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- Definition: The striking of a slightly wrong note in an otherwise tuneful harmony. Derivation: Ancient Greek. Citation: "The Greeks had a word for it -- parakrousis -- the striking of a slightly wrong note in an otherwise tuneful harmony. " The Wench is Dead Colin Dexter 1989 p. 59.
- Definition: Octothorpe is one of a number of names used for the # symbol on telephones and keyboards. Also called "number sign", "hash mark" "sharp sign", "scratch" or "gate". In the USA only, it is referred to as the "pound sign" referring to weight, as in "a 6# bag of sprouts", but also sometimes referring to pounds sterling (because the "? symbol did not often appear on USA typewriter keyboards). British Telecom customer messages call it the "square". Commonly in UK telecoms engineering usage, it is called the "gate" symbol. The official ANSI/CCITT name is "number sign". PostScript language calls it the "numbersign". Derivation: Mark Israel in the ALT.USAGE.ENGLISH FAQ file writes:- ...in a failed attempt to avoid the naming problem by creating a new name, the term "octothorp(e)" (which MWCD10 dates 1971) was invented for "#", allegedly by Bell Labs engineers when touch-tone telephones were introduced in the mid-1960s. "Octo-" means eight, and "thorp" was an Old English word for _village_: apparently the sign was playfully construed as eight fields surrounding a village. Another story has it that a Bell Labs supervisor named Don MacPherson coined the word from the number of endpoints and from the surname of U.S. athlete James Francis Thorpe. Merriam-Webster Editorial Department told me: "All of the stories you record are known to us, but the evidence does not line up nicely behind any one of them." A large number of variant names for the # sign have been attested: Official usage: number sign; pound; pound sign; hash; sharp; gate; square. Unofficial, slang, nickname usage: grid; crunch; crosshatch; mesh; flash; square, pig-pen; tictactoe; scratchmark; thud; thump; splat; hex, grate, reticule. Variant spellings: octothorp, oktothorpe
- Definition: Notion held by police officers that it is justifiable to fabricate or artificially improve evidence to secure the conviction of a known criminal. Derivation: Noble cause corruption was coined by Edwin DeLattre in Character and Cops: Ethics in Policing (Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute, 1989), Ch 11. Popularised in the UK in September 1992 by Sir John Woodcock, Chief Inspector of Constabulary, England and Wales. Citation: "To go back to corruption for one moment, one aspect is what is known as noble cause corruption. Someone connected with the Police Federation once said to me that there was nothing wrong with perjury committed by an honest officer in pursuit of a good cause". House of Commons, Select Committee on Home Affairs, Minutes of Evidence, Examination of witnesses, Question 128 1998-12-08.
- Definition: Trade mark name for a throat sweet containing liquorice block juice. Manufacturer: Ernest Jackson, Crediton, Devon
- Definition: Objects and designs inspired by the works of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, especially when tawdry and debased. Derivation: Humourous corruption of Mackintosh. Citation: "...it is a special feature of the Mockintosh industry that it adapts his designs to objects like jewellery and mirror-frames which he might have designed but actually never, or hardly ever, did " Alan Crawford,Charles Rennie Mackintosh, London: Thames & Hudson, 1995, p199.
- Definition: Maggot Debridement Therapy (MDT) is the medical use of live maggots (fly larvae) for cleaning non-healing wounds.
- Definition: Linezolid is the first in a new class of synthetic antibacterial drugs, called oxazolidinones, designed to treat a number of drug-resistant bacterial infections. Also know by its trademark name of Zyvox. Citation: The Scout Report for Science & Engineering 2000-04-26.
- Definition: The medical use of maggots as anti-bacterial wound dressing.
- Definition: literally "the good wave", a movement in Latin-American film making. Derivation: in tribute to La Nouvelle Vague - the New Wave of french cinema. Citation: "just as success comes, some wonder whether la buena onda is selling out to a globalized American vision of culture. " The Guardian 2002-07-19.
- Definition: A manufacturing strategy in which parts are produced or delivered only as needed; just-in-time (JIT). Notes:Toyota Motor Company has been credited with developing the "kanban system" of manufacturing, which takes its name from the Japanese word for "sign" or "placard." In the kanban system, each shipment of parts used in making a product comes with a "kanban" (sign). When the stock parts reach a predetermined level, the sign is sent to suppliers, who deliver new ones to the assembly line.