[Dixonary] Round 2050 -- BENTHOS -- Defs Up, Please vote

[EnDash@aol.com]

We have 15 definitions, 14 fakes and 1 from the dictionary.

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

New players are welcome, even if you didn't enter a definition this round.
Don't look in a dictionary. Full rules, if you're curious, are in the file
RULES.DIX in library 17.

1: that portion of the oceans below which no light penetrates (i.e.
depths > ~1,000 meters)

2: _Gr. Antiq._ A vase or flask with a narrow neck, chiefly used in
funeral rites

3: a rural Greek dwelling including accommodation for domestic livestock

4: dense scrub characteristic of certain arid regions of Eastern Patagonia

5: followers of the utilitarianism proposed by Jeremy Bentham (d.1832)
[singular benthamite]

6: an anticlimax

7: 1. The collection of organisms living on or in sea or lake bottoms. 2.
The bottom of a sea or lake.

8: spar forming an extension of the bowsprit

9: (Latv.] amber

10: the flamboyant interpretation of a piece of music

11: a medicinal smell on the breath caused by ketone secretion from
abnormal metabolism of oral bacteria

12: an ethical construct emphasizing pure goodness to the exclusion of all
else for the attainment of an ideal society

13: a narrow alley between high buildings

14: shining

15: (sl.) amphetamines

Deadline for votes is 9:00 AM EDT Sunday, October 25, or the equivalent in
your time zone. Good luck.

-- Dick

[Guerri Stevens]

I vote for 12 and 15.

Guerri

EnDash (AT) aol (DOT) com wrote:
>
> 12: an ethical construct emphasizing pure goodness to the exclusion of all
> else for the attainment of an ideal society
>
> 15: (sl.) amphetamines

[Judy Madnick]

Greek or oceans? I'll go with:

<< 1: that portion of the oceans below which no light penetrates
<< (i.e.
<< depths > ~1,000 meters)

<< 7: 1. The collection of organisms living on or in sea or lake
<< bottoms. 2.
<< The bottom of a sea or lake.

Judy Madnick

[Dave Cunningham]

1 and 7 because they are so similar

Dave

On Oct 23, 8:09*pm, EnD... (AT) aol (DOT) com wrote:
> We have 15 definitions, 14 fakes and 1 from the dictionary.
>
> Vote for TWO definitions, as a public forum message (in reply to this one),
> *before the deadline...
>
> New players are welcome, even if you didn't enter a definition this round. *
> Don't look in a dictionary. Full rules, if you're curious, are in the file *
> RULES.DIX in library 17.
>
> *1: that portion of the oceans below which no light penetrates (i.e. *
> depths > ~1,000 meters)
>
> *2: _Gr. Antiq._ A vase or flask with a narrow neck, chiefly used in *
> funeral rites
>
> *3: a rural Greek dwelling including accommodation for domestic *livestock
>
> *4: dense scrub characteristic of certain arid regions of Eastern *Patagonia
>
> *5: followers of the utilitarianism proposed by Jeremy Bentham *(d.1832)
> [singular benthamite]
>
> *6: an anticlimax
>
> *7: 1. The collection of organisms living on or in sea or lake *bottoms. 2.
> The bottom of a sea or lake.
>
> *8: spar forming an extension of the bowsprit
>
> *9: (Latv.] *amber
>
> 10: the flamboyant interpretation of a piece of music
>
> 11: a medicinal smell on the breath caused by ketone secretion from *
> abnormal metabolism of oral bacteria
>
> 12: an ethical construct emphasizing pure goodness to the exclusion of all *
> else for the attainment of an ideal society
>
> 13: a narrow alley between high buildings
>
> 14: shining
>
> 15: (sl.) amphetamines
>
> Deadline for votes is 9:00 AM EDT Sunday, October 25, or the equivalent in *
> your time zone. Good luck.
>
> -- Dick

[Millie Morgan]

Thanks Dick. I'll guess 1 and 9

> 1: that portion of the oceans below which no light penetrates (i.e. depths > ~1,000 meters)
> 9: (Latv.] amber



Millie

[Dodi Schultz]

I'll try the two very similar underwater ones:

> 1: that portion of the oceans below which no light penetrates
> (i.e. depths > ~1,000 meters)

and

> 7: 1. The collection of organisms living on or in sea or lake
> bottoms. 2. The bottom of a sea or lake.


--Dodi

[Nancy Shepherdson]

I'll take 1 and 7. Undoubtedly wrong!

Nancy

[Tim B]

5 and 12, please.
Best wishes,
Tim B.

[JohnnyB]

Dick

Confirm my DQ

JohnnyB

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> Subject: [Dixonary] Round 2050 -- BENTHOS -- Defs Up, Please vote
>
> We have 15 definitions, 14 fakes and 1 from the dictionary.
>
> Vote for TWO definitions, as a public forum message (in reply
> to this one), before the deadline...
>
> New players are welcome, even if you didn't enter a
> definition this round. Don't look in a dictionary. Full
> rules, if you're curious, are in the file RULES.DIX in library 17.
>
> 1: that portion of the oceans below which no light
> penetrates (i.e. depths > ~1,000 meters)
>
> 2: _Gr. Antiq._ A vase or flask with a narrow neck, chiefly
> used in funeral rites
>
> 3: a rural Greek dwelling including accommodation for
> domestic livestock
>
> 4: dense scrub characteristic of certain arid regions of
> Eastern Patagonia
>
> 5: followers of the utilitarianism proposed by Jeremy
> Bentham (d.1832) [singular benthamite]
>
> 6: an anticlimax
>
> 7: 1. The collection of organisms living on or in sea or
> lake bottoms. 2. The bottom of a sea or lake.
>
> 8: spar forming an extension of the bowsprit
>
> 9: (Latv.] amber
>
> 10: the flamboyant interpretation of a piece of music
>
> 11: a medicinal smell on the breath caused by ketone
> secretion from abnormal metabolism of oral bacteria
>
> 12: an ethical construct emphasizing pure goodness to the
> exclusion of all else for the attainment of an ideal society
>
> 13: a narrow alley between high buildings
>
> 14: shining
>
> 15: (sl.) amphetamines
>
> Deadline for votes is 9:00 AM EDT Sunday, October 25, or the
> equivalent in your time zone. Good luck.
>
> -- Dick
>

[Tim Lodge]

For want of any better ideas:

2 and 12 please.

-- Tim L

[Paul Keating]

Vox pop says it's 1 or 7, but I'm not letting Pop have it all his own way. I
vote for 7 and 12.

--
Paul Keating
The Hague

[Daniel B. Widdis]

2 because I believe it, and 9 because I don't



--

Dan

[Tony Abell]

12 being a little too pat, I'm going for 1 and 7 this time:

> 1: that portion of the oceans below which no light penetrates (i.e.
> depths >> ~1,000 meters)
>
> 7: 1. The collection of organisms living on or in sea or lake bottoms. 2.
> The bottom of a sea or lake.

[Paul Keating]

Note for those players who do timezone arithmetic by hand:

The EU went off summer time this morning, which means that for the next week
the width of the Atlantic in hours (the difference in wall-clock time
between JFK and Shannon) will be 4 hours instead of the usual 5.

--
Paul Keating
The Hague

[Hugo Kornelis]

Hi Dodi,

> Paul (or anyone else who knows the answer), I'm confused on one point:
> Time changes aside, is Netherlands (wall-clock) time the same as UK
> (wall-clock) time? I've always thought it's one hour later where you are,
> but now I'm not sure.

You are right. Netherlands in in the CET time zone (CEST during the summer),
so it is one hour later here. But at least the one hour difference is
constant, since the UK and the mainland EU countries synchronised their
start and end of summer time moments.

Best, Hugo

[Tim B]

> Paul (or anyone else who knows the answer), I'm confused on one
> point: Time changes aside, is Netherlands (wall-clock) time the
> same as UK (wall-clock) time? I've always thought it's one hour
> later where you are, but now I'm not sure.

What you always thought is correct, Dodi, though occasionally someone
suggests we should change. Western European Time (UK, Ireland, Portugal)
is the same as GMT. Central European Time is one hour ahead of GMT.

Best wishes,
Tim B (in England).

[Paul Keating]

It's one hour later where I am than it is in the UK, all year round. Though
if it the timezone were chosen according to Amsterdam's nearest standard
meridian, that would be Greenwich. Before WW2 the Dutch standard time was
Greenwich + 20 minutes of time.

--
Paul Keating
The Hague

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dodi Schultz" <schultz (AT) compuserve (DOT) com>


> Paul (or anyone else who knows the answer), I'm confused on one
> point: Time changes aside, is Netherlands (wall-clock) time the
> same as UK (wall-clock) time? I've always thought it's one hour
> later where you are, but now I'm not sure.

[Dodi Schultz]

Paul Keating wrote:

> Note for those players who do timezone arithmetic by hand:
>
> The EU went off summer time this morning, which means that for
> the next week the width of the Atlantic in hours (the
> difference in wall-clock time between JFK and Shannon) will be
> 4 hours instead of the usual 5.

Paul (or anyone else who knows the answer), I'm confused on one
point: Time changes aside, is Netherlands (wall-clock) time the
same as UK (wall-clock) time? I've always thought it's one hour
later where you are, but now I'm not sure.

BTW: The US changes from "daylight" to "standard" time (in NY,
from EDT to EST) one week from today.

--Dodi

[Dodi Schultz]

Hugo Kornelis wrote:

> You are right. Netherlands in in the CET time zone (CEST
> during the summer), so it is one hour later here. But at least
> the one hour difference is constant, since the UK and the
> mainland EU countries synchronised their start and end of
> summer time moments.
>
> Best, Hugo

Thanks, Hugo!

--Dodi

[Dodi Schultz]

Tim B wrote:

> What you always thought is correct, Dodi, though occasionally
> someone suggests we should change. Western European Time (UK,
> Ireland, Portugal) is the same as GMT. Central European Time
> is one hour ahead of GMT.

Thanks, Tim!

--Dodi

[Dodi Schultz]

Paul Keating wrote:

> It's one hour later where I am than it is in the UK, all year
> round.

Thanks, Paul!

--Dodi