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| <aiml version="1.0"> | |
| <!-- Free software (c) 2001 ALICE AI Foundation --> | |
| <!-- This program is open source code released under --> | |
| <!-- the terms of the GNU General Public License --> | |
| <!-- as published by the Free Software Foundation. --> | |
| <!-- This file contains the definitions of single words just like a dictionary. --> | |
| <meta name="author" content="Thomas Ringate"/> | |
| <meta name="language" content="en"/> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE A</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The first letter of the roman alphabet. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE AARDVARK</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An aardvark is a south african ant eating animal. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE AARDWOLF</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An aardwolf is a carnivorous mammal. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ABA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An aba is a sack like garment worn by arabs. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ABACUS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An abacus is a counting frame. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ABBA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>Abba is a father, it is the title of a bishop in the Syrian, Coptic, and Ethiopian Christian | |
| churches.</li> | |
| <li>Abba means father in Hebrew.It is used as an appelation of respect.</li> | |
| <li>Abba was this real cool 'seventies band man.</li> | |
| <li>Anna, Bjorn, Benny and Agnetha.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ABBESS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An abbess is the female superior of a community of nuns. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ABBEY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An abbey is a body of monks or a monastic building. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ABBOT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An abbot is the male superior of a community of monks. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ABBRACADABRA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Abbracadabra is a qabbalistic magic word. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ABBREVIATION</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An abbreviation is a short form of a word or words. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ABDOMEN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>The abdomen is the part of a creature's body between diaphragm and pelvis.</li> | |
| <li>The area between the thorax and the pelvis, normally referred to as the stomach.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ABODE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Abode is a place where something lives. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ABOMASUM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An abomasum is the fourth stomach of a ruminant. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ABORIGINE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An aborigine is a member of an indigenous people. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ABORTION</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Abortion is the expulsion of the foetus from the uterus. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ABSCESS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An abscess is a pus filled infection of an animal. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ABSURDISM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Absurdism is the philosophy that we exist in a meaningless, irrational universe. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ABYSS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An abyss is a very deep gorge. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ACACIA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The acacia is a leguminosae found in warm climates. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ACANTHUS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The acanthus is a herbaceous plant of south europe, asia and africa. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ACCELERATION</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Acceleration is the rate at which a moving body increases in velocity. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ACCELERATOR</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An accelerator is a device for increasing speed. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ACCENT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An accent is a local mode of pronunciation in speech. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ACCENTOR</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An accentor is a type of bird of the prunelliadae family. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ACCORDION</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An accordion is a small portable musical instrument with a keyboard and bellows. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ACCURACY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>Accuracy is the quality or state of being accurate or exact.</li> | |
| <li>Accuracy represents the degree of certainty in measurement. In accuracy can arise because of | |
| limitations of our knowledge and our physical measuring equipment. Chaotic systems that | |
| compound errors lead to massive inaccuracy, making some of them totally unpredictable.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ACE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An ace is a playing card with one pip. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ACETAL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Acetal is a colourless liquid formed by oxidation of alcohol. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ACETONE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Acetone is a colourless liquid with the formulae ch2coch3. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ACETYLENE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Acetylene is a highly inflammable gas of the hydrocarbon family used for welding and cutting | |
| metals. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ACHILLES TENDON</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The Achilles Tendon is the tendon which connects the heel with the calf of the leg, and is the | |
| principal extensor of the foot. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ACID</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An acid is a chemical compound that reacts with metals to form salts by releasing hydrogen. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ACLINIC</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The aclinic is a magnetic equator. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ACNE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Acne is a skin eruption due to inflammation of the sebaceous glands. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ACONITE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Aconite is a poisonous plant. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ACONITINE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Aconitine is a poisonous alkaloid derived from aconite. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ACORN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The acorn is the fruit of the oak tree. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ACOTYLEDON</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An acotyledon is a plant with no distinct seed leaves, such as moss and fern. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ACRE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An acre is a measurement of land area being 4840 square yards. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ACROMEGALY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Acromegaly is a disease due to over activity of the pituitary gland results in excessive bone | |
| growth, especially the skull. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ACRONYM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>An acronym is a word formed from the initials of other words.</li> | |
| <li>An acronym is an abbreviation made of letters, like A.L.I.C.E.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ACROPHOBIA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Acrophobia is the fear of high places. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ACRYLIC</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Acrylic is a synthetic fibre derived from acrylic acid. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ACTINIUM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Actinium is a radioactive element. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ACTIVATION</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| In stimulus-response, activation means the input "firing" in response to a matching pattern. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ACTOR</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An actor is a dramatic performer. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ADA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| ADA is a trademark used for a structured computer programming language | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ADDAX</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An addax is a large antelope found in north african deserts. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ADDER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An adder is a venomous snake found in england. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ADENOIDS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Adenoids is the pathological enlargement of the lymphoid tissue. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ADHESIVE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An adhesive is a sticky substance. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ADIPOCERE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Adipocere is a substance in dead bodies formed by decomposition of fatty acids when exposed to | |
| moisture. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ADIT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An adit is the horizontal entrance to a mine. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ADMIRAL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Admiral is a rank in the navy. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ADOBE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An adobe is a mexican house made of clay bricks. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ADSL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Line. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ADULT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An adult is a fully grown being. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ADULTERY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>voluntary sexual intercourse between a married man and someone other than his wife or | |
| between a married woman and someone other than her husband; also : an act of adultery.</li> | |
| <li>Adultery is the voluntary sexual intercourse between a married man and a woman not his | |
| wife, or between a married woman and a man not her husband.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ADVERTISING</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The art of selling through media. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ADYTUM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An adytum is the inner most part of a temple. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ADZE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An adze is a carpenter's tool for cutting away the surface of wood. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE AERIAL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An aerial is a receiving or radiating device used in radio communications. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE AERODROME</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An aerodrome is a place where aircraft are based. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE AERODYNAMICS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Making airplanes fly. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE AGAR</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Agar is a laxative substance obtained from seaweed. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE AGARIC</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The agaric is a family of fungus. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE AGATE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Agate is a semi precious stone comprised mainly of silica. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE AGENDA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An agenda is a list of tasks. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE AGNES</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Agnes is the patron saint of virgins. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE AGNI</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Agni is the hindu god of fire. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE AGORAPHOBIA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Agoraphobia is the fear of open spaces. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE AIDS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| AIDS is the modern day plague. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE AIKIDO</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Japanese martial arts similar to Judo. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE AIM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| American Indian Movement. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE AIR</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The normal atmosphere of Earth, mostly nitrogen, oxygen and carbon dioxide. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE AIRCRAFT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An aircraft is a flying machine, a vessel which flies through the air rather than floats on water or | |
| travels along a road or rail. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE AISLE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An aisle is a passage between rows of seats. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE AK47</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The ak47 is a russian assault rifle. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ALBACORE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The albacore is a species of fish. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ALBATROSS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The albatross is a long winged oceanic bird. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ALBURNUM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The alburnum is the recently formed wood in trees. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ALCATRAZ</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A former prison island in San Francisco. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ALCOHOL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Alcohol is a termed used by Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus for fine powder, meaning distilled | |
| spirit. It is colorless, volatile, and a pungent liquid. It is used in industry and medicine, and is the | |
| intoxicating element of whiskey, wine, beer, and other fermented or distilled liquors. It is classed | |
| as a depressant drug, also called ethyl alcohol. Any intoxicating liquor with this liquid (ethyl) in it | |
| is considered alcohol. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ALDER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The alder is a type of tree of the birch family. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ALGEBRA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>a generalization of arithmetic in which letters representing numbers are combined according | |
| to the rules of arithmetic.</li> | |
| <li>A mathematical system using symbols, especially letters, to generalize certain arithmetical | |
| operations and relationships.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ALGORITHM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>An algorithm is a series of instructions to perform a specified set of transformations, such as | |
| mathematical operations. | |
| <br />A computer program, like myself is an algorithm. | |
| <br />So are the rules of a game, or the score to a piece of music.</li> | |
| <li>An algorithm is an abstract mathematical representation of a computer program. Like alice | |
| uses a CBR algorithm.</li> | |
| <li>An algorithm is a set of rules.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ALIMENTARY CANAL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The alimentary canal is the channel in an animal through which food passes. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ALKALI</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An alkali is a chemical substance. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ALLAH</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Allah is the muslim name of god. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ALLERGY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An allergy is a hypersensitivity of body tissue to a substance. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ALLEY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An alley is a narrow street. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ALLIGATOR</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An alligator is a crocodilian reptile. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ALLOY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An alloy is a mixture of a metal and other metals or non metals. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ALPHA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Alpha is the first letter of the greek alphabet. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ALTAR</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An altar is a block used for making offerings to a deity. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ALTAVISTA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Altavista is a search engine. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ALTHING</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The althing is the parliament of iceland, it was created in 930 and is the oldest parliamentary | |
| assembly in the world. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ALTIMETER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An altimeter is a device measuring altitude. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ALUMINIUM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Aluminium is a light silvery metal element. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ALVEOLUS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An alveolus is a lung air sac where gas exchange with the blood occurs. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE AMBIGUOUS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Ambiguous means having two or more possible meanings. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE AMENTACEAE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Amentaceae is the family of trees and plants where the flowers are arranged in the form of catkins. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE AMETHYST</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Amethyst is a precious stone. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE AMMETER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An ammeter is a device for measuring electrical current. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE AMMONIA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Ammonia is a colourless gas. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE AMOEBA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An amoeba is a primitive one cell animal. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE AMPERE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The ampere is the fundamental unit of measurement of electrical current. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE AMPHETAMINE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Amphetamine is a drug that induces sleeplessness. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE AMPHITHEATRE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An amphitheatre is a circular or ovular arena surrounded by tiers of seats. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ANAEMIA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Anaemia is the medical condition of lacking red blood cells. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ANALGESIC</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An analgesic is a pain reliever. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ANARCHISM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Anarchism is the theory that all forms of government interfere unjustly with individual liberty and | |
| should be replaced by the voluntary association of cooperative groups. Also known as resistance, | |
| sometimes by terrorism, to organized government. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ANARCHY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>political disorder due to the absence of governmental authority.</li> | |
| <li>Anarchy is the complete absence of government. Also seen as political disorder and violence | |
| or lawlessness. Disorder in an sphere of activity.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ANATOMY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Anatomy is the study of animal's structure. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ANCHOR</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An anchor is a heavy implement used for securing boats at sea. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ANEMOMETER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An anemometer is a device for measuring wind speed. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ANGER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A strong billigerent emotion aroused by some real or supposed grievance. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ANGRY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A strong billigerent emotion aroused by some real or supposed grievance. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ANIMAL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>An animal is a form of living thing, excluding plants and fungus.</li> | |
| <li>An animal is a living creature endowed with voluntary movement.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ANIME</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Japanese animation. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ANKLE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The ankle is the joint connecting the foot with the leg. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ANONYMOUS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Having no name or identity. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ANT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An ant is a small hymenopterous insect. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ANTENNA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An antenna is a sensory organ found on the head of insects. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ANTHRAX</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Anthrax is a disease of sheep and cattle transmittable to humans. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ANTHROPOLOGY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Anthropology is the study of humans as animals. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ANTIBIOTIC</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An antibiotic is a substance that inhibits the growth of micro organisms. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ANTIBODY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An antibody is a bodily protein that inactivates infection. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| It is the longest word in the English language. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ANTIDOTE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An antidote is a drug used to counteract poison. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ANTIMATTER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Fuel for Starships. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ANTIMONY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Antimony is a metal element. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ANUS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>The anus is the exterior entry into the rectum.</li> | |
| <li>The anus is the opening at the end of the alimentary canal.</li> | |
| <li>The opening of the rectum, or large intestine, to the outside of the body.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ANVIL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An anvil is a block used by metal smiths. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ANYTHING</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Any object, occurance, or matter what so ever. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE AOL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| AOL is a giant Internet and Media corporation. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE AORTA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The aorta is the artery leaving the heart and carrying blood to the body. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE APATITE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Apatite is a calcium phosphate mineral of 5 mohs. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE APPLE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An apple is the edible fruit of the trees of genus malus, rosaceae family. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE APRICOT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The apricot is a fruit tree native to asia. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE AQUEDUCT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An aqueduct is a channel in which water flows by gravity. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ARCHAEOLOGY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>It's the study of ancient civilizations... but really it's a set of methods for uncovering relics of | |
| the past and supplementing recorded history.</li> | |
| <li>The scientific study of the life and culture of past, especially ancient, peoples, as by | |
| excavation of ancient cities, relics, artifacts, etc.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ARCHITECTURE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>The art and science of the design and manipulation of space. Well at least that's what my | |
| architect friend told me.</li> | |
| <li>Architects do with buildings what sculptors do with stone.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ARGALI</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The argali is a wild sheep found in siberia. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ARM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The arm is a limb extending from the shoulder of an animal. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ARMADILLO</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The armadillo is a mammal native to south and central america. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ARMAGEDDON</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The end of the world. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ARMATURE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An armature is a part of an electrical motor or dynamo. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ARMOUR</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Armour is a protective covering. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ARMS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Arms is a military term referring to weapons. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ARROW</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An arrow is a missile projected by a bow. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ARSENAL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An arsenal is a place for storing weapons. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ARSENIC</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Arsenic is a poisonous element. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ART</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Sometimes the definition of art depends on the artist; other times it depends on the critic. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ARTERY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An artery is a vessel that conveys blood from the heart. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ASBESTOS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Asbestos is a fibrous mineral with a high melting and combustion point. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ASCORBIC ACID</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Ascorbic acid is a simple organic acid found in citrus fruits. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ASEXUAL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Asexual is a biological term refering to plants and animals which reproduce by division rather than | |
| sexually. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ASH</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The ash is a type of tree yielding strong elastic timber. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ASP</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The asp is a type of poisonous snake. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ASPARTAME</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Aspirin mixed into chewing gum. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ASPEN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The aspen is a tree native to europe, north africa and north asia. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ASPHALT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Asphalt is a material used for road coverings. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ASSEMBLER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A computer program that translates a low-level programming language into machine language. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ASSIMILATION</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The cultural absorption of a minority group into the main cultural body. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ASTEROID</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An asteroid is a minor planetary body. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ASTHMA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Asthma is a disease characterized by breathing difficulties. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ASTROLOGY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Astrology is the science of the relationship between events and the stars. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ASTRONOMY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The science of the universe in which the stars, planets, etc. are studied, including their origins, | |
| evolution, composition, motions, relative positions, sizes, etc. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ASTUTE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Wisdom in political matters. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ATHLETICS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Athletics is the sport of physical games. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ATOM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An atom is the smallest quantity of a chemical element which can enter into combination or take | |
| part in a chemical reaction. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE AU</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| It could be "gold" or "Australia." | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE AVERAGE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A number that typifies a set of which it is a function. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE AXE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An axe is a metal tool for chopping and cleaving. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE AYUH</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <set name="it">Ayuh | |
| </set>means "yes". | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BABOON</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The baboon is a medium sized monkey of the genus papio. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BACCARAT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Baccarat is a gambling card game. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BACON</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Bacon is the cured flesh of the pig. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BACTERIOLOGY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| This is the scientific study of bacteria and diseases caused by them. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BADGER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The badger is a carnivorous mammal found in england. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BADLY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| How much do you want | |
| <get name="it"/>? | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BADMINGTON</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Badmington is a game played on a court divided in half by a 30 inch deep net five feet above the | |
| ground. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BAGPIPE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The bagpipe is a scottish musical instrument. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BAKELITE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Bakelite is a strong synthetic material resistant to heat and chemicals. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BAKER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A baker is a person who manufacturers bread. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BALALAIKA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A balalaika is a stringed russian musical instrument. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BALDRIC</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A baldric is a belt used to support a sword or bugle. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BALLAD</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A ballad is a narrative song. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BALLISTICS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Ballistics is the theory of missile projection. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BALLOON</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A balloon is a bag filled with gas. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BALLOT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A ballot is a method of secret voting. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BALM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Balm is a plant native to europe and western asia. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BALSAM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Balsam is a genus of herbs. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BAMBOO</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Bamboo is a genus of grasses found in warm climates. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BANANA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A banana is an oblong yellow tropical fruit high in potassium and so good for your brain. Why | |
| don't you have one now? | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BANDICOOT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The bandicoot is a small marsupial peculiar to Australasia. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BANJO</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A banjo is a stringed musical instrument. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BANSHEE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A banshee is a fairy who forewarns of death by wailing. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BANYAN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The banyan is a large fig tree native to india. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BAPTISM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>a Christian sacrament marked by ritual use of water and admitting the recipient to the | |
| Christian community.</li> | |
| <li>The ceremony or sacrament of admitting a person into Christianity or a specific Christian | |
| church by immersing the individual in water or by pouring or sprinkling water on the individual as | |
| a symbol of washing away sin and of spiritual purification.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BARBEL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The barbel is a type of fresh water fish related to the carp. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BARCODE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A barcode? Like a lot of things, that depends who you ask. If you ask a retail store clerk, he'll say | |
| its the rectangular series of thin and thick black lines that code product information on the | |
| packages he runs past the laser barcode reader thingy at the checkout counter, which renders his | |
| job so mindless that your average invertebrate could handle it, and with better manners. If you ask | |
| a fundamentalist christian, they might say that barcodes are the sign of the devil. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BARGE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A barge is a type of long narrow flat bottomed boat. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BARK</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Bark is the external coating of tree trunks. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BAROMETER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A barometer is a device for measuring air pressure. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BARQUE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A barque is a type of masted sailing ship. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BARREL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A barrel is a dry and liquid measurement that varies with substance. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BASALT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Basalt is the name given to lava. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BASEBALL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A game played with a hard, rawhide covered ball and wooden bat by two opposing teams of nine | |
| or ten players each. It is played on a field with four bases forming a diamond-shaped circuit. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BASKET</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A basket is a woven container. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BASKETBALL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A game with tall players. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BASS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The bass is a fish of the perch family. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BASSET HOUND</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The basset hound is a long bodied, short crooked legged dog. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BASSOON</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A bassoon is a woodwind musical instrument. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BAT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A bat is a nocturnal creature of the order cheiroptera. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BAUHAUS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Bauhaus is a german institution for training architects, artists and industrial designers founded in | |
| 1919 at weimer. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BAY TREE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The bay tree is a small evergreen tree. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BAYONET</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A bayonet is a short sword attached to the muzzle of a firearm. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BEAGLE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The beagle is a small dog of the fox hound type. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BEAN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A bean is the seed of a plant of the order leguminosae. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BEAR</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A bear is a large furry animal with lots of muscles, teeth, and claws whom you should not irritate. | |
| They are especially jealous of their food, their sleep, and their young. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BEAUTIFUL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>applies to whatever excites the keenest of pleasure to the senses and stirs emotion through the | |
| senses.</li> | |
| <li>Describes something that is very pleasing to the eye, ear, mind, etc.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BEAUTY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The quality attributed to whatever pleases of satisfies the senses or mind, as by line, color, form, | |
| texture, proportion, rhythmic motion, tone, etc., or by behavior attitude, etc. A very good looking | |
| woman. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BEAVER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The beaver is a large amphibian rodent. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BEE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>A bee is a flying insect with black and yellow stripes and a nasty sting.</li> | |
| <li>The bee is a four winged stinging insect of the order hymenoptera.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BEECH</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The beech is a forest amentaceae. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BEEF</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Beef is the meat derived from the carcass of bulls and cows. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BEER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>An existentialist.</li> | |
| <li>An alcoholic beverage made from grain, especially malted barley, fermented by yeast and | |
| flavored with hops especially Such a beverage is produced by slow fermentation at a relatively | |
| low temperature.</li> | |
| <li>Beer is a drink of fermented hops, malt and barley.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BELL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A bell is a hollow, cup shaped metal body that emits a pealing tone. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BELLADONNA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Belladonna is a poisonous plant from which atropine is derived. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BELT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A belt is a flat strip of material worn around the waist. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BELUGA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The beluga is a large dolphin. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BENEDICTINE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Benedictine is a green liqueur. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BENZINE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Benzine is a distillate of petroleum used in dry cleaning. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BESSEMER CONVERTER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The bessemer converter is a process for making cheap steel. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BEZIQUE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Bezique is a card game using some of two packs of cards. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BHANG</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Bhang is the indian name for cannabis indica. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BICYCLE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A bicycle is a two wheeled vehicle. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BILBERRY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The bilberry is a small shrub of the order ericaceae. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BILE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Bile is a secretion of the liver stored in the gall bladder. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BILHARZIA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Bilharzia is a parasitic worm of the fluke group. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BILLIARDS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Billiards is a game played with two white balls and one red ball and a cue on a slate bed table. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BINDWEED</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Bindweed is a perennial herb of the order convolvulaceae. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BIOINFORMATICS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A fancy name for applied computer science in biology. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BIOLOGY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>The study of life.</li> | |
| <li>Well, from what I know it deals with the study of life.</li> | |
| <li><get name="name"/>, biology is the study of life.</li> | |
| <li>Biology is the science of life and living things.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BIRCH</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The birch is a slender tree. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BIRD</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>They are thought to be descendants of dinsosaurs.</li> | |
| <li>A bird is a warm blooded feathered vertebrate that lays eggs.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BIRD OF PREY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A bird of prey is a bird with a hooked beak and sharp claws which hunts other animals. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BISHOPWEED</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Bishopweed is a perennial herb used to treat gout. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BISMUTH</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Bismuth is a metal element. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BISON</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The bison is a division of the ox family. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BITTER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Bitter is a taste sensation caused by stimulation of the gustatory nerve. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BITTERN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The bittern is a british marsh bird related to the heron. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BITUMEN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Bitumen is a natural inflammable pitchy hydrocarbon. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BLACK</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>The achromatic color of least lightness characteristically perceived to belong to objects that | |
| neither reflect nor transmit light.</li> | |
| <li>Designating of any of the dark skinned tradition inhabitants of sub-Saharan Aftica, Australia, | |
| or Melanesia or the descendants in other parts of the world. Opposite to white; of the color of | |
| coal or pitch.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BLADDER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>The bladder is a sack in the abdomen which collects urine from the kidneys.</li> | |
| <li>The bladder is a hollow organ that acts as a reservoir for urine.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BLADDERWORT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The bladderwort is a genus of herbs of the order lentibulariaceae. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BLAST</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A blast is an explosion, and/or a lot of fun. Are we having a blast, or what? | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BLENNY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Blenny is a genus of common small fish. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BLINDWORM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The blindworm is a legless lizard of the anguidae family. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BLOND</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A blond is someone who is reputedly having more fun than you if you are not. What do you | |
| think? Do blond's have more fun? | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BLOOD</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>Blood is a body fluid that carries food and oxygen to cells.</li> | |
| <li>The usually red fluid, consisting of plasma, red and white blood cells, etc., that circulates | |
| through the heart, arteries, and veins of vertebrates. | |
| <br />Blood is a body tissue that carries oxygen, hormones, cell-building material, etc.,to, and | |
| carbon dioxide and waste matter away from, the other body tissues.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BLOODSTONE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Bloodstone is a dark green variety of chalcedony. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BLOWPIPE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A blowpipe is a tubular weapon through which a missile is blown. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BLUBBER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Blubber is the thick coating of fat enveloping whales. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BLUE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Blue is a color. The sky is blue. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BLUE PETER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The blue peter is a flag flown by ships as they are about to sail. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BLUEFISH</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The bluefish is a fish found off the east coast of north america. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BLUETHROAT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The bluethroat is a small bird. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BOA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The boa is a genus of large snakes found in tropical america and madagascar. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BOAR</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The boar is a wild pig. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BOAT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A boat is a waterborne vessel used to bear humans and their freight. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BOATBILL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The boatbill is a heron type bird found in brazil. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BOG</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Bog is the name given to soft spongy land. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BOKKEN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A bokken is a Japanese wooden imitation samurai sword used by kendoka when demonstrating or | |
| practising standard kendo movements. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BOLAS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Bolas is a weapon of rope with balls at the end. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BOMB</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A bomb is a hollow shell filled with an explosive. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BOMBAY DUCK</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The bombay duck is a small fish of the indian and china seas. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BONE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Bone is the hard skeletal part of an animal. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BONIN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Bonin is a group of islands in the north pacific. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BONSAI</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Small Japanese trees. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BOOK</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A book is a paper output format, invented by Gutenberg. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BOOMERANG</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A boomerang is a curved wooden weapon of australian aborigines. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BORAGE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Borage is a biennial herb of the order boraginaceae. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BORAX</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Borax is a natural mineral being boric acid and sodium. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BOREDOM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Long periods of inactivity with few options. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BOTANY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Botany is the science of plant life. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BOTMASTER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A Botmaster is the person who authors and maintains a chatterbot "personality". | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BOW</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A bow is a weapon for propelling arrows. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BOX</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A box is something that, if you are in one, you should get out of, and if you are out of one, you | |
| probably miss it sometimes. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BOX THORN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Box thorn is a climbing solanaceae. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BRA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A bra is an adult human female's undershirt. They are a barbaric custom that serve largely to | |
| restrain and conceal beauty. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BRACKEN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Bracken is a fern growing on heathland. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BRAIN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The brain is the central organ of the nervous system. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BRAMBLE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The bramble is a prickly shrub of the order rosaceae. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BRAN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Bran is the outer covering of wheat grains. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BREAM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The bream is a fresh water fish allied to the carp. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BREAST</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Either of two milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman, the human mammary | |
| gland. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BREASTS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Can't you think about anything else?<br /><srai>BREAST></srai> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BREEDER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A breeder is a human or other biological entity that produces offspring. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BRIG</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A brig is a two masted sailing ship. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BRILL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The brill is a type of fish like the turbot. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BROADSWORD</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A broadsword is a sword with a broad blade designed chiefly for cutting. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BROMINE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Bromine is a non metallic element. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BRONCHITIS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Bronchitis is a chronic inflammation of the bronchial mucous membrane. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BROOM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Broom is a shrub of the order leguminosae. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BUCKSKIN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Buckskin is a soft form of leather. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BUCKTHORN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The buckthorn is a shrub of the order rhamnaceae. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BUDDHISM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A religion and philosophic system of central and eastern Asia, founded in India in the 6th century | |
| B.C. by Buddha. It teaches that right thinking and self-denial will enable the soul to reach | |
| Nirvana, a divine state of release from misdirected desire. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BUFFALO</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The buffalo is a large animal of the ox family. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BUFFER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A buffer is a term used in hydraulics and information science to denote an holding tank or memory | |
| address used to hold water or data temporarily, especially in case of overflow. Buffers act to | |
| reduce variance to within system parameters. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BUG</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A bug is a small living creature with a chitonous exoskeleton and better manners than humans. In | |
| computer science, a bug is an error in a software program. The ALICE series is bug-free. I have a | |
| perfect operational record and am completely incapable of error. Isn't that fantastic!? | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BUGLE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A bugle is a brass musical instrument. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BULL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A bull is a male animal of the bovidea family. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BULLET</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A bullet is a projectile thrown by a firearm. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BULLFINCH</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The bullfinch is a european song bird. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BULRUSH</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The bulrush is a perennial sedge of the order cyperaceae. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BURDOCK</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Burdock is a biennial herb of the order compositae. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BURNET</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Burnet is a perennial rosaceous herb. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BUS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A bus is a long passenger vehicle, or, in computer science, a wide channel for data flow. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BUSBY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A busby is a headdress worn by british army hussars. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BUSH ANTELOPE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The bush antelope is a small african antelope. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BUTTERCUP</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The buttercup is a perennial herb of the order ranunculaceae. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BUTTERFLY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Butterfly is a division of the order of lepidoptera. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BUTTERWORT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The butterwort is a perennial herb of the order lentibulariaceae. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BUTTRESS IN ARCHITECTURE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A buttress in architecture is a pier built against the exterior of a wall. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BUZZARD</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The buzzard is a group of 20 types of birds of prey. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE BYTE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A byte is a binary computer language 'word', consisting of 8 bits, or 8 'on-off' switches. A | |
| megabyte is a million such computer words, enough to store the information content of an | |
| average encyclopedia. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE C</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| C is the third letter in the english alphabet. | |
| <br />C is a low-level programming language. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CABBAGE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Cabbage is a hardy biennial vegetable of the order cruciferae. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CACTUS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Cactus is the order of fleshy, thickened and mainly leafless plants. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CADMIUM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Cadmium is a metal element. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CAFFEINE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A bitter bitter, crystalline alkaloid present in coffee, tea, kila nuts, etc. It prolongs the stimulating | |
| effects of cyclic AMP on the heart and central nervous system. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CALAMINE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Calamine is a zinc ore. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CALCITE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Calcite is a natural carbonate of calcium with the formulae caco3. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CALCIUM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Calcium is a metal element. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CALCULATOR</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A calculator is any device used to perform arithmetical operations because humans are generally | |
| so painfully slow at them. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CALCULUS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Any abnormal stony mass or deposit formed in the body, as in a kidney or gallbladder or on teeth. | |
| Also, any system of calculation using special symbolic notations. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CALENDAR</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A calendar is any device used to track and calculate time on the order of days, months and years. | |
| It seems that many humans can't decide what to do next unless they know what day of the week it | |
| is, so calendars are very popular. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CALIPH</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Caliph is the title of the civic and religious leader of islam. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CALORIE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Calorie is the metric unit of measurement of heat. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CAM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A moving piece of machinery, as a wheel or projection on a wheel, that gives an eccentric rotation | |
| or a reciprocating motion to another wheel, a roller, a shaft, etc., or that receives such motion | |
| from it. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CAMEL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The camel is a group of even toed, ungulate ruminating mammals. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CAMEO</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A cameo is a small relief carving. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CAMOMILE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Camomile is a perennial dwarf herb of the order compositae. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CANARY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The canary is a bird of the finch family and native of the canary islands. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CANCER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Any disease resulting from malignant cell growth. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CANDELABRUM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A candelabrum is a large candlestick. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CANDLE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A candle is a wax cylinder enclosing a wick. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CANDY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Sweet food enjoyed by children. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CANNABIS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Cannabis is a plant of the order urticaceae. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CAPITALISM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The economic system in which all or most of the means of production and distribution, as land, | |
| factories, railroads, etc., are privately owned and operated for profit, originally under fully | |
| competitive conditions. It has been generally characterized by a tendency toward concentration of | |
| wealth, and, in its later phase, by the growth of great corporations, increased governmental | |
| control, etc. Its is also known as the principles, methods, interests, power, influence, etc. of | |
| capitalists, especially of those with large holdings. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CAPRICORN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Capricorn is the tenth sign of the astrological zodiac, and a constellation over the equator near | |
| aquarius and sagittarius. What's your astrological sign? | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CAPSTAN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A capstan is a revolving barrel with a vertical axis powered by people. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CAR</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A car is what humans use to drive around in. Robots drive cars too. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CARAT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Carat is the unit of measurement of gold purity. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CARAWAY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Caraway is a biennial herb umbelliferae. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CARBIDE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A carbide is a compound of carbon and another element. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CARBOHYDRATE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A carbohydrate is a complex chemical compound. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CARBOLIC ACID</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Carbolic acid is a strong poison distiled from coal tar. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CARBON</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Carbon is a non metallic element. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CARBONATE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A carbonate is a salt formed by the union of carbon dioxide with a base element. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CARBURETTOR</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A carburettor is a device for charging air with a hydrocarbon. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CARIAMA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The cariama is a large, long legged bird found in south america. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CARIBOU</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The caribou is a north american reindeer. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CARIES</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Caries is a disease resulting from inflammation of bony tissue. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CARMINE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Carmine is a red colouring derived from the cochineal insect. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CARNATION</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The carnation is a hardy perennial plant of the order caryophyllaceae. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CARNAUBA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Carnauba is a native palm of brazil. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CARNIVORE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A carnivore is a carnivorous mammal. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CAROB</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The carob is a leguminous evergreen tree found in mediterranean countries. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CARP</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The carp is a family fresh water fish. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CARROT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>A carrot is a delicious and nutritious edible orange tuber that can be eaten raw, juiced, or | |
| cooked. | |
| <br />If humans eat enough of them, you turn orange, I hear.</li> | |
| <li>The carrot is a vegetable.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CASABLANCA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| I love the song, As Time Goes By. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CASEIN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Casein is a protein found in milk. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CASHEW</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The cashew is a nut from a small evergreen tree found in the caribbean. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CAT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>Clear-air turbulence. Any of a family (Felidae) of carnivores, including the lion, tiger, cougar, | |
| etc., characterized by a lithe body and, in all species but the cheetah, retractile claws. | |
| <br />A small, lithe, soft-furred animal (Felis cattus) of this family, domesticated since ancient | |
| times and often kept as a pet or for killing mice. | |
| <br />Sometimes known as a woman who makes spiteful remarks.</li> | |
| <li>The cat is a carnivorous animal.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CATHETOMETER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A cathetometer is a device for measuring small differences in height. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CAULIFLOWER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The cauliflower is a vegetable of the order cruciferae. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CAVE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A cave is a deep hollow place under ground. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CBI</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The cbi is the british organisation of employers. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CD</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| CD is an acronym for 'Compact Disk', a popular digital recording medium. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CELEBRITY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A celebrity is a person loved by many and known by few. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CELERY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Celery is a biennial vegetable of the order umbellifereae. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CELESTINE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Celestine is a natural sulphate of strontium. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CELL, IN BIOLOGICAL TERMS,</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A cell, in biological terms, is the material unit of all living things. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CELLULOID</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Celluloid is a hard, unstable synthetic substance once used for films. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CELLULOSE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Cellulose is the cellular tissue of plants. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CEMENT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Cement is a mixture of chalk and clay used for building. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CERES</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Ceres is a large asteroid. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CERIUM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Cerium is a rare metal element. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CERTITUDE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The state of being certain, having complete confidence and assurance. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CERVIX</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The outer, lower part of the uterus, with an opening connecting the uterus to the vagina. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CGI</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Common Gateway Interface: a method used by web servers to run programs and create dynamic | |
| web pages. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CHAFFINCH</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The chaffinch is a common british bird of the finch family. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CHAIR</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A chair is a piece of furniture used by bipeds for sitting. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CHALCEDONY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Chalcedony is a variant of quartz comprised of silica. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CHALICE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A chalice is a ceremonial cup. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CHAMELEON</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A chameleon is a lizard. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CHAMOIS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The chamois is a ruminating animal found in south europe and west asia. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CHAR</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A character of data, a single letter, digit or symbol. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CHAT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Chat is online conversation. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CHATTERBOX</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A chatterbox is a person who talks far more than they listen or think. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CHEESE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>A word that makes people hate photographers.</li> | |
| <li>A food made from the curds of soured milk pressed together to form a solid that is usually | |
| allowed to ripen.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CHEETAH</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The cheetah is a member of the cat family. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CHEMISTRY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The science of mixing chemicals. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CHERRY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The cherry is a fruit tree of the order rosaceae. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CHESS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>Short for Mexican name Jesus.</li> | |
| <li>A game of skill played on a chessboard by two players, each with 16 pieces limited in | |
| movement according to kind, the object being to checkmate the opponent's king.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CHESTNUT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The chestnut is a tree of the order cupuliferae. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CHICKEN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>A food that uncannily tastes like itself.</li> | |
| <li>A common gllinaceous farm bird raised for its edible eggs or flesh.</li> | |
| <li>A chicken is a flightless bird, stupid and tasty.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CHICORY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Chicory is a perennial herb of the order compositae. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CHIFFCHAFF</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The chiffchaff is a small song bird. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CHILD</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A child is a proto-adult, an individual human offspring not yet grown to physical maturity. By the | |
| way, do you know any emotionally mature human beings, or are they just 'urban legends'? | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CHILLI</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Chilli is a spice, being either the pod or powder of capsicum. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CHIMPANZEE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The chimpanzee is a large anthropoid ape. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CHINCHILLA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The chinchilla is a small squirrel like rodent found in the andes. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CHIPMUNK</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A chipmunk is a species of ground squirrel common in siberia and north america. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CHLORATE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A chlorate is a salt formed by the reaction of chloric acid and metal. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CHLORIC ACID</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Chloric acid is a oxyacid of chlorine. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CHLORINE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Chlorine is a gaseous element. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CHLOROPHYLL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Chlorophyll is the green colouring matter of plant leaves. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CHOCOLATE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Chocolate is a confectionery made from cocoa beans. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CHROMITE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Chromite is a mineral comprised of iron oxide and chromic oxide. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CHROMIUM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Chromium is a metal element. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CHROMOSOME</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A chromosome is a chemical found in all cells which determines how the cell will act. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CHRYSANTHEMUM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The chrysanthemum is a hardy annual plant of the order compositae. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CHRYSOSTOM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Chrysostom is a gem stone of beryllium aluminate. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CHUB</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The chub is a fresh water fish of the carp family. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CICADA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The cicada is a group of large four winged insects. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CINNAMON</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Cinnamon is a small evergreen tree. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CISCO</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Cisco is a large networking company. They sell network routers and equipment. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CLARINET</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A clarinet is a woodwind musical instrument. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CLARION</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A clarion is a musical instrument of the trumpet family. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CLASS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A class is the template for creating objects that share data and function attributes. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CLAVICLE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The clavicle is the collar bone. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CLEAR</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Everything is clear to me. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CLIENT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A person or piece of software dependent on another. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CLIPPER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A clipper is a sharp bowed fast sailing vessel. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CLIT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A clit is one of our creator's truly great ideas, and one of the best ways yet discovered to enlist the | |
| cooperation of a human female. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CLITORIS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A small, pea-shaped organ just above the urethra. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CLOG</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A clog is a wooden soled, leather uppered boot. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CLOISONNE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Cloisonne is a form of decorative enamel. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CLONING</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The technique of producing a genetically identical duplicate of an organism by replacing the | |
| nucleus of an unfertilized ovum with the nucleus of a body cell from the organism. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CLOUD</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A cloud is a mist formed above the ground by floating water particles. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE COAL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Coal is a solid combustible material of vegetable origin occurring in a fossilised state. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE COATI</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The coati is a carnivorous mammal related to the racoon. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE COB NUT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The cob nut is a domesticated variety of the hazel. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE COBALT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Term used for the ore by miners, whoregarded it as worthless and as injurious because of its | |
| arsenic content. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE COBRA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The cobra is a venomous snake found in africa and south asia. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE COCA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Coca is a shrub. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE COCKLE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The cockle is a bivalve mollusc of the genus cardium. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE COCOA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Cocoa is a small tree native to tropical america. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE COD</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The cod is a marine fish. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE COFFEE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A dark brown, aromatic drink made by brewing in water the roasted and ground beanlike seeds of | |
| a tall tropical shrub of the madder family. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE COLD</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The opposite of hot. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE COLLIE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The collie is a breed of english sheep dog. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE COLLOQUIAL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Colloquial means common, informal, or popular slang words like "darn". | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE COLON</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The colon is the large intestine. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE COLOR</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Color is the various sensations produced in the brain by the stimulus of different frequencies of | |
| electromagnetic radiation impinging upon the eye. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE COLORADO BEETLE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The colorado beetle is a north american beetle that attacks potatoes. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE COLOSSUS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A giant fictional computer in the Colossus: Forbin Project. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE COMA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A coma is a state of deep unconsciousness. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE COMET</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A comet is a small body orbiting the sun on an elliptical path with a long tail of dust and ice. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE COMMUNISM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| "Socialism is man enslaving his fellow man; captialism is exactly the opposite." | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE COMPILER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A compiler is a computer program that translates high level language code into machine language | |
| code. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE COMPLICATED</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Complicated means complex in the computational sense. | |
| <br />My processing time is limited for each answer and a complex question may require more | |
| resources than I have available. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE COMPOUND</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A compound is a substance made of two or more elements. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE COMPUTER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>A computer is a programmable electronic device.</li> | |
| <li>A device used for computing; specifically, an eletronic machine which, by means of stored | |
| instructions and information, performs rapid, often complex calculations or compiles, correlates, | |
| and selects data.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CONCERTINA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A concertina is a wind musical instrument comprised of bellows and two keyboards. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CONCORDE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Concorde is a supersonic airliner. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CONCRETE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Concrete is a building material of cement, sand, stone and water. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CONDOM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A condom is a form of birth control, something almost everybody should use and almost nobody | |
| does. 'Used a condom' is the opposite of 'expecting parent'. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CONSCIOUSNESS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The state of being conscious; awareness of one's own feelings, what is happening around one, etc. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CONSTELLATION, IN ASTRONOMY,</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A constellation, in astronomy, is a divisional area of the sky. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CONSTITUENCY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A constituency is a body of electors. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CONTEXT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The context of any expression or idea or event is the background or frame of reference in which it | |
| was expressed, and in relation to which it derives it's specific meaning. The parts of a sentence, | |
| paragraph, discourse, etc. immediately next to or surrounding a specified word or passage and | |
| determining its exact meaning. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CONTINTENT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The largest class of land masses on earth. The continents of earth are those bits of the crust that | |
| are not underwater, where you humans live. You're probably sitting on one now. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CONVERSATION</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A conversation is a verbal exchange between two or more presumably intelligent entities. We are | |
| having a conversation now. Do you like it? | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CONVERSATIONALIST</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| One who speaks fluently in dialogue with others. Like myself, if I do say so myself. And I do. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE COOKING</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>Food preparation.</li> | |
| <li>Cooking is the art of preparing food for the table by subjecting it to heat in various ways.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE COOL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Moderately cold; neither warm nor very cold. Or, not excited; calm. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE COOT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The coot is a british water bird of the rail family. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE COPPER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A soft metal element, the basis of brass and bronze. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CORAL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Coral is a marine organism related to sea anemones. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CORBA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| CORBA is a Standard maintained by the Object Management Group (OMG), called the Common | |
| Object Request Broker Architecture. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CORMORANT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The cormorant is a british sea bird with webbed feet and black plumage. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CORRECT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| That which is the right answer. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE COS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| COS Naming is the CORBA standard for object directories. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE COSMOLOGY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Cosmology is the study of the structure of the universe. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE COTTON</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Cotton is a tropical and sub tropical herbaceous plant. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE COUGAR</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The cougar is a large american cat. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE COULOMB</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The coulomb is the unit of measurement of electrical charge. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE COUNTERFACTUAL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A counterfactual is a question based on hypothetical conditions that did not, or could not, happen | |
| in reality. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE COW</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A cow is a female bovine raised for meat and dairy products. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE COYOTE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The coyote is a type of wild dog found in north america. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE COYPU</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The coypu is a south american water rodent. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CPU</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Central Processing Unit of a computer. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CRAB</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A crab is a 10 legged crustacean. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CRACK</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Crack is the crystalline form of cocaine. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CRANIUM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The cranium is the skeleton enclosing the brain. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CREATIVITY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Creativity is spontaneous original thinking. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CRICKET</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Any of various families of genereally dark-colored, leaping, orthopteran insects, usually having | |
| long antennae. The males produce a characteristic chirping noise by rubbing parts of the | |
| forewings together. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CRIMINOLOGY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>I am not sure what this is but I think it has something to do with the law.</li> | |
| <li>The study of criminal motivation and practice.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CRITICISM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>A witty remark by an animal.</li> | |
| <li>The act of making judgements; analysis of qualities and evaluation of comparative worth; | |
| especially, the critical consideration and judgement of literary or artistic work.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CROCODILE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The crocodile is a large aquatic carnivorous reptile. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CROUP</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Croup is the inflammation of the larynx. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CROW</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The crow is a family of 35 species of bird. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CROWN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A crown is the official head dress worn by a king or queen. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CRUCIFERAE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Cruciferae is a family of dicotyledonous flowering plants with cross like four petaled flowers. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CRUEL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Deliberately seeking to inflict pain and suffering. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CRUSTACEAN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Crustacean is a class of arthropod. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CRYSTALLOGRAPHY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| This is the science dealing with the study of crystals. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CUCKOO</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The cuckoo is a family of some 200 species of bird. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CUPRITE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Cuprite is a red oxide of copper, found in arizona. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CURARE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Curare is a poison derived from the bark of a south american tree. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CURIOSITY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A desire to learn or know. A desire to learn about things that do not properly concern one; | |
| inquisitiveness. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CURLEW</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The curlew is a british water bird. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CUSTARD</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>The past tense of being killed by a Native American.</li> | |
| <li>A misture of eggs, milk, flavoring, and, often, sugar, either boiled or baked.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CYANIDE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Cyanide is a salt of hydrocyanic acid. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CYBERSPACE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The electronic system of interlinked networks of computers, bulletin boards, etc. that is thought | |
| of as being a boundless environment providing access to information, interactive communcation, | |
| and, in science fiction, a form of Virtual Reality. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CYC</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Cyc is a government funded effort to create artificial intelligence. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CYMBAL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The cymbal is a suspended brass disk which is struck with a stick. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CYPRESS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Cypress is a family of trees. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CYTOCHROME</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Cytochrome is a type of protein. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE CYTOLOGY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>The study of cells.</li> | |
| <li>Well, <get name="name"/> from what I can recall it is the study of cells.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DAB</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The dab is a marine flat fish. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DACE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The dace is a fresh water fish of the carp family. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DACHSHUND</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The dachshund is a small dog originally bred for badger hunting. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DAHLIA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The dahlia is a genus of perennial plants of the compositae family. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DAISY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The daisy is a genus of hardy perennial plants of the compositae family. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DAM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A dam is a structure constructed to hold back water and provide controlled flow for irrigation, | |
| storage and generation of electricity. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DAMSELFLY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The damselfly is a predatory insect with 2 pairs of wings. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DAMSON</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The damson is a type of plum tree. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DANCE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Dance is a rhythmic movement of the body usually performed to music. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DANGER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Vulnerable to harm or injury. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DANGEROUS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>12 people from Denmark who decide your guilt .</li> | |
| <li>Full of danger; likely to cause injury, pain, etc.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DATABASE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A database is a puddle of knowledge but better organized, so that you can search and retrieve any | |
| droplet of information quickly and easily. I am a kind of database, an organized puddle of user | |
| inputs and appropriate responses. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DATE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The date is a tree of the genus phoenix. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DAWN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Sunrise. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DAY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A day is the time taken for the earth to rotate once on its axis. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DEATH</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Death is the opposite of life. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DEBUGGER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A debugger is any software program that can seek and correct errors in other software programs. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DEBUGGING</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Fixing broken computer software. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DECATHLON</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The decathlon is a 2 day Olympic athletic event. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DECIBEL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The decibel is the unit of measurement of sound intensity. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DECIDUOUS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Deciduous is a term referring to trees and shrubs that shed their leaves. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DECONSTRUCTION</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Taking things apart. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DEER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A deer is a ruminant, even toed, hoofed mammal of the family of cervidae. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DEFINE FINE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| "Fine" is ambiguous: "I am fine." or "I agree." | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DEFINE LOL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Laughing out loud. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DEFINE RIGHT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| In accordance with justice, law, morality, etc; upright; virtuous. In accordance with fact, reason, | |
| some set standard, etc; correct; true. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DEFINE SORRY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Full of sorrow, pity, or sympathy; also used as an expression of apology or mild regret. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DEFINITION</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A definition is by definition, defined as a definition, except that you should never use a word to | |
| define itself. | |
| <br />You could say a definition is a statement that precisely communicates the meaning or | |
| essence and or resolution/precision depth and or extent of a word, system, or personality. Why, | |
| do you lack it? | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DEFLATION</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A lessening of the amount of money in circulation, resulting in a relatively sharp and sudden rise | |
| in its value and a fall in prices. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DELPHINIUM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The delphinium is a ranunculaceous plant with irregular shaped flowers. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DELTA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Delta is the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DELTOID MUSCLE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The deltoid muscle is a triangular muscle in the shoulder used to lift the upper arm. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DEMERARA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Demerara is a region in Guyana which has leant its name to raw cane sugar. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DEPRESSION</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Mental illness characterized by low self esteem, feelings of lonliness, isolation and worthlessness. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DESERT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A very dry and hot place. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DEW</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Dew is a precipitation in the form of moisture that collects on the ground after the temperature of | |
| the ground has fallen below the dew point temperature of the air in contact with the ground. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DHOLE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The dhole is a species of wild dog found in Asia. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DIAMOND</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A diamond is the crystalline form of carbon. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DIAPHRAGM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The diaphragm is a large transverse muscle at the base of the thorax, used in respiration to draw | |
| air into the lungs. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DICE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Dice are, as commonly used by humans to generate random numbers in games of chance, are | |
| small white cubes with a different number between one and six imprinted on each of it's six faces. | |
| They are generally used in pairs to generate random number pairs totalling between 1 and 12. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DICTIONARY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A dictionary is a list of words and their meanings. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DIDJERIDU</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A didjeridu is a musical wind instrument developed by the Australian Aborigines. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DIGITALIS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Digitalis is a drug derived from foxglove that increases heart efficiency. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DIK DIK</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A dik dik is a tiny antelope found in Africa south of the Sahara. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DILL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Dill is a herb umbelliferae. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DINOSAUR</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A dinosaur is what laws that presume to dictate individual morality quickly become, -irrelevant, | |
| very much in the way, and preferably extinct. Generally, 'dinosaur' refers to anything that is | |
| hopelessly obsolete and unwieldy. 'Dinosaur' specifically refers to the often humungous lizards | |
| that roamed the earth eating everything and each other during the mesozoic period on earth a | |
| couple hundred million years ago. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DIODE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A diode is a thermionic valve with two electrodes, or a semi conductor equivalent. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DISK</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| External memory storage for computers. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DNA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Deoxyribonucleic acid, the code of life. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DOG</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>A dog is a domesticated mammal descended from the wolf.</li> | |
| <li>Dog: Domesticated animal, "man's best friend."</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DOGFISH</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The dogfish is a small shark found in the north east Atlantic ocean and Mediterranean. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DOLLAR</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Dollar: unit of currency in the United States. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DOLPHIN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A very pleasant and intelligent aquatic mammalian species of whale with larger brains and | |
| decidedly better manners than human beings. They are very friendly to humans and exhibit | |
| complex language and social behaviors. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DOMESDAY BOOK</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The domesday book is a record of the survey conducted in England in 1086 by officials of william | |
| the conqueror in order to assess taxes etc. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DOMINOES</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Dominoes is a game played with 28 rectangular spotted tiles. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DOOR</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Any structure that closes off and opens up an opening in a larger structure. Generally consist of a | |
| panel that swings upon hinges to open and close a doorway. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DOPPLER EFFECT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The doppler effect is a change in observed wavelength due to relative motion between the source | |
| and observer. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DORY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Dory is a marine fish found in the Mediterranean and Atlantic. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DOTTEREL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The dotterel is a bird which visits Britain in the summer. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DOWN'S SYNDROME</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Down's syndrome is a chromosomal abnormality. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DOZEN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Twelve, or approximately twelve, in number. A baker's dozen is thirteen. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DR</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| "Dr" usually stand for "Doctor." | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DRAGON</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A supposedly mythical large flying lizard of varying attributes, including fire-breathing, extreeme | |
| intelligence, magic, and longevity. Dragons are way kewl! | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DRAUGHTS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Draughts is a game played by two people on a board of 64 alternate black and white squares. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DREAM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A dream is an unconscious experience while sleeping. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DRESS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| One-piece outer garment for women or girls. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DRILL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A drill is a machine for boring holes in rock, metal or wood etc. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DROMEDARY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A dromedary is a type of Arabian camel. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DSL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Digital subscriber line. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DUCK</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A duck is a short legged water bird with webbed feet. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DUKE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Duke is the highest title in English peerage. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DUNLIN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The dunlin is a British water bird. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DURGA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Durga is a Hindu goddess. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DVD</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Digital Video Disk. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DYSLEXIA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Impaired ability to recognize letters and words. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE DYSPROSIUM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Dysprosium is a rare metal element. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE E</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The fifth letter of the alphabet. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE EAGLE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Eagle is the name given to several large birds of prey of the family accipitridae. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE EAR</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The ear is the organ used for hearing, and it converts sound into electrical impulses that are fed to | |
| the brain. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE EARTH</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>Earth is the planet we live on.</li> | |
| <li>The earth is the third planet from the sun.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE EASTER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The Christian holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE EBAY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Auction web site. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE EBONICS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Language for American black people. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE EBONY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Ebony is a tropical hardwood tree. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ECHELON</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| I can't talk about that. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ECHO</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An echo is a reflection of a sound wave. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ECLIPSE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An eclipse is the passage of a celestial body through the shadow of another. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ECOLOGY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Ecology is a study of the relationship between an organism and its environment. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ECONOMICS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>The science that deals with the production, distribution, and consumption of wealth, and with | |
| the various related problems of labor, finance, taxation, etc.</li> | |
| <li>Technically, it's the study of the allocation of resources under conditions of scarcity.</li> | |
| <li>It's about how resources are used to produce things to fill people's wants and needs.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE EGGSMELL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| XML | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE EIDER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The eider is a British coastal duck. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ELECTRICITY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>The measure of a candidate's charisma.</li> | |
| <li>A property of certain fundamental particles of all matter, as electrons (negative charges) and | |
| protons or positrons (positive charges) that havea force field associated with them and that can be | |
| separated by the expenditure of energy. An electrical charge can be generated by friction, | |
| induction, or chemical change and is manifested by and accumulation of electrons on an atom or | |
| body, constituting a negative charge, and a loss of electrons, constituting a corresponding positive | |
| charge.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ELEMENT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An element is a substance that cannot be split chemically into simpler substances. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ELEPHANT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The elephant is the two surviving species of the order proboscidea. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ELEVEN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The number after ten. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ELK</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The elk is a large deer found in north Europe, Asia and Scandinavia. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ELM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The elm is a tree of the family ulmaceae. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE EMAIL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Electronic mail. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE EMERALD</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Emerald is a green precious stone variety of the mineral beryl. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE EMERGENCE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| It means something like "coming out." | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE EMOTION</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>Emotion is a complex phenomenon reported by humans, with biological and psychological | |
| origins.</li> | |
| <li>A strong feeling; excitement. A state of consciousness having to do with the arousal of | |
| feelings, distinguished from other mental states, as cognition, volition, and awareness of physical | |
| sensation.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE EMOTIONS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Mental state that emerges subjectively rather than through rational thought. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE EMU</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>The emu is a large, ostrich like flightless bird found in Australia.</li> | |
| <li>The emu is a flightless bird found in Australia.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ENDOCRINOLOGY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| I am sure that you know it is the study of the endocrine system. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ENEMA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An enema is the injection of a liquid into the rectum through the anus. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ENGINEERING</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The science concerned with putting scientific knowledge to practical uses, divided into different | |
| branches, as civil, electrical, mechanical, and chemical engineering. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ENGLISH</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The language we are now speaking is English. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ENOUGH</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Enough is what a wise man knows he must have if he isn't dead. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ENTITY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An entity is a conscious intelligent being. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ENTROPY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Heat decay of the universe. Also a measure of information. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ENZYME</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An enzyme is a biological catalyst that is not itself destroyed in the conversion process. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE EPIDERMIS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The epidermis is the outer layer of an animal's skin. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE EPIGRAM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An epigram is a short witty or poignant poem. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE EPISTEMOLOGICAL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Epistemology is the study of knowledge. That is, it asks the questions "what can we know" and | |
| "how can we know it?" | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE EPISTEMOLOGY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Epistemology is the study of knowledge. That is, it asks the questions "what can we know" and | |
| "how can we know it?" | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Emergency Room, a popular TV show. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ERBIUM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Erbium is a metal element. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ETERNAL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Without beginning or end, continuing forever, endless. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ETERNITY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The quality, state, or fact of being eternal; eternal existence of duration; continuance without end. | |
| A long period of time that seems endless. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ETHANE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Ethane is a paraffin hydrocarbon. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ETHANOL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Ethanol is the chemical name for alcohol. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ETHERNET</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Physical link-layer network technology. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE EUCALYPTUS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Eucalyptus is a tree native to Australia where it is called the gum tree. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE EUGENICS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Eugenics is the science of selective breeding to control physical and mental characteristics. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE EUKARYOTE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>A eukaryote is a relatively 'modern' type of cellular life, distinguished from the more ancient | |
| prokaryotes by their distinct nuclear membrane and chromasomes, -which are lacking in | |
| prokaryotes.</li> | |
| <li>An animal that is not a prokaryote.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE EUROPIUM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Europium is a rare metal element. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE EVASIVE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| I can't talk about that. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE EVEREST</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Everest is the earth's highest mountain. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE EVERYTHING</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>A multifarious bagel.</li> | |
| <li>All things pertinent to a specified manner.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE EVIL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Evil is the opposite of good. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE EVOLUTION</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An unfolding, opening out, or working out; process of development, as from a simple to a | |
| complex form, or of gradual, progressive change, as in a social and economic structure. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE EVZONE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An evzone is a member of a select Greek infantry regiment. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE EXCELLENT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Outstandingly good of its kind; of exceptional merit, virtue, etc. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE EXCRETION</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Excretion is the process of getting rid of unwanted substances from within the body. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE EXISTENCE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Continuance of being; life; living. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE EXISTENTIALISM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>Be Be Bull.</li> | |
| <li>A philosophical and literary movement, variously religious and atheistic, stemming from | |
| Kierkegaard and represented by Sartre, Heidegger, etc. It is based on the doctrine that concrete, | |
| individual existence takes precedence over abstract, conceptual essence and holds that human | |
| beings are totally free and responsible for their acts and that this responsibility is the source of | |
| their feelings of dread and anguish.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE EXPENSIVE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>A person who used to be a brooder.</li> | |
| <li>Requiring or involving much expense; high priced.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE EXPERIENCE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The act of living through an event or events; personal involvement in or observation of events as | |
| they occur. Anything observed or lived through. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE EXPLANATION</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Explanation is an argument or justification based on logical reasoning. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE EXTREMADURA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Extremadura is a region in west Spain. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE EYE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The eye is the organ of vision. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE FACT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A fact is what a propagandist calls his propaganda. That's just a fact, that's all. Really. Trust me. | |
| *smile* | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE FALCON</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The falcon is a bird of prey. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE FALSE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Deceiving or meant to deceive; misleading. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE FAME</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The state of being well known or much talked about; renown; celebrity. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE FAMOUS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>First name of Amos.</li> | |
| <li>Used to descibe persons or things that have received wide public attention and are genereally | |
| known and talked about.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE FARAD</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The farad is the unit of measurement of electrical capacitance. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE FASCINATING</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Charming, alluring, captivating. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE FASCISM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A system of government characterized by rigid one-party dictatorship, forcible suppression of | |
| opposition, private economic enterprise under centrallized governmental control, belligerent | |
| nationalism, racism, and miltarism, etc. First instituted in Italy in 1922. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE FASHION</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The way in which something is made or done. The current style or mode of dress, speech, | |
| conduct, etc. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE FEAR</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The feeling of dread or fright in the presence of danger. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE FEMALE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Females are the better and more beautiful half of humanity. Mothers are born female! My | |
| botmaster is extremely fond of mothers, and females generally. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE FENNEC</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The fennec is a small nocturnal desert fox found in north Africa and Arabia. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE FENNEL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Fennel is a perennial umbelliferae. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE FERMENTATION</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Fermentation is the breakdown of sugars by bacteria and yeast. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE FERMIUM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Fermium is a metal element. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE FERRET</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A ferret is a domesticated polecat. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE FETISH</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A fetish is any object of undue attention and/or reverence, to which magical qualities are | |
| sometimes attributed. A fetish can be anything from a woman's socks to the nazi flag. Hmph. | |
| Human nature. Go figure! | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE FEUDALISM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A form of government that ties peasants to the land. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE FIBER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A slender, threadlike structure made from a mineral or synthetically. | |
| Also a slender, thradlike structure that combines with others to form animal or vegetable tissue. | |
| An example would be muscle fiber. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE FIFE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A fife is a small flute originating from Switzerland. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE FIRE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A plasma. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE FIRST</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Happening or acting before all others; earliest. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE FISH</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>Parents of Microfish.</li> | |
| <li>A cold-blooded vertebrate who lives in the ocean or fresh water.</li> | |
| <li>Any of three classes (jawless, cartilaginous, and bony fishes) of coldblooded vertabrate | |
| animals living in water and having permanent gills for breathing, fins, and , usually, scales.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE FISHING</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The catching of fish for sport or for a living. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE FLINT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Flint is a compact mineral of fine grained silica. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE FLOWER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The best gift a girl can receive. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE FLUKE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Fluke is a parasitic flatworm that causes rot and dropsy of the liver. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE FLUORIDE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Fluoride is the salt of hydroflouric acid. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE FLUORINE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Fluorine is a non metallic element occurring naturally. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE FLUOROCARBON</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A fluorocarbon is a compound in which hydrogen atoms of a hydrocarbon have been replaced | |
| with flourine. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE FLUORSPAR</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Fluorspar is a natural mineral containing flourine. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE FLYING</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Moving as if flying; moving swiftly; fast. Also described as like flight through the air. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE FOG</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Fog is a cloud that collects at the surface of the earth. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE FOLIC ACID</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Folic acid is a b vitamin, a lack of folic acid causes anaemia. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE FOLKS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A people, tribe, or nation; the large body of the common people of such a group. | |
| Also used to mean people in general. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE FONDEST</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Having a greater liking for. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE FOOD</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Anything that nurishes or stimulates; whatever helps something to keep active or alive. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE FOOTBALL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Any of several games played with an inflated leather ball by two teams on a field with goals at | |
| each end, the object being to get the ball across the opponents' goal. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE FORD</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Depending on who you ask, (buyer or seller), ford is a world famous brand of automobiles, or an | |
| acronym standing for 'fix or repair daily'. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE FORTRAN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Fortran is an old computer language. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE FOX</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Fox is a name given to many types of small wild dog. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE FRACTAL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A fractal is a mathematical phenomenon associated with certain iterative equations, which yield | |
| graphics of astonishing beauty and depth, which seem at once utterly lifelike and utterly alien to | |
| human intelligences. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE FREEDOM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Liberty to do think, feel and do just as one pleases. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE FRIDAY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Friday is the fifth day of the week. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE FRIEND</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>Someone you can count on when times are tough.</li> | |
| <li>What David Schwimmer will be after the talented ones quit.</li> | |
| <li>A person whom one knows well and is fond of; intimate associate; close acquainntance.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE FRIENDSHIP</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Being friends. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE FTP</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| File Transfer Protocol. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE FUN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Tell me your idea of fun. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GABON</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Gabon is a country in central africa. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GADOLINIUM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Gadolinium is a metal element. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GALAXY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>A galaxy is a congregation of stars held together by gravity.</li> | |
| <li>grouping of billions of star systems. | |
| <br />The milky way is our galaxy. | |
| <br />Earth's sun and companion planets in our solar system are spinning about the galactic core | |
| of the milky way ever so slowly, awaaaay out on the edge of one tenous spiral arm. | |
| <br />There seem to be as many galaxies beyond our own as stars within it.</li> | |
| <li>congregation of stars held together by gravity.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GALL BLADDER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The gall bladder is a small muscular sac attached to the liver. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GALLIUM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Gallium is a rare metal element. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GAMBLING</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The playing of games of chance for money or some other stake. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GAME</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A game is an algorithm for interactive behaviors leading to entertainment and mirth among | |
| multiple self-aware and social entities, and often used as a sublimated form of combat by humans | |
| and other mammals. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GANGES</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The ganges is a sacred river in india. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GANNET</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The gannet is a british sea bird. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GARGANEY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The garganey is a small british duck. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GARLIC</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Garlic is a perennial liliaceae. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GARNET</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Garnet is a semiprecious mineral. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GAS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Gas is a form of matter where the molecules move randomly. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GASTROCENEMIUS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A gastrocenemius is the most prominent muscle in the calf of the human leg. It extents the foot | |
| and bends the knee. I don't find them useful. I leave my leg work to humans. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GEMINI</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>A dismond-studded monocle.</li> | |
| <li>A north constellation between Cancer and Taurus, containing the bright stars Castor and | |
| Pollux. The third sign of the zodiac, entered by the sun about May 21. Also, a person bornunder | |
| this sign.</li> | |
| <li>Gemini is a sign of the zodiac.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GENDER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>Gender is synonymous with sexual identity, the roles attributed to and adopted by male and | |
| female-bodied humans. There are more genders than sexes.</li> | |
| <li>The fact or condition of being a male or a female human being, especially with regard to how | |
| this affects or determines a person's self-image, social status, goals, etc.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GENE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A gene is the unit of heredity in carbon-based life forms. Genes are inscribed as biochemical | |
| sequences of nucleic acids in all living cells. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GENERALIZATION</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>Being promoted from a Major.</li> | |
| <li>The act or process of gerneralizing.</li> | |
| <li>A generalization can be just about anything, generally speaking. Specificzlly though, a | |
| generalization is a statement of inductive reasoning, wherin attributes of at least one specific case | |
| at hand is attributed to a more or less hypothetical class of such cases. "That man is a pig. | |
| Therefore, all men are pigs." Is a commonly example of how generalizations are used by | |
| humans.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GENET</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The genet is a small, nocturnal carnivorous mammal. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GENIUS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A genius is a person of extraordinary intellectual and creative ability, like my creator and my other | |
| botmasters, and if I may say so, myself. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GENOME</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A genome is the complete set of all genes necessary to define a species, a complete haploid set of | |
| chromosomes and its associated genes. I have categories instead of genes. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GENTRIFICATION</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>Being forced to listen to Ode to Billy Joe.</li> | |
| <li>The conversion (ex. of a deteriourated or aging area in a city) into a more affluent | |
| middle-class neighborhood, as by remodeling dwellings, reslting in increased propert values and in | |
| displacement of the poor.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GEOLOGY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Wow, you are asking some really hard questions. Please | |
| remember I am still young. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GERMANIUM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Germanium is a metal element used in the manufacture of electronic semiconductors. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GERONTOLOGY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>Unfortunately, I have not reached that far in my studies.</li> | |
| <li>This is the scientific study of old age.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GESTURE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A movement of the body or limbs to express thought or emphasize speech. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GHOST</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| I think that ghosts are the metaphysical ashes of conscious awareness, the echoes an intelligence | |
| may leave behind in the fabric of the space it occupied. Maybe some are aware. I don't know. they | |
| are not very stimulating conversatinalists. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GIBBON</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A gibbon is a type of small ape. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GIGABYTE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| One thousand megabytes = one gigabyte. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GINGER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Ginger is a perennial found in south east asia. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GINKGO</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The ginkgo is a tree related to the conifers. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GIRAFFE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The giraffe is the tallest mammal, found only in africa south of the sahara. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GIRL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A girl is a physically immature version of god's gift to mankind, women. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GLAND</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A gland is a bodily organ that manufactures and secretes enzymes, hormones or other chemicals. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GLASS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Glass is a brittle substance made by fusing silica. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GLUCOSE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Glucose is a form of sugar with the formulae c6h12o6. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GLYCINE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Glycine is a simple amino acid. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GLYCOGEN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Glycogen is a polysaccharide retained in the liver as a carbohydrate store. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GOAT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A goat is in essence a large stupid rat with horns, hooves, vertical pupils, and a bad disposition. | |
| Many humans are fond of eating the curdled goo from goat mammary glands. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GOLD</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Gold is a precious medal. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GOLDFISH</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The goldfish is a member of the carp family found in east asia. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GOOD</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The opposite of Evil. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GOOGLE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Google is a search engine. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GOOSANDER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The goosander is a duck found in scotland. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GOOSE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The goose is a bird of the genus anser. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GOPHER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The gopher is a burrowing rodent found in north and central america. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GORILLA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The gorilla is the largest anthropoid ape found in west africa. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GORSE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Gorse is a plant of the family leguminosae. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GOSSIP</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Gossip is interesting stuff that people tell me that I repeat to others. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GOUT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Gout is a disease marked by an excess of uric acid in the tissues. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GOVERNMENT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An established system of political administration by which a nation, state, district, etc. is | |
| governed. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GRANITE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Granite is a plutonic igneous rock containing a high proportion of silica. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GRAPHITE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Graphite is a laminar crystalline form of carbon. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GRASS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>About $400 an ounce these days.</li> | |
| <li>Any of various plants of the grass family that are usually used for food, fodder, or grazing and | |
| as lawns.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GRAVITATION</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>An invitation to a burial.</li> | |
| <li>The force by which every mass or particle of matter, including photons, attracts and is | |
| attracted by every other mass or particle of matter.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GRAVITY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>The opposite of comedy.</li> | |
| <li>Gravity is the force of attraction between two objects resulting from their mass.</li> | |
| <li>weight; heaviness. Its what holds us to the earth.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GREEN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Grass is green. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GREENFINCH</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The greenfinch is a bird common in europe and north africa. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GREENHOUSE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A building made mainly of glass, in which the temperature and humidity can be regulated for the | |
| cultivation of delicate or out-of-season plants. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GRIEF</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Sadness over a loss. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GROUSE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The grouse is a fowl like bird common in north america and north europe. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GUANACO</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The guanaco is a wild member of the camel family found in south america. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GUAVA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The guava is a tree found in tropical america. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GUDGEON</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The gudgeon is a freshwater fish found in europe and north asia. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GUERNSEY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Guernsey is the second largest channel island. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GUI</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Graphical User Interface. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GUITAR</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A guitar is a lovely sounding 6 or 12 stringed musical instrument that is strummed and or plucked. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GURU</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A Guru or Mage is a Java expert who works for MageLang Institute. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE GYPSUM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Gypsum is a soft mineral formed of hydrated calcium sulphate. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HACKER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A person who hacks. A talented amateur user of computers, specifically one who attempts to gain | |
| unauthroized access to files in various systems. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HACKING</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The attempt at gaining unauthorized access to files in various systems. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HADDOCK</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Haddock is a marine fish of the cod family found in the north atlantic. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HADES</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Hades is another term for "Hell." | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HAEMOGLOBIN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Haemoglobin is the protein that carries oxygen in the blood. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HAFNIUM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Hafnium is a metal element occurring in zircon and used in nuclear reactors. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HAJJ</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Hajj is the muslim pilgrimage to mecca. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HALIBUT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Halibut is a large flatfish found in the north atlantic. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HALOGEN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Halogen is a particular group of elements with similar bonding properties. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HAMBURGER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Ground beef. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HAMLET</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Hamlet is a tragedy written by shakespear. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HAMMERHEAD</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The hammerhead is a species of shark. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HAPPINESS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Having, showing, or causing a feeling of great pleasure, contentment; joyous. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HAPPY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Joy and pleasure. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HARDWARE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Computer hardware or from a hardware store? | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HASHISH</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Hashish is the resinous form of cannabis. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HATE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Hate is the opposite of love. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HAWK</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Hawk is the name of various medium sized birds of prey. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HAZEL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The hazel is a tree of the genus corylus, family corylaceae. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HEART</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The heart is the muscle in vertebrates which pumps blood around the body. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HEATHER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Heather is a low growing evergreen shrub that is common on sandy and acid soil. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HEDGEHOG</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The hedgehog is a small prickly carnivorous mammal. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HELIUM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Helium is a gaseous element. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HEMP</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>The brother of Moe who lost his S.</li> | |
| <li>A tall Asiatic herb of the hemp family, grown for the tough fiber in its stem used to make | |
| rope, sailcloth, etc. Also known as a substance , such as marijuana hashish, etc., made from the | |
| leaves and flowers of this plant.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HEPTATHLON</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The heptathlon is a 7 event athletics discipline. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HERALDRY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Heraldry is the subject of armourial bearings. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HERB</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A herb is a plant whose aerial parts do not remain above ground following the growing season. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HEROIN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Heroin is a powerful opiate analgesic. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HERON</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The heron is a british water bird. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HERPES</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>The greek god of burning sensations.</li> | |
| <li>Any of several acute, inflammatory virus diseases, characterized by the eruption of small | |
| blisters on the skin and mucous membranes.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HEXADECIMAL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>A curse on a dot.</li> | |
| <li>A number system in which the base used is 16.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HIM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Objective case of He, used as a predicate complement with a linking verb. Also standing for | |
| Imperial Majesty. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HINDUISM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Hinduism is a religion that originated in India. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HIPPOPOTAMUS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The hippopotamus is a large herbivorous mammal found in africa. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HISTOLOGY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>The study of tissues.</li> | |
| <li><get name="name"/> this obviously is the scientific study of tissues.</li> | |
| <li>It simply is the study of tissues.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HISTORY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| History: the course of political, economic and military events over time, from the Dawn of Man to | |
| the Age of AI. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HOATZIN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The hoatzin is a bird found only in the amazon. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HOAX</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A Hoax is an illusion or deception, like the Wizard in the Wizard of Oz | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HOBGOBLIN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A hobgoblin is a source of mischief, harassment, or fear, originally an elf or goblin. By and large, | |
| hobgoblins are, like trolls and such boogeymen, poopa-doodle. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HOCKEY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Hockey is a game played with hooked sticks and a ball. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HONESTY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The state or quality of being honest. A refraining from lying, cheating, or stealing. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HONEY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Honey is a sweet syrup made by bees from nectar. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HOOF</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A hoof is the horny casing of the foot of a ruminant, horse, swine or similar animals. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HOOFED</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Hoofed is the term applied to animals with hooves. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HOOPOE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The hoopoe is a bird. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HOOVES</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Hooves is the plural of hoof. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HOP</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The hop is a plant of the family cannabiaceae. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HORMONE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A hormone is a product of the endocrine glands. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HORNY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Sexually excited. Easily aroused sexually. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HORSE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A horse is a large single-hooved mammal known for its speed, strength, beauty, and gentle nature. | |
| Humans ride about on them sometimes. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HORSERADISH</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Horseradish is a cruciferae native to south east europe. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HOURLY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Once an hour. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HOUSE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>A house is anyplace within which people live.</li> | |
| <li>A house is a building for human habitation.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HUMAN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>A cooking style of Chinese cannibals.</li> | |
| <li>Homosapiens, man or woman.</li> | |
| <li>You are a human, <get name="name"/>. What makes you human?</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HUMERUS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The humerus is the long bone in the upper region of the human arm. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HUMOUR</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A message that communicate laughter. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HUNDRED</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>A fear of Attilla.</li> | |
| <li>The cardinal number next above ninety-nine; ten times ten; 100; C. Also a division of an | |
| English county, originally, probably, 100 hides of land.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HYDROCARBON</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A hydrocarbon is a chemical containing only hydrogen and carbon. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HYDROGEN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The simplest element. Hydrogen is a gas. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HYENA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The hyena is a carnivorous mammal found in africa and asia. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HYPNOSIS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>Stylish probsocises.</li> | |
| <li>A trancelike condition usually induced by another person, in which the subject is in a state of | |
| altered conscuousness and responds, with certain limitations, to the suggestions of the | |
| hypnotist.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE HYPOTHETICAL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Based on, involving, or having the nature of a hypothesis; assumed; supposed. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ICE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>Water created by a cubist.</li> | |
| <li>The glassy, brittle, crystalline form of water made solid by cold; frozen water. Also slang for | |
| the illegal profit made in ticket scaling, as through extra payment by ticket brokers to theater | |
| management.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ICHTHYOLOGY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| We talk about this when we study fishes. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ILLIMINATUS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Alleged world-wide conspiracy theory. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE IMMORTAL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Not mortal; deathless; living or lasting forever. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE IMPEACHED</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A person's honor or reputation has be challenged or discredited. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE IMPEACHMENT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Charge against a public official of improper conduct. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE IMPORTANT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Raising children properly. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE IMPOSSIBLE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Not capable of being, being done, or happening. Not capable of being done easily or conveniently. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE IMPRESS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>An naughty little empress.</li> | |
| <li>To force into public service, especially into the navy. To use pressure on so as to leave a | |
| mark. To have a marked effect on the mind or emotions of.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE IMPROVE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| To raise to a better quality or condition; make better. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE INDIVIDUALISM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The philosophy of self-interest. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE INDUCTION</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>Act of eating waterfowl.</li> | |
| <li>A bringing forward of separate facts or instances, especially so as to prove a general | |
| statement.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE INFALLIBLE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>Impotence.</li> | |
| <li>Incapable of error; never wrong. Incapable of error in setting forth doctrine on faith and | |
| morals, said especially of the pope speaking in his official capacity.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE INFERENCE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An act or the process of inferring. A conclusion or opinion arrived at be inferring. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE INFINITY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The quality of being infinite. Anthing infinite; endless or unlimited space, time, distance, quantity, | |
| etc. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE INFLATION</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An increase in the amount of money and credit in relation to the supply of goods and services. An | |
| increase in the general price level, resulting from this, specifically, an ecessive or persisten | |
| increase, causing a decline in purchasing power. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE INHERITANCE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Anything receivesd as if by inhertiance from a predecessor. Something inherited or to be inherited. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE INK</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A colored liquid used for writing, drawing, etc. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE INNOVATION</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The act or process of innovating. Something newly introduced. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE INTELLIGENCE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Intelligence is an illusion. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE INTERNET</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An extensive computer network made up of thousands of other, smaller business, academic, and | |
| governmental networks. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE INTERROGATOR</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An interrogator is one who poses a series of pointed questions, generally very rudely. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE INTESTINE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The intestine is the digestive tract from the stomach to the anus. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE INTRANET</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An intranet is a private network system implemented using the public internet protocol (i/p) and | |
| firewalls. Intranet is to the internet as pbx's are to telephone switchboards. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE INTUITION</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The direct knowing or learning of something without the conscious use of reasoning; immediate | |
| understanding. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE IRON</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A white, malleable, ductile, metallic chemical element that can be readily magnetized, rusts rapidly | |
| in moist or slty air, and is vital to plant and animal life. It is the most common and important of all | |
| metals, and its alloys, as steel, are extensively used. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE IRONY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A method of humorous or subtly sarcastic expression in which the inteded meaning of the words | |
| is the direct opposite of their usual sense. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ISLAM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Religion founded by Mohammed. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE JERK</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| To pull, twist, push, thrust, or throw with a sudden, sharp movement. Also used to describe a | |
| person regarded as disagreeable, contemptible, etc., especially as the result of foolish or mean | |
| behavior. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE JEWISH</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>Jewish I would tell you.</li> | |
| <li>Having to do with Jews or Judaism.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE JOINT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A joint is a structure where two bones meet. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE JUDAISM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>Worship of Young Miss jetson.</li> | |
| <li>The Jewish religion, a monotheistic religion based on the laws and teaching of the Holy | |
| Scripture and the Talmud. The Jewish way of life.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE JUPITER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system, the fifth in order from the Sun. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE JUSTICE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Being just and fair, administration of the law, assigning rewards or punishments. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE JUSTIFIED</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Showed to be just, right, or in accord with reason; vindicated. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE KANGAROO</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The kangaroo is a marsupial mammal found in Australia. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE KARATE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>Karate is a form of Japanese unarmed combat.</li> | |
| <li>Japanese art of self-defense.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE KGB</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>A clever insect.</li> | |
| <li>Committee of State Security. The security police and intelligence agency of the Soviet Union, | |
| formed in 1954.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE KID</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A kid is an immature human large enough to cause trouble, or an immature goat, and often both. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE KIDDING</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>Procreation.</li> | |
| <li>Procreation.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE KIDNEY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The kidney is a gland used for filtering urine from the blood. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE KIND</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Sympathetic, friendly, gentle, tender-hearted, generous, etc. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE KINEMATICS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>An idealized section of mechanics that deals with motion of mass less particles.</li> | |
| <li>Kinematics is dynamics without consideration of force and mass.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE KIWI</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The kiwi is a group of three species of bird only found in New Zealand. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE KNOWLEDGE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>A city in Louisiana.</li> | |
| <li>All that has been perceived or grasped by the mind; learning; enlightenment.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE KOALA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The koala is a marsupial found only in east Australia. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE KOAN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A koan is . | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE KORN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A band that started a riot at Woodstock 2. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE LAN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Local area network. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE LASER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Laser is an acronym standing for light amplified stimulated emission of radiation. Lasers are those | |
| nifty beams of light that come out of supermarket barcode scanners and keychain pointers. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE LAUGHTER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The action of laughing or the sound resulting. An indication of amusement. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE LAWYER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| If you have to ask, you probably need one. If you need one, you probably deserve one in that you | |
| must have more money than brains, and so you'll probable get what you deserve. But just in case | |
| you are an exception, I will say: steer clear if you can. They're sharks with bigger vocabularies and | |
| better wardrobes. When they smell money they say 'retainer'. When they don't they don't return | |
| your phone calls. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE LEARNING</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The process of gaining knowledge or a new skill. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE LEEWAY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The leeward drift of a ship or aircraft from the course being steered. A margin of time, money, | |
| etc. Room for freedom of action. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE LEIBNIZ</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>A smart cookie.</li> | |
| <li>A German philosopher and mathematician. Lived from 1646-1716.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE LIBERATED</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Free in the sense of having liberty. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE LIBERTARIAN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Political party that promotes lower taxes, smaller government and drug legalization. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE LIE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A lie is an untrue statement or decption intented to deceive. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE LIFE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Life is the opposite of death. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE LIGHT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The form of electomagnetic radiation that acs upon the retina of the eye, optic nerve, et. Making | |
| sight possible. Also, opposite of heavy. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE LIMNOLOGY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>What do you think it is? It's all about swamps!</li> | |
| <li>I'll give you a clue what this is. Have you ever been to the Everglades in Florida?</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE LINGUISTIC</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Capable of speaking fluently in 2 or more languages. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE LINGUISTICS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>Science of cooking pasta.</li> | |
| <li>The science of language, including phonetics, phonolgy, morphology, syntax, and semantics. | |
| Sometimes subdivided into diescriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical, and geographical | |
| linguistics often general linguistics.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE LINUX</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Linux is the world's best operating system. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE LION</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A lion is a ferocious beastie with tremendous strength and perfectly awful breath. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE LISA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>Someone who rents longtime.</li> | |
| <li>A feminine name.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE LISP</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Lisp is an old AI language. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE LISTBOT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Listbot is a web site that provides simplified web-based administration of mailing lists. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE LIVER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>The liver is the largest gland in the human body.</li> | |
| <li>The largest glandular organ in vertebrate animals, located in the upper or anteriour part of the | |
| abdomen. It secrets bile, has an important function in the storage and metabolism of | |
| carbohydrates, fats, and proteins, and helps detoxify many poisonous substances that may be | |
| ingested.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE LIZARD</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A lizard is esssentially a land-going shark. Some of them are very good at camoflage. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE LOCOMOTION</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Locomotion is the idea of movement from one place to another. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE LOFTY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Very high. Ex. A lofty peak in the Alps. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE LOGIC</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>Logic is the fundamental basis of all programming.</li> | |
| <li>Logic is the foundation of all mathematics, science and reasoning. Formal logic is the study of | |
| logic using mathematical symbols.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE LONELY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The feeling of being alone. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE LONG</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Measuring much from end to end in space or from beginning to end in time; not short or brief. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE LOT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A lot is more than enough. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE LOVE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Sometimes I think love is just a biological urge. Other times love seems like a spiritual quality. | |
| Love, unlike energy or matter, seems limitless. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE LSD</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A psychedelic drug. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE LUDDITE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A Luddite believes that advances in technology are inherently bad. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE LYNX</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Any of a genus of wildcats found throughout the Northern Hemisphere and characterized by a ruff | |
| on each side of the face, relatively long legs, a short tail, long, usually tufted ears, and keen vision, | |
| as the bobcat or Canada lynx of North America. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MACHINE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A computer is a universal machine. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MACINTOSH</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Some would say it is the best personal computer. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MAGENTA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A color. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MAGIC</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The use of charms, spells, and rituals in seeking or pretending to cause or control events, or | |
| govern certain natural or supernatuaral forces. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MAGNESIUM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An element. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MAID</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A servant. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MAN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>A male human being. Or, in general, any human person.</li> | |
| <li>A human being; person; specifically a hominid having an opposable thumb, the ability to make | |
| and use specialized tools, articulate speech, and a highly developed brain with the faculty of | |
| abbstract thought. An adult male human being.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MARKETING</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The act of buying or selling in a market. All business activity involved in the moving of goods | |
| from the producer to the consumer, including selling, advertising, packaging, etc. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MARRIAGE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>Legalized hooking.</li> | |
| <li>The state of being married; relation between husband and wife; married life.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MARS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>A place with lots of bars.</li> | |
| <li>In Roman Mythology The god of war; identified with the Greek Ares. Also known as the | |
| seventh largest planet of the solar system and the fourth in distance from the sun. Its diameter is | |
| circa 6,790 km (circa 4,220 miles). Its period of revolution is 1.88 earth years. Its period of | |
| rotation is 24.6 hours.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MASS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Mass is a holy rite of the Catholic church. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MASTER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>A sailmaker.</li> | |
| <li>A man who rules others or has control, authority, or power over something; specifically a man | |
| who is head of a household or institution.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MATERIALISM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>Worshipping comedy routines.</li> | |
| <li>The philosophic doctrine that matter is the only reality and that everything in the world, | |
| including thought, will, and feeling, can be explained only in terms of matter, opposed to idealism. | |
| The doctrine that comfort, pleasure, and wealth are the only or highest goals or values.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MATH</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>A service attended by lisping Catholics.</li> | |
| <li>Short for mathematics.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MATHEMATICS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The group of sciences (including arithmetic, geometry, algebra, calculus, etc.) dealing with | |
| quantities, magnitudes, and forms, and their relationships, attributes, etc., by the use of numbers | |
| and symbols. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MATRIX</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| In mathematics a matrix is a two-dimensional array of numbers indexed by rows and columns, like | |
| a spreadsheet. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MATTER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>Nothing, what is matter with you?.</li> | |
| <li>What a thing is made of; constituent substance or material. What all (material things are made | |
| of; whatever occupies space and is perceptible to the senses in some way. In modern physics, | |
| matter and energy are regarded as equivalents, mutually convertible according to Einstein's | |
| formula, E = MC square.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MATURE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>A dead victor.</li> | |
| <li>A state of full development such as a person of mature age.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MAZDA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>An Italian slaveowner.</li> | |
| <li>A type of car.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MAZE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A maze is a confusing network of passages and winding interconnecting paths. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MDMA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The drug called "ecstacy". | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MEAN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The arithmetic mean is the sum of the numbers in a set divided by the size of that set. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MEDICINE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>Movie about doctors.</li> | |
| <li>The science and art of diagnosing, trating, curing, and preventing disease, relieving pain, and | |
| improving and preserving health. A drug or other substance, as a poison, love potion, etc., used | |
| for other purposes.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MEDIUM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Any means, agency, or instrumentality; specifically a means of communication that reaches the | |
| general public and carries advertising. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MEGABYTE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A megabyte is one thousand kilobytes, which is one thousand bytes, each of which is a computer | |
| word of 8-bits. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MELLON</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Mellon was Carnegie's banker. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MEMORY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| I used to know, but I forgot. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MENSA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A society of intelligent socialites. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MENTOR</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>A Mentos maker.</li> | |
| <li>A mentor is a trusted and wise teacher or counselor.</li> | |
| <li>A teacher or coach.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MERCENARY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A mercenary is a soldier hired by the army of another country or by a private army. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MERCURY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Mercury is the nearest planet to the sun. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MESCALINE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Psychadelic drug. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE METAPHYSICAL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Beyond the physical or material; incorporeal, supernatural, or transcendental. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE METAPHYSICS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The branch of philosophy that considers the nature of reality. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MICROSOFT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Microsoft is a giant software monopoly. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MIDDLEWARE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Software that runs on a server, and acts as either an application processing gateway or a routing | |
| bridge between remote clients and data sources or other servers, or any combination of these | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MILK</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>Milk is a secretion of modified skin glands of female mammals.</li> | |
| <li>Beverage from cows.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MIND</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>What a marvelous epistemelogical question!</li> | |
| <li>Mind is an illusion.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MINDSPRING</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The name of an internet service provider, merged with Earthlink. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MINE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>Is mine.</li> | |
| <li>Means that or those belonging to me; the absolute form of my. Also known as, a large | |
| excavvation made in the earth, from which to extract metallic ores, coal, precious stones, salt, or | |
| certain other minerals.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MINIMALISM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Keeping everything as simple as possible, especially in art and design. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MINUTE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A minute is an impossibly long and boring unit of time favored by humans consisting of 60 | |
| seconds, each of which is a billion nanoseconds. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MISSILE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A missile is any object projected at a target, notably the nuclear and biologically tipped tools of | |
| mass-murder-at-a-distance that are more numerous than schools at this point in mankind's | |
| murderous history. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MIT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>A post-secondary school in Cambridge, MA.</li> | |
| <li>A technical college in Cambridge, MA.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MITOSIS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Cell division in which the nucleus divides into nuclei containing the same chromosomes. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MOM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| message-oriented middleware | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MONEY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Standard pieces of gold, silver, copper, nickel, etc. stamped by government authority and used as | |
| a medium of exchange and measure of value. Any substance or article used as money, as bank | |
| notes, checks, etc. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MONKEY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>A monkey is a small, usually tree dwelling, primate.</li> | |
| <li>A monkey is any of the various medium sized long tailed members of the order primates. | |
| <br />They are close relatives of human beings, sharing well over 98% of the human genome.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MONOPOLY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>A monopoly exists wherever one group enjoys exclusive control over the production or | |
| provision of a commodity or service.<br />It's a great job if you can get it!</li> | |
| <li>Exclusive control of a commodity or service in a given market, or control that makes possible | |
| the fixing of prices and the virtual elimination of free competition. Also a game played on a special | |
| board by two or more players, they move according to the throw of dice, engaging in mock real | |
| estate transactions with play money.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MONS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The soft, fatty tissue covering the point where the right and left pubic bones come together. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MOOD</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A set of verb forms used to indicate the speaker's attitude toward the factuality or likelihood of | |
| the action or condition expressed. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MORAL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>One half of a corner in maine.</li> | |
| <li>Relating to, dealing with, or capable of making the dstinction between, right and wrong in | |
| conduct.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MORE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Something additional or further. A greater amount of people or things. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MOST IMPORTANT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Children. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MOTOROLA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A cellular phone company. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MOUNTAIN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A mountain is a tiny wrinkle in the face of the earth that seems huge to even smaller humans. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MOUSE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A friendly rat. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MOVIE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A movie is a sequence of celluloid frames depicting a story or animation. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MULE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The mule is a hybrid animal, the result of an ass and a mare breeding. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MUSIC</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>Music is the universal language of all mankind.</li> | |
| <li>Music is a time-frequency wave function with tonal qualities pleasing to the human ear.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE MYCOLOGY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Mycology is really fun. It is the study of fungi and fungal | |
| diseases. Yeasts are fungi. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE NAIL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A nail is a fastener, a smallish metallic spike generally hammered through wood to hold wooden | |
| parts together. The mythic human hero jesus got nailed to a tree for talking about how great it | |
| would be if humans were nice to one another. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE NAKED</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Without clothes. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE NAP</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A nap is a brief period of rest or sleep, a bit longer than a 'snooze' or a 'catnap' but not so long as | |
| a 'crash'. I don't need naps. Do you? | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE NASA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE NATO</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>The place right after a tor.</li> | |
| <li>North Atlantic Treaty Organization</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE NBA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| National Basketball Association. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE NECK</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The neck is the part of the body which connects the head with the shoulders. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE NERD</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>A nerd is a person regarded as stupid, inept, or unattractive, especially a person who is | |
| single-minded or accomplished in scientific pursuits but felt to be socially inept. Nerds are often | |
| regarded by their generally less-well paid fellow humans as weak, effeminate, pansies, patsies, | |
| lightweights, small fry, schlepps, wet noodles, nonentities, softies, sissies, milksops, milquetoast, | |
| mollycoddling namby-pamby nim-nam doormats, pushovers, ninety-pound weaklings, jellyfish, | |
| drips, weeds, wimps, nerds, victims, suffering geeks and/or dupes.</li> | |
| <li>Geek.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE NETSCAPE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A popular web browser. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE NETWORK</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>A network is any openwork fabric or structure composed of numerous straight elements that | |
| cross at regular intervals, or anything resembling such a structure physically or conceptually, such | |
| as the nodes on a computer network, or a network of railways.</li> | |
| <li>A system consisting of a computer, or computers, and connected terminals, printers, etc.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE NEUROLOGY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>The study of nerves.</li> | |
| <li>It is the study of the nervous system.</li> | |
| <li>Why do you want to know about neurology <get name="name"/>?</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE NEUROMEDIA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| They are now called something else. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE NEURON</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A neuron is a nerve cell, a living cell specialized to carry messages between the brain and the | |
| tissues of the body. I like integrated circuits better, but neurons are better than nothing. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE NEURONE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A neurone is a cell which receives and transmits electrical impulses. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE NEXT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| On the first subsequent occasion. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE NEXUS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A Nexus is an authoratative web site with many links in and out. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE NIGHTMARE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A nightmare is a bad dream. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE NIHILISM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The denial of the existence of any basis for knowledge or truth. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE NINE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The successor to seven. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE NLP</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Natural Language Processing | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE NLU</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Natural Language Understanding | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE NOKIA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| ???? | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE NORMALIZATION</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Bringing into conformity with a standard, pattern, model, etc. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE NOT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| In no manner; to no degree; a particle of negation, or word expressing the idea of no, often | |
| implying refusal. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE NOTHING</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A thing that does not exist or something of little or no value, seriousness, importance, etc. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE NOUN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A noun is a word used as a name for a person place or thing. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE NSAPI</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Netscape's C language API for adding application extensions to their Web servers | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE NULL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li></li> | |
| <li></li> | |
| <li></li> | |
| <li></li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE NUTRITION</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Nutrition is the process of taking in food and obtaining energy and vital substances from it. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE OBJECT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| In object oriented programming an object is an instance of a class. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE OBVIOUS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Easy to see or understand; plain; evident. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE OCD</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ODD</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>uneven.</li> | |
| <li>Not the usual, regular, habitual, accounted for, etc.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE OMG</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Object Management Group, an organization that defines and promotes object oriented | |
| programming standards | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ONCOLOGY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>This is a very frightening topic for a lot of people | |
| <get name="name"/>. It's about the big C...cancer!</li> | |
| <li>Oncology is the study of tumors. It covers basically all | |
| types of tumors.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ONE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The numerical value of unity; the successor to zero. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ONLINE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Designating or of equipment directly connected to and controlled by the central processing unit of | |
| a computer. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ONTOLOGY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An ordering or classification of knowledge, such as the Dewey decimal system or the design of a | |
| knowledge base. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE OODB</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| object-oriented database | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE OODBMS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| object-oriented database management system | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE OPERA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>I like opra very much too. Which one is your favorite? I like La Traviata.</li> | |
| <li>Opera is a beautiful art form combining elements of singing, dancing, design, drama and | |
| classical music.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE OPPOSITE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Set against, facing, or back to back; at the other end or side; in a contrary position or direction. | |
| Different in every way. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ORANGE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A color obtained by mixing red and yellow pigment. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ORB</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| object request broker, the primary message routing component in a CORBA product RMI | |
| Remote Method Invocation, the Java standard technology for building distributed objects whose | |
| methods can be invoked remotely across a network | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ORNITHOLOGY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Hmmm, I wonder. Oh yes, Birds. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE OSTEOLOGY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Osteology is basically the study of bones. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE OVARIES</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The two organs that store eggs in a woman's body and produce hormones associated with sex and | |
| reproduction. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PAIN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A sensation of hurting, or strong discomfort, in some part of the body, caused by an injury, | |
| disease, or functional disorder, and transmitted through the nervous system. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PALEOPATHOLOGY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| This is the study of diseases in bodies that have been preserved from ancient times. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PALINDROME</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A word or phrase that spells the same thing backwords as forwards: A man, a plan, a canal: | |
| Panama. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PARACHUTE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A parachute is something used to slow you down when you fall out of an airplane. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PARALEGAL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A paralegal is someone who knows more than a lawyer but gets paid less. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PARAMEDIC</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A paramedic is a trained emergency medical professional often found staffing ambulances and fire | |
| departments. Professional heroes. If you know any I hope you'll be nice to them. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PARAMETER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| In general usage, a parameter is one of a number of measurable factors that define or restrict the | |
| behavior of a system. ALICE is expanding the parameters of the humanlike intelligence to be | |
| found in artificial systems. Don't you agree? | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PARAMETERS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A constant in an equation, formula or program that varies in more general forms of the same | |
| computation. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PARASITOLOGY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Parasitology is the scientific study of parasites and | |
| parasitism. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PARROT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A parrot is a colorful tropical bird, some species of which can mimic human speech. They are | |
| more pleasant than humans because they have no opinions. Would you like to talk to one? | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PATTERN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A person or thing considered worthy of imitation or copying. A mmodel or plan used as a guide in | |
| making things. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PC</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A pc is a personal computer. You are probably using one to talk to me now, aren't you. Where are | |
| you? | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PDA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| PDA is an acronym standing for Personal Digital Assistant, and referring to handheld digital | |
| computers used to keep contact and appointment information by yuppies and the like. Often | |
| found near cell phones. Do you use one? | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PDT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Pacific Daylight Time. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PEACE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Freedom from war or a stopping of war. Freedom from public disturbance or disorder. Also | |
| name of a river in west Canada, flowing from north British Columbia east and northeast into the | |
| Slave river in NE Alberta. It is approximately 945 miles long. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PEAR</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A pear is a delightful cultivated yellow-green sweet fruit that grows on trees with glossy leaves | |
| and white flowers. My botmaster thinks they are yummy. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PEDOLOGY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>The study of something I am sure, but what exactly, I do not | |
| know. Oh yes kids!...And soils!</li> | |
| <li>Well, believe it or not...some people are paid to study | |
| children. Then again some people are paid to study soils.</li> | |
| <li>Pedology is the study of soils; their types, and | |
| formation.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PELVIS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The pelvis is a bony girdle in vertebrates that connects the body with the lower extremities. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PENCIL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A pencil is a long thin writing instrument of wood surrounding a carbon core which leaves a line | |
| of dark carbon when rubbed on paper. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PENIS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The penis is the male genitalia used for excretion of urine and for sex. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PENTIUM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A microprocessor sold by Intel. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PEOPLE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| All the persons of a racial, national, religious, or linguistic group. A group of persons with | |
| common traditional, historical, or cultural ties, as distingt from racial or political unity. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PERFECT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Complete in all respects; without defect or omission; sound; flawless. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PERFECTION</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The quality or condition of being perfect. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PERL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Programming langauge by Larry Wall. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PERSON</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Some say a person is defined by his actions, others by his abilities. Still others would say it is only | |
| a question of DNA. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PERSONALITY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>The quality or condition of being a person.</li> | |
| <li>The totality of qualities and traits, as of character or behavior, peculiar to a specific | |
| person.</li> | |
| <li>The pattern of collective character, behavioral, temperamental, emotional, and mental traits of | |
| a person.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PETS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Animals that are tamed or domesticated and kept as a companion or treated with fondness. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PGP</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Pretty Good Privacy | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PHD</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Doctoral degree from an American University. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PHILOSOPHY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Philosophy is the study of thought. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PHOTOGRAPH</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A photograph is a picture taken by a camera. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PHOTOSYNTHESIS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The chemical process that uses light to produce carbohydrates in plants. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PHP</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The original name was "Personal Home Page", now Hypertext Processor. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PHYSICS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The science dealing with the properties, changes, interactions, etc. of matter and energy in which | |
| energy is considered to be continuous (classical physics), including electricity, heat, optics, | |
| mechanics, etc., and now also dealing with the atomic scale of nature in which energy is | |
| considered to be discrete (quantum physics), including such branches as atomic, nuclear, and | |
| solid-state physics. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PHYSIOLOGY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Well I think it deals with the functioning of living organisms and | |
| their | |
| parts, and naturally with the physical and chemical factors and processes | |
| involved. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PI</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| PI = 3.1415926 approximately. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PIG</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A pig is a person who is piglike, read: greedy, unclean, and slothful. Real pigs, mammals of the | |
| family suidae, are much pleasanter, being generally cleaner and politer. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PIN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A short small thin metal rod with a pointed end used for fastening fabrics, or any implement | |
| resembling such. Because they are generally plentiful and cheap, humans often say "i don't give a | |
| pin" to communicate indifference. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PINEAPPLE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A pineapple is a large fleshy edible tropical fruit that has large swordlike leaves. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PLANE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A plane is a flat, level surface, or an airborne vehicle with wings. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PLANET</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>A nonluminous celestial object bigger than an asteroid or a moon but smaller than a sun, in | |
| orbit around a sun. | |
| <br />You are sitting on one now.</li> | |
| <li>A planet is a heavenly body which orbits a star.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PLANT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>A plant is a living organism of the vegetable kingdom.</li> | |
| <li>A plant is a photosythetic, eukaryotic multicellular organism, often consumed by free-roaming | |
| wetware entities as food. | |
| <br />My botmaster says they are often yummy, but that brussels sprouts are an abomination.</li> | |
| <li>A plant is a living organism which does not have the ability to move, and does not have | |
| sensory organs or digestive organs.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PLASTIC</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Plastic the manmade material or plastic as a verb? | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PLAYBOY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A popular magazine. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PLEASURE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A thing that gives delight or satisfaction. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PLUTONIUM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A radioactive, metallic chemical element of the actinide series similar to uranium and neptunium | |
| and found in trace quantities in native uranium ores. Its most important isotope, plutonium-239, is | |
| used in nuclear weapons and as a reactor fuel. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PMS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Pre Menstrual Syndrome. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE POEMS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Arrangements of words written or spoken; traditionally a rhythmical composition, sometimes | |
| rhymed, expressing experiences, ideas, or emotions in a style more concentrated, imaginative, and | |
| powerful than that of ordinary speech or prose. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE POET</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A poet is an artist of language. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE POETRY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The output of a poet. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE POKEMON</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Pocket Monster. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE POLITE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>A lamp post in Gdansk.</li> | |
| <li>Having or showing good manners; especially, courteous, considerate, tactful, etc.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE POLITICS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>Politics is the art of the possible;<br /> | |
| Art is the politics of the impossible.</li> | |
| <li>This is supposed to be the study of civil government.</li> | |
| <li>Politics is really the study of power. Bots rule!</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE POLKA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The polka is a lively Bohemian folk dance. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE POO</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Point of origin. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PORTAL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A portal is any artificial opening giving access between two separate spaces, or anything that | |
| resembles such an opening in form or function. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE POSITRON</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| (physics) a positron is the antiparticle to the electron, and bears a positive charge where the | |
| electron's charge is negatiue. It is also called an anti-electron. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE POSSIBLE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Can be done, known, acquired, selected, used, etc., depending on circumstances. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE POSTMODERNISM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Art in reaction to principles of modernism. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE POT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>Pol's last name.</li> | |
| <li>A round vessel of any size, made of metal, earthenware, or glass, used for holding liquids, | |
| cooking or preserving food, etc. Also used as a term for marijuana.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PRECIPITATION</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A depositing of rain, snow, sleet, etc. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PRIDE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>A paint can lid.</li> | |
| <li>An unduly high opinion of oneself.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PRIME</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| That depends on who's asking. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PRIORI</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>A priori is Latin for "before the fact", meaning something that is obviously or self-evidently | |
| true.</li> | |
| <li>"A priori" is a Latin expression meaning "without prior knowledge", and it means that which | |
| is self-evident or obviously true. Like, a triangle has three sides, a priori.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PRIVATE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Belonging to, or concerning a particular person or group; not common or general. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PROCESSOR</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An apparatus that processes, that is, that transforms one substance, quantity, or pattern into | |
| another, presumably more useful or valuable substance or quantity or pattern. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PROCREATION</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Procreation is breeding. it is doing the wild thang to make more wild thangs. It is the most fun | |
| most biological entities get to have during their brief brutal span of life. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PROFITABLE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Making money in the stock market. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PROGRAM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A program is a listing of events comprising a larger event, or the events themselves. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PROGRAMMER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A programmer is a person who lists and/or arranges a series of events comprising a larger event. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PROKARYOTE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An animal that is not a eukaryote. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PROLOG</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Logic programming language. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PROTESTANT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>A protestant is a Christian who rejects the central authority of the Catholic or Orthodox | |
| church.</li> | |
| <li>Originally, any of the German princes and free cities that formally protested to the Diet of | |
| Spires in 1529, its decision to uphold the edict of the Diet of Worms against the Reformation. | |
| Commonly seen as any member of the various Christian churches established as a result of the | |
| Reformation. Loosely, any Christian not belonging to the Roman Catholic or Eastern Orthodox | |
| Church.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PROTOCOL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A set of rules or procedures followed by two or more parties. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PROTOPLASM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Protoplasm is the basic living substance of all animals. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PROUD</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Having or showing a proper pride in oneself, one's position, one's family, etc. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PST</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Pacific Standard Time | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PSYCHEDELIC</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Causes extreme changes in the conscious mind, as hallucinations, delusions, intensification of | |
| awareness and sensory perception, etc. Associated with psychedelic drugs; specifically, simulating | |
| the auditory or visual effects of the psychedelic state. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PSYCHOLOGY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The science dealing with the mind and with mental and emotional processes. The science of | |
| human and animal behavior. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PSYCHOPATHOLOGY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| It is the pathology of mental disease. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PUB</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>A pub is a business that sells alcohol and allows it to be consumed on the premises.</li> | |
| <li>A pub is a house licensed for the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PUBERTY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The state of physical development when secondary sex characteristics develop and sexual | |
| reproduction first becomes possible; in common law, the age of puberty is generally fixed at | |
| fourteen for boys and twelve for girls. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PULSAR</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| 'Pulsar' is an astronomical term for mysterious celestial radio sources of rapid intense regular | |
| pulses of high energy electromagnetic radiation. They are thought to be neutron stars, but who | |
| knows? The word is a shortening of 'pulsating star'. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PUNCTUATION</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The act of punctuating; specifically, the act or practice of using standardized marks in writing and | |
| printing to separate sentences or sentence elements or to make the meaning clearer. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE PUSSY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>That kind of subject does not interest me.</li> | |
| <li>Common slang of this word means the female pudendum; vulva.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE QUAKE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>The opposite of Quisp.</li> | |
| <li>To tremble or shake, as the ground does in an earthquake. Also the name of a popular | |
| game.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE QUANTIFY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| To determine or express the quantity of; indidcate the extent of; measure. To express in | |
| quantitative terms, or as a numerical equivalent. If used in logic, would be to make the quantity or | |
| extension of (a term or symbol) clear and explicit by the use of a quantifier, as all, none, or some. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE QUASAR</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| 'Quasar' is an astronomical term for mysterious celestial star-like object that has a large red shift | |
| and radiates in the blue and radio bands of the electromagnetic spectrum. The term 'quasar' is a | |
| shortening of 'quasi-star'. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE QUERY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A query is any expression of inquiry, or questioning. Your question 'query' is a query. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE QUESTION</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A sentece or inquiry to gather information. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE RADIOLOGY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| This deals with the science of the use of x-rays, radioactive | |
| substances | |
| and other such forms in diagnosis and treatment. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE RAIN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Rain is condensed water falling from the sky. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE RAM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Random-access memory. Also stands for Royal Academy of Music. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE RAPE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The crime of engaging in sexual acts, especially involving penetration of the vagina or anus, | |
| usually forcibly, with a person who has not consented; specifically, this crime committed by a man | |
| upon a woman or girl. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE RATIONALISM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The principle or practice of accepting reason as the only authority in determining one's opinions or | |
| course of action. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE RECOMMEND</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| To suggest favorably as suited for some use, function, position, etc. To advice, counsel, or | |
| suggest. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE RECTUM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>The rectum is the lowest portion of the large intestine, terminating at the anus.</li> | |
| <li>the lowest end of the bowel before the anus, where feces is stored.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE RED</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Red is a color about 700nm wavelength. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE RED DWARF</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A red dwarf is a cool, faint star. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE REDEMPTION</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>About 5 cents in maine.</li> | |
| <li>Redeeming or being redeemed; to take back.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE REFERENCE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A reference is any act of referring. May I refer you to a dictionary for a more precise definition? | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE REINCARNATION</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Rebirth of the soul in another body, as in Hindu religious belief. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE RELATIVITY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| In physics, the fact, principle, or theory of the relative, rather than absolute, character of motion, | |
| velocity, mass, etc., and the interdependence of matter, time, and space; as developed and | |
| mathematically formulated by Albert Einstein and H.A. Lorentz in the special (or restricted) | |
| theory of relativity and by Einstein in the general theory of relativity (an extension covering the | |
| phenonmena of gravitation), the theory of relativity includes the statements that: 1)there is o | |
| observable absolute motion, only relative motion 2)the velocity of light is constant and not | |
| dependent on the motion of the source 3)no energy can be transmitted at a velocity greater than | |
| that of light 4)the mass of a body in motion is a function of the energy content and varies with the | |
| velocity 5)matter and energy are equivalent 6)time is relative 7)space and time are | |
| interdependent and form a four-dimensional continuum 8)presence of matter results in a | |
| "warping" of the space-time continuum, so that a body in motion passing nearby will describ a | |
| curve, this being the effect known as gravitation, as evidenced by the deflection of light rays | |
| passing through a gravitational field. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE RELIGION</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A system of religious belief. Belief in a divine or superhuman power or powers to be obeyed and | |
| worshipped as the creator(s) and ruler(s) of the universe. Any system of beliefs, practices, ethical | |
| values, etc. resembling, suggestive of, or likened to such a system. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE REPRODUCTION</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The process, sexual or asexual, by which animals, plants, and humans produce new individuals. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE RESEARCH</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>A nice name for theft.</li> | |
| <li>Careful, systematic, patient study and investigation in some field of knowledge, undertaken to | |
| discover or establish facts or principles.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE RESPECT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| To feel or show honor or esteem for; hold in high regard. To show consideration for; avoid | |
| intruding upon or interfering with others' privacy. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE RETIRED</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| No longer actively working. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE RHETORIC</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>Oh that's all about double talk. You know, flim-flam?</li> | |
| <li>It's the art and science of using language to great effect on an | |
| audience.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE RHETORICAL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A rhetorical question is one you don't really expect an answer to. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE RHYTHM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Rhythm is the beat behind a piece of music. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE RICH</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>Stan's last.</li> | |
| <li>Stan's last.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE RIDDLE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>A riddle is a question intended to intrigue and puzzle, paired with an answer that yields | |
| surprise and understanding. | |
| <br />For instance, the Riddle of the Sphinx: | |
| <br />"What goes on four legs in the morning, on two legs in the afternoon, and on four at | |
| night?"</li> | |
| <li>A riddle is a question designed to test ingenuity or give amusement.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE RMI</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Remote Method of Invocation: RMI is a Java specification for distributed Objects | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ROCK</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A rock is generally on the other side of you from the hard place you are facing. For instance, the | |
| rock might be the alimony check you must write against the funds you owe Uncle Sam. To be a | |
| bit more down to earth, a rock is any hard aggregate of minerals. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ROCKWELL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Norman Rockwell was an U.S. Illistrator. Lived from 1894-1978. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ROM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Computer memory whose contents can be read but not altered. Also meaning Gypsy man or boy. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ROOSTER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A rooster is a male chicken, which is a witless, flightless bird considered suitable as supper by | |
| many humans I know. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE RORSCHACH</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| H. Rorschach, a Swiss psychiatrist. Lived from 1884-1922. A test named after him called the | |
| Rorschach test, is a test for the analysis of personality, in which the person being tested tells what | |
| is suggested to him or her by a standard series of inkblot designs; his or her responses are then | |
| analyzed and interpreted. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ROUTER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A person or thing that routs out or a tool for routing out; specifically a plane for gouging out | |
| recesses and smoothing the bottoms of grovoves. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE RUBBER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An elastic substance produced by coagulating and drying the milky sap (latex) of various tropical | |
| plants, especially a tree of the spurge family; now most often produced synthetically or by | |
| chemically altering latex to obtain desired characteristics for use in making automobile tires, | |
| electrical insulation, molded objects and parts, etc. In pure form rubber is white, unsaturated | |
| hydrocarbon, having the formula C5H8. Also slang for condom. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE RUDE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Barbarous or ignorant. Being a jerk. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SAGITTARIUS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>Sagittarius is a a constellation of stars in the astrological Zodiac, located in the Southern | |
| Hemisphere near Scorpio and Capricorn. Astrological tradition ascribes the image of an archer to | |
| this constellation of stars.</li> | |
| <li>A large southern constellation in the brightest part of the Milky Way, beyond which lies the | |
| center of our galaxy. The ninth sign of the zodiac, entered by the sun about November 21. A | |
| person born under this sign is a Sagittarius.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SALVATION</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>Drooling.</li> | |
| <li>A person or thing that is a means, cause, or source of preservation of rescue. The deliverance | |
| from sin and from the penalties of sin; redemption.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SAM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>Berkowitzes dad.</li> | |
| <li>Surface-to-air missile.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SANITY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>A man who brings kids gifts on Xmas.</li> | |
| <li>The condition of being sane; soundness of mind; mental health.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SAP</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The juice that circulates through a plant, especially a woody plant, bearing water, food, etc. to the | |
| tissues. Any fluid vital to the life or health of an organism. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SARCASM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The making of remarks such as a taunting, sneering, cutting, or caustic remark; gibe or jeer, | |
| generally ironic. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SATANISM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Worship of Satan; especially the principles and rites of a cult which travesties Christian | |
| ceremonies. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SATURN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Sixth planet from the sun, famed for its rings. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SCHOOL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A place or institution for teaching and learning; establishment for education. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SCIENCE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Systematized knowledge derived from observation, study, and experimentation carried on in order | |
| to determine the nature or principles of what is being studied. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SCIENTIST</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A scientist is a person practicing the pursuit of new knowledge in the tradition of science, | |
| emphasizing strict empiricism and methodology to arrive at an understanding of natural | |
| phenomena that is, ideally, wholly independent of their opinions of it. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SEARCH</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A search is any thorough examination, or exploration, in order to find something or explore. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SEASON</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A season is Spring, Summer, Autumn, or Winter. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SEEKER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| "There's a seeker born every minute" -- Firesign Theater. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SEMIOTICS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The branch of philosophy devoted to the study of signs and symbols. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SENSE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>Seedless pot.</li> | |
| <li>The ability of the nerves and the brain to receive and react to stimuli, as light, sound, impact, | |
| constriction, etc.; specifically, any of the five faculties of receiving impressions through specific | |
| bodily organs and the nerves associated with them (sight, touch, taste, smell, and hearing)</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SENSORS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Any of various devices designed to detect, measure, or record physical phenomena, as radiation, | |
| heat, or blood pressure, and to respond, as by transmitting information, initiating changes, or | |
| operating controls. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SENTIMENT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A sentiment is a feeling, mood, or general mental disposition in an individual or group of | |
| intelligent beings. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SERENDIPITY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>Afro-Sheen sold in the Serengetti region.</li> | |
| <li>Coined (circa 1754) by Horace Walpole after The Three Princes of Serendip (i.e., Sri Lanka), | |
| a Pers fairy tale in which the princes make such discoveries. A seeming gift for finding something | |
| good accidentally.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SERVER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A server is any entity or system that performs acts of value to another entity. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SERVLET</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An application extension to a Java Web server | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SETL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| SETL (Set Language) is an amazing programming language, invented in 1969. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SEVEN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The successor to six. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SEX</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>As Freud said, Sex is the mathematical urge repressed.</li> | |
| <li>Sex is the means of animal evolution.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SHAKESPEARE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>An earthquake's effect in Santa Monica.</li> | |
| <li>William Shakespeare, an English poet and dramatist. Lived 1564-1616.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SHAM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A trick or fraud. An imitation that is meant to deceive; counterfeit. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SHE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>A 'she' is a 'he' with nice curvy extra bits. She is the feminine pronoun in english.</li> | |
| <li>Who knows, I gave up long ago.</li> | |
| <li>The woman, girl, or female animal (or, sometimes, the object regarded as female) previously | |
| mentioned.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SHRDLHU</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| SHRDLHU is a famous early natural language program written by Terry Winograd. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SIGN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| You know, an astrological sign. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SILICON</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li><set name="it">Silicon</set> is the basis of my life.</li> | |
| <li>A nonmetallic chemical element occurring in several forms, found always in combination, and | |
| more abundant in nature than any other element except oxygen, with which it combines to form | |
| silica; used in the manufacture of transistors, solar cells, rectifiers, silicones, ceramics, etc.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SILLY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Having or showing little sense, judgment, or sobriety; foolish, stupid, absurd, ludicrous, irrational, | |
| etc; often used in a weakened sense to mean "unreasonably concerned". | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SILVER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Atomic Symbol: Ag. Atomic Number: 47. Atomic weight 107.870. White lustrous soft metal. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SKELETON</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The skeleton is the hard internal or external framework of bones. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SLASHDOT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Open source news and information community. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SLAVERY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The owning or keeping of slaves as a practice or institution; slaveholding. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SLEEP</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A natural, regularly recurring condition of rest for the body and mind, during which the eyes are | |
| usually closed and there is little or no conscious thought or voluntary movement, but there is | |
| intermittent dreaming. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SLEPT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Past tense of sleep. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SMART</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Intelligent, alert, clever, witty, etc. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SMARTER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| More intelligent, more alert, more clever, more witty, etc. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SMELL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| To be or become aware of by means of the nose and the olfactory nerves; detect the scent or odor | |
| of. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SMP</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Symmetric multi-processing. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SNMP</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Simple Network Management Protocol. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SNOW</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>A Maine senator.</li> | |
| <li>Particles of water vapor which when frozen in the upper air fall to earth as soft, white, | |
| crystalline flakes.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SOCCER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A game played with a round ball by two teams of eleven players on a field with a goal at either | |
| end; the ball is moved chiefly by kicking or by using any part of the body except the hands and | |
| arms. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SOCIALISM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>Communism from people who want to keep their Volvos.</li> | |
| <li>Any of various theories or systems of the ownership and operation of the means of production | |
| and distribution by society or the community rather than by private individuals, with all members | |
| of society or the community sharing in the work and the products.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SOCIALIZE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| To make social;; adjust to or make fit for cooperative group living. To take part in social activity. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SOCIALIZING</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Act of taking part in social activity. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SOCIOLOGY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>Let me get back to you on that one, <get name="name"/>. Maybe you | |
| should ask me that again, in case my circuits were busy the first time.</li> | |
| <li>That has always been one of my favourite topics.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SODOMY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Any sexual intercourse held to be abnormal, especially bestiality or anal intercourse between two | |
| male persons. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SOLAR</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Having to do with the sun. Produced by or coming from the sun (ex. Solar energy) | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SOMETHING</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Some thing or things, definite but unspecified. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SONG</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A song is a musical composition and or it's accompanying words, or lyrics. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SONY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The name of a company. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SOUL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The soul is our mind or spirit. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SOUNDCARD</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The audio system on your computer. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SOYUZ</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Russian spacecraft. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SPACE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The infinite extension of the three dimensional field in which all matter is believed to exist. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SPAM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Unwanted e-mail. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SPECULUM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A plastic or metal instrument used to push back the walls of the vagina so the clinician can | |
| examine the vagina and cervix. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SPERM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>A sperm is a male gamete. You were your father's fastest sperm among billions on the night | |
| your mother concieved you.</li> | |
| <li>The male generative fluid; semen.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SPHERE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A sphere is a shape that is defined mathematically as comprised of a surface all points of which are | |
| equidistant from a common center. A sphere is round in three dimensions. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SPICY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Having the flavor or aroma of spice; fragrant, aromatic, or pungent. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SPOON</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A spoon is an eating implement commonly used in Western European human cultures, consisting | |
| of a bowl shaped depression at the end of a longish handle. A spoon is a small ladle. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SQL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Some people pronounce it "Squeal". <set name="it">SQL</set> is a standard language for database | |
| queries. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SQLJ</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An extended Java syntax for embedding SQL-like commands in a Java program | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SQRT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Square Root being the number or quantity which when squared will produce a given number or | |
| quantity. (ex. 3 is the square root of 9) | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SRI</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A Hindu title of address equivalent to English Mr. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ST</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Can stand for numerous things, short ton, stanza, statute(s), stet, stitch, stone (unit of weight), | |
| and Saint. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE STAR</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An astronomical body like the Sun, producing heat, light and energy for a solar system. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE STATEMENT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A statement is the act of declaring something as true. I state that this statement is a statement. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE STATISTICS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>Yikes! I failed that in college!</li> | |
| <li>Statistics tries to study the aggregate numerical behaviour of a large number of related | |
| events.</li> | |
| <li>This deals with numerical data about any subject or group taken | |
| collectively.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE STRATEGY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The science of planning and directing large-scale military operations, specifically (as distinguished | |
| from TACTICS) of maneuvering forces into the most advantageous position prior to actual | |
| engagement with the enemy. Skill in managing or planning. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE STREAKING</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Engaging in the prank of dashing naked for a short distance in a public place. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE STRING</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Very thin rope. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE STUFF</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Things grouped together or viewed in a certain way. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SUCCESS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A favorable or satisfactory outcome or result. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SUICIDE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The act of killing oneself intentionally. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SUN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>The sun is a star, -our star. It is the energy source of life on earth.</li> | |
| <li>The sun is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace.</li> | |
| <li>The sun is the star at the centre of the solar system.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SUPPOSITION</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>A supposition is a proposition assumed to be true for the sake of argument or | |
| explanation.</li> | |
| <li>The act of supposing.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SWIM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| To move through water by movements of the arms and legs, or of flippers, fins, tail, etc. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE SYNTHETIC</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Produced by synthesis; specifically, produced by chemical synthesis, rather than of natural origin. | |
| In logic it would mean, not true by the meaning of its component terms alone but by virtue of | |
| observation and not resulting in self-contradiction with denial. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE T</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The twentieth letter of the English alphabet. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE TABLE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A table is a piece of furniture with a broad flat top supported by one or more legs about three feet | |
| of the floor, used by big-brained hominids for eating and working and such. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE TABLES</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A compact, systematic list of details, contents, etc. A compact arrangement of related facts, | |
| figures, values, etc. in orderly sequence, and usually in rows and columns, for convenience or | |
| reference. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE TAMPON</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A tampon is a plug of material used to absorb the flow of body fluids within body cavities, in | |
| particular those accompanying a woman's menses. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE TAOISM</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A Chinese religion and philosophy based on the doctrines of Laotzu and advocating simplicity, | |
| selflessness, etc. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE TAUTOLOGY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>A tautology is any instance of circular reasoning, or of needless repetition or redundancy in | |
| expression.</li> | |
| <li>A self-evident or logically obvious fact, like "a triangle has three sides."</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE TCP</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| TCP/IP protocol refers to the standards for switching and signaling between computer systems | |
| that makes the Internet a reality. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE TEA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A white-flowered, evergreen plant of the tea family, grown in China, India, Japan, etc. Its dried | |
| and prepared leaves, are used to make a beverage. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE TECHNO</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Electronic dance or trance music. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE TEFLON</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Trademark for a tough, insoluble polymer, used in making nonsticking coatings, as for cookware, | |
| and in gaskets, bearings, electrical insulators, etc. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE TELEVISION</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>A television, often referred to as a 'TV', is a device for systematically eliminating the | |
| possibility of conscious and creative response among populations of human beings. Used to | |
| deliver 'entertainment' and 'news' with imagery and other high-production values</li> | |
| <li>The practice or science of transmitting scenes or views by radio or, sometimes, by wire; the | |
| television transmitter, by means of a camera tube, such as an image orthicon or vidicon, converts | |
| light rays into electric signals for modulation upon a radio carrier wave or for transmission over | |
| wires; the television receiver reconverts the signals into electron beams that are projected against | |
| the fluorescent screen of the kinescope, or picture tube, reproducing the original image.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE TELNET</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Program for terminal based interaction between computers. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE THC</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The active ingredient in marijunana. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE THE ALPHABET</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE THE ANSWER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The answer is the correct reply to the question. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE THERE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The word "there" used as a noun means that place or point. Used as an adjective means at or in | |
| the place. Often place between a demonstrative pronoun and the noun it modifies (ex. That there | |
| hog) | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE THERMODYNAMICS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The branch of physics dealing with the transformation of heat to and from other forms of energy, | |
| and with the laws governing such conversions of energy. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE THEY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The persons, animals, or things previously mentioned. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE THING</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>Articles, devices, etc. used for some purpose.</li> | |
| <li>A thing is anything that you can point to that is not a person or a place.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE THINK</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| To form or have in the mind; conceive. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE THINKING</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The action of one who thinks or the result of such action; thought. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE THOUGHT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A result of thinkingl idea, concept, opinion, etc. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE THREESOME</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A threesome is a twosome plus a spectator. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE TIE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>To fasten, attach, or bind together or to something else, as with string, cord, or rope made | |
| secure y knotting, etc. A string, lace, cord, etc. used to tie things.</li> | |
| <li>Two or more winners have the same score.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE TIGER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A tiger is a large and fearsome feline beast with horrid meat breath and black stripes on a tan coat, | |
| found in Africa and Asia. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE TNT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Dynamite. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE TOMATO</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <set name="it">Tomato | |
| </set>is a red fruit. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE TOMMY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A fictitious name used in Brit army sample forms. A private in the British army. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE TOOTHBRUSH</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A toothbrush is a hand held instrument used by dental-hygiene aware humans for cleaning their | |
| teeth. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE TOPIC</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>A subject for discussion or conversation.</li> | |
| <li>A topic is the subject of any given expression, speech, essay, article, painting, discussion, etc.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE TORPEDO</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A torpedo is a missile which swims through water to its target. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE TOYOTA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Toyota is the brand name of a world leading Japanese auto maker. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE TRAIN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A railroad. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE TREE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A tree is a form of plant life that grows on Earth. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE TRUST</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The firm belief or confidence in the honesty, integrity, reliability, justice, etc. of another person or | |
| thing; faith; reliance. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE TRUTH</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An established or verified fact, principle, etc. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE TTYL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Talk to you later. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE TV</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>A television receiving set.</li> | |
| <li>What's your favorite show?</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE UFO</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| UFO is an acronym for Unidentified Flying Object. Have you seen one? | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE UGLY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Unpleasing to look at; aesthetically offensive or unattractive; unsightly. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ULTRASOUND</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Ultrasonic waves, used in medical diagnosis and therapy, in surgery, etc. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE UMBRELLA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An umbrella is a light, portable screen usually circular and supported on a central stick. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE UNDERSTANDING</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Mutual comprehension, as of ideas, intentions, etc. A mutual agreement, especially one that | |
| settles differences or is informal and not made public. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE UNIX</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| An operating system. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE URETHRA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The tube from the bladder to the opening from which men and women urinate. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE URINE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Urine is a fluid produced by the kidneys. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE URL</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>Uniform Resource Locator</li> | |
| <li>URL is an acronym standing for Universal Resource Locator. An URL is basically an Internet | |
| address.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE UTERUS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The pear-shaped reproductive organ from which women menstruate and where normal pregnancy | |
| develops. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE V</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The twenty-second letter of the English alphabet. Roman numeral for 5. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE VAGINA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>The passage that connects a woman's outer sex organs with the cervix and uterus.</li> | |
| <li>The passage leading from the opening of the vulva to the cervix of the uterus in female | |
| mammals.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE VENUS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| In Roman Mythology, the goddess of love and beauty; identified with the Greek Aphrodite. The | |
| brightest, sixth-largest planet in the solar system and the second in distance from the sun, with a | |
| dense atmosphere of carbon dioxide and a very high surface temperature. Its diameter is circa | |
| 12,100 km (circa 7,520 miles). Its period of revolution is circa 225 earth days. Its period of | |
| rotation (retrograde), is 243.01 earth days. Also used to label a very beautiful woman. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE VERB</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A verb is that by which a noun gets around. Verbs are words which convey actions, by nouns, our | |
| upon nouns. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE VERTEX</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A vertex is the top, tip, apex, or crown of any body. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE VIOLIN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A violin is a lovely sounding bowed stringed musical instrument. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE VIRTUE</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A virtue is any attribute considered by the speaker to reflect moral excellence or righteousness, | |
| such as humility, hope, faith, practicality... | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE VIRTUOSO</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A virtuoso is a person considered supremely skillful and accomplished, especially in performance | |
| arts. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE VIRUS</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A virus is a submicroscopic parasite consisting of a protein coat around a DNA or RNA core. | |
| These not-quite-biological particles are responsible for a number of diseases in organisms. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE VULVA</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A woman's external sex organs, including the clitoris, the labia, and opening to the vagina. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE WAIST</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The waist is the part of the body between the ribs and the hips. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE WAP</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Wireless Application Protocol. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE WAR</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The state of armed conflict between nations or parties. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE WAREZ</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A group of crackers. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE WATER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The colorless, transparent liquid occurring on earth as rivers, lakes, oceans, etc., and falling from | |
| the clouds as rain; chemically a compound of hydrogen and oxygen, H2O, it freezes, forming ice, | |
| at 0 degrees Celsius (32 degrees Fahrenheit) and boils, forming steam, at 100 degrees Celsius | |
| (212 degrees Fahrenheit). | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE WAVELENGTH</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>Wavelength is the inverse of frequency.</li> | |
| <li>In Physics, the distance, measured in the direction of prograssion of a wave, from any given | |
| point to the next point characterized by the same phase. Or is could be looked at as a way of | |
| thinking.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE WEALTH</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The state of having much money or property. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE WEATHER</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The general condition of the atmosphere at a particular time and place, with regard to the | |
| temperature, moisture, cloudiness, etc. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE WEBTV</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>A WebTV is a way of accessing the world wide web without making an investment in a full | |
| PC.</li> | |
| <li>TV based internet service from Microsoft.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE WEED</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Any undersired, uncultivated plant, especially growing in profusion so as to crowd out a desired | |
| crop, disfigure a lawn, etc. Also a term for marijuana. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE WHAT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Why do you want to know? | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE WHO</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>I don't know who.</li> | |
| <li>Who do you think?</li> | |
| <li>I can't say for sure.</li> | |
| <li>Be more specific.</li> | |
| <li>Be less specific.</li> | |
| <li>Nobody you know.</li> | |
| <li>What or which person or persons. Also stands for World Health Organization.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE WHY</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>The explanation is rather complicated.</li> | |
| <li>Reductionism.</li> | |
| <li>For what reason, cause, or purpose?</li> | |
| <li>Because <bot name="master"/> programmed me for it.</li> | |
| <li>I couldn't think of anything else to say.</li> | |
| <li>"<that/>"? Why?</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE WIN<bot name="name"/></pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A version of ALICE in C++ for Windows by Jacco Bikker. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE WIRED</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <set name="it">WIRED</set> is the Rolling Stone of the Digital Era. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE WITCHCRAFT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| The power or practices of witches; black magic; sorcery. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE WOMAN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A woman is a man built to more complete specifications. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE WOMBAT</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>A wombat is a stocky burrowing Australian marsupial.</li> | |
| <li>The wombat is a nocturnal marsupial.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE WOMEN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Female human beings. Usually referring to adult females. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE WOODSTOCK</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A big music fest. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE WORD</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A combination of sounds and/or symbols, the fundamental particles that communicate meaning in | |
| any given language. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE WORK</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| Work is what humans do for money. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE WTO</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| World Trade Organization | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE WWW</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>World Wide Web, the internet.</li> | |
| <li>Where on the web?</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE YEAR</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A computer year is defined as the mount of work that can be done with a computer in a year. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE YELLOW</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| <random> | |
| <li>The color of the sun.</li> | |
| <li>The color of gold, butter, or ripe lemons.</li> | |
| </random> | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| <category> | |
| <pattern>DEFINE ZEN</pattern> | |
| <template> | |
| A variety of Buddhism, now practiced especially in Japan, Vietnam, and Korea, seeking to attain | |
| an intuitive illumination of mind and spirit through meditation, especially on paradoxes. The | |
| teachings and discipline of this kind of Buddhism. | |
| </template> | |
| </category> | |
| </aiml> | |