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In the News (Tue 22 Dec 09)

  
  Lesson Plan: A is for Aardvark
Aardvark is sure to get a giggle out of your students, especially if they're fans of the Arthur series by Marc Brown.
Choose a new word you've just learned -- from a book you have been reading, from something you saw in your classroom, or from a piece of writing you've done.
Find one word in your class dictionary for each letter your teammates gave you.
www.microsoft.com /education/Aardvark.aspx   (1222 words)

  
  MSN Encarta - Search View - Aardvark   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
The aardvark is found throughout much of Africa, from the southern part of Egypt to the Cape of Good Hope, in habitats ranging from woodland, bush country, and savanna, to rain forest.
A primarily nocturnal animal, the aardvark lives in burrows and feeds on ants and termites, occasionally eating other insects, the fat mouse, and a species of wild ground cucumber.
The aardvark is up to 2.3 m (7.5 ft) long, including the fleshy, tapering tail, which it uses to throw earth backward when it burrows.
encarta.msn.com /text_761571892__1/Aardvark.html   (347 words)

  
 Aardvark : Tubulidentata
The Aardvark (Orycteropus afer) is a medium-sized mammal native to Africa.
The Aardvark was originally placed in the same genus as the South American anteaters[?] because of superficial similarities which, it is now known, are the result of convergent evolution, not common ancestry.
Aardvarks are only vaguely pig-like; the body is stout with an arched back; the limbs are of moderate length and armed with strong, blunt, shovel-like nails, somewhere between a claw and a hoof in shape.
www.fastload.org /tu/Tubulidentata.html   (1003 words)

  
 African Wildlife Foundation: Wildlives
Aardvarks are found in all regions, from dry savanna to rain forest, where there are sufficient termites for food, access to water and sandy or clay soil.
Aardvarks are nocturnal, usually waiting until dark before they emerge from their burrows, although after a cold night, they may occasionally sun themselves.
Aardvarks, with their keen sense of smell, also hunt for the long columns of termites that move outside the mounds at night.
www.awf.org /wildlives/60   (729 words)

  
 Aardvark (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The aardvark is a medium-sized mammal native to Africa.
See aardvark (word) for information specifically on the comedic use of the word and its unique placement in dictionaries.
"Aarfy" Aardvark, a character in Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aardvark_(disambiguation)   (128 words)

  
 Aardvark (word) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The word aardvark is famous as first word in many dictionaries and encyclopedias.
The word aardvark is frequently used in comedy, being considered an inherently funny word.
In one episode of the British TV series Blackadder the Third, featuring the first appearance of Doctor Johnson's Dictionary, Edmund Blackadder notices that the word aardvark is missing from the manuscript.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aardvark_(word)   (186 words)

  
 Garry Simmons: Aardvark 20/20   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
Aardvark made a name for themselves in the pro audio world with their high-end master clocks.
Aardvark has leveraged their expertise in low jitter clocks and joined the fray in the PC multi-channel soundcard market.
Aardvark could have taken the low road and simply hard-wired the inputs and outputs to the drivers and called it a day.
www.prorec.com /prorec/articles.nsf/articles/4500DA28AFAA398A862566B2001F8895   (4490 words)

  
 CLGA - Sydney's Premier LANning Group - Buzzword of the year: chav   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
Demob was the word in 1920, racism in 1935, big brother in 1949, beatnik in 1958, miniskirt in 1965, toyboy in 1981, having it large in 1993, and sexing up in 2003.
However, retrosexual along with other such words of the moment as freeganism (a philosophy which promotes getting as much of one's food as possible from free sources) and movieoke (a film variation of karaoke) has yet to claim its place in the Oxford English Dictionary.
The word chav is thought to have come from the mid-19th century Romany word chavi, meaning child.
www.clga.net /forums/showthread.php?t=151   (823 words)

  
 About the Hedgehog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
According to the OED, this word is formed by compounding 'hedge' with 'hog', and is due to "its frequenting hedges and from its pig-like snout".
The word was formed by compounding 'aard' (cognate w/ 'earth') and 'vark' (cognate with 'pork').
Although aardvarks and hedgehogs are not closely related animals, they do have a similar type of snout, and both are insectivores.
www.ling.rochester.edu /people/cross/hedgehog.html   (216 words)

  
 A little Aardvark never hurt anyone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
My wife was hurt because the situation had twisted and now everything was "her fault" (her words, not mine), and my daughter was hurt because a) we didn't allow her to do what she wanted without question and b) her surprise had been ruined.
Aardvark because she's always up at the schools volunteering (your mom is so cool!).
Weasel words are when you phrase what you're saying so that the way it sounds is the opposite from the way you mean it.
alittleaardvark.blogspot.com /2003_10_01_alittleaardvark_archive.html   (11724 words)

  
 Aardvark Computer Products Company Information | Pro Audio Toys   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
Aardvark has over a decade's worth of experience in designing innovative and superior quality digital audio products for professional recording studios, video and post production facilities.
Aardvark offers a full line of synchronization products which include the AardSync II master clock generator, the TimeSync II, for locking analog tape decks to digital audio workstations, the Sync DA, a word clock distribution amplifier and the Aard DDA, an AES/EBU distribution amp.
Aardvark's Aark 24 is a 10x10 I/O computer audio interface which has a variety of features designed for total integration into the professional digital audio production.
www.proaudiotoys.com /default.aspx?p=82387   (469 words)

  
 aardvark - Wiktionary
Early European colonists in South Africa noticed that the animal was similar to a pig, while "aarde" hints at the animal's habit of burrowing.
The word was loaned from Afrikaans in the late 18th century.
This word is obsolete; the extant form is erdvark.
en.wiktionary.org /wiki/Aardvark   (196 words)

  
 OEDILF - Word Search
The word aardvark is Dutch for "earth pig."
That beast that is known as the aardvark.
The aardvark is a nocturnal mammal from Africa that eats ants and termites, and has a long snout.
www.oedilf.com /db/Lim.php?Word=aardvark   (283 words)

  
 Science and Technology News and Commentary: Aardvark Daily
If you went through the school system at the same time I did (1960s-1970s) you'll have been taught a bit of Newtonian physics and even a smidgen of Einstein's theory of general relativity.
Apart from the kind support of the sponsor, Aardvark Daily is largely a labour of love that involves many hours of hard work each month.
I remember writing an Aardvark column almost 10 years ago in which I discussed the problems associated with streaming media and wondered whether the Net could hold up under the strain...
aardvark.co.nz   (1185 words)

  
 Aardvark's Linking Policy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
Please contact Aardvark to advise me that you are linking to these pages.
It is requested that you place the word 'Aardvark' in bold text after the link so that the source of the story is obvious - see Aardvark Daily's main page for examples of how I do this when links are made to stories on other sites.
All issues of Aardvark are archived for at least six months (usually in perpetuity) and the URL is in the form:
www.aardvark.co.nz /linking.htm   (492 words)

  
 Aardvark - Media Downloads   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
Aardvark Associates will not accept liability for damages or loss, consequential or otherwise, caused as a result of any errors of fact, statement of opinion or omissions, whether attributable to Aardvark or the original source material provider.
All links off this site are provided as a service to visitors; Aardvark accepts no liability nor provides any guarantee, rating or endorsement as to the quality or otherwise of their content, their propensity to offend, or their conformity with UK or EU law.
Other enterprises trading under the name of, or including, the word 'aardvark' or 'associates', and with which we have no commercial or other links.....
www.go-west.co.uk /downloads.htm   (933 words)

  
 [No title]
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L actus] : a protein of muscle that is active in muscular contraction Word: actin- actin- or actini- or actino- cf prefix [NL, ray, fr.
A Word: adherend ad.her.end \-'hi(*)r-.end,.ad-.hi(*)r-'\ n [adhere + -end (as in addend)] : the surface to which an adhesive adheres; also : one of the bodi es held to another by an adhesive Word: adherent Cross references: 1.
www.cs.chalmers.se /~hallgren/wget/web.raw   (7572 words)

  
 Website Properties- Serif Forum
The more words you use in a phrase, the less likely it is that anyone will look/search for that exact phrase.
I kept repeating the word senior because that's the most crucial word and the one I think most seniors would use (although in the plural).
No matter what key words or phrases you use, it is very unlikely that your site will be listed in the first three or four pages of results.
www.serif.com /forum/ViewThread.asp?Thread=14888&Numb=2   (1374 words)

  
 Devon web design Aardvark PC Assist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
Aardvark PC Assist started out in 1997 providing a 24 hour, 7 days a week on-site emergency PC support service within West Dorset, (UK), from Dorchester and Weymouth in the East, out to Bridport, Lyme Regis and even Axminister across the County border to the West.
Aardvark PC Assist is an independent entity and not associated in any way or form with other limited companies, sole traders or partnerships using the word 'Aardvark' as part of their company name.
Aardvark PC Assist will not accept liability for damages or loss, consequential or otherwise, caused as a result of any errors of fact, statement of opinion or omissions, whether attributable to Aardvark or the original source material provider.
www.go-west.co.uk /aardv   (568 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
It is estimated that the time spent inventing acronyms in the CPM alone, may well exceed two scott-person-hours a week.
At AARDVARK we have pioneered the use of acronym space specifications (ASS) as an underlying represention.
This is encoded as tha acronym associated with the corresponding set of possible grammar trees plus a dictionary of suitable word substitutions.
bruce.edmonds.name /aardvark.html   (376 words)

  
 Indiana Spell Bowl 2005 word and sentence list
There is no sentence for the word aardvark.
There is no sentence for the word accumulate.
There is no sentence for the word lily of the valley.
epics.ecn.purdue.edu /kes/spellbowl/public-web/sentences/sentences.html   (4542 words)

  
 Project Aardvark
The experience was a bit exhausting; I went from knowing no C# and only a limited amount of.NET at midmorning on Tuesday to basically hitting feature-complete on the component called the reflector at 1:00 PM Eastern.
As you have all probably inferred from Joel’s photo of all the books we have to read, Aardvark will largely be implemented in C#.
The Aardvark spec, in contrast, is exceedingly detailed, and makes crystal-clear how each discrete component should interact with the others.
www.projectaardvark.com /posts/pollack/may/26.html   (637 words)

  
 WAYNE'S WORD Hippo Staff   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
It is also not to be confused with the aardvark, a strange African burrowing mammal and the first word in the English dictionary.
One of the stool custodians at WAYNE'S WORD.
One of the mailroom assistants at WAYNE'S WORD.
waynesword.palomar.edu /wwstaff1.htm   (1070 words)

  
 Why an aardvark?
He was a sponsor of the high school theatre troupe, and some of the students "caught the bug," so to speak.
The end-of-year drama awards were named the "Aardys," the troupe adopted Bernaard, one of the aardvarks at the Brookfield Zoo, and took up an annual collection to help pay for his supply of ants.
I spent a few days trying to come up with a creative spelling of "aardvark" that wouldn't necessarily be an immediate giveaway, and, as I remember it, ended up leaving a message from "Mr.
users.rcn.com /aardy/why.html   (762 words)

  
 Phrasebase Personal Dictionary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
The idea I have for this game, is that each person gives a personalized definition to a word of the previous persons choosing.
Some are worded to mimic a dictionary, but the meanings are mostly make-believe.
aardvark- This is a word which I know more from its place as the first word in the dictionary, than I do about the animal whom the word represents.
www.phrasebase.com /forum/read.php?TID=4074&page=1   (886 words)

  
 Arthur . Games . Aardvark by Matt | PBS Kids
Arthur is an aardvark That's the first word in the dictionary.
Arthur is an aardvark I drew him once while playing pictionary.
Arthur is an aardvark He has glasses on his nose.
pbskids.org /arthur/games/poetry/poems/869403.html   (85 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
The Aardvark's Burrow Docs for the Bard's Tale III code wheel chart creator (what a name).
The number you get from that subtration process is the value of your new word for the middle wheel.
Your two new words are what you will be looking up on the chart.
www.textfiles.com /apple/DOCUMENTATION/bards.3.code.wh   (771 words)

  
 : Aardvark Unveils Aark 24   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
Aardvark unveiled their new Aark 24 multichannel interface at the Audio Engineering Society Convention in New York City, September 24-27.
Built upon a decade's worth of experience in engineering high-end digital audio solutions as well as a strong reputation among PC audio enthusiasts, the Aark 24 is a solid looking interface with phenomenal sound quality.
Aardvark's legendary synchronization technology is prominently implemented in the MIDI I/O and the Word Clock I/O respectively.
www.prorec.com /prorec/pressrel.nsf/41ce47c8af04077a862565ee00564aa7/564e3700c31a8c478625681300216634?OpenDocument   (358 words)

  
 Definitions
The extracted text may not be changed but words and phrases in the extracted text can serve as links which are resolved in the document containing the external link.
Now when you double click on the word "mammal" in the definition of "aardvark" you will be able to jump to the definition of "mammal".
A link is either a single word or a string of characters delimited by "<" and ">" (An option exists to delimit links with changes in text style.) A link consists of three parts.
www.webcom.com /thinker/MiniManual/Minimanual-3.html   (2653 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Dubious Doublets: A Delightful Compendium of Unlikely Word Pairs of Common Origin, from Aardvark/Porcelain ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
You’ll discover, for example, why the words flamenco and flamingo are both related to the complexions of the Dutch, how the biblical son of Isaac is related to a French garment and a Halloween decoration, and what going berserk has to do with playing hopscotch.
For word buffs, vocabulary builders, and anyone else interested in the tangled history of the English language.
The book is filled with discussions of such "dubious doublets"-- which provides the book's title-- from "aardvark" and "procelain" to "canary" and "cynic" to "salacious" and "salmon" to "dentist" and "dandelion," and many, many more.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0471227641?v=glance   (1072 words)

  
 aardvark - OneLook Dictionary Search
Aardvark : Encarta® Online Encyclopedia, North American Edition [home, info]
Phrases that include aardvark: aardvark pumpkin, aardvark vanaheim, cerebus the aardvark, groovy aardvark, the ant and the aardvark
Words similar to aardvark: anteater, ant bear, orycteropus afer, more...
www.onelook.com /?w=aardvark&ls=a   (231 words)

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