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  • balloon vine — a tropical tendril-climbing sapindaceous plant, Cardiospermum halicacabum, cultivated for its ornamental balloon-like seed capsules
  • ballot paper — A ballot paper is a piece of paper on which you indicate your choice or opinion in an election or ballot.
  • ballottement — a technique of feeling for a movable object in the body, esp confirmation of pregnancy by feeling the rebound of the fetus following a quick digital tap on the wall of the uterus
  • bank swallow — a swallow, Riparia riparia, of the Northern Hemisphere, that nests in tunnels dug in sand or clay banks.
  • barbarically — without civilizing influences; uncivilized; primitive: barbaric invaders.
  • barn swallow — the US and Canadian name for the common swallow, Hirundo rustica
  • baseball cap — A baseball cap is a close-fitting cap with a curved part at the front that sticks out above your eyes.
  • basketballer — (informal) A basketball player; a person who plays basketball.
  • bathetically — in a bathetic fashion
  • bearing wall — any of the walls supporting a floor or the roof of a building.
  • beatifically — bestowing bliss, blessings, happiness, or the like: beatific peace.
  • beaver falls — a city in W Pennsylvania.
  • behaviorally — manner of behaving or acting.
  • beneficially — conferring benefit; advantageous; helpful: the beneficial effect of sunshine.
  • bib overalls — overall (def 3a).
  • bingo caller — the person who shouts out the numbers to bingo players
  • biologically — pertaining to biology.
  • biparentally — from a biparental point of view
  • bog of allen — a region of peat bogs in central Ireland, west of Dublin. Area: over 10 sq km (3.75 sq miles)
  • borough hall — a building housing the administrative offices of a borough.
  • bothy ballad — a folk song, esp one from the farming community of NE Scotland
  • bowling ball — a round, heavy ball for bowling, usually made of hard rubber or plastic, with holes drilled into it for the bowler's thumb and two fingers.
  • boyoma falls — a series of seven cataracts in the NE Democratic Republic of Congo, on the upper River Congo: forms an unnavigable stretch of 90 km (56 miles), which falls 60 m (200 ft)
  • by all means — You can say 'by all means' to tell someone that you are very willing to allow them to do something.
  • by the balls — so as to be rendered powerless
  • call collect — If you call collect when you make a telephone call, the person who you are phoning pays the cost of the call and not you.
  • call in sick — afflicted with ill health or disease; ailing.
  • call letters — Call letters are the letters and numbers which identify a person, vehicle, or organization that is broadcasting on the radio or sending messages by radio.
  • call of duty — responsibilities
  • call time on — If you call time on something, you end it.
  • call to arms — a command to report for active military duty.
  • call to mind — to remember or cause to be remembered
  • call waiting — Call waiting is a telephone service that sends you a signal if another call arrives while you are already on the phone.
  • call-by-name — (reduction)   (CBN) (Normal order reduction, leftmost, outermost reduction). An argument passing convention (first provided by ALGOL 60?) where argument expressions are passed unevaluated. This is usually implemented by passing a pointer to a thunk - some code which will return the value of the argument and an environment giving the values of its free variables. This evaluation strategy is guaranteed to reach a normal form if one exists. When used to implement functional programming languages, call-by-name is usually combined with graph reduction to avoid repeated evaluation of the same expression. This is then known as call-by-need. The opposite of call-by-name is call-by-value where arguments are evaluated before they are passed to a function. This is more efficient but is less likely to terminate in the presence of infinite data structures and recursive functions. Arguments to macros are usually passed using call-by-name.
  • call-by-need — (reduction)   A reduction strategy which delays evaluation of function arguments until their values are needed. A value is needed if it is an argument to a primitive function or it is the condition in a conditional. Call-by-need is one aspect of lazy evaluation. The term first appears in Chris Wadsworth's thesis "Semantics and Pragmatics of the Lambda calculus" (Oxford, 1971, p. 183). It was used later, by J. Vuillemin in his thesis (Stanford, 1973).
  • calligraphed — Simple past tense and past participle of calligraph.
  • calligrapher — A calligrapher is a person skilled in the art of calligraphy.
  • calligraphic — fancy penmanship, especially highly decorative handwriting, as with a great many flourishes: She appreciated the calligraphy of the 18th century.
  • calling card — A calling card is a small card with personal information about you on it, such as your name and address, which you can give to people when you go to visit them.
  • callisthenes — c360–327 b.c, Greek philosopher: chronicled Alexander the Great's conquests.
  • callisthenic — Alternative spelling of calisthenic.
  • callistus ii — died 1124, French ecclesiastic: pope 1119–24.
  • camphor ball — mothball
  • cannonballed — Simple past tense and past participle of cannonball.
  • catallactics — political economy
  • categorially — in a manner relating to or involving categories
  • cathodically — in a cathodic manner, by using a cathode
  • cationically — in a cationic manner
  • centennially — As part of a centennial.
  • cephalically — in relation to the head or near the head
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