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Arts & crafts

Arts & crafts comprises a multitude of activities and hobbies that involve making things with one's hands, usually from scratch. They can be sub-divided into 'handicrafts'( or traditional crafts ) that are fashioned in an old style using long practised techniques, and the rest which are more modern inventions that have become recent trends or fads.

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handicap

Sports; Golf

This is a scoring system that allows a player to adjust his score to that of standard scratch. Figuring a handicap can get a little complicated, but its purpose is to allow ...

employee empowerment

Business services; Human resources

A term used to express the manners in which non-managerial staff can make essential decisions without consulting a boss/manager.

unfavorable balance of trade

Financial services; General Finance

The value of a nation's imports in excess of the value of its exports.

fossil fuel

Energy; Nuclear energy

Carbon based fuel resulting from millions of years of biological decay. Coal, oil, and natural gas are the most common examples.

ratchet

Sports; Bicycle & electric bicycle

to pedal back and forth in partial strokes. This allows a rider to pass obstacles that would cause a pedal to hit if it were to reach the bottom of a normal stroke.

Chakla and Belan

Kitchen & dining; Cooking tools

Chakla is a small marble or wooden platform and belan is the rolling pin usually made of wood. They are used for rolling doughs.

tax schedules

Financial services; General Finance

Tax forms used to report itemized deductions, dividend and interest income, profit or loss from a business, capital gains and losses, supplemental income and loss, and ...

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