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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
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
An in-basket test or an in-basket exercise is a test used by companies or governments in hiring and promoting employees. [1] During the test, job applicants receive a number of mails, telephone calls, documents and memos. They then have a limited period of time to set priorities, organize their working schedule accordingly and respond to mail ...
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 ...
Cherry picking is uncommon but legal in organized basketball. In some amateur leagues, cherry picking—defined as a defender remaining in the opponents' backcourt after the opponents have advanced the ball to their forecourt [3] —is a violation, penalized by loss of possession and of any resulting points.
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 4 'A's Test (4AT) is a bedside medical scale used to help determine if a person has positive signs for delirium. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The 4AT also includes cognitive test items, making it suitable also for use as a rapid test for cognitive impairment.
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.