A college student was delivering pizza to a regular customer"s house in New York.
The guy who answered the door asked him, "What is the usual tip?"
"Well," replied the youth,"this is my first trip here, but the other guys say if I get a quarter out of you, I"ll be doing great."
"Is that so?" snorted the man. "Well, just to show them how wrong they are, here"s five dollars."
"Thanks!" replied the youth, "I"ll put this in my school fund."
"What are you studying?" asked the man.
The lad smiled and said: "Applied psychology."
n. Passenger compartment attached to the side of a motor cycle.
SIEMENS
n. Si unit of conductance, equal to one reciprocal ohm. [von siemens, name of an engineer]
SIGHTED
adj. - not blind.
- (in comb.) Having specified vision (long-sighted).
SIGHTLY
adj. Attractive to look at.
SIGNIFY
v. (-ies, -ied) 1 be a sign or indication of.
- mean; symbolize.
- make known.
- be of importance; matter. signification n. [latin: related to *sign]
SIGNORA
n. Title used of or to an italian-speaking esp. Married woman.
SILENCE
—n. - absence of sound.
- abstinence from speech or noise.
- avoidance of mentioning a thing, betraying a secret, etc. —v. (-cing) make silent, esp. By force or superior argument. in silence without speech or other sound. [latin: related to *silent]
SILICON
chip n. Silicon microchip.
- n. Chem. Non-metallic element occurring widely in silica and silicates.
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