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  • 121borrowing — A futures trade on the LME involving the buying of near dated contracts and the selling of long dated contracts. An example of a carry ( carrying). The equivalent of an intramarket spread trade sometimes known as buying the spread . Dresdner… …

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  • 122curve — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 line or surface that bends ADJECTIVE ▪ gentle, graceful, slight, smooth, soft ▪ sharp, tight ▪ sweepi …

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  • 123humus-water grooves —    This is a special type of meandering karren or wall karren in which the water originated in humus covering. Water originating from a humus cover has an excess of CO2 and is therefore, very aggressive and can dissolve large amounts of limestone …

    Lexicon of Cave and Karst Terminology

  • 124Rillenkarren —    (German.) Solution flutes that occur only in places where fresh unspent precipitation is active and end where the water attains too high a content of lime or where water is added. Their length increases with slope, temperature, and rainfall;… …

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  • 125land — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Surface of the earth Nouns 1. land, earth, ground, dry land, terra firma, terra incognita. See inorganic matter, concavity, height, depth. 2. (inland area) continent, Europe, Asia, Eurasia, North or… …

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  • 126esplanade — [17] Essentially, esplanade is the same word as explain, but whereas explain has lost its underlying literal meaning, esplanade has retained at least a memory of it. It comes ultimately from Latin explānāre, which meant ‘flatten out’, and so… …

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  • 127explain — [15] To explain a matter is literally to ‘make it plain’. The word comes from Latin expletive 204 explānāre, a compound verb formed from the intensive prefix ex and the adjective plānus ‘flat’ (source of English plain). This originally meant… …

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  • 128data — plural noun (often as singular) a lack of data on the drug s side effects Syn: facts, figures, statistics, details, particulars, specifics; information, intelligence, material, input; informal info •• data Whether you write data are or data is ,… …

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