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  2. Violation - Wikipedia

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    Violation or violations may refer to: Violation (basketball), the most minor class of an illegal action in basketball; Violation, a 1977 album by American hard rock band Starz; Violation, a 2020 Canadian horror film; Violations (Star Trek: The Next Generation), an episode of the science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation

  3. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    Principal is an adjective meaning "main" (though it can also be a noun meaning the head of a college or similar institution). Principle is a noun meaning a fundamental belief or rule of action. Standard: The principal achievement of the nineteenth century is the rise of industry. Standard: He got sent to the principal's office for talking ...

  4. Zeugma and syllepsis - Wikipedia

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    When the meaning of a verb varies for the nouns following it, there is a standard order for the nouns: the noun first takes the most prototypical or literal meaning of the verb and is followed by the noun or nouns taking the less prototypical or more figurative verb meanings. [16]

  5. Sacrilege - Wikipedia

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    Sacrilege is the violation or injurious treatment of a sacred object, site or person. This can take the form of irreverence to sacred persons, places, and things. When the sacrilegious offence is verbal, it is called blasphemy, and when physical, it is often called desecration. In a more general sense, any transgression against what is seen as ...

  6. Fictionary - Wikipedia

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    Fictionary, also known as the Dictionary Game [1] or simply Dictionary, [2] is a word game in which players guess the definition of an obscure word. Each round consists of one player selecting and announcing a word from the dictionary , and other players composing a fake definition for it.

  7. Google Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Google Dictionary is an online dictionary service of Google that can be accessed with the "define" operator and other similar phrases [note 1] in Google Search. [2] It is also available in Google Translate and as a Google Chrome extension. The dictionary content is licensed from Oxford University Press's Oxford Languages. [3]

  8. Willful violation - Wikipedia

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    Willful violation is defined as an "act done voluntarily with either an intentional disregard of, or plain indifference to," the requirements of Acts, regulations, statutes or relevant workplace policies.

  9. Wikipedia:Glossary - Wikipedia

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    The verb "snowballing" is sometimes used for this action. Later showball keep came into the usage in AfD pages, by an analogy. snow close A verb meaning to close a discussion, per the snowball clause. Can be used as a noun ("The Willy on Wheels RfA was an instant SNOWCLOSE") or a verb ("The Main Page AfD nomination was SNOWCLOSEd after two ...