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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 1 of 3 1 2 3 p. 172 #108873 07/28/03 04:08 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh OP Carpal Tunnel OP wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 tonne pronounced “tun” n. a metric ton; 1,000 kg tonsillitic - a useless adjective contrived from “tonsil” tope 1 vt., vi. toped, top4ing 5Fr toper, to accept the stakes in gambling (prob. < ODu topp, touch): E meaning given here is prob. from the custom of drinking to the conclusion of the wager6 [Archaic] to drink (alcoholic liquor) in large amounts and often tope 2 n. 5Hindi top, ult. < Sans stdpa, a mound, tope6 a Buddhist shrine in the form of a dome with a cupola tope3 7tbp8 n. 5< ? Cornish6 a small, gray, European requiem shark (Galeorhinus galeus) topgallant adj. 1 designating or of a mast, sail, spar, etc. situated above the topmast and below the royal mast on a sailing ship 2 higher than the adjoining parts of the ship: said of a rail, deck, etc. n. a topgallant mast, sail, etc. topiarist - a horticulturist specializing in shaping shrubbery into artistic shapes topical adj. 1 of a particular place; local 2 of, using, or arranged by topics, subjects, or headings 3 having to do with topics of the day; of current or local interest !topical allusions in literature" 4 Med. of or for a particular part of the body; esp., designating or by local application !a topical remedy" top#i[cal4i[ty 73kal4! tc8 n. top$i[cal[ly adv. topodeme - a word used by botanists in describing relationship of groups of plants “to various groups of closely related plants (eg, gamodeme, topodeme, ecodeme) (Gilmour and ... arise that expose the uncertainties of the working-definition of the ... topology n., pl. 3gies 5< Gr topos, a place (see TOPIC) + 3LOGY6 1 a topographical study of a specific object, entity, place, etc. !the topology of the mind" 2 Math. the study of those properties of geometric figures that remain unchanged even when under distortion, so long as no surfaces are torn, as with a M;bius strip 3 Med. the topographic anatomy of a body region top#o[log$ic or top[o[log[i[cal 7t9p#! l9j4i k!l8 adj. top#o[log$i[cal[ly adv. to[pol$o[gist n. toponomastic - pertaining to place names toponymic adj. 1 of toponyms 2 having to do with toponymy Also top#o[nym$i[cal topos n., pl. to[poi 73p.8 1 a common or recurring topic, theme, subject, etc. 2 a literary convention or formula torero - bullfighter toreutic adj. 5Gr toreutikos < toreuein, to work in relief, bore < IE base *ter3 > THROW6 designating or of work done in relief or intaglio, esp. on metal, as by embossing, chasing, or engraving tormented Potentilla erecta (L) Synonyms: Potentilla tormentilla, common tormentil, bloodroot, septfoil, thormantle, biscuits, shepherd's knapperty, shepherd's knot, English sarsaparilla, red root tormentor torpid - sleepy torpidity Torquemada To[m;s de Sp. Dominican monk: first Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition a jolly fellow who enjoyed seeing people being burned at the stake torr - a physics unit, eponymic of Torricelli, reating to measure of barometric pressure torridity, torture, totally, totem, tottered, toucanet - a tropical bird toupee = a wig towereing towser - formerly a common name for a dog toxicant - a poison trabant = an East German vehicle of the 50s, not worth the powder to blow it to hell trabeated - having horizontal beams or lintels instead of arches tracer, traceried, tracheitis tractrix - a mathematical curve unknown to my dictionary.. Here’s URL if you want to see it: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Tractrix.html Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: tons #108874 07/28/03 04:15 PM Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... W Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Wordwind Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... 'tonne' pronounced 'tun'--and we've talked a little about this. Faldage recently observed to me that a ton was only 40 bags of 50-pound dogfood, or something like that, when I looked at the small amount of gravel my uncle had left in the lane--two tons, in fact, not one. It just didn't look like very much gravel. But 80 bags of 50-pound dogfood really wouldn't have been very much...gravel, if you follow my thinking. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: tons #108875 07/28/03 05:45 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh OP Carpal Tunnel OP wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Dear WW: You'd think a tonne was a lot if you tried to do what Darwin says the Indians in mines of Chile were doing. They had to carry over two hundred pounds of ore up 800 feet, with only notches in beams for foot holds, and do a dozen loads a day. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: tons #108876 07/28/03 06:02 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 The reality of a ton came to me at a baseball game. It was the final game of a championship series of a summer collegiate league. There was no chance of postponing the game; the kids had to get back to school. A brief but torrential rain came through and left the field a mess so they dragged out what I tend to call kitty litter, but which goes by a variety of brand names; a water absorbing granulated clay mixture. It came in 50-lb bags and they dumped 40 of them on the field. I did the math. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: tons #108877 07/29/03 10:39 PM Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... W Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Wordwind Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... Oh, funny, Faldage, and not surprising, that I changed your bagged material in my mind from kitty litter to dog food! Ha! So terribly, horribly typical of me. wwh: 200 pounds straight up? Omigosh. That's really unbelievable. It makes me think of the opening scene in "The Hours" in which we see Virginia Woolf put that big stone into her coat pocket--and I assume she'd put others there--before moving on out deeply into the falling off riverbed. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: tons #108878 07/29/03 11:24 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 M maverick Carpal Tunnel maverick Carpal Tunnel M Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 carry over two hundred pounds of ore up 800 feet Bet they had oreful blisters Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: tons #108879 07/30/03 02:20 AM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh OP Carpal Tunnel OP wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Dear Musick: I'll bet they had calluses as thick as my moccasin soles. In English mines they often had the shafts sufficiently vertical to use a hoist, in the beginning with horses as motive power. That's why autos are rated by horsepower.(550 foot pounds per second) So the Indians were lifting about a third of a horsepower. I figure that the mines in Chile just didn't have a vertical shaft, so a hoist couldn't be used. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: tons #108880 07/30/03 07:13 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta B Bingley Carpal Tunnel Bingley Carpal Tunnel B Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta Do people in the Americas and the top half of the world talk about doing a ton, meaning 100 mph? Bingley Bingley Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: tons #108881 07/30/03 11:01 AM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont doing a ton, meaning 100 mph? I don't believe I've heard it used specifically that way, no. formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: tons #108882 07/30/03 01:05 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh OP Carpal Tunnel OP wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 I goofed in my estimate of the Indian's horsepower. I fotgot to add his weight. 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