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Look up: butterfly

  1. Butterfly
    To cut food down the center without cutting all the way through to open and then spread it apart. Shrimp cut this way is popular. Meat may be butterflied when cooking it well done so it isn't burned during the process as if it remained thick.
    Found on http://www.goodcooking.com/bpage.htm

  2. Butterfly
    To cut food down the center without cutting all the way through to open and then spread it apart. Shrimp cut this way is popular. Meat may be butterflied when cooking it well done so it isn't burned during the process as if it remained thick. 
    Found on http://www.goodcooking.com/basic_ck.htm

  3. Butterfly
    Butterfly is a division of the order of lepidoptera. The other is moth.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  4. butterfly
    [n] - diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings 2. [n] - a swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down 3. [v] - flutter like a butterfly 4. [v] - cut and spread open, as in preparation for cooking
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  5. Butterfly
    Traders use the butterfly strategy when they feel a particular stock will remain neutral during a... <a target=_blank href='http://www.finance-glossary.com/terms/butterfly.htm?id=2037&ginPtrCode=00000&PopupMode=false' title='Read full definition of butterfly'>more</a>
    Found on http://www.finance-glossary.com/pages/ho

  6. Butterfly
    Series of UAV, Emit [IL]
    Found on http://www.jedsite.info/index.html

  7. butterfly
    a spread established by combining a bull spread/bear spread between the strikes X1 and X2 and a bear spread/bull spread between the strikes X2 and X3,with X1 < X2 < X3 and X3-X2= X2-X1,all options having an identical expiration date Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs • fluid-flow valve in form of pivoted plate, usually with jointing strip along either or both sides Cat...
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  8. Butterfly
    But'ter·fly` noun ; plural Butterflies [ Perh. from the color of a yellow species. Anglo-Saxon buter-flēge , buttor-fleóge ; confer German butterfliege , Dutch botervlieg . See Butter , and Fly .] (Zoology) A general name for the numerous species of diurnal Lepidoptera. [ See Illust. under Aphrodite .] Ascl ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/118

  9. butterfly
    Origin: Perh. From the colour of a yellow species. AS. Buter-flege, buttor-fleoge; cf. G. Butterfliege, D. Botervlieg. See Butter, and Fly. ... <zoology> A general name for the numerous species of diurnal Lepidoptera. ... See: Illust. Under Aphrodite] Asclepias butterfly. See Asclepias. Butterfly fish, a kind of double clack valve, consisting o ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  10. butterfly
    butterfly stroke noun a swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  11. butterfly
    noun diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  12. butterfly
    verb cut and spread open, as in preparation for cooking; `butterflied shrimp`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  13. Butterfly
    A `butterfly` is an insect of the order Lepidoptera. Like all Lepidoptera, butterflies are notable for their unusual life cycle with a larval caterpillar stage, an inactive pupal stage, and a spectacular metamorphosis into a familiar and colourful winged adult form. Most species are day-flying so they regularly attract attention. The diverse patterns formed by their brightly coloured wings and their erratic yet graceful flight have made butterfly...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly

  14. Butterfly
    In the context of equities, a firm with two divisions may split into two companies and issue original shareholders two shares (one in each of the new companies) for every old share they have.
    Found on http://www.duke.edu/~charvey/Classes/wpg

  15. Butterfly
    • (n.) A general name for the numerous species of diurnal Lepidoptera.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  16. Butterfly
    (from the article `Carey, Mariah`) ...Carey grew tired of the sweet and wholesome image that her label had developed for her. After announcing her separation from Mottola in 1997 (they ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/b/136

  17. butterfly
    any of 14,000 species of insects belonging to four families. Butterflies, along with the moths and the skippers, make up the insect order ... [14 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/b/136

  18. Butterfly
    Butterfly is a English girl name. The meaning of the name is `Butterfly` From Old English. The name Butterfly doesn`t appear In the US top 1000 most common names over de last 128 years. The name Butterfly seems to be unique!
    Found on http://i-am-pregnant.com/names/girls/But

  19. Butterfly
    Inlay of an opposing grain thin slice of wood used to prevent spread of a check or crack in wood.
    Found on http://www.artisansofthevalley.com/comm_

  20. butterfly
    butterfly, any of a large group of insects found throughout most of the world; with the moths, they comprise the order Lepidoptera. There are about 12 families of butterflies. Most adult moths and butterflies feed on nectar sucked from flowers. In the process they may transfer pollen from one flower...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A08096


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21 November 2009

This day in history:
On 21st November 1974 the Provisional IRA plants bombs in two Birmingham pubs: the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town. Twenty-one people die and 182 are injured. A few minutes before the explosions a warning had been telephoned to the local newspaper, the Birmingham Post and Mail, but it was far too late. The first Birmingham bomb, at the Mulberry Bush pub in the basement of the Rotunda, a 20-storey office and retail complex and it exploded six minutes after the telephone warning. There was not enough time for police to clear the area. Earlier that year nine soldiers were killed when a bomb exploded on a coach on the M62 near Bradford, while two bombs in Guildford killed four soldiers and injured scores of other people. read more

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