Vocabulary

Internet of Things; IoT

Internet of Things; IoT

butchered meat

carrion; rotten meat

meat around the eyes of a fish

Group of Seven; G7

quitting drugs; going cold turkey; going clean

untranslated region; UTR

physical quantity

credit risk

credit default swap; CDS

inauspicious time in four pillar astrology

ice shelf

Mercalli intensity (earthquake)

dots and dashes; Morse code

dot (in Morse code)

geochronology

succession of strata; stratigraphy

syphiloma

wife's mother; mother-in-law

wife's mother; mother-in-law

elder; senior

student hostel partly managed by the residents

quick and lightweight car

secondary use; reuse

pruning tree branches to encourage new growth

cutting off the head

cutting off the edges (printing, sewing, cooking, etc.)

cutting; cutting off; severing

clearance store

store that sells remaindered book or magazines

remaindered books; remainders

selling off cheaply (e.g. books); selling below cost price; dumping

batting practice facility; batting practice center; batting cage

paper cutter; paper knife

lifting one's buttocks (e.g. through exercise); getting a perkier bum; getting rid of sagging buttocks

surgeon

lettuce

null set; set of measure zero

whoopee cushion; poo-poo cushion; farting bag