To take something inherently temporary and tenuous and preserve it by making a separate, permanent rendering of it. The rendering may be either concrete or abstract.
I knew her habit of smoking would kill her skin soon, so I got out my camera and calcified her face while I could.
We all would have forgotten that our town won the Little League World Series in 1999 if the newspaper didn't calcify it.
I know Mark will never like me back, but at least I was able to calcify my feelings for him into a poem.
We all would have forgotten that our town won the Little League World Series in 1999 if the newspaper didn't calcify it.
I know Mark will never like me back, but at least I was able to calcify my feelings for him into a poem.
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daughter: *sobbing* a calcium abortion
mom: what i want to know is how you got calcium in the first place
daughter: well, me and johnny were drinking milkshakes...and we didn't remember to use our bendy straws *starts sobbing again*
daughter: *sobbing* a calcium abortion
mom: what i want to know is how you got calcium in the first place
daughter: well, me and johnny were drinking milkshakes...and we didn't remember to use our bendy straws *starts sobbing again*
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by Captain Illmatic November 18, 2006
Get the calculus mug.When students’ reliance on a scientific or graphing calculator prevents them from being fluent in performing certain basic operations, such as factorizing a function, finding the zeros of a cubic polynomial, and standardizing a normal distribution from the Statistical Tables—ritually pressing a set of keys often conceals their poor understanding or mastery of these routines.
If only math teachers and tutors would implement the “No Calculators Allowed” rule, students would be manually forced to learn the routine or tedious steps in getting the answer to some intermediate step of a problem.
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Get the Cabockle mug.Calc n break the bed is an intense version of calc n chill. Fairly self explanatory; calc n chill becomes so intense that you and your math daddy break the bed.
Last night me and my math daddy calc n chilled so hard that five of the springs came out of my bed. I guess that's why they call it calc n break the bed.
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