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Samizdats
- noun - a system of clandestine printing and distribution of dissident or banned literature
Samoyedes
- - An ignorant and degraded Turanian tribe which occupies a portion of Northern Russia and a part of Siberia.
Samphires
- noun - fleshy maritime plant having fleshy stems with rudimentary scalelike leaves and small spikes of minute flowers; formerly used in making glass
Samplings
- noun - (statistics) the selection of a suitable sample for study
- items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population
- measurement at regular intervals of the amplitude of a varying waveform (in order to convert it to digital form)
Sanctions
- noun - a mechanism of social control for enforcing a society's standards
- formal and explicit approval; "a Democrat usually gets the union's endorsement"
- give authority or permission to
- give religious sanction to, such as through on oath; "sanctify the marriage"
- give sanction to; "I approve of his educational policies"
- official permission or approval; "authority for the program was renewed several times"
- the act of final authorization; "it had the sanction of the church"
Sandaracs
- noun - a brittle and faintly aromatic translucent resin used in varnishes
- durable fragrant wood; used in building (as in the roof of the cathedral at Cordova, Spain)
- large coniferous evergreen tree of North Africa and Spain having flattened branches and scalelike leaves yielding a hard fragrant wood; bark yields a resin used in varnishes
Sandbanks
- noun - a submerged bank of sand near a shore or in a river; can be exposed at low tide
Sandboxes
- noun - a plaything consisting of a pile of sand or a box filled with sand for children to play in
- mold consisting of a box with sand shaped to mold metal
Sandflies
- noun - any of various small dipterous flies; bloodsucking females can transmit sandfly fever and leishmaniasis
Sandglass
- noun - timepiece in which the passage of time is indicated by the flow of sand from one transparent container to another through a narrow passage