Posted on 06/29/2009 5:08:46 AM PDT by xsmommy
Word For The Day, Monday, 6/29/09
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
adamantine; adj.
1. utterly unyielding or firm in attitude or opinion. Unyielding; inflexible: "If there is one dominant trait that emerges from this account, it is adamantine willpower" (Eugene Linden). 2. too hard to cut, break, or pierce. 3. like a diamond in luster.
Etymology:1200–1250; ME < L adamantinus < Gk adamántinos. See adamant, -ine 1
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Been congressing with the landscapers again?
Really? Interesting trivia! Loved that album.
Eeeeew.
not retention-worthy. i have a lot of stuff that needs to be retained in my brain and as one ages, the unnecessary gets tossed overboard fairly immediately. i may not remember it again tomorrow!
Plus, you delegate that stuff. ;-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Dolby
And, apparently also on Def Leppard’s Pyromania. Not that I remember any keys on that album.
Heard this one, title track, on the way to go fishing before work this morning:
My mom would wig out at the recent sissification of the nursing profession. She got her start while still in school, during the polio epidemic, and worked 7-12 hour shifts a week for many months. You just do what you have to do.
I don’t know if it’s “sissified” to not want to be forced to work overtime all of the time.
Billy Mays bumped his head on an airplane, but said he had a hard head. He had an adamantine opinion about his head.
May God rest his soul.
Good morning. Only 106 here today. Supposed to rain, but I think there’s a huge dust storm coming in.
Meteorologist Slip.
Are we going to find you on the naughty teacher ping list?
A+++ amazing that billy mays head is topping the list of homework topics today! LOL! i always think of you and cyber with the BLINDED me with science song!
Love that song. The background messages are great. We have that song “She’s Blinded Me with Silence” in the car when traveling.
What a nice guy you are, CJ. I truly mean it.
I'm sorry, SD, but how do you wake up dead? He was just complaining of a headache before he went to sleep. His wife woke up alive and found him dead.
Cj IS a wonderful guy. hanging by an extremely tenuous single thread to sanity, but wonderful nonetheless... LMAO! you know i love you, ceej!
I couldn’t remember that line, but that’s what Cyber says to me.
It’s an expression, innit? Says in three words what you said in more.
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