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DEFINITION: n. A social network built on the intertwining connections between the people, ideas and things. v. To communicate through a social network.
Verboticisms
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Kithbeams
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: KITH-beems
Sentence: Kithbeams sometimes radiant; at other times frowning, chilled by the clouds of doubt and the bitter winds of mistrust; but like the sun affecting our lives every second.
Etymology: Kith, n. [OE.& AS. kith,] native land; friends, acquaintances; kindred. Meaning 1. & 4. archaic. BEAM:n. [ME. OE?]:A ray or collection of parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body; as, a beam of light, or of heat. (Fig.): A ray; a gleam; as, a beam of comfort.
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COMMENTS:
how poetic - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-26: 10:58:00
Hugths & Kithes! - Nosila, 2008-06-26: 23:27:00
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Socirtuality
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: so-sir-tchu-al-i-ty
Sentence: Jenna networked with her friends so much that she developed her very own socirtuality where everthing revolved around her and what she thought and felt. She communicated constantly with her bffs and developed a relationship with a really cute boyfriend -- at least his avatar was cute and he sounded really cute in his texts. She was so busy with her MySpace page, her Facebook page, her tweets and her second life that she forgot about her first life and real relationships. It got so bad that her family had to text her when her grandmother died.
Etymology: society: totality of social relationships among humans + virtual: existing in essence, but not in it's actual form + reality: the quality or state of be actual or true
Sconet
Created by: ldikarev
Pronunciation: sko net
Sentence: At birth children are mandatory subscribed permanently to one one of the ideologicaly alighend sconets and learn sconeting before they learn to walk, everything is always great in the Googleface Republic.
Etymology: Socially Connected Network
Empatresses
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: em pat ressss ez
Sentence: her empatresses bound her loves and life to her, plaited together like the vines around an amazonian hardwood.
Etymology: empathy, tresses
Biothreads
Created by: serendipity9000
Pronunciation: bio-th-reds
Sentence: I am always amazed at all the biothreads I have to trace down when I am packing to move to a new city.
Etymology: Bio (life) + threads (ideas, tendrils, strings, connections)
Flacidbook
Created by: wurdless
Pronunciation: fla-cid-book
Sentence: Rodney used flacidbook to meet girls, but it didn't work. He blamed the software.
Etymology: flacid + facebook
Connectwork
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: kon - nekt - werk
Sentence: Polly had her family, friends and then there was her connectwork, HelloYou. Polly found a kinship of people there through threads of common interest. She had 25 friends in FarmerTown that she really didn't even know, except that they all liked to plant crops and harvest them.
Etymology: connect, network
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COMMENTS:
connects for me - Nosila, 2009-11-05: 19:51:00
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Soullattice
Created by: Trystera
Pronunciation: sole-LAT-tiss
Sentence: After noticing all the subtle strange coincidences, I felt attuned with the great soullatice, the spiritual matrix underlying and fortifying all concrete reality like metaphysical rebar.
Etymology: "Soul" + "Lattice," a framework made of crossed, overlapping strips.
Fundibula
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /fənˈdɪbjulə/
Sentence: One's fundibula are not invisible, though we are often disinclined to see them.
Etymology: From Vonnegut's chrono-synclastic infundibulum. The way I see it, the place where everyone's personal fundibula meet is a chrono-synclastic infundibulum.
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COMMENTS:
I was very close to selecting the word "fundilia" without reference to Vonnegut, but then I realized how close it was to infundibulum that I couldn't not steal it. Incidentally, I'll be very disappointed if tomorrow's definition is not "those places where all the different kinds of truths fit together." - ErWenn, 2007-04-19: 08:04:00
I'm hoping that tomorrow's definition will be "a proud and meaningless association of human beings". Nice word by the way... - wordmeister, 2007-04-19: 10:12:00
Thank you. - ErWenn, 2007-04-19: 16:00:00
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Experiarch
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: ex-peer-ee-arch
Sentence: Carol planned to become an author of self-help books and used experiarch as her motif to describe the foundation upon which we can all build. Her first title was to be "The experiarch less trammelled" followed soon after by "The magic of experiarch : building a bridge to your future".
Etymology: experience + arch (in the architectural sense of supporting construction above an opening)
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COMMENTS:
My mind has been opened... Thank you petaj - wordmeister, 2007-04-20: 10:35:00
Sounds like a great series Petaj - maybe The Archies could be featured in them - Jabberwocky, 2007-04-20: 11:26:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Kurt Vonnegut and first appeared in his novel Cat's Cradle.
Thank you Mr. Vonnegut! ~ James
jedijawa - 2007-04-19: 08:29:00
These are tough this week!
Yeah! KV is pushing us up to the next level ~ James
- 2008-04-20: 01:28:00
hairy
Today's definition was suggested by Kurt Vonnegut and first appeared in his novel Cat's Cradle.
Thank you Mr. Vonnegut! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by vonnegut. Thank you vonnegut. ~ James