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Nibbles, various small items of finger food; Nibbler, or nibblers, a tool for cutting sheet metal with minimal distortion; Nibbles Woodaway, alternate name of the Big Blue Bug, the giant termite mascot of New England Pest Control
English Sidespin applied to the basketball by a player shooting a layup. Analogy taken from the cue sports term. Euro foul A foul committed by a defender who is between the opponent and the defending team's basket in the early phase of a fast break, with the intent of stopping play. [20] [21] Contrast with clear-path foul. Euro step
Originating in Middle English and used by Shakespeare, the term fell from use in Britain. [461] [819] See also "garbage" trashcan (UK: dustbin, rubbish bin, bin) travel trailer (UK: caravan) turn signal direction-indicator lights (UK usually indicators; US and UK also blinkers [DM]) two-bits
The term nibble originates from its representing "half a byte", with byte a homophone of the English word bite. [4] In 2014, David B. Benson, a professor emeritus at Washington State University, remembered that he playfully used (and may have possibly coined) the term nibble as "half a byte" and unit of storage required to hold a binary-coded decimal (BCD) digit around 1958, when talking to a ...
A basket is a wicker container used for transporting many things from small animals to food products. Basket or baskets may also refer to: Baskets, the two back seats facing one another on the outside of a stagecoach; Basket (finance), an economic term for a collection of securities aggregated into a single product to allow for simultaneous trading
Hextet would more properly describe a 6-bit aggregation, whereas the exact term for 16 bits should be hexadectet, directly related to the term octet (for 8 bits). However, because it is harder to pronounce, the short form hextet is used—in analogy to how hex is commonly used as an abbreviation for hexadecimal in computing.
The following is a glossary of traditional English-language terms used in the three overarching cue sports disciplines: carom billiards referring to the various carom games played on a billiard table without pockets; pool, which denotes a host of games played on a table with six pockets; and snooker, played on a large pocket table, and which has a sport culture unto itself distinct from pool.
There is a huge variety of items, many of which are well known and have a specific use, but others are the product of a special personal need or a free creation, such as toys for children or animals. Every kind of basket has a special name that describes its use. For example, a "cesto rosero" is a basket used traditionally to gather saffron ...