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Score: 4.1/5 (5 votes) Abstersive meaningCleansing; purging; abstergent. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.] adjective. (now rare) Something cleansing; detergent; abstergent. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]What does Extre mean?(Entry 1 of 2) 1a : existing in a very high degree extreme povert...
Score: 4.6/5 (9 votes) A consonant is a speech sound that's not a vowel. The sound of a consonant is produced by a partial or complete obstruction of the airstream by a constriction of the speech organs. In writing, a consonant is any letter of the alphabet except A, E, I, O, U, and sometimes Y...
Score: 4.9/5 (72 votes) In music, portamento (plural: portamenti, from old Italian: portamento, meaning "carriage" or "carrying") is a pitch sliding from one note to another.What's the difference between portamento and glissando?Most simply stated, a portamento is an ornamentation used at the e...
Score: 4.1/5 (38 votes) They are found in most marine waters and throughout the National Marine Sanctuary System including Channel Islands, Monterey Bay, and Florida Keys national marine sanctuaries. The California brown sea hare (Aplysia californicaAplysia californicaA. californica has a generation...
Score: 4.6/5 (58 votes) About 80% of earthquakes occur where plates are pushed together, called convergent boundaries. Another form of convergent boundary is a collision where two continental plates meet head-on.Which plate boundaries cause earthquakes and volcanoes?The two types of plate boundaries...
Score: 4.9/5 (4 votes) Medical conditions. In some cases, orange urine can indicate a problem with your liver or bile duct, especially if you also have light-colored stools. Dehydration, which can concentrate your urine and make it much deeper in color, can also make your urine appear orange.What do...
Score: 4.7/5 (55 votes) To be causing great destruction, disruption, or chaos; to be behaving very violently or aggressively.What does on the rampage mean?Behaving violently, as in There was a near riot after the game, when some of the spectators went on a rampage. This term comes from the Old Scots...
Score: 4.3/5 (47 votes) Divide Shannon's diversity index H by natural logarithm of species richness ln(S) to calculate the species evenness. In the example, 0.707 divided by 1.099 equals 0.64. Note that species evenness ranges from zero to one, with zero signifying no evenness and one, a comple...
Score: 4.4/5 (34 votes) Since 2002, 732 Guantanamo detainees have been sent home or to other countries through prisoner transfer agreements. There are 39 still held. Nine died in custody.How many prisoners are in Guantanamo Bay right now?39 detainees remain at Guantanamo Bay. This list of Guantánamo...
Score: 4.6/5 (39 votes) Plain paper plates can be microwaved, but some disposable tableware is actually coated in a thin layer of plastic. Before you microwave a paper plate or bowl, be sure that it's clearly marked as microwave safe.How can you tell if a plate is microwave safe?Set the Time. M...
