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The Internet has many glossaries, collections of terms with definitions. NASA for instance uses many scientific terms we have to look up. Here is a short one, not as good as I had hoped: http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Education/Ozone/glossary.htmlIt could be a sort of game for others to find and post other such URL's. Or the post could consist of a single word worth defining, such as "ablation" The space craft are covered with special tiles that can withstand the friction of high speed re-entry to atmosphere. They are subject to ablation, meaning heat and friction remove enough of the tile material that after several re-entries they must be replaced.
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Dear WW: the wine glossary is a good one. How about browsing through it and picking out a term and commenting about it?
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OK, wwh. Here's some noble rot for you from the above wine glossary site: Noble Rot"Botrytis, Bunch Rot, Noble Rot and Wine Ah, Botrytis, or 'Bunch Rot', that fungus which can both destroy a crop and bring it to glorious fruition. On its darker side, botrytis is grey rot, attacking vineyards that are in damp climates, spreading through entire bunches of grapes with ease. When botrytis is handled properly, it creates the noble rot wines such as Sauternes and Tokaji - deliciouly smooth and sweet. The story is that in 1650, a priest was making wine when an attack of the Turks delayed the harvest. When they realized fungus had grown on some of the grapes, they kept those separate, wondering how they would taste. They were quite pleased with the results! The Germans were next to follow, and then the French, where Sauternes became world famous for its delicious wines. Chateau d'Yquem is the best known creator of French Sauternes. The best grapes to create noble rot wines from include Riesling, Gewurztraminer, Semillon, Sauvignon Blanc and Chenin Blanc. Grapes must be harvested carefully, for the proper amount of fungal growth must be present on each bunch. Often harvests are done in several sweeps, picking out the correct grapes on each pass. During pressings, it is actually the later pressings that give the best wine, because of the chemicals and sugars involved." http://wine.about.com/library/weekly/aa102000.htm
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Dear WW: I am totally ignorant about wines. Somewhere I recently read something about the disposal of the "must", the residue of the grapes that have been crushed, after the liquid has been drained off. I didn't find any discussion of what is done with the "must" to avoid undesirable fungi growing in it. Can you tell us about that?
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(Hi, Slithy!) slithy: Slythy (compounded of slimy and lithe). Smooth and active. Lithe and slimy. Lithe is the same as 'active.' ... It's like a portmanteau -- there are two meanings packed up into one word. tove: Tove, a species of badger. They had smooth white hair, long hind legs, and short horns like a stag; lived chiefly on cheese. "Toves" should be pronounced to rhyme with "groves". Something like badgers -- they're something like lizards -- and they are something like corkscrews. ... They make their nests under sundials -- also they live on cheese. (I hope you like cheese!) http://www.math.luc.edu/~vande/jabglossary.html(and an old AWAD thread about Carroll's coinages...you may remember this one, TEd ) http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=3827
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The Wizard of WO'N bestows upon the board (with a sweep of WO'N's Wand) the one, the only, language of Middle Earth...Gandalf sends his greetings! http://fin.go.wifl.at.org/tables/html/glossary.htm
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