Subject | English | Thesaurus |
abbr., modern | A controversial process of extracting otherwise-secret information from a friend or co-worker by getting them drunk and thereby loosening their control on their tongue. | beerboarding (Example: "The guys at work took me out drinking last night. After quite a few beers and a lot of questions I finally let slip that I was going to be a father. What can I say? Beerboarding should be against the law." Franka_LV) |
abbr. | a United States scholarship program in the area of public health. It is sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson foundation and administrated by the College Board not-for-profit examination board in the United States | Young Epidemiological Scholars (YES) (Alex Lilo) |
abbr. | Crimewatch formerly Crimewatch UK is a long-running and high-profile British television programme produced by the BBC, that reconstructs major unsolved crimes in order to gain information from the public which may assist in solving the case. | Crimewatch (Igor Tolok) |
abbr., commer. | 7-Eleven is part of an international chain of convenience stores, operating under Seven-Eleven Japan Co. Ltd, which in turn is owned by Seven & I Holdings Co. of Japan.2 | 7-eleven (Pavel) |
softw., abbr. | Passwords By Mask | PBM |
ecol., abbr. | Report on Observations and Samples Collected by Oceanographic Programs | ROSCOP |
IT, abbr. | Tracing Authors' rights by Labelling Image Services and Monitoring Access Network | TALISMAN (project, Europa) |
abbr., astronaut. | Tropical Ecosystem Environment Observations by Satellite programme | TREES (EC) |