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  2. Full-text search - Wikipedia

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    In text retrieval, full-text search refers to techniques for searching a single computer-stored document or a collection in a full-text database. Full-text search is distinguished from searches based on metadata or on parts of the original texts represented in databases (such as titles, abstracts, selected sections, or bibliographical references).

  3. List of English homographs - Wikipedia

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    Most of the pairs listed below are closely related: for example, "absent" as a noun meaning "missing", and as a verb meaning "to make oneself missing". There are also many cases in which homographs are of an entirely separate origin, or whose meanings have diverged to the point that present-day speakers have little historical understanding: for ...

  4. Prairie oyster (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Prairie oyster may refer to: Rocky Mountain oysters, bull testicles eaten as food; Prairie Oyster, a Canadian country band; Prairie oyster (cocktail), a traditional hangover cure; Prairie oyster (slang) - an assemblage of saliva and mucus, a spat out on the pavement.

  5. Category:Lists of slang - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version ... move to sidebar hide. Help. Pages in category "Lists of slang" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total ...

  6. 20 iconic slang words from Black Twitter that shaped pop culture

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    The term Black Twitter comprises a large network of Black users on the platform and their loosely coordinated interactions, many of which accumulate into trending topics due to its size ...

  7. Oysters (short story) - Wikipedia

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    "Oysters" (Russian: Устрицы, romanized: Ústritsy) is a short story by Anton Chekhov published originally in the No. 486 (16 December), 1884 issue of Budilnik magazine, subtitled "A Sketch" (Набросок) and signed A. Chekhonte (А. Чехонте).

  8. Green's Dictionary of Slang - Wikipedia

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    In 1993 Cassell commissioned Green to create a new dictionary, this time broadening the focus to include slang terms from approximately 1500 onwards, but without citations. The first edition of the single-volume Cassell's Dictionary of Slang appeared in 1998. [5] Cassell immediately commissioned a sequel with full historical quotations as in ...

  9. Australian slang terms every visitor should know - AOL

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    No wukkas. No worries, don’t worry about it, all good. She’ll be right. According to ANU, Australian English often uses the feminine pronoun “she,” whereas standard English would use “it.”