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trappings

Paraphernalia associated with customs, rituals, and holidays.

Fertility symbols such as eggs, rabbits, and maidens dressed in white are appropriate trappings for Easter if you bear in mind that Easter is a pagan godess of fertility.

by Downstrike May 25, 2004

196πŸ‘ 169πŸ‘Ž


a nobody

1. Literally, not a person.

2. Doesn't deserve to be a person; a waste of a life.

Nobody calls me a nobody!

by Downstrike December 2, 2004

47πŸ‘ 22πŸ‘Ž


monotheistic

Adj. Pertaining to a belief system with only one almighty god.

Christianity, Islam, and Judaism are monotheistic.

by Downstrike May 24, 2004

36πŸ‘ 2πŸ‘Ž


inner tube

An archaic car part that has been made mostly obsolete by tubeless tires. These days an inner tube is much more useful for floating on water, or for sledding on snow. It's a lot more fun that way too.

It's soft, inflated, donut-shaped, usually black, and frequently has patches glued to it where it had leaked.

Smaller versions may still be found in many bicycle tires.

I was shocked when I took that tire off the rim, and found an inner tube inside it.

Watch out for the stem of that inner tube. If you break that part, there's no patching it, and it can leave a nasty scratch on your skin too.

by Downstrike August 16, 2006

19πŸ‘ 7πŸ‘Ž


alt

1. In music, short for Alternative.

2. In RPG, short for Alternate ID.

3. In MPD, short for alter or persona.

4. In keyboarding, the Alt key, located just to the left of the space bar.

5. In HTML, the alternative text attribute of the img tag.

1. I don't care for Alt Music.

2. My Alt is Downstrike.

3. I tried to list my alts once, but I lost count at 44.

4. The reason you don't see Alt is it's hidden under your left hand.

5. There's no such thing as an "alt tag". Alt is an attribute of the img tag.

by Downstrike January 29, 2006

449πŸ‘ 118πŸ‘Ž


Euphemized

Made to seem less awkward or rude, or to seem politically correct by changing terminology. Frequently amounts to outright lying.

sWindles is frequently euphemized as Windows.

Kneejerk Corruptions, Incorrigible is frequently euphemized as Network Solutions, Incorporated.

by Downstrike September 14, 2004

9πŸ‘ 7πŸ‘Ž


sitemap

Also, site map. One of the most confusing words in the world of web site design, because it means too many different things to too many different people, with more people compounding the confusion by making up new meanings for it. There is a potential to differentiate between meanings by spelling one meaning as one word, and another meaning as two words, but no such standard is broadly accepted.

1. In web site design, HTML, SEO, and navigation, n., a web page, usually relatively plain in design, that links to every page on the web site, displaying the links within the structural hierarchy of the site.

2. In web page design and HTML, correctly known as image map, but frequently called site map instead by n00bs, n., a method of linking different portions of an image to different URLs. In some cheaply-designed web sites, an entire web page may be designed into a single image map, so that the entire content of the page, including the text, is presented as an image, rather than as a combination of text and images.

3. In project pre-production, n., an optional design process preliminary to flowcharting, used mostly for multi-page projects, such as web sites.

4. To Google, a text or XML file added to the root directory of your web site to let Google's spider know the names and dates of your web site's searchable files. To differentiate from previous meanings of the word, this upstart definition should be known as, Google sitemap. However, other search engines may be following suit.

1. Building a sitemap is a time-honored method of helping both visitors and spiders find all your web pages.

2. The reason search engines can't find your web pages is that you built an image map instead of a sitemap. It looks nice, but neither spiders nor adaptive technology can read it.

3. I hate sitemapping, flowcharting, and storyboarding. If I don't have a picture of what I'm doing in my head, I can't put it on paper, and if I do have a picture of it in my head, I'm ready to create web pages, not to mess around with paper.

4. Come on Google, when a word already has a definition, we don't need a new definition. If you have a new concept, have enough originality to come up with a new word for it.

by Downstrike November 16, 2005

16πŸ‘ 5πŸ‘Ž