Word For The Day, Tuesday, August 12, 2003

The Verbivores | 8/12/03 | Teacher

[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....

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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).]

[P.O.E.]

Based on other evidence, we all know that Sharon Stone is NOT dyeing her eyebrows brown.

[xsmommy]

PLEASE bring me something back?

[xsmommy]

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!!

[Laura Earl]

will do!

[mikrofon]

Were it attenuate then you would not be hungry...

[xsmommy]

you are quite right, i either have to eat breakfast at 10 or find someplace that has lunch that early!

[Gabz]

Oh good grief........

'50S WOMEN WERE FITTER

[Conspiracy Guy]

How convenient.

[Conspiracy Guy]

You call it.

[Conspiracy Guy]

And the other one has a moustache.

[Conspiracy Guy]

That would have been the woid "affiftyuate"

[hobbes1]

They also knew their place. Barefoot, Pregnant and In the KITCHEN!

[white rose]

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.

[Gabz]

Kiss mah grits.

[xsmommy]

so glad you found your dream mate, tiger!

[Laura Earl]

You gotta admit...June Cleaver was a babe compared to Roseanne!

[xsmommy]

WR you found the perfect item for hobbes!!!

[Gabz]

True.

[VRWCmember]

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.

[hobbes1]

My mirror has "No Wonder the Chicks Dig me" etched into it ; )