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Look up: hog

  1. Hog
    generic term, usually applied to growing swine
    Found on http://cal.vet.upenn.edu/swine/abc.html

  2. Hog
    see 'Pig'
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  3. Hog
    Hog is slang for a greedy person.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  4. hog
    [n] - a person regarded as greedy and pig-like 2. [n] - a sheep up to the age of one year 3. [n] - domestic swine 4. [v] - take greedily
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  5. hog
    1. Favoured term to describe programs or hardware that seem to eat far more than their share of a system's resources, especially those which noticeably degrade interactive response. *Not* used of programs that are simply extremely large or complex or that are merely painfully slow themselves (see pig, run like a). More often than not encountered ...
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  6. hog
    tendency to arch up or 'log' amidship,resulting in a bending moment which strasses the top members of the vessel in tension and the bottom members in compression Category: Transport • a machine used to convert waste wood into chips Category: Various industries and crafts • Condition of a vessel wherein the buoyancy is more than the weight over approximately the midship half...
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  7. Hog
    Hog noun [ Prob. akin to English hack to cut, and meaning orig., a castrated boar; confer also W. hwch swine, sow, Armor. houc'h , hoc'h . Confer Haggis , Hogget , and Hoggerel .] 1. (Zoology) A quadruped of the genus Sus , and allied genera of Suidæ ; esp., the domesticated varieties of S. scrofa , kept for th ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/51

  8. Hog
    Hog transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Hogged ; present participle & verbal noun Hogging .] 1. To cut short like bristles; as, to hog the mane of a horse. Smart. 2. (Nautical) To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/51

  9. Hog
    Hog intransitive verb (Nautical) To become bent upward in the middle, like a hog's back; -- said of a ship broken or strained so as to have this form.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/51

  10. hog
    1. <zoology> A quadruped of the genus Sus, and allied genera of Suidae; especially, the domesticated varieties of S. Scrofa, kept for their fat and meat, called, respectively, lard and pork; swine; porker; specifically, a castrated boar; a barrow. ... The domestic hogs of Siam, China, and parts of Southern Europe, are thought to have been deri ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  11. hog
    pig noun domestic swine
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  12. hog
    verb take greedily; take more than one`s share
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  13. hog
    hogg noun a sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  14. Hog
    • (n.) A device for mixing and stirring the pulp of which paper is made. • (n.) A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship`s bottom under water. • (n.) A quadruped of the genus Sus, and allied genera of Suidae; esp., the domesticated varieties of S. scrofa, kept for their fat and meat, called, respectively, lard and pork; swi...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  15. HOG
    Higher Order Generator. Device which controls and provides the output waveform for the power supplies which power the Tevatron quadrupole, sextupole, and octupole correction elements.
    Found on http://www-bdnew.fnal.gov/operations/acc

  16. hog
    1. a person regarded as greedy and pig-like
    2. a sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared
    3. domestic swine

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  17. HOG
    Higher Order Generator. Device which controls and provides the output waveform for the power supplies which power the Tevatron quadrupole, sextupole, and octupole correction elements.
    Found on http://www-bdnew.fnal.gov/operations/acc

  18. hog
    hog: see swine.
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A09143


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23 November 2009

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At sixteen minutes past five on 23rd November 1963, a British television institution was born. Doctor Who would go on to become the longest-running science-fiction programme in the world, eventually spawning twenty six seasons of adventures from 1963 to 1989. In total, eight actors have played the part of Gallifrey's most famous Time Lord. From the very first - William Hartnell in 1963 - to the very last - Paul McGann, in the 1996 TV Movie - the Doctor has wandered through time and space in his trusty time machine, an old type-40 TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimensions in Space). Although appearing to be nothing more than a battered blue police box, it is in fact vastly bigger on the inside than on the outside, and always departs with its familiar wheezing, groaning sound. read more

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