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#100463 04/09/03 08:39 PM
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ideomotor
adj.
5IDEO3 + MOTOR6 Psychol. designating or of an unconscious body movement made in response to an idea

idgah- enclosure with eleven openings

ideoglossia - a private language developed betweeb children

idiolect - distinctive individual form of speech

idiopathic - arising spontaneously from an unknown cause

ignimbrite - OPERTIES
Distinctive features:
Fine-grained to aphanitic, buff to dark brown
compact rock with paralle streaks or lenticles of
black gass.

Colour:
Pale cream to brownish to dark red-brown.

Texture and granularity:
Fine-grained to aphanitic and flow foliation is
often present.

Composition:
Usually trachytic/phonolitic to andesitic.

Field associations:
Exclusively produced by violently explosive
volcanoes.

Varieties:
Sillar, which is poorly consolidated rock of same
origin as ignimbrite but in which pumice blocks
have not collapsed to form plates of black glass
and which is poorly sorted.

illocutionary
adj.
of or having to do with that aspect of an utterance which relates to the speaker's intention as distinct from what is actually said or the effect on an auditor

ideomotor
adj.
5IDEO3 + MOTOR6 Psychol. designating or of an unconscious body movement made in response to an idea

idgah- enclosure with eleven openings

ideoglossia - a private language developed betweeb children

idiolect - distinctive individual form of speech

idiopathic - arising spontaneously from an unknown cause

ignimbrite - OPERTIES
Distinctive features:
Fine-grained to aphanitic, buff to dark brown
compact rock with paralle streaks or lenticles of
black gass.

Colour:
Pale cream to brownish to dark red-brown.

Texture and granularity:
Fine-grained to aphanitic and flow foliation is
often present.

Composition:
Usually trachytic/phonolitic to andesitic.

Field associations:
Exclusively produced by violently explosive
volcanoes.

Varieties:
Sillar, which is poorly consolidated rock of same
origin as ignimbrite but in which pumice blocks
have not collapsed to form plates of black glass
and which is poorly sorted.

illocutionary
adj.
of or having to do with that aspect of an utterance which relates to the speaker's intention as distinct from what is actually said or the effect on an auditor












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ideoglossia - a private language developed between children

having twins, we always sort of hoped they'd develop their own language, but alas, 'twas not to be...





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Is an idgah any old enclosure with 11 openings? If so what is the word for an enclosure with 10 openings or 12 openings?

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...and where does it come from? Is it an Arabic word?


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Since Yahoo has taken over PacBell DSL, I have been having trouble "Ever since I met your daughter
I've had trouble with my water"...:I couldn't copy and paste a thing about an idgah in Delhi,
or of several others in India.



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