Word: gadget
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After all, you have to wonder about people who would pore over The Star Trek Encyclopedia, with 5,000 entries on every character, planet, gadget or concept ever mentioned in the series, from gagh ("serpent worms, a Klingon culinary delicacy") to Pollux V ("planet in the Beta Geminorum system that registered with no intelligent life-forms when the Enterprise investigated that area of space on Stardate 3468"). Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek's late creator and guiding spirit, once got a letter from a group of scientists who complained about a scene in which Captain Picard visited France and looked...
Phrases like these -- or worse -- will probably never enter the realm of polite discourse, and perhaps that is just as well. Still, some instances of slang can gain such acceptance that they become useful as colloquialisms and even enter Standard English over time -- for example, blizzard, disk jockey and gadget...
...sunk about $18.9 million into the project, betting that advanced microtechnologies developed in the watch industry can be translated into innovative designs for a car's propulsion and electrical systems. "We're not trying to build some little gadget here," Hayek said on a private tour of the garage last December. "We want to have a consumer product that you can produce and use in the millions...
...show includes over 65 works; several artists contributed more than one work. The pieces range from more traditional drawings, like Kate Sullivan's cityscape "View from Post Office," to sculpture, like Bradley J. Rubenstein's "Drawing Device #3"--a motorized plastic gadget that "walks" on four pencil "legs," leaving lines and shapes in its path...
Sony fired the first shot last October when it unleashed the MiniDisc player, a $750 gadget that plays or records music on a 2 1/2-in.-sq. disc. Philips returned the fire the next month with the digital-compact-cassette (DCC) player, a $799 home tape deck that can use a new type of digital cartridge as well as old-style cassettes. Now Sony is introducing yet another model: a $1,000 home MiniDisc player and recorder that will hit stores in April...