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- A milliliter is about 20 drops from an eyedropper.
- A pail holds about 8 liters.
- A sandgrouse can soak up enough water in its fluffy feathers to fill a small perfume bottle (~20 mL). It can carry the water a long way to its chicks.
- A liter is slightly larger than a quart.
phrases
- “pig in a python”
- sharp statistical increase represented as a bulge in an otherwise level pattern
- ex:- “what comes next if this sort of pig in a python continues to work its way down”
words
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- new words go in the end unless you can group them with existing ones
- position papers
- poult
- a young chicken, turkey, or other bird that is kept for food
- cornea
- spironolactone
- A medication used to treat high blood pressure and heart failure.
- blue jay
- The blue jay is a bird native to North America. It is adaptable, aggressive and omnivorous.
- Demodex
- Demodex mites are tiny eight-legged parasites that mostly live in hair follicles and oil glands on your face, neck, or chest.
- Two types of Demodex mites live on humans: Demodex folliculorum (D. folliculorum) and Demodex brevis (D. brevis).
- D. folliculorum mites are around 0.3-0.4 millimeters long, while D. brevis mites are slightly smaller at 0.15-0.2 mm.
- More details:- https://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/what-are-demodex-mites - well written; lot of information; high information density; has a picture of Demodex; worth reading end to end.
- National master in chess
- political gadfly
- bytearray in python
- Intestinal Adenoma (IA)
- https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00394-023-03110-2 - Garlic consumption in relation to colorectal cancer risk and to alterations of blood bacterial DNA
idioms
Policy:
- new items go in the end unless you can group them with existing ones
- hold court
- to receive a lot of attention from other people who stand or sit around you to listen, especially on a social occasion.
- ex:- Patrick is holding court at the end table.
- ex:- “Charlie Munger held court from his wheelchair” in https://www.ft.com/content/da9f8230-2eb1-49c5-b63a-f1507936d01b
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A ragbag is a miscellaneous collection
Ref:- https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ragbag
Similar words: job lot, olio, stuff
Ref:- https://crossword-solver.io/clue/any-collection-of-miscellaneous-things/
Similar words:
- ragbag = a confused mixture of different types of things
- kludge - something, especially computer hardware or software, that has been put together from whatever is available, especially when it does not work very well
- panoply - a wide range or collection of different things
- this and that - various things
- hotchpotch - a confused mixture of different things
- jumble - a messy and confused mixture of things, feelings, or ideas
See also:- https://www.freethesaurus.com/ragbag
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ragbag.txt · Last modified: 2024/11/08 21:17 by raju