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1. An entertaining, amusing, or offbeat story used to balance a page or bulletin of otherwise serious news. [1] 2. The first sentence or first few words of a story, set in larger type than the main body text, or the first word or two of a photo caption, set in uppercase type distinct from the rest of the caption text.
The term "hard copy" predates the digital computer. In the book and newspaper printing process, "hard copy" refers to a manuscript or typewritten document that has been edited and proofread and is ready for typesetting or being read on-air in a radio or television broadcast. The old meaning of hard copy was mostly discarded after the ...
SNAFU. SNAFU is widely used to stand for the sarcastic expression Situation Normal: All Fucked Up, as a well-known example of military acronym slang. However, the military acronym originally stood for "Status Nominal: All Fucked Up." It is sometimes bowdlerized to all fouled up or similar. [5]
muffin. thick round baked yeast roll, usually toasted and served with butter (US: English muffin ) confection similar to a cupcake but unfrosted and less sweet, sometimes even savory (e.g., corn muffin) * (UK: American muffin ) muffler. a scarf. device to silence an automobile (UK: silencer) or gramophone. mum.
Lists of pejorative terms for people. Lists of pejorative terms for people include: List of ethnic slurs. List of ethnic slurs and epithets by ethnicity. List of common nouns derived from ethnic group names. List of religious slurs. A list of LGBT slang, including LGBT-related slurs. List of age-related terms with negative connotations.
Grey literature (or gray literature) is materials and research produced by organizations outside of the traditional commercial or academic publishing and distribution channels. Common grey literature publication types include reports ( annual, research, technical, project, etc.), working papers, government documents, white papers and evaluations.
List of used book conditions. The set of terms below were proposed in 1949 by AB Bookman's Weekly. They were adopted by the bookselling community and are still in use today. [1] [2] [3] As new means that the book is in the state that it should have been in when it left the publisher. This is the equivalent of mint condition in numismatics.
Publishing. In book, magazine, and music publishing, a manuscript is an autograph or copy of a work, written by an author, composer or copyist. Such manuscripts generally follow standardized typographic and formatting rules, in which case they can be called fair copy (whether original or copy).