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Look up: cha-w

  1. CHA-W
    Catholic Health Association of Wisconsin
    Found on http://www.geocities.com/~mlshams/acrony

  2. chain flow
    the traffic carried on a given chain from its originating node to its destination node
    Found on http://www.electropedia.org/iev/iev.nsf/

  3. Chain Hang Low
    ``Chain Hang Low`` is the debut single by Jibbs from his debut album `Jibbs feat. Jibbs`. The song went on to rack up more than 20,000 ringtone downloads in a span of 2 weeks. The video shows adolescents doing the snap dance. `Chain Hang Low` reached number 7 on Billboard Hot 100. `The Source` magazine and `XXL` blogger Byron Crawford have classified this song in a genre of music called `minstrel show rap`, because the chorus' melody is taken fr...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_Hang_

  4. Chain Home Low
    Chain Home Low was an early network of experimental radar created during World War Two to detect air attack.
    Found on http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/k

  5. Chain Home Low
    `Chain Home Low` (CHL) was the name of a radar system used by the RAF during WWII. The official designation was AMES Type 2 (Air Ministry Experimental Station). It was based on CD (Coastal Defence) and CA (Coastal Artillery) radar designed for army use. It was noticed that these were able to detect low flying aircraft and so led to the development of CHL for the RAF. It operated on a shorter wavelength than Chain Home, about 1.5 metres. Later in...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_Home_

  6. Chain Home, Low
    A development from the 'CH' system that was designed to detect low flying aircraft in particular. It worked on 1.5m wavelengths. A further modification was 'Chain Home, extra low' which worked on 10 cms wavelengths.
    Found on http://histru.bournemouth.ac.uk/Oral_His

  7. chain saw
    [n] - portable power saw
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  8. chain saw
    chainsaw noun portable power saw; teeth linked to form an endless chain
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  9. chain saw
    (from the article `saw`) ...make angle cuts. The sabre saw, which is basically a portable jigsaw, moves up and down and may have a stroke of as much as 2.5 cm (1 inch). It ... Large chain saws, similar to those used for cutting trees but equipped with tungsten-carbide or diamond-tipped cutters, are applicable to marbles, ... [2 relat...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/c/50

  10. Chainsaw
    A `chainsaw` (or `chain saw`) is a portable mechanical, motorized saw. It is most commonly used in logging activities such as felling, limbing, and bucking; by tree surgeons to fell trees and remove branches and foliage; to fell snags and assist in cutting firebreaks in wildland fire suppression, and to harvest firewood. Chainsaws with specially designed blades have been developed as tools for use in chainsaw art.
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chainsaw

  11. Chair Beside a Window
    `Chair Beside a Window` is the fourth album by avant-folk/blues singer/songwriter Jandek, and Corwood Industries' first release of 1982 (#742).
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chair_Besid

  12. Chaloklowa Chickasaw
    The `Chaloklowa Chickasaws` are a remnant of the Chickasaw tribe of the eastern United States that avoided the forced 1838 Indian removal to what is now Oklahoma. The event, in which the Five Civilized Tribes were forced on foot, in winter, with few provisions, to migrate with great suffering has come to be known as the Trail of Tears. Some members of the tribe avoided the transfer and subsequent legal discrimination by concealing their Native A...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaloklowa_

  13. Chambered long barrow
    `Chambered long barrows` are a type of megalithic burial monument found in the British Isles in the Neolithic. Long barrows either contained wooden or stone burial structures beneath the barrow and the surviving megalithic stone in the latter means that they are the ones referred to by archaeologists as chambered. This distinction may have been more to do with the availability of local materials however than any cultural differences. They are c...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chambered_l

  14. Chamberlain, W
    <person> U.S. Radiologist, 1891-1947. ... See: Chamberlain's line. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  15. Champagne flow
    A `Champagne Flow` is an astrophysical event whereby an HII region created inside a molecular cloud from ionization due to a recently formed star (usually an O-star) expands outward until it reaches the interstellar medium, at which point the ionized hydrogen gas bursts outward like an uncorked champagne bottle. This event is also sometimes called a Blister. Category:Astrophysics
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champagne_f

  16. Champagne From A Straw
    `Champagne From A Straw` is the second single from Andrea Corrs debut solo album Ten Feet High (2007) The song is written and performed by Andrea Corr herself The song has a wry dissertation on the vagaries of a celebrity lifestyle - `I've got my all-over tan and my tummy-tuck/Big house in the country, with expensive bags for my scary little dogs `And there's no such thing as poor little rich girls ..` It is already enjoying support from Radi...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champagne_F

  17. Chan Tze Law
    Chan Tze Law is one of the most dynamic and highly regarded conductors of his generation in Asia. Following a string of successes he has recently been appointed Music Director of the Singapore Festival Orchestra. A frequent guest conductor, orchestras he has conducted include the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Western Australian Symphony Orchestra, Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra (China), the Peabody Symphony Orchestra (USA), and the Singapore Lyric O...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chan_Tze_La

  18. Changchow
    Changchow: see Changzhou, China.
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/world/A091

  19. Changkiakow
    Changkiakow: see Zhangjiakou, China.
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/world/A091

  20. Chanmyay Sayadaw
    Venerable `Chanmyay Sayadaw`, also know as Sayadaw U Janakabhivamsa, is one of the most venerable monks in Myanmar. He was born in Pyinma village, Taungdwingyi township, Myanmar, on Tuesday 24 July, 1928. His parents were U Phyu Min and Dhw Shwe Yee. He started to study the Buddhist scriptures at the age of fifteen as a novice monk. He received the higher ordination in 1947 and continued advanced studies of Buddhist scriptures. He practised Vip...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanmyay_Sa

  21. Channelview
    Channelview is a CDP in Harris County Texas, USA
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  22. Channon Yarrow
     `Channon Yarrow` is a fictional character in `Transmetropolitan`, a comic book published by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics. Physically, Channon is quite tall (we are never told how tall, but she is portrayed as a half a head taller than Spider Jerusalem and a full head taller than Yelena Rossini), with long blonde hair and improbably large breasts, such that Spider once described her as looking `like someone nailed two soccerballs to a tele...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channon_Yar

  23. chaparral mallow
    [n] - shrub of coastal ranges of California and Baja California having hairy branches and spikes of numerous mauve flowers
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  24. chaparral mallow
    Malacothamnus fasciculatus noun shrub of coastal ranges of California and Baja California having hairy branches and spikes of numerous mauve flowers; sometimes placed in genus Sphaeralcea
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  25. chaparral mallow
    (from the article `mallow`) ...poppy mallow (Callirhoe involucrata), a hairy perennial, low-growing, with poppy-like reddish flowers; and Indian mallow, also called velvetleaf ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/c/55


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