mimbijones's definitions

Dawnsmell

That fragrant smell in the dawn air after the first rains have arrived during the night

"Wonder what’s in those lovely-smelling molecules that get breathed out the ground into dawnsmell, after the first rains?"

by mimbijones April 4, 2023

scrumpshalicious

the word to describe the best tasting meal you have ever had

Mum has just cooked the most scrumpshalicious meal I've ever had!

by mimbijones March 30, 2015

addermouth

A person who has nothing good to say about almost anything or anyone, and who usually manages to say it in such a vicious or extremely sarcastic way that those people who are listening always want to make immediate excuses to leave and be somewhere else

"She is a right addermouth that one - probably been like it since birth"

by mimbijones April 4, 2015

Quantizement

"Quantizement" (or quantisement with UK spelling) is the process which happens when one person's (or entity) thoughts are immediately known to another person (or entity), but without any form of written, verbal or other means of physical communication being used. The process is so rapid, happening with a zeptosecond (which is one trillionth of a billionth of a second), that it seems as if the generation and receiving of the thoughts between the two separate consiousnesses are simultaneous.

This girl, standing in front of him, here on the terrace, hadn’t spoken. Yet, he knew exactly what she was thinking. Her thoughts were flickering in his consciousness exactly as they were forming in her brain. And that kind of temporal connection and quantizement shouldn’t be possible, unless it was happening in close to Planck time, or at least in zeptoseconds.

by mimbijones February 24, 2023

second bestness

Second bestness is when you know you are not the first choice if somebody asks you to be someone (wife, husband, girlfriend, boyfriend) or to do something (i.e. become the boss). You know that someone else was first choice and altough you accept the offer, it rankles and stays wth you forever, turning you into a bitter, overbearing person.

"I think Mum's feeling of second bestness is why she's always so horrible to me - knows Dad wanted to or should have married someone else."

by mimbijones April 7, 2023

quarklet

If you can imagine a much smaller and younger sister or brother with whom you share DNA but not much else in common, they could be thought of as being a 'quarklet.' Similarly, in the world of atoms, you have protons and neutrons and the things they are made of which are called quarks (i.e. the big brothers or sisters of quarklets) and quarklets (the smaller, irritating, buzzing around everywhere baby quarks). So think of a quarklet as being a baby quark. They will be discovered sometime and their definition will have been first posted on the UD.

"If I were a physicist I would want to be the discoverer of quarklets, because they will turn out to be the building blocks of the universe, mark my words!"

by mimbijones April 26, 2015

quantum dissipation mode

When something is completely quantum un-entangled from the world around it.

"My physics professor speculates that ghosts exist in quantum dissipation mode most of the time. However, he says that if their quarklets manage to get entangled again, they then become visible to us. It must be really cool to be a Prof and think crazy thoughts, but get paid for it."

by mimbijones May 3, 2015