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Shutting
- verb - become closed;
- move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut;
- prevent from entering; shut out; "The trees were shutting out all sunlight"; "This policy excludes people who have a criminal record from entering the country"
- the act of closing something
Sibilant
- adjective - a consonant characterized by a hissing sound (like s or sh)
- of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then')
Sidebone
- - A morbid growth or deposit of bony matter and at the sides of the coronet and coffin bone of a horse.
Sideline
- noun - a line that marks the side boundary of a playing field
- an auxiliary activity
- an auxiliary line of merchandise
- remove from the center of activity or attention; place into an inferior position; "The outspoken cabinet member was sidelined by the President"
Sideling
- - Sidelong; on the side; laterally; also, obliquely; askew.
Sidelong
- adjective - (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy; "her eyes with their misted askance look"- Elizabeth Bowen; "sidelong glances"
- inclining or directed to one side; "moved downward in a sidelong way" - Bram Stoker
- on the side; "the plow lay sidelong on the ground"
- situated at or extending to the side; "the lateral branches of a tree"; "shot out sidelong boughs"- Tennyson
- to, toward or at one side; "darting eyes looking sidelong out of a wizened face"
- with the side toward someone or something; "seated sidelong to the window"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sighting
- verb - catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes; "he caught sight of the king's men coming over the ridge"
- take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other device)
- the act of observing; "several sightings of enemy troops were reported"
Silicone
- noun - any of a large class of siloxanes that are unusually stable over a wide range of temperatures; used in lubricants and adhesives and coatings and synthetic rubber and electrical insulation
Silicons
- noun - a tetravalent nonmetallic element; next to oxygen it is the most abundant element in the earth's crust; occurs in clay and feldspar and granite and quartz and sand; used as a semiconductor in transistors
Siloxane
- noun - any of a large class of compounds that have alternate silicon and oxygen atoms