Termyn8or -> RE: WORDS YOU CAN USE! (2/25/2007 10:06:08 PM)
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EMBIGGER, verb, used in house remodeling or MRO in a building, embiggering is the process whereby the contractor or workman makes a hole in a wall or whatever, big enough to get through it what he needs to put through it. I must weigh in on discombobulate. I am an exspert on discombobulate, and it's other forms. DISCOMBOBULATE is a verb which means to take something apart. From the other post I gather that some have dcecided to use the term more colloquially, but I am pretty sure the intent of the word means a physical device or structure, not a situatuation. However, in English you can't bar such a usage, as I understand it. RECOMBOBULATE is to put something back together. Simple enough right ? Now we come to UNCONBOBULATE. Strangely, the word in this form is only properly used in the past tense, but not really. UNCOMBOBULATED is actually an adjective and describes an object not yet built or a device not yet assembled. If you are having a garage built, the pile of bricks in your yard is pretty much an UNCOMBOBULATED garage. Kapeesh ? Now to get to the root of the matter, it follows that to COMBOBULATE is to put something together. It should then follow that COMBOB is a noun describing something that is together. Any English teachers in here ? cause I am about at the end here. Think I'll go open a beer. Have fun. T
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