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krill kril noun small crustaceans; planktonic crustaceans 1978Wilbur SmithHungry as the SeaDuring the long voyage up from Shackleton Bay, Samantha had streamed a very fine-meshed net from Warlock's stern, collecting an incredible variety of krill and plankton and other microscopic marine life.1984William GibsonNew Rose HotelI spread crab-flavored krill paste on orange rice crackers.1999Clive CusslerAtlantis FoundWithout the algae to dine on, there would be no krill, the little shrimplike fellows, who in turn provide nourishment for every animal and fish in these southern waters from penguins to whales to phocids.Labels: Clive Cussler, Wilbur Smith, William Gibson
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steganography steg-a-NAWG-ra-fee noun writing that is in code; cryptology 2002William GibsonPattern RecognitionSteganography is about concealing information by spreading it throughout other information.Labels: William Gibson
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Faustian bargain FOW-stee-uhn BAR-gin noun a bargain made with the devil; a bargain made which yields short term gain but at the cost of significantly negative long term consequences; a deal with the devil made by mythic German who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for secret knowledge 2000Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen BaxterThe Light of Other DaysWe've made a Faustian bargain, Bobby.2000Stephen BaxterManifold TimeMy God, what a Faustian bargain.2002William GibsonPattern RecognitionThere's no reason, he says, to regard it as a Faustian bargain with Bigend.Labels: Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter, Stephen Baxter, William Gibson
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hapless HA-pluhs adjective without luck; luckless; unfortunate 1902William Dean HowellsLiterature and Life: Spanish Prisoners of WarThis would have been consequent, logical, and in a sort reasonable; but to butcher and capture a lot of wretched Spanish peasants and fishermen, hapless conscripts to whom personally and nationally we were as so many men in the moon, was that melancholy and humiliating necessity of war which makes it homicide in which there is not even the saving grace of hate, or the excuse of hot blood.1991Jerry DavisThe Penalties of PiratingAs the hapless driver was struggling to open his crumpled door, a blue IBM business limo came sliding to a stop beside it.1993William GibsonDisneyland With The Death Penalty (Wired Magazine, Issue 1.04, Sep/Oct 1993)One reads of clubs there having their licenses pulled for stocking private cubicles with hapless Filipinas…Labels: Jerry Davis, William Dean Howells, William Gibson
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inviolable in-VAI-uh-la-buhl adjective safe from violation 1919John ReedTen Days That Shook the WorldCitizens, soldiers, valorous Cossacks of the Don, of the Kuban, of the Transbaikal, of the Amur, of the Yenissei, to all you who have remained faithful to your oath I appeal; to you who have sworn to guard inviolable your oath of Cossack-I call upon you to save Petrograd from anarchy, from famine, from tyranny, and to save Russia from the indelible shame to which a handful of ignorant men, bought by the gold of Wilhelm, are trying to submit her.1922T. S. EliotThe Waste Land...yet there the nightingale Filled all the desert with inviolable voice…1996William GibsonIdoruEchoes woke from the tiled floor, from the high beams surviving from an age that must once have seen the advent of Laney's kind or predecessors, their ecology of celebrity and the terrible and inviolable order of that food chain.Labels: John Reed, T. S. Eliot, William Gibson
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