[Dixonary] Round 3222 INTERBASTION Defs - Vote Now!

The deadline extension only produced one further def, so here we have 12
defs of the word INTERBASTATION, only one of which comes from my
dictionary. Please vote for your two favourites by public reply to this
message before the deadline, which is:

21:00 UTC/GMT on Monday 10th January in London
22:00 CET in France and the Netherlands
4:00 PM EDT in New York
1:00 PM PDT in California
10:00 NZST on Thursady 25th in New Zealand

New players are welcome - just don't look up the word until after you've
voted.

-- Tim L

*** INTERBASTATION ***

1. complex interrelationship.

2. [Obsolete] quilting; making patchwork quilts.

3. Insulating material injected or blown into hollow spaces.

4. a technique for sewing a seam so that it is hidden from view.

5. imperative or peremptory questioning; a point raised in a debate.

6. the mixing of venous and arterial blood that can occur with some heart
defects.

7. [Mechanics} The variation of the inclination of the axis of a
gyroscope to the vertical.

8. A bucket chain [< post-classical Latin *_*bastare*_ to carry < ancient
Greek *βαστάζειν* to carry]

9. [Zool.] The genetic process through which a trait can be inherited
only from a parent of one sex.

10. Redirection of an infrastructure supply source in a circular loop
system, esp. in water or electricity infrastructure.

11. The action by some frog species which carry their tadpoles on their
backs to water after the young emerge from their gelatinous egg clutch.

12. A technique of constructing city walls to be able to withstand cannon
fire from multiple directions, employed in Europe during the 17th and 18th
centuries.










--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Dixonary" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dixonary+unsubscribe (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/di...oglegroups.com.