Boxcars
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Boxcars is the outcome of rolling the dice in a game of craps and getting a 6 on each die. The pair of 6 pips resembles a pair of box cars on a freight train. In modern parlance, it refers … Read More
Insurance for confirmation and execution of orders
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Insurance Asigurare 1. As requested, we have arranged insurance and will attach the policy to shipping documents. 2. We have noted that you are covering insurance yourselves. 1.După cum aţi solicitat am aranjat asigurarea şi vom anexa poliţa la documentele … Read More
Protection against spam
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End users can protect themselves from the brunt of spam’s impact in numerous ways. Preventing Address Harvesting Preventing spammers from obtaining your email address doesn’t really solve the spam problem, any more than avoiding all but lowest crime areas of … Read More
Chinese poker
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Chinese poker is a card game that has been played in the Asian community for many years. It has begun to gain popularity in the broader world of game players because it has all the features of a good gambling … Read More
Ajax history
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The first use of the term in public was by Jesse James Garrett in February 2005.[1] Garrett thought of the term when he realized the need for a shorthand term to represent the suite of technologies he was proposing to … Read More
Poetry translation
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Douglas Hofstadter Poetry presents special challenges to translators, given the importance of a text’s formal aspects, in addition to its content. In his influential 1959 paper “On Linguistic Aspects of Translation”, the Russian-born linguist and semiotician Roman Jakobson went so … Read More
Reciprocal links
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A reciprocal link is a mutual link between two objects, commonly between two websites in order to ensure mutual traffic. Example: Alice and Bob have websites. If Bob’s website links to Alice’s website, and Alice’s website links to Bos’s website, … Read More
Cordless telephones & Wireless phone systems
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Cisco 7920 Wireless IP Phone Cordless telephones Cordless telephones consist of a base unit that connects to the land-line system and also communicates with remote handsets by low power radio. This permits use of the handset from any location within … Read More
Without reference to previous correspondence
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Without reference to previous correspondence Când nu se face referire la corespondenţa anterioară 1. We are pleased to inform you that … 2. We owe your address to … 3. We should be grateful (obliged) if you would let us … Read More
Sportsbook
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Sportsbook at Wynn Las Vegas, during Super Bowl XLII, February 2008 A sportsbook (sometimes abbreviated as book) or a race and sports book is a place where a gambler can wager on various sports competitions, including football, basketball, baseball, hockey, … Read More
Ad filtering
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Ad filtering or ad blocking is a service which removes or alters advertising content in a webpage. This content can be represented in a variety of ways including pictures, animations, text, or pop-up windows. More advanced filters allow fine-grained control … Read More
Poker jargon – W
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wash To mix the deck by spreading the cards face down on the table and mixing them up. A dealer may wash the deck before shuffling. weak ace An ace with a low kicker (e.g. four). Also “small ace,” “soft … Read More