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John Barrs
March 6th, 2007, 06:14 PM
Here are 16 definitions brought to you at great expense of wit and wisdom by our esteemed panel of experts. Now your job is to
decide which is the definition that was submitted by a dictionary

Vote for TWO definitions, as a public forum or group message (in reply to this one), before the deadline..

1:00 pm on Thursday, 08 Mar 2007 in the UK
4:00 pm in Moscow, Niarobi, Tehran, & Bagdhad
8:00 am East Coast USA
5:00 am West Coast USA

New Players are welcome, even if you didn't submit a definition you may vote.

JohnnyB

(using DIXOBASE)

1. the state of being in love

2. any disease of the skin

3. conversion of limestone into marble

4. [med] a soft calcification of the liver

5. the absorption of calcium into plant tissues

6. an inescapable fear that something dire is about to happen

7. an abnormal forward curvature of the spine in the lumbar region

8. [med] depraved or morbidly ravenous appetite caused by disease

9. [bot] discoloring and loss of leaves caused by an excess of water

10. the process through which ions are transported through a membrane

11. the process by which chloroplasts reduce carbon dioxide and liberate oxygen

12. The slow geological process by which a rocky shore is transformed into a sandy beach

13. the state of being one hour late for appointments after missing the switch to Summer Time

14. occupational asthma, esp. among quarrymen [_lime_ + _-osis_; orig. thought to be caused by limestone dust]

15. the general form or a quantity indicative of the general form of a statistical frequency curve near the mean of the distribution

16. the process resulting in the formation of calcified masses such as stalagmites and stalactites in cavernsthe process by which
stalactites and stalagmites form in caverns

Guerri Stevens
March 6th, 2007, 07:56 PM
I vote for 5 and 12.

Guerri

Toni Savage
March 6th, 2007, 09:13 PM
14 and 15, please?





-- Toni Savage

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mshefler
March 7th, 2007, 10:20 AM
I'll try 6 and 9.

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"Sometimes I wonder if she still loves me," said Tom lackadaisically.

Tim Bourne
March 7th, 2007, 10:24 AM
4 and 9, please.

Best wishes,

Tim B

Christopher Carson
March 7th, 2007, 11:32 AM
I'll fall for 1 and 6 this time.

Chris


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Tony Abell
March 7th, 2007, 07:39 PM
Nancy,

I'm afraid it isn't likely to be Yahoogroups this time. Even *I* got the
announcements in email--but that's because I stopped using CompuServe for
Dixonary. For over a year, CompuServe gradually filtered out more and more
Dixonary messages, until hardly any arrived. Amazingly, your account was
unaffected. Now it seems the other shoe has dropped and you're starting to lose
mail to the filters, too.

And AFAIK, there's no way to tune or customize the filters. So I have no advice
to give you except not to use CompuServe for Dixonary. There are enough
problems with Yahoogroups, already.

--
Tony

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On 2007-03-07 at 14:55 nancyshepherdson wrote:

n> Once again, I have been screwed over by Yahoo. I never received the
n> email requesting a definition for this word, so I didn't submit one.
n> Also didn't get the progress email. I thought it had been a while since
n> I heard from the group, but I was busy...

n> Anyway, I'll vote for 7 and 9.

n> We have got to find a new provider. Has anyone heard of pair.com?
n> Another list I belong to uses their list services. You need to sign up
n> for web hosting in order to use the list, but then we could have our
n> own web site! I'll have my husband look into it.

Tony Abell
March 7th, 2007, 09:32 PM
3 and 8 seem to be the least implausible.

Russ Heimerson
March 8th, 2007, 06:46 AM
I'll go for #8 and #15, please.

Russ