Short

Selling a security, such as a share, that you do not currently own, in the expectation that its price will fall by the time the security has to be delivered to its new owner. If ...

shorts

Tobacco; General tobacco

Short pieces of tobacco which fall from the ends of just processed cigarettes prior to being packaged. Designated as Class I by-products.

short

Financial services; Commodity exchange

One who has sold futures contracts or plans to purchase a cash commodity. (verb) Selling futures contracts or initiating a cash forward contract sale without offsetting a ...

dispersion

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Natural tendency of materials in liquid solution to go from area of high concentration to area of lower concentration, resulting in even distribution of materials throughout the ...

sang-de- boeuf

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Ox-blood colour used to describe deep red colour of some glazes

dispersoids

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

In glaze-melt, inclusions which disperse throughout the melt without actually dissolving into the glassy-phase. Examples are titanium or zirconium particles, colloidal copper, or ...

saturated iron glaze

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

see KAKI.

dissolution

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Action of a solvent material upon a solid, bringing it into liquid solution. During glaze firing, the point at which the glassy-phase dissolves the sintered structure of the ...

scoring

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Process of incising shallow grooves into surface of wet or leather hard clay in cross-hatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces.

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Choppergate

A scandal involving NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams to assert falsely that helicopter was hit by an RPG during the invasion of Iraq in 2003. ...