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RE: Word Fight - 2/15/2006 11:58:18 AM   
Lordandmaster


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Status: offline 		"Desultory" (pronounced DESS-el-tory) is a nice word; it means unsustained, here and there, now going great guns now sagging and stagnating. Judging from his endorsement appearances, Bob Dole's erections must have been desultory.

The meaning of "tare" is absolutely correct. (I'm pretty sure the word is from Arabic, for those of you who love etymology: "something to be discounted, disregarded.") But no one has gotten "tret" yet. It's not related to tare, but is used in similar contexts.

Edited to add: Oh, I forgot to state the etymology of "desultory." I THINK it means "jumping from [one thing to another]." In that case, it's related to "somersault."

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New Word: Desultory



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RE: Word Fight - 2/15/2006 7:29:37 PM   
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Status: offline 		the word tare was also used in the bible (king james version) to describe vetch, a wastrel plant in fields..........

(one would think the bible of middle-eastern origin)

The other word, you did LaM, I can't figure it out, I may have to cheat and look it up.

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RE: Word Fight - 2/15/2006 10:13:19 PM   
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Nerds!!!! All of you.
Put down the dictionary and go outside and play like normal boys and girls.

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RE: Word Fight - 2/15/2006 10:52:03 PM   
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"Lanner" is indeed a kind of falcon. That one I knew.


I am 'raptorous' to learn what a lanner is!

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proleptic--for example (as long as we're talking about Shakespeare), the clock in Julius Caesar.


Now you've got me wondering: The Romans did have the concept of time divisions as did civilizations before them, but I wonder how they 'clocked' them? The Romans had clever engineers and surely had water clocks and hourglasses.

BTW, our division of minutes and seconds into 60 divisions is ancient. It dates back thousands of years to at least the Sumerians and Babylonians.

I generally agree with notter and naked… When I was in my teens I drove a forklift for a copper company. The weight of packaging and the pallet was considered 'tare'.

However, I have no idea what 'tret' is.

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RE: Word Fight - 2/15/2006 10:53:26 PM   
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Nerds!!!! All of you.
Put down the dictionary and go outside and play like normal boys and girls.


aileen is right: Bend over my knee, aileen!

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RE: Word Fight - 2/15/2006 11:06:42 PM   
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aileen is right: Bend over my knee, aileen!


I'm disappointed.
You couldn't come up with bigger words to say that?

Ooops LAM's gonna get mad since I've gone off topic.
I think he likes to stay focused. :)

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RE: Word Fight - 2/16/2006 1:01:15 AM   
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But no one has gotten "tret" yet. It's not related to tare, but is used in similar contexts.


When I was a kid, my step-grandfather owned a garbage company where we all worked during the summer for some pocket money. I worked the weigh station. :)

A tret is related to tare as it's the purchase allowance made after the tare is deducted. Because the dump site was regulated, we had to know exactly what went in to pay the city for the use and each site is limited on the amount of raw tonage which is allowed to go into it. Empty front loaders weigh in at about 30 tons, full ones about 90 tons. ::wonders how the hell she remembers this after 30+ years:: Damn.. that's kinda scary considering I don't know what I had for lunch today. lol

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RE: Word Fight - 2/16/2006 1:35:36 AM   
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When I was a kid, my step-grandfather owned a garbage company where we all worked during the summer for some pocket money.


Disney is a fascinating operation. They have jet engines (REAL jet engines) set up to provide power to WDW if they get dropped from the power grid. They also process and burn as fuel much of the garbage they collect. The output has a name something like 'fret' or 'firck'… Does that mean anyting in the real world or is that just a Disney word? They use this output in paving.

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RE: Word Fight - 2/16/2006 1:51:12 AM   
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I'm disappointed.
You couldn't come up with bigger words to say that?


Ahem!

Entwine thy torso over my femur whilst I flagellate thy posterior!

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RE: Word Fight - 2/16/2006 1:53:38 AM   
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Entwine thy torso over my femur whilst I flagellate thy posterior!


Now we're cooking!

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RE: Word Fight - 2/16/2006 2:38:25 AM   
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You can't have monkeys in the house.

Aileen68


Just cheat, miss. LMAO.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2536037.stm

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RE: Word Fight - 2/16/2006 3:29:21 AM   
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"lofiam"

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RE: Word Fight - 2/16/2006 7:48:37 AM   
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nw - gyve


a fetter or manacle, usually meant for use on the leg

new word - recto (hint - has NOTHING to do with anything anal)

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RE: Word Fight - 2/16/2006 8:20:02 AM   
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new word - recto

Thanatosis


hummmmmm....backward?

same word: "lofiam"

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RE: Word Fight - 2/16/2006 9:15:18 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Lordandmaster

"Desultory" (pronounced DESS-el-tory) is a nice word; it means unsustained, here and there, now going great guns now sagging and stagnating. Judging from his endorsement appearances, Bob Dole's erections must have been desultory.

The meaning of "tare" is absolutely correct. (I'm pretty sure the word is from Arabic, for those of you who love etymology: "something to be discounted, disregarded.") But no one has gotten "tret" yet. It's not related to tare, but is used in similar contexts.

Edited to add: Oh, I forgot to state the etymology of "desultory." I THINK it means "jumping from [one thing to another]." In that case, it's related to "somersault."


Totally right. The etymology's correct, too. The word is named for the ancient Roman circus actor, Desultus, who performed an act that consisted of jumping from horse to horse while they were in motion. That's where get the word desultory... literally meaning to jump quickly from one thing to another (many times with no obvious pattern of thought)... comes from.

I always thought that story was kind of neat. And the word definitely describes my conversation style.

Hmmm...I still have no idea what tret is then. Good one.

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RE: Word Fight - 2/16/2006 11:16:47 PM   
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Status: offline 		That's correct! "Tret" is an allowance made to the price of a thing, originally to compensate for spoilage in the process of shipping, but now used generally to cover any kind of downward adjustment in price.

OK, new word...perlustration

Edited to add: Oh, BTW, "recto" means the exact opposite of "backwards." It refers to the front side of a sheet or coin. A sheet has two sides, recto and verso, the front and the back. (That back is also sometimes called the "obverse.")

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ORIGINAL: BitaTruble

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But no one has gotten "tret" yet. It's not related to tare, but is used in similar contexts.


When I was a kid, my step-grandfather owned a garbage company where we all worked during the summer for some pocket money. I worked the weigh station. :)

A tret is related to tare as it's the purchase allowance made after the tare is deducted. Because the dump site was regulated, we had to know exactly what went in to pay the city for the use and each site is limited on the amount of raw tonage which is allowed to go into it. Empty front loaders weigh in at about 30 tons, full ones about 90 tons. ::wonders how the hell she remembers this after 30+ years:: Damn.. that's kinda scary considering I don't know what I had for lunch today. lol



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RE: Word Fight - 2/17/2006 12:24:41 AM   
Petruchio


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I have per(fect)lustration regarding perlustration. Hmm…?

Here's one I came across today: syllabub. (The Y can also be an I.)

And a trivia questoin: Name an obscene 4 letter word that comes directly to us from Sanskrit. It shares its root with another language-related word.

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RE: Word Fight - 2/17/2006 10:29:25 AM   
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Status: offline 		Sillabub is kind of like hot-buttered spiced rum. At least my Mom's recipe, anyway. It's awesome. It has rum, butter, spices, and milk. It's really sweet and spicy. I think Mom's recipe calls for melted vanilla ice cream. It's like eggnog though, more than one glass makes you hurl more profusely than an Olympic discus tosser.

I have no idea what perlustration is.

Here's a new word: anthropomorphism. I love that word.

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RE: Word Fight - 2/17/2006 10:35:51 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Lordandmaster
OK, new word...perlustration



LOL, it's what people accuse my mind of doing......wandering about.

Ron

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RE: Word Fight - 2/17/2006 11:18:22 AM   
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Here's a new word: anthropomorphism. I love that word.


It has to do with man-kind and human form, or what is not human?
Here I never thought I'd "dig" Anthropology in college and now I'm using it.

New word.....empirical this is one I like!

Oops, my bad Ron I think perlustration has something to do with volcanic glass?

O.K. two words are now out!

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