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RE: Word Fight - 4/22/2006 4:25:13 PM   
Lordandmaster


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Status: offline 		Yeah, the "cellar" is the storeroom, so the "cellarer" is the person in charge of keeping the institution supplied with provisions.  (In German, a "Kellner," from "Keller," is a waiter.)

A "cenobite" is, literally, a member of a community that lives together.  Usually it refers to a monk or a nun.

"Qarmatians" are (or were?) a Middle Eastern sect, but I don't know anything about them.

Next one..."macrobiote"

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RE: Word Fight - 4/22/2006 6:59:16 PM   
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"Qarmatians" are (or were?) a Middle Eastern sect, but I don't know anything about them.

Yes. They were of Islamic religion, who controlled much of Arabia from the 9th to 11th centuries. An alternate spelling is Karmathian.
 
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  macrobiote"

I think that this is a vegetarian?

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RE: Word Fight - 4/22/2006 7:04:14 PM   
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Status: offline 		biote is life and macro is large...so large life?

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RE: Word Fight - 4/22/2006 7:07:17 PM   
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RE: Word Fight - 4/22/2006 7:12:12 PM   
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Status: offline 		Yes, a macrobiote is someone who has lived a long time, especially someone who has followed a specific regimen designed to promote long life.  Not all vegetarians are macrobiotes (because not all vegetarians are old, nor do they all maintain a vegetarian diet for the sole purpose of living long), but if someone has lived a long time on a vegetarian diet, it would be fair to call him or her a macrobiote.

Your turn, bandit.

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RE: Word Fight - 4/22/2006 7:21:14 PM   
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RE: Word Fight - 4/22/2006 7:23:45 PM   
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RE: Word Fight - 4/22/2006 7:24:53 PM   
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"Tabanca"

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RE: Word Fight - 4/22/2006 7:25:19 PM   
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RE: Word Fight - 4/22/2006 7:28:43 PM   
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RE: Word Fight - 4/22/2006 7:49:01 PM   
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Status: offline 		Smiling...I looked up "tabanca," but that wasn't easy.  It's not in OED.  Anyone know it?

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RE: Word Fight - 4/22/2006 8:44:47 PM   
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Status: offline 		Tabanca = sort of a gun, a bit like a .38 would be like, i think.

*martinet*

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RE: Word Fight - 4/22/2006 11:06:59 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hmmmm...where did you find that definition of "tabanca"?  That's not the one I found.  But I can't say it's wrong, because I didn't know the word before finding it in the Encarta dictionary--and it's not in OED.  Tikkiee, what's your call?

The Encarta definition, incidentally, has a serious error any way you wanna slice it.  It's listed as a NOUN, and the definition is "brokenhearted."  OK, "brokenhearted" is not a noun.  After "brokenhearted," Encarta has "a painful feeling of unrequited love."  THAT'S a noun.

Also, we already did "martinet."

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RE: Word Fight - 4/23/2006 6:50:28 AM   
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Status: offline 		LOL it's a noun that refers to an emotion much like having a broken heart.

http://users.rcn.com/alana.interport/dialect.html

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RE: Word Fight - 4/23/2006 10:04:08 AM   
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Whose turn is it now?  Tikkiee, why don't you just go again.

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RE: Word Fight - 4/23/2006 10:08:23 AM   
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"Meiosis"

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RE: Word Fight - 4/23/2006 10:16:05 AM   
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Status: offline 		OK, there's a science term I know.  I'm sure you can give a better explanation of it, but that's when cells divide and the number of chromosomes is reduced by half.  As opposed to the way amoebas do it.  The effect of meiosis is to increase genetic diversity in the offspring.

It's also a lovely and useful rhetoric term.  It means "diminution," in other words, understating the case.  "I might enjoy winning the lottery" is an example of meiosis.

Next one..."gimcrack"

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RE: Word Fight - 4/23/2006 10:24:58 AM   
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RE: Word Fight - 4/23/2006 10:31:03 AM   
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RE: Word Fight - 4/23/2006 10:36:35 AM   
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