[Dixonary] Round 2506: Vote for IKAT definitions

[Efrem Mallach]

Fellow addicts,

Here are seventeen definitions for IKAT: sixteen created by your fellow players, one from a well-regarded dictionary. They are in order by character count (which may not correspond to visual length because of differences in character width). Please vote for two of them by public reply to this message:

1. kwashiorkor
2. [Turk.] a type of tobacco
3. busily or actively engaged
4. the colonnade of a Turkish mosque
5. in Ottoman architecture: an octagon
6. an embellishment or ornament in speech
7. fabric in which yarns were tie-dyed before weaving
8. a thick, sweet date custard, often with almond flavoring
9. a set of tuned gongs or bells in a Javanese gamelan ensemble
10. Small, often fried food preparations eaten as snacks in the Middle East
11. an indoor plant nursery; especially applied to greenhouses for tree saplings
12. a section of the Orthodox liturgy corresponding approximately to the Latin Sanctus
13. a demon in the Bhagavad Gita who tempts Prince Arjuna from the path of righteousness
14. a weight loss and fitness regimen consisting of a vegan diet and two hours of Tai Chi per week.
15. a type of arrow used in a crossbow; also, by extension, intercontinental ballistic missile. (Rus.)
16. one of three carnivorous snail species of the genus Perrottetia, native to northern and northeastern Thailand
17. Internet Kitten Amusement Technology: charting how many times a cat video is watched and shared from YouTube in marketing theory
18. One of two varieties of Japanese syllabic writing, the characters of which are more angular than hiragana, used chiefly in scientific and official documents and for words adopted from other languages

New players are eligible to vote, as are old players who did not submit a definition for any reason at all.

The deadline for submissions is 8 pm U.S. Eastern Daylight Time on Sunday, May 4 - a bit over 45 hours from now. I think that corresponds to the following times in other parts of the world:

Continental Europe Summer Time: 2 am, Monday, May 5
British Summer Time: 1 am, Monday, May 5
U.S. Central Daylight Time: 7 pm, Sunday, May 4
U.S. Pacific Daylight Time: 5 pm, Sunday, May 4
Australian Eastern Standard Time: 10 am, Monday, May 5

Please confirm the conversion for your time zone before relying on it. I will start tabulating the results as soon as possible after 8 pm in my US EDT time zone, allowing for somewhat unpredictable commitments that evening. If you haven't seen the results yet, feel free to vote even if the deadline has passed. I'll accept all votes that come in until I'm far enough into the process that I can't stand the thought of starting over.

Efrem

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[Judy Madnick]

8 and 10, please.

Judy Madnick

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[Dodi Schultz]

On 5/2/2014 10:47 PM, Efrem Mallach wrote:
> Fellow addicts,
>
> Here are seventeen definitions for IKAT: sixteen created by your fellow players, one from a well-regarded dictionary.
I could swear I saw eighteen!

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[Dodi Schultz]

On 5/2/2014 11:15 PM, Steve Graham wrote:
>
> Trying again
>
> Steve Graham
>
>
Steve, I don't know what your problem is. Efrem's list looks fine on my screen.

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[—Keith Hale—]

6 & 9 appeal to me.
-Keith-


On 2 May 2014 22:08, Steve Graham <sdsgraham (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

> 6. an embellishment or ornament in speech
> 9. a set of tuned gongs or bells in a Javanese gamelan ensemble
>

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[Jim Hart]

Hmm many are plausible, a few are tempting and a couple should stay behind
after school (you know who you are). I'll take a pair from the middle for
fabric dyed in custard, 7 and 8

Jim


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[Daniel Widdis]

I probably need to do 14 to lose weight, and someone has to vote for 17,
so I'll volunteer.

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[Guerri Stevens]

I vote for 13 and 15.

Guerri
On 5/2/2014 10:47 PM, Efrem Mallach wrote:
> 13. a demon in the Bhagavad Gita who tempts Prince Arjuna from the path of righteousness
>
> 15. a type of arrow used in a crossbow; also, by extension, intercontinental ballistic missile. (Rus.)
>

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[Guerri Stevens]

I saw 18 also, but I wouldn't swear to it.

Guerri

On 5/3/2014 12:03 AM, Dodi Schultz wrote:
> On 5/2/2014 10:47 PM, Efrem Mallach wrote:
>> Fellow addicts,
>>
>> Here are seventeen definitions for IKAT: sixteen created by your
>> fellow players, one from a well-regarded dictionary.
> I could swear I saw eighteen!
>

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[Paul Keating]

The Turkish architecture, 4 & 5.

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[Tim B]

7 and 13, please.

Best wishes,
Tim Bourne.

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[Millie Morgan]

With very little confidence ... 12 and 13

>12. a section of the Orthodox liturgy corresponding approximately to the
>Latin Sanctus
>13. a demon in the Bhagavad Gita who tempts Prince Arjuna from the path of
>righteousness


Thanks Efrem
(and welcome to Dixonary, Andria!)

Millie

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[Johnb - co.uk]

Just have to look at the defs so might as well vote = a short and a long
= #7 and #17 please
*John*
7. fabric in which yarns were tie-dyed before weaving

17. Internet Kitten Amusement Technology: charting how many times a cat
video is watched and shared from YouTube in marketing theory

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[Dodi Schultz]

Oh, right!


On 5/3/2014 12:07 AM, Dan Widdis wrote:
> The eighteenth one is yours.
>
> One dictionary, sixteen from "your fellow players", and your own, which
> needed no introduction! ;-)
>
> On 5/2/14, 9:03 PM, Dodi Schultz wrote:
>> I could swear I saw eighteen!
>>
>

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[Dave Cunningham]

4 and 5 for a Turkish delight ...


Dave
(17 is nice -- but seems not likely to have made it into a dictionary)


On Friday, May 2, 2014 10:47:33 PM UTC-4, Efrem wrote:

> Fellow addicts,
>
> Here are seventeen definitions for IKAT: sixteen created by your fellow
> players, one from a well-regarded dictionary. They are in order by
> character count (which may not correspond to visual length because of
> differences in character width). Please vote for two of them by public
> reply to this message:
>
> 1. kwashiorkor
> 2. [Turk.] a type of tobacco
> 3. busily or actively engaged
> 4. the colonnade of a Turkish mosque
> 5. in Ottoman architecture: an octagon
> 6. an embellishment or ornament in speech
> 7. fabric in which yarns were tie-dyed before weaving
> 8. a thick, sweet date custard, often with almond flavoring
> 9. a set of tuned gongs or bells in a Javanese gamelan ensemble
> 10. Small, often fried food preparations eaten as snacks in the Middle
> East
> 11. an indoor plant nursery; especially applied to greenhouses for tree
> saplings
> 12. a section of the Orthodox liturgy corresponding approximately to the
> Latin Sanctus
> 13. a demon in the Bhagavad Gita who tempts Prince Arjuna from the path of
> righteousness
> 14. a weight loss and fitness regimen consisting of a vegan diet and two
> hours of Tai Chi per week.
> 15. a type of arrow used in a crossbow; also, by extension,
> intercontinental ballistic missile. (Rus.)
> 16. one of three carnivorous snail species of the genus Perrottetia,
> native to northern and northeastern Thailand
> 17. Internet Kitten Amusement Technology: charting how many times a cat
> video is watched and shared from YouTube in marketing theory
> 18. One of two varieties of Japanese syllabic writing, the characters of
> which are more angular than hiragana, used chiefly in scientific and
> official documents and for words adopted from other languages
>
> New players are eligible to vote, as are old players who did not submit a
> definition for any reason at all.
>
> The deadline for submissions is 8 pm U.S. Eastern Daylight Time on Sunday,
> May 4 - a bit over 45 hours from now. I think that corresponds to the
> following times in other parts of the world:
>
> Continental Europe Summer Time: 2 am, Monday, May 5
> British Summer Time: 1 am, Monday, May 5
> U.S. Central Daylight Time: 7 pm, Sunday, May 4
> U.S. Pacific Daylight Time: 5 pm, Sunday, May 4
> Australian Eastern Standard Time: 10 am, Monday, May 5
>
> Please confirm the conversion for your time zone before relying on it. I
> will start tabulating the results as soon as possible after 8 pm in my US
> EDT time zone, allowing for somewhat unpredictable commitments that
> evening. If you haven't seen the results yet, feel free to vote even if the
> deadline has passed. I'll accept all votes that come in until I'm far
> enough into the process that I can't stand the thought of starting over.
>
> Efrem
>
>

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[Efrem Mallach]

You did. I mistakenly gave the number of player submissions as the total. There were 17 player submissions, hence a total of 18 definitions. Sorry, but that shouldn't cause any problems with voting.

Efrem

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On May 3, 2014, at 12:03 AM, Dodi Schultz <DodiSchultz (AT) verizon (DOT) net> wrote:

> On 5/2/2014 10:47 PM, Efrem Mallach wrote:
>> Fellow addicts,
>>
>> Here are seventeen definitions for IKAT: sixteen created by your fellow players, one from a well-regarded dictionary.
> I could swear I saw eighteen!
>
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[Dodi Schultz]

Dan explained. :-)

On 5/3/2014 10:10 AM, Efrem Mallach wrote:
> I mistakenly gave the number of player submissions as the total. There were 17 player submissions, hence a total of 18 definitions. Sorry, but that shouldn't cause any problems with voting.
>
> Efrem
>
>

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[France International/Mike Shefler]

I'll go for 3 and 11.

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[EnDash via Dixonary]

I will cast my votes for numbers 13 and 15, please.




13. a demon in the Bhagavad Gita who tempts Prince Arjuna from the path of
righteousness

15. a type of arrow used in a crossbow; also, by extension,
intercontinental ballistic missile. (Rus.)


-- Dick Weltz



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[Andie]

I vote for 13 and 18!

On Saturday, May 3, 2014 1:02:03 PM UTC-7, Dick wrote:
>
> I will cast my votes for numbers 13 and 15, please.
>
>
>
> 13. a demon in the Bhagavad Gita who tempts Prince Arjuna from the path of
> righteousness
>
> 15. a type of arrow used in a crossbow; also, by extension,
> intercontinental ballistic missile. (Rus.)
>
>
> -- Dick Weltz
>
>
>
>

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[nancygoat]

I'll take 5 and 18.

Nancy

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[Dodi Schultz]

Sometimes they all seem believable. This time, they all appear unlikely.
But, trusting that our usually efficient dealer did actually include the
real def, I'll take a stab at

2. [Turk.] a type of tobacco

and

7. fabric in which yarns were tie-dyed before weaving

--Dodi



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[Tony Abell]

Number 18 is suggesting a synonym for katakana, but I'm not buying it. I'll
take the equally erroneous 4 and 5:

> 4. the colonnade of a Turkish mosque
> 5. in Ottoman architecture: an octagon

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