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.
n. Soft ointment or lubricant. [latin unguo anoint]
UNHAPPY
adj. (-ier, -iest) 1 miserable.
- unfortunate.
- disastrous. unhappily adv. Unhappiness n.
UNHEARD
adj. - not heard.
- (usu. Unheard-of) unprecedented.
UNHINGE
v. (-ging) 1 take (a door etc.) Off its hinges.
- (esp. As unhinged adj.) Make mad or crazy.
UNHITCH
v. - release from a hitched state.
- unhook, unfasten.
UNHORSE
v. (-sing) throw (a rider) from a horse.
UNICORN
n. Mythical horse with a single straight horn. [latin cornu horn]
UNIFORM
—adj. - unvarying (uniform appearance).
- conforming to the same standard, rules, etc.
- constant over a period (uniform acceleration). —n. Distinctive clothing worn by soldiers, police, schoolchildren, etc. uniformed adj. Uniformity n. Uniformly adv. [latin: related to *form]
UNITARY
adj. - of a unit or units.
- marked by unity or uniformity. [from *unit or *unity]
A dog"s sense of smell is one of the keenest in nature. If a pot of stew was cooking on a stove, a human would smell the stew, while the dog could smell the beef, carrots, peas, potatoes, spices, and all the other individual ingredients in the stew.
