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The abbreviation is not always a short form of the word used in the clue. For example: "Knight" for N (the symbol used in chess notation) Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE.
Crossword. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are ...
The Olde Towne Team [5] The Carmines – A type of red pigment, the nickname is used often by former Red Sox player and retired White Sox broadcaster Ken Harrelson. Red Sox Nation – Avid followers. The Nation – Short version of "Red Sox Nation". The Cardiac Kids – 1967 team nickname.
1. A strap running from a horse's back, over the head, to a bit, to prevent the horse from lowering its head beyond a fixed point. Used with harness ed horses. [12] : 20. 2. A riding aid where the rein is applied to the horse's neck on the side towards the turn. Opposite of a neck rein.
Clues and answers must always match in part of speech, tense, number, and degree. Thus a plural clue always indicates a plural answer (and the same for singular), a clue in the past tense will always be matched by an answer in the same tense, and a clue containing a comparative or superlative will always be matched by an answer in the same degree.
A typical Sudoku puzzle. The solution to the puzzle above. Sudoku ( / suːˈdoʊkuː, - ˈdɒk -, sə -/; Japanese: 数独, romanized : sūdoku, lit. 'digit-single'; originally called Number Place) [1] is a logic-based, [2] [3] combinatorial [4] number-placement puzzle. In classic Sudoku, the objective is to fill a 9 × 9 grid with digits so ...
The singular form is never vita. Curriculum is already singular, vitae is genitive from vita, i.e., "of life", despite the plural-appearing vitae modifier. The true plural is curricula vitae. [5] cwt. centum weight. " hundredweight " [1] This is a mixture of Latin and English abbreviations. D.V.
abbr. of New Latin rectum intestinum ('straight intestine') < Latin rēctus, straight rectal, rectum, rectus femoris: ren(o) of or pertaining to the kidney Latin rēn, rēnes, kidney renal: reticul(o)-net Latin rēticulum: reticulocyte: retro-backward, behind Latin retro: retroversion, retroverted rhabd(o)-rod shaped, striated