Wing

Entertainment / Ice Hockey / Wing: One of the two forwards who flank the center and, with the center, make up a line. Also known as a winger or wingman. See also left wing; right wing.
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Winglet

Technology / Aviation / Winglet: A small, stabilizing, rudderlike addition to the tips of a wing to control or employ air movement. MORE

Growing Equity Mortgage (GEM)

Business / Debt / Growing Equity Mortgage (GEM): A fixed rate, graduated payment loan allowing low beginning payments and a shorter term because of higher payments as the loan progress. Based on the theory of increasing income by the buyer and, ther MORE

Swing-Wing

Technology / Aviation / Swing-Wing: A wing whose horizontal angle to the fuselage centerline can be adjusted in flight to vary aircraft motion at differing speeds. MORE

Borrowing

Entertainment / Literature / Borrowing: As Simon Horobin defines it, 'The process by which words are adopted into one language from another' (192). Linguists use this term because borrowing sounds better than the term stealing, which would MORE

Drawing-Frame

Lifestyle / Painting / Drawing-Frame: A rectangular frame crossed with wires or threads to form squares, which the artist sets up between himself and his sitter at such a distance that his view is the same as the drawing he intends to mak MORE

Checked Swing

Entertainment / Baseball / Checked Swing: A partial swing. If the swing has gone more than halfway around, the umpire can rule it a full swing, or strike. MORE