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  2. Aptronym - Wikipedia

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    An aptronym, aptonym, or euonym is a personal name aptly or peculiarly suited to its owner (e.g. their occupation). [1]Gene Weingarten of The Washington Post coined the word inaptonym as an antonym for "aptonym".

  3. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    [50] [citation needed] (regional) turf strip between sidewalk and street [citation needed] (many regional synonyms exist; there is no standard name). parkway a railway station with parking areas intended for commuters generally, an open landscaped limited-access highway (q.v.) (see article) regional term for parking (q.v.) pass out

  4. Fitting In - Wikipedia

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    Fitting In is a 2023 Canadian coming-of-age comedy drama film written and directed by Molly McGlynn. It stars Maddie Ziegler, D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Djouliet Amara, and Emily Hampshire. The film was titled Bloody Hell in its first showing at SXSW. [3] [4] Several additional film festival showings were presented in 2023. [5]

  5. Glossary of early twentieth century slang in the United States

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    1. Often a cake eater was the opposite of a flapper e.g.The individual is dressed in tight-fitting attire, including a belted coat with pointed lapels, one-button pants, a low snug collar, and a greenish-pink shirt with a jazzbo tie; see flaming youth [18] 2. Spoiled rich person; Playboy [80] 3. Lady's man [81] 4.

  6. Overfitting - Wikipedia

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    A straight line can never fit a parabola. This model is too simple. In mathematical modeling, overfitting is "the production of an analysis that corresponds too closely or exactly to a particular set of data, and may therefore fail to fit to additional data or predict future observations reliably". [1]

  7. Boss (engineering) - Wikipedia

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    Two bosses in the form of cylinders on a mechanical part. The cylinder to the right is filleted near its base.. In engineering, a boss is a protruding feature on a workpiece. [1]

  8. Gender of connectors and fasteners - Wikipedia

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    A short pipe fitting having an FIP thread at both ends is sometimes called a coupling. Hermaphroditic connections, which may include both male and female elements in a single unit, are used for some specialized tubing fittings, such as Storz fire hose connectors. A picture of such fittings appears in § Genderless (hermaphroditic), below ...

  9. Nipple (plumbing) - Wikipedia

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    A chase nipple is a short pipe fitting, which creates a path for wires between two electrical boxes. A chase nipple has male threads on one end only. The other end is a hexagon. The chase nipple passes through the knockouts of two boxes, and is secured by an internally threaded ring called a lock nut. [1] [2]