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  2. List of email subject abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Used with a time indicator to inform the recipient that the sender needs a task to be completed within a certain deadline, e.g. AB+2 meaning Action By 2 days. AR, meaning Action Required. The recipient is informed that they are being given a task. CFI, meaning Copied For Information; COB, meaning Close Of Business (end of work day). Implying ...

  3. Chip on board - Wikipedia

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    Chip on board (COB) is a method of circuit board manufacturing in which integrated circuits (e.g. microprocessors) are attached (wired, bonded directly) to a printed circuit board, and covered by a blob of epoxy. [1]

  4. Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States

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    a cheap or poor (repair) job, can range from inelegant but effective to outright failure. e.g. "You properly bodged that up" ("you really made a mess of that"). (US: kludge, botch or cob, shortened form of cobble) See Bodger. boffin an expert, such as a scientist or engineer bog roll (roll of) toilet ("bog") paper (slang). bog-standard *

  5. Chief of the boat - Wikipedia

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    Nominees are interviewed by other COBs. A COB also requires graduation from Senior Enlisted Academy. When a new enlisted sailor joins a boat's crew, the COB is usually one of the first people the new sailor will meet. Although the role of COB is outside the direct chain of command, the COB has tremendous [quantify] responsibility. [example needed]

  6. Cobbing - Wikipedia

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    Especially ambiguous since the proper way to do some of the cobbing involved in Cob Construction is, in fact, by use of the feet; A form of spanking using a type of paddle (spanking) known as cob or in full cobbing-board, typically used as a disciplinary measure, often by comrades, in the military, or among sailors

  7. List of retronyms - Wikipedia

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    Corn on the cob Before canned corn was widely available, "corn on the cob" was simply "corn". Bic Cristal Before the 2000s, the Bic Cristal was named "Bic Classic" pen. Prior to the 1990s, "Bic Classic" was referred to simply as the "Bic pen". CSI: Las Vegas Not used before the debut of the spinoff series CSI: Miami in 2002, and CSI: NY in 2004.

  8. Sentence clause structure - Wikipedia

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    A sentence consisting of at least one dependent clause and at least two independent clauses may be called a complex-compound sentence or compound-complex sentence. Sentence 1 is an example of a simple sentence. Sentence 2 is compound because "so" is considered a coordinating conjunction in English, and sentence 3 is complex.

  9. Cob (material) - Wikipedia

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    "Cob stitch" repair on old traditional cob cottage in Devon, England Maison de Jeanne, Sévérac-le-Château. Timber and cob construction. Cob is an English term attested to around the year 1600 [3] for an ancient building material that has been used for building since prehistoric times. The use of this material in Iran is more than 4000 years old.