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prat

Alternative spelling for the surname of Angela Pratt, Head of Sixth Form.

Guess what? Prat's just closed the CR again, because SOMEBODY MOVED A CHAIR!

by Bob Gurch March 3, 2005

remove

The act of taking something away.

Do not remove this definition.

by Bob Gurch August 27, 2004

Gloy

Cheap brand of glue used by schools that can't afford anything better.

Tacky, but not sticky.

Gloy, Gloy, Glorious Gloy
Glue from the stick you must deploy
And if this you fail to do
You'll find yourself smothered in glue
And also, if you should destroy
A wonderful, innocent stick of Gloy
And replace it with some awful Pritt
Prepare to die, you blasphemous git.

by Bob Gurch May 25, 2004

‰

It's a percent sign with an extra 'o' at the bottom. It means 'per thousand', rather than 'per hundred'.

5% of 400 is 20, therefore, 5‰ of 400 is 2.

by Bob Gurch August 27, 2004

·

The · is a dot. A bit like the full stop (.), but higher up. Used as a shorthand for 'multiply' in mathematics (because they don't want to get × confused with x).

Equation: 5x² · 2y = 10x²y

by Bob Gurch August 27, 2004

‡

A sort of symbolic cross thingy.

Person 1: "Do you know what ‡ means?"
Person 2: "No."
Person 1: "Me neither."

by Bob Gurch August 27, 2004

ist

German word for 'is'.

Person 1: "Das ist ein Hund."

Person 2: "Why are you speaking German?"

by Bob Gurch August 28, 2004