One day Holmes and Watson are flying a dirigible balloon. It is foggy around, they have lost their way. Suddenly they see - a shepherd is grazing sheep below. The men are very glad and shout:
- The dear, tell us, please, where we are now?
- You are in the dirigible balloon.
- I understand... - Holmes says. - We are flying over Russia.
- But why? - Watson is surprised.
- It’s elementary, Buddy! Only a programmer could give such an exact and useless answer at the same time. And only in Russia programmers can look after sheep.
adj. - not concerned with religion; not sacred; worldly (secular education; secular music).
- (of clerics) not monastic. secularism n. Secularize v. (also -ise) (-zing or -sing). Secularization n. [latin saeculum an age]
SEEDBED
n. - bed prepared for sowing.
- place of development.
SEEMING
adj. Apparent but perhaps doubtful (his seeming interest). seemingly adv.
SEEPAGE
n. - act of seeping.
- quantity that seeps out.
SEGMENT
—n. - each part into which a thing is or can be divided.
- part of a circle or sphere etc. Cut off by an intersecting line or plane. —v. Usu. Divide into segments. segmental adj. Segmentation n. [latin seco cut]
SEISMIC
adj. Of earthquakes. [greek seismos earthquake]
SEIZURE
n. - seizing or being seized.
- sudden attack, esp. Of epilepsy or apoplexy.
SELFISH
adj. Concerned chiefly with one's own interests or pleasure; actuated by or appealing to self-interest. selfishly adv. Selfishness n.
SELLERS
market n. (also sellers' market) trading conditions favourable to the seller.
SELLOUT
n. - commercial success, esp. The selling of all tickets for a show.
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