| sham-movement vertigo | Dizziness accompanied by an impression that the body is rotating or that objects are rotating about the body. Synonym: gyrosa. (05 Mar 2000) |
|---|---|
| shama | <zoology> A saxicoline singing bird (Kittacincla macroura) of India, noted for the sweetness and power of its song. In confinement it imitates the notes of other birds and various animals with accuracy. Its head, neck, back, breast, and tail are glossy black, the rump white, the under parts chestnut. Origin: Hind. Shama. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shamanism | An intermediate stage between polytheism and monotheism, which assumes a "great spirit", with lesser deities subordinated. With the beginnings of shamanism there was the advent of the medicine man or witch doctor, who assumed a supervisory relation to disease and its cure. Formally, shamanism is a religion of ural-altaic peoples of northern asia and europe, characterised by the belief that the unseen world of gods, demons, ancestral spirits is responsive only to shamans. The indians of north and south america entertain religious practices similar to the ural-altaic shamanism. The word shaman comes from the tungusic (manchuria and siberia) saman, meaning buddhist monk. The shaman handles disease almost entirely by psychotherapeutic means; he frightens away the demons of disease by assuming a terrifying mien. (12 Dec 1998) |
| shamble | 1. <chemical> One of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to a higher level. 2. A place where butcher's meat is sold. "As summer flies are in the shambles." (Shak) 3. A place for slaughtering animals for meat. "To make a shambles of the parliament house." (Shak) Origin: OE. Schamel a bench, stool, AS. Scamel, sceamol, a bench, form, stool, fr. L. Scamellum, dim. Of scamnum a bench, stool. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shame | 1. A painful sensation excited by a consciousness of guilt or impropriety, or of having done something which injures reputation, or of the exposure of that which nature or modesty prompts us to conceal. "HIde, for shame, Romans, your grandsires' images, That blush at their degenerate progeny." (Dryden) "Have you no modesty, no maiden shame?" (Shak) 2. Reproach incurred or suffered; dishonor; ignominy; derision; contempt. "Ye have borne the shame of the heathen." (Ezek. Xxxvi. 6) "Honor and shame from no condition rise." (Pope) "And every woe a tear can claim Except an erring sister's shame." (Byron) 3. The cause or reason of shame; that which brings reproach, and degrades a person in the estimation of others; disgrace. "O Csar, what a wounding shame is this!" (Shak) "Guides who are the shame of religion." (Shak) 4. The parts which modesty requires to be covered; the private parts. For shame! you should be ashamed; shame on you! To put to shame, to cause to feel shame; to humiliate; to disgrace. "Let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil." Origin: OE. Shame, schame, AS. Scamu, sceamu; akin to OS. & OHG. Scama, G. Scham, Icel. Skomm, shkamm, Sw. & Dan. Skam, D. & G. Schande, Goth. Skanda shame, skaman sik to be ashamed; perhaps from a root skam meaning to cover, and akin to the root (kam) of G. Hemd shirt, E. Chemise. Cf. Sham. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shamefaced | Easily confused or put out of countenance; diffident; bashful; modest. "Your shamefaced virtue shunned the people's prise." (Dryden) Shamefaced was once shamefast, shamefacedness was shamefastness, like steadfast and steadfastness; but the ordinary manifestations of shame being by the face, have brought it to its present orthography. Shame"faced, Shame"facedness. Origin: For shamefast; AS. Scamfst. See Shame, and Fast firm. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shammy | 1. <zoology> The chamois. 2. A soft, pliant leather, prepared originally from the skin of the chamois, but now made also from the skin of the sheep, goat, kid, deer, and calf. See Shamoying. Alternative forms: chamois, shamoy, and shamois. Origin: F. Chamious a chamois, shammy leather. See Chamois. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shamoying | A process used in preparing certain kinds of leather, which consists in frizzing the skin, and working oil into it to supply the place of the astringent (tannin, alum, or the like) ordinarily used in tanning. See: Shammy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shamrock | <botany> A trifoliate plant used as a national emblem by the Irish. The legend is that St. Patrick once plucked a leaf of it for use in illustrating the doctrine of the trinity. The original plant was probably a kind of wood sorrel (Oxalis Acetocella); but now the name is given to the white clover (Trifolium repens), and the black medic (Medicago lupulina). Origin: L. Seamrog, seamar, trefoil, white clover, white honeysuckle; akin to Gael. Seamrag. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shanghai | <zoology> A large and tall breed of domestic fowl. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shank | To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; usually followed by off. <zoology> See Chank. 1. The part of the leg from the knee to the foot; the shin; the shin bone; also, the whole leg. "His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank." (Shak) 2. Hence, that part of an instrument, tool, or other thing, which connects the acting part with a handle or other part, by which it is held or moved. Specifically: That part of a key which is between the bow and the part which enters the wards of the lock. The middle part of an anchor, or that part which is between the ring and the arms. That part of a hoe, rake, knife, or the like, by which it is secured to a handle. A loop forming an eye to a button. 3. The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph. 4. A large ladle for molten metal, fitted with long bars for handling it. 5. The body of a type. 6. The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel. 7. <zoology> A wading bird with long legs; as, the green-legged shank, or knot; the yellow shank, or tattler; called also shanks. 8. Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round. Shank painter, a short rope or chain which holds the shank of an anchor against the side of a vessel when it is secured for a voyage. To ride shank's mare, to go on foot; to walk. Origin: OE. Shanke, schanke, schonke, AS. Scanca, sceanca, sconca, sceonca; akin to D. Schonk a bone, G. Schenkel thigh, shank, schinken ham, OHG. Scincha shank, Dan. & Sw. Skank. Cf. Skink. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shank bone | <anatomy> The large bone between the knee and foot that supports 5/6 of the body weight (fibula supports 1/6). (27 Sep 1997) |
| shanker | <medicine> See Chancre. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shanny | Origin: Etymol. Uncertain. <zoology> The European smooth blenny (Blennius pholis). It is olive-green with irregular black spots, and without appendages on the head. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shape | 1. Character or construction of a thing as determining its external appearance; outward aspect; make; figure; form; guise; as, the shape of a tree; the shape of the head; an elegant shape. "He beat me grievously, in the shape of a woman." (Shak) 2. That which has form or figure; a figure; an appearance; a being. "Before the gates three sat, On either side, a formidable shape." (Milton) 3. A model; a pattern; a mold. 4. Form of embodiment, as in words; form, as of thought or conception; concrete embodiment or example, as of some quality. 5. Dress for disguise; guise. "Look better on this virgin, and consider This Persian shape laid by, and she appearing In a Greekish dress." (Messinger) 6. A rolled or hammered piece, as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc, having a cross-section different from merchant bar. A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted. To take shape, to assume a definite form. In shape, having a good muscle tone; healthy. Get into shape, to exercise so as to acquire a good muscle tone. Origin: OE. Shap, schap, AS. Sceap in gesceap creation, creature, fr. The root of scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, to shape, to do, to effect; akin to OS. Giskeppian, OFries. Skeppa, D. Scheppen, G. Schaffen, OHG. Scaffan, scepfen, skeffen, Icer. Skapa, skepja, Dan. Skabe, skaffe, Sw. Skapa, skaffa, Goth. Gaskapjan, and perhaps to E. Shave, v. Cf. -ship. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shadow |
A shadow is a dark shape, e.g. on the ground or a wall, caused by an object (or person, etc.) blocking light. ...
출처: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow
|
|---|---|
| shadow |
-----In Jungian psychology, the shadow is a part of the unconscious mind which is mysterious and often disagreeable to the conscious mind, but which is also relatively close to the conscious mind. It may be (in part) one's original self, which is superseded during early childhood by the conscious mind; afterwards it comes to contain thoughts that are repressed by the conscious mind. The shadow is instinctive and irrational, but is not necessarily evil even when it might appear to be so. ...
출처: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_(psychology)
|
| shaman |
A word derived from the Tungas language of Siberia, it is a generic term for healers and spiritual leaders in tribal societies. Traditional shamans induced trance states through drums, dancing, ingesting hallucinogens, self-mutilation and deprivation and virtually any means by which one might achieve an altered state of consciousness. While in such a trance, the shaman crosses over into another world to get information for his people such as the cause of illnesses and other misfortunes. ...
출처: www.geocities.com/sorchagriannon/terminology.htm
|
| sham therapy |
An inactive treatment or procedure that is intended to mimic as closely as possible a therapy in a clinical trial. Also called placebo therapy.
출처: www.stjude.org/glossary
|
| shake culture |
a culture made by inoculating warm liquid agar culture medium in a tube and shaking to distribute contents evenly. Incubation of the resolidified culture allows the development of separated colonies; especially applicable to obligate anaerobes.
출처: www.merckmedicus.com/pp/us/hcp/thcp_dorlands_conte...
|
| SHA | something existing in perception only |
|---|---|
| SHA | a clue that something has been present |
| SHA | a premonition of something adverse |
| SHA | an unilluminated area |
| SHA | an inseparable companion |
| SHA | a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements |
| SHA | shade within clear boundaries |
| SHA | follow, usually without the person's knowledge |
| SHA | cast a shadow |
| SHA | cast a shadow over |
| SHA | (United Kingdom) a group of senior members of the political party that is out of power |
| SHA | a drama executed by throwing shadows on a wall |