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Clearly this word is not in grand use yet, but just placing it here in case it gains greater usage.. 67.41.139.149 19:15, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
Seems like a rare error for asymptotically. Equinox 15:36, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
  • as far as someone is concerned / as far as I'm concerned - these speech acts should be included IMO, they appear idiomatic and have a certain connotation that differs from "in my opinion" ---> Tooironic 00:01, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
  • Athenæum
  • attempted murder: NISOP except specific legal meaning, but we are not a law book
    If it were SoP there would never be any court cases for it. :P Its definition is not just murder which is attempted. There should be an entry for it. ---> Tooironic 02:43, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
    But there are loads of legal things that court cases can be brought in relation to ("attempted solicitation of a minor"?) and they aren't literally any case of doing what the phrase says, but still would be silly to have them here as we would have to explain all nuances of all laws. Equinox 16:29, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
    I know what you mean, but "attempted murder" is one of the most common crimes that people are convicted for in English-speaking countries. We don't have to provide every nuance, just a basic definition that most judges agree on and use in cited texts ---> Tooironic 00:01, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
I'm not a lawyer, so I don't understand why "attempted murder" is not an attempt at murder. Dbfirs 08:24, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
I would imagine because you can attempt to murder someone without being found guilty of attempted murder. ---> Tooironic 08:49, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
You can also be found guilty of a crime without having committed it. This is called injustice. Dbfirs 00:32, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

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I'm not sure it is helpful to try and define this term in a dictionary setting. I am sure what amounts to attempted murder differs from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. I agree with Dbfirs. — Cheers, JackLee talk 12:38, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Wouldn't it be possible to define a legal term without going into jurisdictional specifics? CMBJ 21:25, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
Yes, theoretically, but what I meant when I said I agreed with Dbfirs was that I don't think attempted murder is anything very different from an attempt to commit murder. — Cheers, JackLee talk 17:25, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

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I wonder if it comes from حَبيبيw:Habibi? The ending would be wrong for a women in Arabic, but it might have lost that distinction in the transition to Urdu. Chuck Entz 07:25, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
is this really an English word independent of crème? The only places I see it alone online are references to crème brûlée with some other word substituted for "crème" as a play on words.Chuck Entz 07:45, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

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"Concertive control and assimilation are two important notions of the sociotechnical systems that conceptualize the central concepts of the self-directed work team. First, Tompkins and Cheney (1985) described concertive control as a form of organizational control that arises in accordance with the dominant ideologies in the organization. In concertive working environment, team members have discretion over such decisions as methods of work, task schedules, and assignment of members to different tasks (Cummings, 1978)." (Petty et al. 2008, p. 51)
According to Randy Hodson, who reviewed James Barker's book "The Discipline of Teamwork: Participation and Concertive Control" for The American Journal of Sociology (Vol. 105, No. 6, pp.1770-1772), he states, and I quote, "Barker coins the term "concertive control" to describe the self-disciplining nature of teams. The term denotes workers acting in concert with each other to control their own behavior. Concertive control is the successor to previous forms of control based on direct supervision, technology, or bureaucracy. Barker argues that this new form of control is the tightest and most effective yet."
Based on the writing by Hodson, one could assume that Barker coined this term, but Barker's book was published only in 1999, while my first quotation indicates that Tompkins and Cheney (1985) and Cummings (1978) have spoken about these terms prior. So etymology will also need to be clarified. Eug.galeotti 16:47, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

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fabulacy series

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  • kakotopia - related to dystopia.
  • kegler - a bowler, apparently. -- Ken g6 05:21, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
  • kidlish - The language used by children to interpret the world around them based on their amount of background knowledge for a particular topic -- User: adamsct Only one match on Google Groups; none in Books; I doubt it meets WT:CFI. Equinox 11:27, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
  • know one's way around - implies familiarity with something, compare with know one's stuff
  • kench - To laugh uproariously.
  • knee baby - The term knee baby, is an idiom that refers to the penultimate child in a family with typically four or more children, although it is sometimes used in families of only three children. The term alludes to the child that was at the mother's knee when the youngest child (or baby) was in the mother's lap or arms. Its origins are ambiguous, but the term is commonly used in the American South and is used most prevalently in North Carolina and the surrounding states. (Previously on wikipedia, deleted in June 2011, so now at least one reference points to a dead link: http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=1766288)
  • knevel reputedly an old Saxon or Early English word meaning moustache. Can this be verified?
  • klesha a Buddhist term meaning "affliction" w:Kleshas (Buddhism)

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Wikipedia says: "Schizophora is a section of true flies containing 78 families, which are collectively referred to as muscoids, even though - technically - the term "muscoid" should be limited to flies in the superfamily Muscoidea; this is an example of informal, historical usage persisting in the vernacular". Pingku 02:41, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

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Not Macbeth- Hamlet: w:The lady doth protest too much, methinks

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  • I don't think this conforms to a policy (I forgot which one, it's on the tip of my tounge!) An editor since 8.28.2011. 06:54, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

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  • s/t or S/T - self titled
  • Sada (from the Avesta Vendidad)
  • same shit, different day - see also SSDD ---> Tooironic 22:10, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
  • sand painting
  • sandpainting
  • sapphire file
  • schooligan (noun; blend of "school" and "hooligan") a person of school age who engages in public disorder (in new edition of Collins Dictionary) — Paul G 08:55, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
  • schpeel: form of spiel with sch-? (Looks like either a misspelling or a respelling based on the pronunciation in the absence of knowledge of the actual spelling or German spelling rules. — Paul G 08:55, 30 October 2010 (UTC))[16] offers a definition as Jewish slang.
  • scoto- or skoto- Pertaining to darkness, antonymic of photo-. Like scotic derived from skotos. Appear in words like scotoperiod/skotoperiod or skotomorphogenesis.
  • sea louse
  • secessionism
  • sedeprivationism
  • seedset
  • seed spitter - slang for penis, according to Partridge ---> Tooironic 14:16, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
  • see here! look here! listen here! (angrily, to get attention) Do they deserve entries? Equinox 18:48, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
  • see-safe - apparently an agreement to seel goods on sale or return ---> Tooironic 03:44, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
  • self-affine
  • self-affinity
  • self-obsession -- Contributions/79.217.197.107 04:57, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
  • set to rights - to put in good order; to adjust
  • short-six Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, Chapter Two: "In the meantime Mr. Pecksniff, having received from a sharp angle in the bottom step but one, that sort of knock on the head which lights up, for the patient's entertainment, an imaginary general illumination of very bright short-sixes, lay placidly staring at his own street door." Apparently refers to a particular size of candle - three paragraphs later: "... Mr. Pecksniff, being in the act of extinguishing the candles before mentioned pretty rapidly ..." Also, Short Sixes: Stories to Be Read While the Candle Burns, by H. C. Bunne Church candles seem to be available in size 6s (short six?) or medium 6, but I have no idea what sizes these might be. —This comment was unsigned. Probably inches. Equinox 18:18, 6 March 2010 (UTC) On further research, it appears that the standard 'short six' is 7/8 inches in diameter by 8 inches in length. Smaller numbers are larger sizes. Ray 01:16, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
I don't know the candle size, but a short-six was a type of cigar in the USA in the 1800s, possibly deriving from the candle size? Dbfirs 01:49, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

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We already have triune Chuck Entz 06:38, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

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Huh? Common modern replacement? Looks just like a typo to me... 86.181.170.34 04:07, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

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