Monday, September 6, 1999
os�si�fy \AH-suh-fie\ verb
1 : to change into bone
2 : to become hardened or conventional and opposed to change
verb, transitive
1 : to change (as cartilage) into bone
2 : to make ridgedly conventional and opposed to change
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Monday, August 30, 1999
ab�du�cens nerve \ab-DO-senz; ab-DYOO-senz\ noun
: either of the 6th pair of cranial nerves that are motor nerves supplying the rectus on the ourter and lateral side of each eye -- called also abducens
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Monday, August 23, 1999
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Monday, August 16, 1999
im�pend \im-PEND\ verb, intransitive
1 a : to hover threateningly : menace b : to be about to occur
2 archaic : to hang suspended
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impend verb
loom 2, brew, forthcome, gather
Monday, August 9, 1999
Par�a�digm \ PAIR-uh-dime also -dim\ noun
1: example, pattern; especially : an outstandingly clear or typical example or archetype
2: an example of a conjugation or declension showing a word in all its inflectional forms
3: a philosophical and theoretical framework of a scientific school or discipline within which theories, laws, and generalizations and the experiments performed in support of them are formulated
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paradigm noun
model 2, archetype, beau ideal, ensample, example, exemplar, ideal, mirror, pattern, standard