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[Eve]

spines

[benhenry]

splines

[Eve]

splints

[benhenry]

sprints

[Eve]

prints

[benhenry]

print

[Eve]

pint

[MaKa]

punt

[benhenry]

pant


... to breathe very, very fast in and out, after vigorous activities with or without them :cjlol:

[Eve]

plant

[MaKa]

planet

[benhenry]

planer


... a marvelous machine used to "plane" (make level) wide surfaces of lumber for finish carpentry and cabinetry; very powerful motor; very sharp rotary cylinder-shaped blades; very expensive; very large work area required; very heartbreaking to lose.

[MaKa]

planner

[Eve]

planned

[Amie]

planked

[Eve]

clanked

[benhenry]

clanged

[Eve]

changed

[L e s]

hanged

[benhenry]

hinged


... I had to get it off that darn hanging word... everytime I see that word it gives me the shivers. Just funny that way, I guess :eek: :wink:

[Eve]

pinged

[benhenry]

pinked

[Eve]

linked

[benhenry]

licked

[Eve]

picked

[benhenry]

pickled

[Eve]

sickled

[Amie]

sicklied

[benhenry]

sicklies

[Amie]

sickliest

[benhenry]

tickliest

[Amie]

trickliest

[benhenry]

trickiest

[Amie]

prickiest

[benhenry]

pickiest

[MaKa]

rickiest

[Amie]

riskiest

[benhenry]

friskiest

[MaKa]

friskest



I don't own a horse but I ride at Oakmeadows Stables. Pepper is a wonderful horse. He is a white flea-bitten Arabian gelding. He hates jumping or water but he'll do it for me. He likes to help me choose the brushes I use on him. He puts his head on my shoulder and closes his eyes. He is very frisky and is the fastest horse in the barn. At horse camp we liked to race our horses and he won every time. We also went swimming with them in the pond.(I had to ride Dillion because Pepper just had a bath.) On Friday, the last day of camp we went trail riding at Elkmont.Pepper was the friskest I've ever seen him. (This was last years trail ride.)

[L e s]

Frisket

\Fris"ket\, n. [F. frisguette. Perh. so named from the velocity or frequency of its motion. See Frisk a.] (Print.) The light frame which holds the sheet of paper to the tympan in printing.

[Eve]

brisket

[MaKa]

brisker

[benhenry]

frisker

... one who frisks. I remember the hell that Diana Ross put some poor woman through in London when she got frisked coming off a plane. Jeez. I used to love her so much. Celebrities seem to forget how to just be nice.


.. hey thanks for the riding story Maka! I love to ride, too, but have never had a chance to ride for enjoyment. Just work. Nothing for fun. (except for donkey-baseball! ... our church sponsors a donkey ball game every spring. It is hilarious.)

[Eve]

frisked

[MaKa]

risked

[benhenry]

ricked

[Suze]

riced

[MaKa]

diced

[Eve]

iced

[benhenry]

aced


... served a legal non-returned first serve. Scored 100% on an exam. Played over another card in bridge or pinocle. Achieved 15 kills in a fighter plane. I love aces!

[L e s]

paced

[Eve]

packed

[MaKa]

hacked

[Breezy]

backed

[MaKa]

bucked

[L e s]

bucket

[benhenry]

sucket


... I guess it is pronounced just the way it looks...
Quick definitions (sucket) (v. t.) A sweetmeat; a dainty morsel.

[MaKa]

sucker

[benhenry]

tucker

... :sneak: hahahaha
... I guess I will behave, anyway :cjlol:

tucker = Oz grub.

[MaKa]

trucker

[benhenry]

tracker

[Eve]

tacker

[benhenry]

tackler

[MaKa]

tackled

[Eve]

tackle

[benhenry]

hackle

[Eve]

shackle

[benhenry]

spackle


... what you do to sheetrock in homes that have teenagers

[Eve]

spackled

[benhenry]

shackled

[Eve]

hackled

[benhenry]

hacked

[MaKa]

whacked

[benhenry]

wracked

[Eve]

cracked

[benhenry]

tracked

[Eve]

traced

[benhenry]

traded

[Eve]

trade

[benhenry]

tirade

[Eve]

irade
(A decree)

[benhenry]

irate

[Eve]

pirate

[benhenry]

pirated

[Eve]

pirates

[benhenry]

prates


To talk idly and at length; chatter

[Eve]

plates

[MaKa]

plats

[benhenry]

slats

... another name for "lath" the flexible softwood strips that are embedded in the plaster in a lath and plaster wall.

[L e s]

splats

[benhenry]

splat

... when an aluminum (aluminium for our English friends) ingot gets hung up in the die press ---the front part of the semi-molten ingot spreads apart into a "splat"... it can blow apart the machine sometimes, but even though it is deadly; it usually makes a beautiful "sculpture" . It can resemble a mushroom shape, or a big 'hippy" table that used to be made out of cable reels. The oil and grease that is forced into the suface of the aluminum burn away, and intricate streaks of random ravines are left.

I wasn't sure how the above paragraph would be received; so I cut it a bit short, but still left enough to describe the object. another cool detail...

When the surface is polished... all those random streaks left behind like scratches make the surface like a diffraction grate... you see the light reflected from the splat table spread out in a fuzzy rainbow; like oil rainbows on the surface of puddles, but not sharply defined.

[MaKa]

split





Thanks for all the contributions to 'Definitions 101'. This has been
just awesome!

[benhenry]

splint

Thank you, Maka! and everyone! You all make it a very fun thread.

[MaKa]

sprint

[L e s]

print

[MaKa]

paint

[benhenry]

pint

[Eve]

piet (bird -oyster catcher)

[MaKa]

diet

[benhenry]

divet

... sod for roofing

[Eve]

duvet

[benhenry]

duet

[L e s]

duets

[benhenry]

suets

[Eve]

stets

[benhenry]

stats

[Eve]

starts

[MaKa]

smarts

[benhenry]

smarty

[L e s]

smarta

[benhenry]

smartas :)

[MaKa]

Spartas


The VHT-1 “Spartas” was developed by the United Earth Government in 2015 to fill the armored reconnaissance role, a role which had previously been carried out by the VBT-1 "Centaur"; however, by 2015 technological improvements had made the design dangerously obsolete. The new design was required to have superior maneuverability over the older RDF Destroid and VBT-1 “Centaur” models but retain the armor and firepower to directly confront the most powerful Zentraedi mecha. Two designs were placed forwarded as prospective candidates. The first was an upgraded version of the venerable Centaur, dubbed the VBT-1A1 “Centaur-II” and the other was the VHT-1 “Spartas” hovertank. Although the Centaur-II provided protection for the crew in all modes and possesses slightly greater firepower, the VHT-1 “Spartas” ultimately won the competition with its greater maneuverability and dedicated battloid mode.

[benhenry]

spartan

... like the ethic of Sparta of ancient Greece; efficient without considerations of personal comfort.


Spartas
The VHT-1 “Spartas” was developed by the United Earth Government in 2015


HeeHaw! Now we are learning words that haven't even been invented yet, MaKa! :)

[MaKa]

spartian



Gee, here I thought this was a futuristic thread!

[Eve]

Sparta
an ancient Greek city famous for military prowess

[benhenry]

Sparty

Sparty refers to the mascot of Michigan State University. The mascot is a man dressed in traditional Greek Spartan costume. Sparty appears in several incarnations: as a graphic image of a spartan with a prominent chin, as a foam-rubber large-headed mascot, and as two identical statues designed by Leonard D. Jungwirth.

[MaKa]

sporty




Methinks #865 went off course!!!

[Eve]

Methinks #865 went off course!!! You are right of course Maka http://smilies.neo101.nl/smilies/1036946071_0.gif (http://www.maxthon.com/) I have reprimanded myself accordingly.

[benhenry]

shorty

[Eve]

shirty (British informal, ill-tempered or annoyed)

[benhenry]

thirty

.. just a bit more than 29, Eve, and not quite so much as 31... :cjlol:

[Eve]

:)

thirsty

[MaKa]

thirst

[L e s]

thurst

[benhenry]

hurst


... U.K. wood: a wooded area ... U.S. a heavy duty transmission for hot rods

[L e s]

hurt

[MaKa]

curt

[benhenry]

cart

[Eve]

cars

[benhenry]

scars

[MaKa]

spars

[benhenry]

spurs

[MaKa]

sours

[benhenry]

ours

[Eve]

pours

[benhenry]

tours

[Eve]

fours

[benhenry]

furs

[MaKa]

fury

[Eve]

furry

[MaKa]

hurry

[Eve]

harry (annoy)

[MaKa]

hairy

[Eve]

fairy

[benhenry]

dairy

[L e s]

airy

[MaKa]

awry

[benhenry]

wry

[L e s]

wary

[benhenry]

ward

[MaKa]

award

[benhenry]

sward

...noun: surface layer of ground containing a matt of grass and grass roots

[MaKa]

sword

[benhenry]

word

[MaKa]

cord

[benhenry]

core

[Suze]

bored

[benhenry]

cored

[Suze]

colored

[MaKa]

cured

[benhenry]

cursed


... not you dear MaKa! Or anyone... I'm scared of curses.... that's why I always try to leave smiles on my southern side...

[MaKa]

nursed

[benhenry]

pursed

[MaKa]

pureed

[Eve]

pursed

[benhenry]

parsed

[MaKa]

parted




We are getting too many fouls!!! See #'s 907, 909 and 915.

[benhenry]

ported


... having been rewritten to be compatible with two or more operating systems

[L e s]

portend

[benhenry]

portent

[MaKa]

potent

[benhenry]

patent

[Eve]

patient

[benhenry]

patients

[MaKa]

patents

[benhenry]

parents

[MaKa]

parent

[MaKa]

Darent



The River Darent or River Darenth is a Kentish tributary of the River Thames in England. Its name is believed to be from a Celtic word meaning 'river where oak-trees grow'

[benhenry]

Darent



The River Darent or River Darenth is a Kentish tributary of the River Thames in England. Its name is believed to be from a Celtic word meaning 'river where oak-trees grow'

I think we should declare MaKa the champ of this round?

[L e s]

drent

Drent\, p. p. [See Dreinte.] Drenched; drowned. [Obs.] ``Condemned to be drent.'' --Spenser

[benhenry]

drest

tally ho!

[L e s]

wrest

[benhenry]

west

[MaKa]

test




Thanks, Ben. Sorry for the bit of fudging!

[Eve]

tent

[Suze]

tenet

[benhenry]

tenets


It's all good, MaKa, fudging makes things sweeter.

[Suze]

tenters

[Eve]

enters

[MaKa]

renters

[benhenry]

venters

...4. in law... the uterus as pertaining to origin of offspring

[Eve]

centers

[benhenry]

canters

[Eve]

canter

[benhenry]

cantor

[Eve]

canto

[benhenry]

cant

noun: a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force

[Eve]

cent

[Breezy]

dent

[MaKa]

deny

[L e s]

den

[benhenry]

fen


noun: low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water

[MaKa]

fern

[benhenry]

gern :thumbs:

[MaKa]

tern

[benhenry]

torn

[Eve]

morn

[benhenry]

born

[Eve]

lorn

adj : pitiable in circumstances especially through abandonment; "desolate and despairing"; "left forlorn" [syn: desolate, forlorn, godforsaken]

[MaKa]

loan

[benhenry]

roan

[MaKa]

road

[benhenry]

roam

[Eve]

loam

[benhenry]

foam

[Eve]

form

[benhenry]

firm

[MaKa]

farm

[benhenry]

warm

[Eve]

worm

[MaKa]

corm

[benhenry]

corn

[Eve]

corny

[L e s]

scorny

[Eve]

scorn

[MaKa]

acorn

[L e s]

corn

[benhenry]

orn

(?), v. t. To ornament; to adorn. [Obs.] Joye

[MaKa]

urn

[benhenry]

burn

[Eve]

barn

[MaKa]

earn

[benhenry]

learn

[MaKa]

lean

[benhenry]

glean

[MaKa]

glen

[benhenry]

glens

[MaKa]

lens

[benhenry]

lans

plural of: Ardor inspired by passion or enthusiasm.

[Eve]

bans

[MaKa]

beans

[Eve]

beams

[benhenry]

seams

[Eve]

seems

[benhenry]

seers

[Eve]

leers

[benhenry]

beers





.http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a17/GentleBenHenry/Punch-uation/beer.gif

[Eve]

beer one is enough :cjlol:

[benhenry]

seer


...it should be that one of these, also, is enough, but they never seem to agree with each other

[L e s]

sever