yexing, choose one:


a) Scot. laughing exuberantly. (cf. U.S. yukking)

b) The lines on graph paper, so named because the lines define the y and x axes.

c) A term used specifically in the feild of animation to describe the development of current technology from traditional two dimensions into virtual 3-D. Also used to describe the process used to augment two dimension animation with a (virtual) third.

d) the practice of identifying genetically connected attributes and syndromes which manifest through the Y chromosome.

e) (or Ye-hsing) early 20th century Chinese painting style heavily influenced by the European Post-Impressionists.

f) an English West Country term for the process of separating the male and female lambs, prior to removing the testes of the males destined to become wethers (not kept as breeding rams).

g) Yorkshire dial. Weaning of lambs by penning them away from the ewes.

h) The aspect of feng shui that deals with the layout of gardens in relation to a dwelling.

i) [more properly "ye-xing"] an old Chinese pottery-making technique, first used during the Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD). It involved the application of successive layers of semi-transparent glaze, all the same hue but of diminishing intensity, to provide greater depth of color and lustre.

j) The signing of a name. A slang word, blended from you're and x-ing, where the x refers to the signature. "By yexing this form, you're agreeing to purchase the three-year extended warranty."

k) A rope securing the mizzen sail to its mast on 17th- and 18th-century warships.

l) the soapy wall of a bubble.

m) Sc. and Brit. dial. (also yesking) sobbing (obs.); hiccuping.


in spite of all of those views of the hogwash rules(?), these are from the usual gang of idjits.