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Old September 6th, 2019, 05:13 PM
Dave Cunningham
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Default Re: [Dixonary] Round 3012 voting time: ASYNDETON

3 and 7 because it has to be Greek in some way so I can rule out the "wooly
mammoth" which was quite rare in ancient Greece.


Dave


On Friday, September 6, 2019 at 9:20:31 AM UTC-4, Efrem wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
> We have gone from a paucity of definitions in the progress report to, if
> not a plethora, at least an adequacy. Fifteen definitions of *ASYNDETON*
> follow. One is correct; fourteen are from your collective imaginations.
> They have been edited (very slightly) for format consistency and are in
> ascending order of character count, which might not correspond to visual
> length in your email display font.
>
> Please vote for two that you like for any reason by public Reply to this
> message before the deadline that follows the list. If you realize now that
> you know what *ASYNDETON* means, please tell me by private email to
> emallach <at> verizon <dot> net.
>
> 1. [Gk.] the woolly mammoth.
>
> 2. a randomly-timed bomb explosion.
>
> 3. a short literary essay or sketch.
>
> 4. a harsh penalty for a minor crime.
>
> 5. private consideration of a case by a judge.
>
> 6. one who keeps to themselves; a rebel; a loner.
>
> 7. an object that is obviously or starkly out of place.
>
> 8. omission of conjunctions between parts of a sentence.
>
> 9. of a plant with radiate leaves or branches; umbrella-like.
>
> 10. [rare] anything which is not of uniform character or weight.
>
> 11. in Asian music, a note not conforming to the time signature or metre
> of the piece.
>
> 12. having coloration that stands out against the creature’s habitat, usu.
> for the purpose of attracting a mate or fending off rivals.
>
> 13. the rapid growth of the complexity of a problem due to how the
> combinatorics of the problem is affected by the input, constraints, and
> bounds of the problem.
>
> 14. land subject to the Charter of the Forest (1217), which reformed
> forest law and established the rights of agistment and pannage on private
> land within the forests.
>
> 15. a morpheme in morphology and syntax that has syntactic characteristics
> of a word, but depends phonologically on another word or phrase. In this
> sense, it is syntactically independent but phonologically dependent, always
> attached to a host.
>
> Votes are due 47+ hours from now: Sunday, Sept. 8, at 9 am US EDT.
> According to timeanddate.com, that is:
>
>
> and other times in other places. Please check any time conversion that
> applies to you. That site is good, but nobody's perfect.
>
> New players are welcome to vote. Submitting a definition is not a
> requirement for voting; the only requirement is that you not know what this
> word means. Full rules at
> http://www.dixonary.net/game-rules-and-advice/rules .
>
> Vote on!
>
> Efrem
>


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