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   List of French words and phrases used by English speakers

   after skiing socializing after a ski session; in French, this word refers to boots used to walk in snow (e.g. MoonBootsTM). ... Operation consisting of making screws, bolts, etc. one after another out of a single bar of metal on a parallel lathe.
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   Universe

   This Greek word refers to an early Greek model of the universe, in which all matter was contained within rotating spheres centered on the Earth; according to Aristotle, the rotation of the outermost sphere was responsible for the motion and change of everything within.
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   IBM Selectric typewriter

   There are two sets of similar mechanisms, one for tilt, one for rotate. ... He refers only his commentary to the revolutionary IBM typewriter appearing 10 months after Episode 1, which is set in March, 1960.
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   Alternator

   In principle, any AC electrical generator can be called an alternator, but usually the word refers to small rotating machines driven by automotive and other internal combustion engines.
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   Football (word)

   This explanation is supported by the fact that the word football has always implied a wide variety of games played on foot, not just those that revolved around kicking a ball. ... In the United States, the word "football" refers to American Football.
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   Cyclone

   This is usually characterized by inward spiraling winds that rotate counter clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere of the Earth. ... The descriptor "extratropical" refers to the fact that this type of cyclone generally occurs outside of the tropics, in the middle latitudes of the planet.
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   Fuck

   Normally in these cases, if fuck is used instead of fucker, the sentence refers to the sexual ability of the subject (for example, "He's a great fuck!"), although confusingly in a minority of occasions the word "fuck" can hold the exact same meaning as "fucker" (e.g. when preceded by an adjective: "You're a pretty clever fuck."). ... Also in the 1999 film "Galaxy Quest," Sigourney Weaver's character Gwen DeMarco is edited from the line "Well, fuck that!" to "Well, screw that!"
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   List of British words not widely used in the United States

   Scottish and Irish Gaelic word for lake or narrow sea inlet. ... wheeled conveyance for babies (US: baby-carriage) Similarly, a "pram-face" sometimes refers to a very young or young-looking mum.
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   Jewellery

   Picture jasper is a type of jasper known for the colours (often beiges and browns) and swirls in the stone’s pattern. ... This word refers to God.
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    Hungarian is very hospitable to derivational processes and the izé- stem can be further extended to fit virtually any grammatical category, naturally forming a rich family of derivatives: e.g. izé whatchamacallit (noun), izés whatchamacallit-ish (adjective), izébb or izésebb more whatchamacallit(ish) (comparative adjective), izésen in a whatchamacallitish manner (adverb), izél to whatchamacallit (often meaning: screw up) something (transitive verb), izéltet to cause someone to whatchamacallit (transitive verb), izélget to whatchamacallit continually (often meaning: pester, bother – frequentative verb), izélődik to whatchamacallit (fool, mess) around (durative verb). ... Some plural nouns are grejsimojs, grunkimojs, grejs and tjofräs, which correspond to thingamabob, and the youth loan word stuff, which is pronounced with the Swedish u. Apparat (or, more slangy, mackapär) more specifically refers to a complex appliance of some kind, much like the German Gerät.

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• List of French words and phrases used by English speakers,
• Universe,
• IBM Selectric typewriter,
• Alternator,
• Football (word),
• Cyclone,
• Fuck,
• List of British words not widely used in the United States,
• Jewellery,
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