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Lymphocyte

A type of white blood cells that produces antibodies which fight disease.
If you are to stay healthy, you need lymphocyte in your body.
by Jafje May 25, 2007
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Attainment

Noun;

1. Accomplishment of something: the achievement of the goals that somebody has set.

2. A skill, accomplishment, or distinction, especially one achieved through effort.
1. They forced them to reach the attainment.
2. He's got attainments, he's got skills.
by Jafje August 26, 2007
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Exuberance

1. Full of enthusiasm: Full of happy high spirits and vitality.

2. Abundant: growing in great abundance or profusion.

3. Lavish: Lavish or elaborate, often to the point of being excessive.
When he saw Sharon, he jumped with exuberance.
by Jafje April 5, 2007
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Demented

1. Entirely irrational: Completely unreasonable or lacking any sense of the consequences of actions taken.

2. Affected with dementia: Affected by the loss of intellectual functions that is associated with dementia. This usually only happens to elderly (old) people.
My friend's granpa is demented, he can't remember a thing.
by Jafje April 5, 2007
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Erect

1. Straight and vertical: In an upright position.

2. Physiology firm and rigid: Stiff and swollen as a result of being filled with blood, e.g. when sexually aroused.

3. Right side up: Describes an optically produced image that is right side up and not inverted.

4. To build a structure from basic parts and materials.

5. To fix something in an upright position.

6. To bring an organization, system, or theory into being.

7. To draw or construct a line or figure on a given base.
1. An erect plant stem.
2. An erect penis.
3. An erect picture.
4. The building was erected in 1885.
5. Fixing things..
6. The corporation erected a new legal department to deal with mergers and acquisitions.
7. Drawing an erect graph.
by Jafje April 15, 2007
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Aesthetic

ADJECTIVE:

1. Beautiful.

2. Sensitive to or appreciative of art or beauty.

3. Relating to the philosophical principles of aesthetics.

NOUN:

A set of principles about art.
ADJECTIVE:
1. Aesthetic - beautiful.
2. Someone who loves art.
3. Principles of/about art.

NOUN:
The modernist aesthetic.
by Jafje April 16, 2007
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Abbreviation

A shortened form of a word or phrase.

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Types of abbreviations:

There are four main kinds of abbreviations: shortenings, contractions, initialisms, and acronyms. 1 Shortenings of words usually consist of the first few letters of the full form and are usually spelled with a final period when they are still regarded as abbreviations, for example, cont. = continued, in = inch. In the cases when they form words in their own right, the period is omitted, for example, hippo = hippopotamus, limo = limousine. Such shortenings are often but not always informal. Some become the standard forms, and the full forms are then regarded as formal or technical, for example, bus = omnibus, taxi = taxicab, deli = delicatessen, zoo = zoological garden. Sometimes shortenings are altered to facilitate their pronunciation or spelling: bike = bicycle2 Contractions are abbreviated forms in which letters from the middle of the full form have been omitted, for example, Dr. = doctor, St. = saint or street. Such forms are invariably followed by a period. Another kind of contraction is the type with an apostrophe marking the omission of letters: can't = cannot, didn't = did not, you've = you have. 3 Initialisms are made up of the initial letters of words and are pronounced as separate letters: CIA (or C.I.A.), NYC, pm (or p.m.), U.S. (or US). Practice varies with regard to periods, with current usage increasingly in favor of omitting them, especially when the initialism consists entirely of capital letters. 4 Acronyms are initialisms that have become words in their own right, or similar words formed from parts of several words. They are pronounced as words rather than as a series of letters, for example, AIDS, laser, scuba, UNESCO, and do not have periods. In many cases the acronym becomes the standard term and the full form is only used in explanatory contexts.
An example of an abbreviation is abbr, which is short for "abbreviation".
by Jafje September 9, 2007
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