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Word For The Day, Tuesday, August 12, 2003
The Verbivores
| 8/12/03
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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: Laura Earl
I wrote them but your acronym escapes my empty head.
381
posted on
08/12/2003 10:27:08 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(If they make a John Kerry bobble head doll, they will need to make the head smaller.)
To: honeygrl
XSMOMMY ruined the picture with the thread earlier.
382
posted on
08/12/2003 10:28:08 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(If they make a John Kerry bobble head doll, they will need to make the head smaller.)
To: Flurry
Great Minds Think Alike
383
posted on
08/12/2003 10:29:15 AM PDT
by
Laura Earl
(Never wear panties to a party!)
To: Texan5
Thanks T5 I try real hard. Need a good carpenter?
384
posted on
08/12/2003 10:29:49 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
DOH!
385
posted on
08/12/2003 10:30:10 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
Here you have the infamous "BIF" effect...
To: Flurry
387
posted on
08/12/2003 10:31:15 AM PDT
by
Gabz
(anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
To: Hegewisch Dupa; honeygrl
Tell me this dude's fat butt is all padding!
388
posted on
08/12/2003 10:33:03 AM PDT
by
Laura Earl
(Never wear panties to a party!)
To: Gabz
Bloomer is a fool.
389
posted on
08/12/2003 10:36:23 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(If they make a John Kerry bobble head doll, they will need to make the head smaller.)
To: Flurry
that's putting it mildly.
390
posted on
08/12/2003 10:36:58 AM PDT
by
Gabz
(anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
To: Flurry
On my way...see you shortly.
391
posted on
08/12/2003 10:37:55 AM PDT
by
Laura Earl
(Never wear panties to a party!)
To: Laura Earl
Looks like his but is in front just above his waist.
392
posted on
08/12/2003 10:37:58 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(If they make a John Kerry bobble head doll, they will need to make the head smaller.)
To: Flurry
Hence the "BIF" term...
To: Gabz
And a Gnatzie.
394
posted on
08/12/2003 10:38:27 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(If they make a John Kerry bobble head doll, they will need to make the head smaller.)
To: Flurry
That just doesn't look fit to me. However, I would most definitely get out of his way!
395
posted on
08/12/2003 10:38:43 AM PDT
by
Laura Earl
(Never wear panties to a party!)
To: Hegewisch Dupa
Does BIF = Butt In Front ? LSHPIP
396
posted on
08/12/2003 10:39:24 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
He might belly you to death.
397
posted on
08/12/2003 10:40:02 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(If they make a John Kerry bobble head doll, they will need to make the head smaller.)
To: Flurry
Yeppers on BIF. But the other acronym is new to me...LSHPIP?
To: Hegewisch Dupa
Laughed So Hard, Peed In Pants, Flurryism
399
posted on
08/12/2003 10:41:56 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
I can't tell since I can't see his butt! All I see is belly fat.
400
posted on
08/12/2003 10:46:09 AM PDT
by
honeygrl
(I reserve the right to take any statement and copy it out of context.)
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