Here's your winner... better late than... yeah

Woo hoooooo!  Ok, sorry for the late post but, you know, things get away from time to time... so without any further yammering and blahdy blah blahs, here's your winner from last week:

DILLON!

Yeah boyee!  Congrats to you!  Now, please send us 2 new words for next week by THIS FRIDAY!  That's tomorrow in real speak, yo...

Alrighty then!  GLASS / ORIENTAL is due tomorrow by 2pm!  Get em in yall!

Here's your inspiration:

glass

[glas, glahs] 

 

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noun

1.

a hard, brittle, noncrystalline, more or less transparent substanceproduced by fusion, usually consisting of mutually dissolved silica andsilicates that also contain soda and lime, as in the ordinary varietyused for windows and bottles.

2.

any artificial or natural substance having similar properties andcomposition, as fused borax, obsidian, or the like.

3.

something made of such a substance, as a windowpane.

4.

a tumbler or other comparatively tall, handleless drinking container.

5.

glasses, Also called eyeglasses. a device to compensate fordefective vision or to protect the eyes from light, dust, and the like,consisting usually of two glass or plastic lenses set in a frame thatincludes a nosepiece for resting on the bridge of the nose and twosidepieces extending over or around the ears (usually used with pairof).

Compare goggle (def 1a), pince-nez, spectacle (def 3).

6.

a mirror.

7.

things made of glass, collectively; glassware :

They used to collect old glass.

adjective

11.

made of glass:

a glass tray.

12.

furnished or fitted with panes of glass; glazed.

verb (used with object)

13.

to fit with panes of glass.

14.

cover with or encase in glass.

15.

to coat or cover with fiberglass :

to glass the hull of a boat.

16.

to scan with a spyglass or other optical instrument.

17.

to reflect:

Trees glassed themselves in the lake.

oriental

[awr-ee-en-tl, ohr‐] 

 

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adjective

1.

(usually initial capital letter) of, relating to, or characteristic of theOrient, or East; Eastern.

2.

of the orient or east; eastern.

3.

(initial capital letter) Zoogeography. belonging to a geographicaldivision comprising southern Asia and the Malay Archipelago as far asand including the Philippines, Borneo, and Java.

4.

Jewelry.

1. (usually initial capital letter) designating various gems that arevarieties of corundum:
   Oriental aquamarine; Oriental ruby.
2. fine or precious; orient :
   oriental agate; oriental garnet.
3. designating certain natural saltwater pearls found especially in theOrient.

noun

5.

(usually initial capital letter) Older Use: Usually Disparaging andOffensive. a native or inhabitant of the Orient.

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SCENE / MACHINE art is up! Vote 4 U're Faves!

...and the crowd goes WILD!  Yeah, you know it!  It's Friday! And that means that it's Art Challuunge day!  Heck to the hellsyeah!  Thanks to all of our lovely artists that submitted this week.  We love you like Popeye loves giving Whimpy hamburgers!  Why does he have so many hamburgers anyway?

Next week's words will be:

GLASS / ORIENTAL

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Ok, now HERE is the best part of the week!

This week's submissions for:

SCENE / MACHINE

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Dillon:

Wurm:

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Ooo, a winner! Inspiration! Yeah!

Welcome back!  Let's get to this week's winner and inspiration, shall we?

Last week we had a great turnout for the challuunge and we thank all those that submitted.  You are all super duper crazy cool!  But, there can only be one winner... and that winner is:

DANimal!

Yeah boyee!  Your dark/side was the darkest of them all and gathered the most votes!  So meet back here on Friday at 2pm with 2 new words, or you'll feel the REAL power of the dark/side!

That's right, SCENE / MACHINE  is due this Friday by 2pm PST.  So get your inspiration on below!



SCENE

noun
1.the place where some action or event occurs:
He returned to the scene of the murder.

2.any view or picture.

3.an incident or situation in real life.

4.an embarrassing outbreak or display of anger, strong feeling, or badmanners:
Please don't make a scene in such a public place.
5.a division of a play or of an act of a play, usually representing whatpasses between certain of the actors in one place.
6.a unit of action or a segment of a story in a play, motion picture, ortelevision show.

7.the place in which the action of a play or part of a play is supposed tooccur.

8.scenery (def 2).

9.Literature.

1. an episode, situation, or the like, as in a narrative.
2. the setting or locale of a story.

10.the stage, especially of an ancient Greek or Roman theater.

11.an area or sphere of activity, current interest, etc.:
the rock music scene; the fashion scene.

Idioms

12.behind the scenes, in secret or in private.

13.make the scene, Slang. to appear in a particular place or engage in aparticular activity:

Let's make the scene downtown tonight. She was never one to makethe drug scene.

MACHINE

noun

1.

an apparatus consisting of interrelated parts with separate functions,used in the performance of some kind of work:

a sewing machine.

2.

a mechanical apparatus or contrivance; mechanism.

3.

Mechanics.

1. a device that transmits or modifies force or motion.
2. Also called simple machine. any of six or more elementarymechanisms, as the lever, wheel and axle, pulley, screw, wedge,and inclined plane.
3. Also called complex machine. a combination of simple machines.

4.

Older Use.

1. an automobile or airplane.
2. a typewriter.

5.

a bicycle or motorcycle.

6.

a vending machine:

a cigarette machine.

7.

any complex agency or operating system:

the machine of government.

8.

an organized group of persons that conducts or controls the activitiesof a political party or organization:

He heads the Democratic machine in our city.

9.

a person or thing that acts in a mechanical or automatic manner:

Routine work had turned her into a machine.

10.

any of various contrivances, especially those formerly used in theater,for producing stage effects.

11.

some agency, personage, incident or other feature introduced for effectinto a literary composition.

verb (used with object), machined, machining.

12.

to make, prepare, or finish with a machine or with machine tools.