thick; dense; rich (as in taste or content); crowded
slander; bad-mouthing; abuse; insult; speaking ill (of)
indigenous language; local language; vernacular; native tongue
to take (someone) to one place after another (forcibly); to drag (someone) around
(giving) instruction; initiation
root and branch; thoroughly; by the roots; completely; all
sluggishly; slowly; ploddingly; stolidly (standing); impassively
Swarowsky; Swarowsky (jeweller)
silencing (e.g. machine); muffling; muting (e.g. TV)
third day of the month; three days
fifth day of the month; five days
IBM; International Business Machines
state-of-the-art; cutting-edge
personal aeroplane; personal airplane
precision instrument or machine
scaling (e.g. in computer graphics)
tedious; verbose; wordy; redundancy
credibility; authenticity; confidence; reliability
maintainability; serviceability
virtualization; virtualisation
the greater embraces the less; better too big than too small
four and a half tatami mats; four-and-a-half-mat room; small room esp. for assignations
exhaust; emission (of gas from an engine); expulsion (of air); ventilation
value analysis; volt-ampere; visual aid
(for) household use; home use; domestic use
internal wiring (within a building)
to spin vigorously; to wave around (e.g. sword, bat)
inscrutable; incomprehensible
uninterruptible power supply; UPS
power outage; electricity outage; blackout; failure of electricity supply
Uninterruptible Power Supply; UPS
(a place) out of one's reach
to be scheduled to (do); to be expected to (do)
(a place) within one's reach