... PROCESSING.
adsorption Adhesion of a thin layer of molecules of
one substance to the surface of another without
absorption. An example is adsorption of water to
the surface of a dielectric. This term is often con-
fused ... gravitational
field of the earth. Used for the precise determina-
tion of current of large dimension, or of the size of
the ampere.
ampere-hour Abbreviations: Ah, amp-hr. The
quantity of electricity ... Abbreviation of airborne (or aircraft) early
warning.
aF Abbreviation of ATTOFARAD.
AF Abbreviation of AUDIO FREQUENCY.
AFC 1. Abbreviation of AUTOMATIC FREQUENCY
CONTROL. 2. Abbreviation of AUDIO-FRE-
QUENCY...
... determination of the direction
of a source of electromagnetic energy, on account
of the motion of the source and/or the detecting
apparatus. 3. A small displacement in the appar-
ent positions of the ... changes at the rate of 1 abampere per sec-
ond induces a potential of 1 abvolt.
ABL Abbreviation of Automated Biology Laboratory
(NASA).
abmho The obsolete unit of conductance and of
conductivity ... magnetic equator. An imag-
inary line drawn on a map of the world or of an
area that connects points of zero inclination (dip)
of the needle of a magnetic compass.
ACM Abbreviation for Association...
... guarantee a portion of the investment;
• MDRC oversees the day-to-day implementation of the project
and manages the Osborne Association and Friends of Island
Academy, the two non-profit service providers ... Bringing Social Impact
Bonds to New York City
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What are the Benefits?
• Investing in outcomes to improve the lives of those in need
• Government ... non-profit.
• The Goldman Sachs loan to MDRC will ensure successful implementation of the
ABLE program at Rikers.
• Bloomberg Philanthropies will make a grant to MDRC in the amount of $7.2...
... orientation of for-
eign words. Identifying the semantic orienta-
tion ofwords has numerous applications in the
areas of text classification, analysis of prod-
uct review, analysis of responses ... 1966)
as a source of seed labeled words. The lexicon con-
tains 4206 words, 1915 of which are positive and
2291 are negative. For Arabic and Hindi we con-
structed a labeled set of 300 words for each ... labeled set of positive and neg-
ative words and has shown very promising re-
sults.
1 Introduction
A great body of research work has focused on iden-
tifying the semantic orientation of words. Word...
... bottles of
100
Tagamet 300 mg tablets and 1,600 packages of
10
unit-dose containers of 10 ml of Tagamet syrup at 5 mg/ml concentration,
then we would compute the total number of milligrams of ... literally the number of
patient-days of therapy being consumed, but rather the number of patient-days
of therapy which would be consumed if all
of
the sales were for treatment of
active duodenal ... from dozens of three-inch-thick monthly volumes of printed data,
or
their microfilm equivalents, in which the data of interest were contained on
just a page
or
three in the middle of each hefty...
... the name of one of Bingo’s variations
UK, 1992
Hovis noun the head of a brown-skinned person. A refinement of
the rhyming slang
LOAF OF BREAD (the head); Hovis™ is a well-
known brand of brown ... 1977
house of joy noun a brothel US, 1948
House of Lords noun corduroy trousers. Rhyming slang for CORDS
UK
, 1992
house of wax noun a prison US, 1973
house piece noun a gift of a dose of crack ... sense
of the term, applied to cattle or swine, meaning ‘alive’
US, 1992.
< the hoof dismissal from employment; expulsion UK, 1973
hoof verb 1 to dance US, 1916. 2 to walk UK, 1641
hoof and toof...
...
selection of all verbs from a dictionary.
(2)
Extraction
of a substructure, eg extracting a
bilingual dictionary from a trilingual.
(3)
Inversion,
eg of an English-French
dictionary ... to the sum of the
number of elementary information types and the
number of set components in its entry structure.
For example, an English-French dictionary
whose entries consist of an English ... Sdrasset
for the suggestion of the theme and their help, and to the
authors of the DRs for their kind permission of use.
References
Bl~isi C. & Koch H. (1992), Dictionary Entry Parsing
Using...
... the
tree.
woodwind
[
"wUd wInd
] n. a group
of musical instruments, many of
which are made of wood or used
to be made of wood, and many of
which are played by blowing air
across a reed.
woodwork ... loudly.
yellow
[
"jEl o
]
1.
n. the color of a
ripe lemon or of the yolk of an
egg. (Plural only for types and
instances.)
2.
the adj. use of Q.
(Comp: yellower; sup: yellowest.)
3.
adj. ...
take the words (right) out of
one’s
mouth
→
true to
one’s
word
→
twist
someone’s
words (around)
the
word 1.
n. an order; a com-
mand. (No plural. Treated as sin-
gular.)
2.
n. news; information.
(No...
... pairs of words
These sentences have idioms
which all contain pairs of words.
Match up the pairs on the right
to fill in the gaps.
1 He beat me until I was .
and .
2 The other children made fun of
her ... if they
will help you
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Idioms ... Key
e
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•
1 get offmy case
1 ad nauseam
1 The ball's in
2 quick on the
2 je ne sais quoi
their court
uptake 3 laissez faire 2 have a ball
3 out of my hair 4 aufait 3 a whole new
4 get offher high...