Subject | English | Thesaurus |
abbr., avia. | A Line Maintenance Breakdown Part is a sub-component of an LRU Line Replaceable Unit which may be replaced without removing the LRU from the aircraft. Depending on its complexity, an LMP can be repairable or expendable. | LMP (geseb) |
abbr., black.sl. | 3)A little boy who is scared of his emotions. A boy that disrespects females on a daily basis. A boy who lets others mold him instead of standing on his own. A boy who thinks he's a man but does nothing to earn the title. | bitch-ass nigga (andreon) |
abbr., slang | a moving or stationary visual element of a film, video, television broadcast, or print publication that is disproportionately expensive to produce and/or is perceived as essential to the overall importance or revenue-generating potential of the work | money shot (Merithiam) |
abbr., avia. | A radio call from a friendly aircraft announcing that he is firing an AIM-9M Sidewinder | fox two mike |
abbr., modern | A term used to describe an electric guitar that is being played without an amplifier, or "unplugged." | elecoustic (It's still an electric guitar, but without the distortion and volume that the amp provides it sounds more like an acoustic. Franka_LV) |
gen. | all is gas and gaiters | all gas and gaiters (The phrase "all is gas and gaiters" first appeared in Charles Dickens's novel Nicholas Nickleby, 1839 thefreedictionary.com) |
abbr. | Can.Is. | Canary Islands |
abbr., f.trade. | Can. Is | Canary Islands |
abbr., commer. | 7-Eleven is part of an international chain of convenience stores, operating under Seven-Eleven Japan Co. Ltd, which in turn is owned by Seven & I Holdings Co. of Japan.2 | 7-eleven (Pavel) |
abbr., IT | ES-IS | end system-to-intermediate system |
abbr., f.trade. | Fak. Is | Falkland Islands |
abbr., auto. | IS/R | information storage and retrieval |
abbr., R&D. | M-IS | IEEE Intelligent Systems (MichaelBurov) |
abbr., astronaut., mil. | Not an acronym. Ada is the DoD standard programming language named after Lord Byron's daughter, the Countess of Lovelace, considered to be the world's first computer programmer. | Ada |
ed., abbr. | Reading Is Fun | RIF |
abbr. | Reading Is Fundamental | RIF |
abbr. | Resource-Based View: is an economic tool used to determine the strategic resources available to a firm | RBV (Strategy greenuniv) |
abbr., SAP. | SD-IS | Sales & Distribution Information System |
abbr., SAP. | SD-IS | Sales & Distribution - Information System |
abbr., slang | something is cool, or your giving credit to someone for doing something | that's what's up (Urban Dictionary definition andreon) |
inf. | there is nothing doing | there is no activity, inducement, advantage, etc., present to the eye (There was nothing doing in the kitchen. collinsdictionary.com • There was a horse-race track adjacent to them, but unfortunately nothing doing at the time. • Said there weren't nothing doing and I might as well go home. • There's nothing doing here and Dena's cooking the dinner tonight.) |
abbr., post | TNT N.V., the holding company of TNT and Royal TPG Post is based in the Netherlands. TNT N.V. evolved from the 1996 merger of PTT Post, the national postal service of the Netherlands and TNT Thomas Nationwide Transport, the worldwide transport and logistics company founded in Australia in 1946. | TNT |
abbr., tech. | Type C characteristic is for general device protection in control circuits | C-characteristic (IgBar) |
transp., abbr. | When You Start Is When You Go | WYSIWYG |
abbr., f.trade. | Wind. Is. | Windward Is. |
humor., abbr. | Work Is Never Done On a Windows System | WINDOWS |