Events ("What?")
- potassium-argon dating
- geological dating that relies on the proportions of radioactive potassium in a rock sample and its decay product, argon
- favour
- an act of gracious kindness
- baseball play
- (baseball) a play executed by a baseball team
- penny ante
- a business deal on a trivial scale
- inspectorship
- the office of inspector
- nim
- game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them; in some versions the object is to take the last remaining matchstick on the table and in other versions the object is to avoid taking the last remaining matchstick on the table
- affairs
- transactions of professional or public interest
- oil painting
- the art or method of painting with oil paints
- might-have-been
- an event that could have occurred but never did
- lightning
- abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light
- auto limitation
- social control achieved as a manifestation of self-will or general consent
- bas mitzvah
- (Judaism) an initiation ceremony marking the 12th birthday of a Jewish girl and signifying the beginning of religious responsibility
- mintage
- act or process of minting coins
- elimination
- the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations
- racial profiling
- a form of racism consisting of the (alleged) policy of policemen who stop and search vehicles driven by persons belonging to particular racial groups
- operating procedure
- a procedure for operating something or for dealing with a given situation
- rumination
- regurgitation of small amounts of food; seen in some infants after feeding
- drip
- flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid
- skin diving
- underwater swimming without any more breathing equipment than a snorkel
- jolt
- an abrupt spasmodic movement
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