Home » terminology » Page 7

Tagterminology

isolette

isolette  n.— «As all 11 students gathered around the incubator, or isolette as it is also known, the campers got a crash course in medical terminology that was not part of their vernacular. » —“Campers gather at...

handle

handle  n.— «The track’s purses are some of the worst in the United States, and the handle—track terminology for the amount of money bet—ranks poorly.» —“All bets are on” by Mark Peters in Bangor, Maine Press...

outstate

outstate  n.— «He believes President Bush is the first sitting president to bring his own campaign to Duluth since Dwight Eisenhower. “People up here get tired of the ‘out’ terminology, as in ‘outstate.’ Being courted is always nice...

drying rock

drying rock  n.— «The Court referred there to the case of a “low-tide elevation (drying rock)”…without adopting a position on whether, and in what circumstances, such a feature might be taken into account as a basepoint...

drying rock

drying rock  n.— «Terminologically: the “drying rocks,” “shoals” and “rocks awash” formerly spoken of have given way to “low-tide elevations,” just as in French the «sèches»...

reconservadox

reconservadox  n.— «For Michelson, who borrows a friend’s terminology to describe himself as “reconservadox,” Nimoy’s work explores the sensuality in spirituality and the spirituality in sensuality.» —“Controversial Nimoy...