one of Ravenscroft?s early mistakes (it looks like a frosted mug).. ... white water - Large storage tanks at paper mills?especially those that are stagnant, poorly mixed, or have long material retention times?are at an elevated risk for the growth of anaerobic bacteria. Recycled process water, known in the industry as ?white water,? contains nutrients that promote growth of the organisms, producing hydrogen or other flammable gases that can be ignited by hot work or other sources of ignition.. ... gunning for the stops - SmartStocks.net monitors nearly 5,000 listed stocks and ETFs that trade at more than $5 per share and average at least 40,000 shares in daily trading volume. After the close, it sends subscribers an email, giving both short-term (if the selling time horizon less than six months) and longer-term stop points for the securities registered in their portfolio, so they can place their orders. Then subscribers get an email alert when the stop-points are reached, so if they haven?t already placed an open stop-loss order they can call their brokers to sell.?Could all those stop-loss orders become a trigger point for aggressive traders who want to cause further market declines? It?s a practice known as ?gunning for the stops.?. ... post-shellular - The chameleon spends some two-thirds of its abbreviated existence as an egg buried in sand, with a mere 16 to 20 weeks allocated to all post-shellular affairs.. ... high water mark - Finally, most hedge funds have something called a high water mark. It requires hedge fund managers to make investors whole before they can start collecting their 20 percent of the profits?regardless of how long that takes. Hedge fund managers don?t get to start from scratch every Jan. 1 the way their mutual fund brethren do.. ... waz - The team name Wazwagamafs comes from waz (Marine lingo for fantastic) and ?wagamafs, (wives and girlfriends and mums and families/friends).. ... time bomb - Although it?s common for software developers to code a time limit into beta releases to force users to install the final version of a product, such automated deadlines?often called ?time bombs??are supposed to be removed at the end of the beta process.. ... bedder - More on Bedder 6, the unlikely name given to Jeremy Clarkson and his Top Gear executive producer Andy Wilman?s production company. Monkey?s mind may be even more puerile than Clarkson?s. Last week we speculated it might be a lame play on words?Bedder 6, better sex, that sort of thing?but now it appears it might be a reference to their alma mater, Repton School in Derbyshire, where the slang for dormitory was ?bedder.? See? ?Both were borders at the Priory boarding house,? reports former staffer James McLaren.. ... gasoline siding - The wood-frame home, which is adjacent to Vale Park on the south side of Eastern Avenue, also has what firefighters euphemistically call ?gasoline siding"?a petroleum-based imitation brick that feeds the flames.. ... night lunch - As our lovely little girl, Anna, came early, we had to spend a few extra weeks in the hospital with her. My wife and I learned a few things.?There?s a mystical fourth meal around 9pm called ?night lunch.?. ... mudjacking - The repairs to Sprigg Street have included removing fill material put in place to raise the roadbed following the Great Flood of 1993, material that had deteriorated badly, Gramling said. ?It was just kind of a mud instead of soil,? Gramling said. ?It looked like it was acting more like a sponge than a support for the pavement."?The cost of the work to be done next week won?t be known until the contractor is able to make the test drillings, Gramling said. The city pays on a per-truckload basis for the process known as mudjacking.. ... skeet-shooting - A special technique, known as ?skeet-shooting,? was developed by controllers to cancel out the high speed of the moon relative to Cassini and also help obtain ultra-sharp views as the spacecraft sped past the icy moon at 64,000 kilometers per hour (40,000 miles per hour) on August 11. ?Knowing exactly where to point, at just the right time, was critical to this event,? said Paul Helfenstein, Cassini imaging team associate at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY., who developed and used the skeet-shoot technique to design the image sequence. ?The challenge is equivalent to trying to capture a sharp, unsmeared picture of a distant roadside billboard with a telephoto lens out the window of a speeding car.?. ... permabear - Then there was the espouser of doom himself: Roubini was known to be a perpetual pessimist, what economists call a ?permabear.? When the economist Anirvan Banerji delivered his response to Roubini?s talk, he noted that Roubini?s predictions did not make use of mathematical models and dismissed his hunches as those of a career naysayer.. ... DFD-er - The trip to Rockaway Beach involves riding the A train over a different sort of New York landmark: Jamaica Bay. At the 116th Street stop is a busy area with delis and beach shops and, where 116th Street meets the ocean, an open-air establishment called the Sand Bar where a mix of locals and DFD-ers (local shorthand meaning ?down for the day?) drink at the bar or at picnic tables overlooking the boardwalk.. ... dropout factory - Tonia Causey-Bush, a district administrator, said districts with significant dropout numbers are often called ?dropout factories,? but that?s an incorrect label for Rialto Unified.. ... slotting - The dynamic of these negotiations is interesting. On the one side, you have the Pirates, who have traditionally adhered to recommended bonuses, a practice known as slotting. Handing out bonuses over slot hasn?t been the norm for the organization, but they have also tended to draft players considered to have signability issues.. ... hydromowing - The local agencies use three approaches to curbing fire threat?prescribed burning, hand thinning and a relatively new practice known as hydromowing, where a large spinning drum with carbide teeth shreds small trees and brush.. ... suicide gown - Across the way, about a dozen inmates are engaged in a ?socialization? exercise. Some participants are chained to benches?"for civilian workers? safety,? as Hong explains it. Others sit listlessly at tables, in long draping ponchos that deputies refer to as ?suicide gowns.?. ... stumper - First, what the loggers call a stumper uses its arm to chop down some trees. The first batch of trees, from the start line to the edge of the property line, are laid across the swamp. The stumper?s large, tank-like track tires distribute the weight enough to let it tiptoe across the trees it has just put down. Once a road of about five layers is built, the other machinery, 25-ton tree-toters, carry the timber back to a loading dock. At the dock, small cranes hoist the tree carcasses, dip them onto a saw and then drop them into a tractor-trailer. Finally, the stumper picks up the trees it used for a bridge on the swampy land and loads them onto a truck. This job, which will take about three weeks to finish, will yield about 80 truckloads a week.. ... polliwogging - Iowa DNR fisheries technician Adam Thiese found the first Higgins eye within 30 minutes of the opening bell. Using a technique dubbed ?polliwogging,? he slipped downstream on his knees, probing the bottom with his hands until he found the mussel near a shoreline log.. ... grizzle - Get this formula wrong, however, and the finished glass would be unstable. It would continue to absorb moisture from the air and become cloudy in a process called grizzling. Thanks to the wonders of modern atmospherically controlled display cases, you can see one of Ravenscroft?s early mistakes (it looks like a frosted mug).. ... white water - Large storage tanks at paper mills?especially those that are stagnant, poorly mixed, or have long material retention times?are at an elevated risk for the growth of anaerobic bacteria. Recycled process water, known in the industry as ?white water,? contains nutrients that promote growth of the organisms, producing hydrogen or other flammable gases that can be ignited by hot work or other sources of ignition.. ... gunning for the stops - SmartStocks.net monitors nearly 5,000 listed stocks and ETFs that trade at more than $5 per share and average at least 40,000 shares in daily trading volume. After the close, it sends subscribers an email, giving both short-term (if the selling time horizon less than six months) and longer-term stop points for the securities registered in their portfolio, so they can place their orders. Then subscribers get an email alert when the stop-points are reached, so if they haven?t already placed an open stop-loss order they can call their brokers to sell.?Could all those stop-loss orders become a trigger point for aggressive traders who want to cause further market declines? It?s a practice known as ?gunning for the stops.?. ... post-shellular - The chameleon spends some two-thirds of its abbreviated existence as an egg buried in sand, with a mere 16 to 20 weeks allocated to all post-shellular affairs.. ... high water mark - Finally, most hedge funds have something called a high water mark. It requires hedge fund managers to make investors whole before they can start collecting their 20 percent of the profits?regardless of how long that takes. Hedge fund managers don?t get to start from scratch every Jan. 1 the way their mutual fund brethren do.. ... waz - The team name Wazwagamafs comes from waz (Marine lingo for fantastic) and ?wagamafs, (wives and girlfriends and mums and families/friends).. ... time bomb - Although it?s common for software developers to code a time limit into beta releases to force users to install the final version of a product, such automated deadlines?often called ?time bombs??are supposed to be removed at the end of the beta process.. ... bedder - More on Bedder 6, the unlikely name given to Jeremy Clarkson and his Top Gear executive producer Andy Wilman?s production company. Monkey?s mind may be even more puerile than Clarkson?s. Last week we speculated it might be a lame play on words?Bedder 6, better sex, that sort of thing?but now it appears it might be a reference to their alma mater, Repton School in Derbyshire, where the slang for dormitory was ?bedder.? See? ?Both were borders at the Priory boarding house,? reports former staffer James McLaren.. ... gasoline siding - The wood-frame home, which is adjacent to Vale Park on the south side of Eastern Avenue, also has what firefighters euphemistically call ?gasoline siding"?a petroleum-based imitation brick that feeds the flames.. ... night lunch - As our lovely little girl, Anna, came early, we had to spend a few extra weeks in the hospital with her. My wife and I learned a few things.?There?s a mystical fourth meal around 9pm called ?night lunch.?. ... mudjacking - The repairs to Sprigg Street have included removing fill material put in place to raise the roadbed following the Great Flood of 1993, material that had deteriorated badly, Gramling said. ?It was just kind of a mud instead of soil,? Gramling said. ?It looked like it was acting more like a sponge than a support for the pavement."?The cost of the work to be done next week won?t be known until the contractor is able to make the test drillings, Gramling said. The city pays on a per-truckload basis for the process known as mudjacking.. ... skeet-shooting - A special technique, known as ?skeet-shooting,? was developed by controllers to cancel out the high speed of the moon relative to Cassini and also help obtain ultra-sharp views as the spacecraft sped past the icy moon at 64,000 kilometers per hour (40,000 miles per hour) on August 11. ?Knowing exactly where to point, at just the right time, was critical to this event,? said Paul Helfenstein, Cassini imaging team associate at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY., who developed and used the skeet-shoot technique to design the image sequence. ?The challenge is equivalent to trying to capture a sharp, unsmeared picture of a distant roadside billboard with a telephoto lens out the window of a speeding car.?. ... permabear - Then there was the espouser of doom himself: Roubini was known to be a perpetual pessimist, what economists call a ?permabear.? When the economist Anirvan Banerji delivered his response to Roubini?s talk, he noted that Roubini?s predictions did not make use of mathematical models and dismissed his hunches as those of a career naysayer.. ... DFD-er - The trip to Rockaway Beach involves riding the A train over a different sort of New York landmark: Jamaica Bay. At the 116th Street stop is a busy area with delis and beach shops and, where 116th Street meets the ocean, an open-air establishment called the Sand Bar where a mix of locals and DFD-ers (local shorthand meaning ?down for the day?) drink at the bar or at picnic tables overlooking the boardwalk.. ... dropout factory - Tonia Causey-Bush, a district administrator, said districts with significant dropout numbers are often called ?dropout factories,? but that?s an incorrect label for Rialto Unified.. ... slotting - The dynamic of these negotiations is interesting. On the one side, you have the Pirates, who have traditionally adhered to recommended bonuses, a practice known as slotting. Handing out bonuses over slot hasn?t been the norm for the organization, but they have also tended to draft players considered to have signability issues.. ... hydromowing - The local agencies use three approaches to curbing fire threat?prescribed burning, hand thinning and a relatively new practice known as hydromowing, where a large spinning drum with carbide teeth shreds small trees and brush.. ... suicide gown - Across the way, about a dozen inmates are engaged in a ?socialization? exercise. Some participants are chained to benches?"for civilian workers? safety,? as Hong explains it. Others sit listlessly at tables, in long draping ponchos that deputies refer to as ?suicide gowns.?. ... juju: Dictionary.com Word of the Day - juju: an object superstitiously believed to embody magical powers.... Copyright © 2008, Real Estate Investment Tips. 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