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Word For The Day, Tuesday, August 12, 2003
The Verbivores
| 8/12/03
| Teacher
Posted on 08/12/2003 5:23:18 AM PDT by RikaStrom
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. Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the word of the day; in a sentence. The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. Practice makes perfect.....post on....
attenuate \at*ten*u*ate\, verb; adjective
attenuating, attenuates, attenuated; intransitive verb
attenuation; noun
1. To make slender, fine, or small: The drought attenuated the river to a narrow channel.
2. To reduce in force, value, amount, or degree; weaken: Medicine attentuated the fever's effect.
3. To lessen the density of; rarefy.
4. Biology: To make (bacteria or viruses) less virulent.
5. Electronics.: To reduce (the amplitude of an electrical signal) with little or no distortion.
6. To become thin, weak, or fine.
7. Reduced or weakened, as in strength, value, or virulence.
8. Botany: Gradually tapering to a slender point.
We may reject and reject till we attenuate history into sapless meagerness. --Sir F. Palgrave
Etymology: [Latin attenu re, attenu t- : ad-, ad- + tenu re, to make thin (from tenuis, thin. See ten- in Indo-European Roots).]
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To: xsmommy
Based on other evidence, we all know that Sharon Stone is NOT dyeing her eyebrows brown.
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posted on
08/12/2003 7:59:53 AM PDT
by
P.O.E.
To: Laura Earl
PLEASE bring me something back?
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posted on
08/12/2003 8:00:09 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: P.O.E.
i have no other evidence, i don't know what type of evidence that you have... while i saw that movie, i didn't retain any KNOWLEDGE from it, unlike the boys in this class and elsewhere!!
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posted on
08/12/2003 8:01:19 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: xsmommy
will do!
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posted on
08/12/2003 8:03:30 AM PDT
by
Laura Earl
(Never wear panties to a party!)
To: xsmommy
Were it attenuate then you would not be hungry...
To: mikrofon
you are quite right, i either have to eat breakfast at 10 or find someplace that has lunch that early!
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posted on
08/12/2003 8:07:52 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: Laura Earl; xsmommy; RikaStrom
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posted on
08/12/2003 8:10:11 AM PDT
by
Gabz
(anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
To: xsmommy
How convenient.
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posted on
08/12/2003 8:11:25 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(If they make a John Kerry bobble head doll, they will need to make the head smaller.)
To: Laura Earl
You call it.
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posted on
08/12/2003 8:12:08 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(If they make a John Kerry bobble head doll, they will need to make the head smaller.)
To: xsmommy
And the other one has a moustache.
170
posted on
08/12/2003 8:12:40 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(If they make a John Kerry bobble head doll, they will need to make the head smaller.)
To: P.O.E.
That would have been the woid "affiftyuate"
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posted on
08/12/2003 8:13:34 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(If they make a John Kerry bobble head doll, they will need to make the head smaller.)
To: Gabz
They also knew their place. Barefoot, Pregnant and In the KITCHEN!
172
posted on
08/12/2003 8:17:26 AM PDT
by
hobbes1
( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
To: RikaStrom
I'm afraid that
this has severely attenuated my appetite for breakfast.
And...The Reason Why Arianna Huffington Is The Funniest Woman In Politics #4,589:
Anyone care to know why Gray Davis' support has attenuated? The guy is just too darn conservative!
That gal slays me, she really does.
To: hobbes1
Kiss mah grits.
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posted on
08/12/2003 8:18:49 AM PDT
by
Gabz
(anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
To: hobbes1
so glad you found your dream mate, tiger!
175
posted on
08/12/2003 8:23:20 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: Gabz
You gotta admit...June Cleaver was a babe compared to Roseanne!
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posted on
08/12/2003 8:24:22 AM PDT
by
Laura Earl
(Never wear panties to a party!)
To: white rose; hobbes1
WR you found the perfect item for hobbes!!!
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posted on
08/12/2003 8:27:09 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: Laura Earl
True.
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posted on
08/12/2003 8:27:30 AM PDT
by
Gabz
(anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
To: Texan5; xsmommy; hobbes1; dubyaismypresident; Argh
All this tile talk is going to get the croqs in a dither. The next thing you know, xs will be breaking out the linoleum pics.
To: xsmommy
My mirror has "No Wonder the Chicks Dig me" etched into it ; )
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posted on
08/12/2003 8:30:15 AM PDT
by
hobbes1
( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
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