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

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    when appended with a number signifies a specific platform in a station (US: track) a raised elongated structure along the side of a track in a railway station; a raised level surface; a raised level surface from which a speaker addresses an audience plimsoll, plimsol, plimsole. noun: a rubber-soled cloth shoe; a sneaker.

  3. Doormat - Wikipedia

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    Doormat may refer to: . Mat, a piece of fabric material that is placed on a floor or other flat surface "Doormat", song by No Doubt on their 1992 album No Doubt "Doormat", song by Spazz on their 1994 album Dwarf Jester Rising

  4. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...

  5. Mat - Wikipedia

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    A place mat or serving mat is a flat piece of fabric or other type of material used on a table at the points at which dishes and plates will be located during a meal. One of the common purposes of such mats is to provide a thermal and physical barrier between that which is placed on the table, and the table itself—for instance, to stop hot ...

  6. Glossary of North American railway terms - Wikipedia

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    Synonym for the verb "couple" used by brakemen when flat switching a yard. Talking on the radio, they will tell the engineer how many car lengths to back up in order to couple to another car (i.e. "five cars to a joint") [160] Joint bar (US) A metal plate that joins the ends of rails in jointed track Juice Train

  7. Rhyming slang - Wikipedia

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    The form of Cockney slang is made clear with the following example. The rhyming phrase "apples and pears" is used to mean "stairs". Following the pattern of omission, "and pears" is dropped, thus the spoken phrase "I'm going up the apples" means "I'm going up the stairs".

  8. Glossary of gymnastics terms - Wikipedia

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    Carbonate of magnesia, used by gymnasts on their hands, feet and apparatus to make the surface of the equipment less slippery, or to mark lines on the mats. Circle A full circle with the legs together and both hands supporting the gymnast. One of the three basic swings on the Pommel Horse. Clubs A gymnastics apparatus used in rhythmic gymnastics.

  9. List of garments having different names in American and ...

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    Track suit trousers: Long leg bottoms made out of any fabric with elastic at the bottom joggers, [21] jogging bottoms, tracksuit bottoms [22] joggers, [24] pants Long leg bottoms trousers, [25] pants [26] (Northern England only) [27] pants [26] garment worn over genitals as underwear - gender specific term (women) knickers [28] panties [29]