Textiles

Textiles

Any cloth, woven or knitted fabric; especially the raw materials that are used to make clothing.

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trigger

Sports; Shooting

This is the mechanism that when pulled or squeezed by the finger, will move the firing pin which in turn will hit the cartridge and the bullet will be fired.

yield equivalence

Financial services; General Finance

The interest rate at which a tax-exempt bond and a taxable security of similar quality give the investor the same rate of return.

reading the green

Sports; Golf

The skill of looking at the green and figuring out which way the ball will move as it goes toward the hole. Will it break to the left, right or go straight.

VE

Financial services; General Finance

The two-character ISO 3166 country code for VENEZUELA.

special assessment bond

Financial services; General Finance

A municipal bond with interest paid by the taxes of the community benefiting from the bond-funded project.

meteors

Astronomy; General astronomy

Small rocky and/or icy particles that are swept up by the earth in its orbit about the sun. Also called "shooting stars", they travel across the sky in a very short time, from ...