- Composting Toilet
Composting toilet is a toilet that do not use any water. This type of toilet is a dry toilet. The toilet processes the human excreta by using harsh chemicals.
- Puir
adjective, Scot. 1. poor. 2. pure. adjective 1. a Scot word for poor
- Puirtith
noun 1. (Scot) poverty
- Puisne
adjective 1. Law. younger; inferior in rank; junior, as in appointment. noun 2. an associate judge as distinguished from a chief justice. adjective 1. (esp of a subordinate judge) of lower rank
- Puissance
noun, Literary. 1. power, might, or force. noun 1. a competition in showjumping that tests a horse’s ability to jump a limited number of large obstacles 2. (archaic or poetic) power
- Exteroceptor
[ek-ster-uh-sep-ter] /ˌɛk stər əˈsɛp tər/ noun, Physiology. 1. a receptor responding to stimuli originating outside the body. /ˈɛkstərəʊˌsɛptə/ noun 1. any sensory organ or part of the body, such as the eye, able to receive stimuli from outside the body Compare interoceptor, proprioceptor exteroceptor ex·ter·o·cep·tor (ěk’stə-rō-sěp’tər) n. One of the peripheral end organs of the […]
- Gunboat
[guhn-boht] /ˈgʌnˌboʊt/ noun 1. a small, armed warship of light draft, used in ports where the water is shallow. 2. any small ship carrying mounted . /ˈɡʌnˌbəʊt/ noun 1. a small shallow-draft vessel carrying mounted guns and used by coastal patrols, etc 1793, from gun + boat. Gunboat diplomacy is from 1916, originally with reference […]
- Retrenchment
[ri-trench-muh nt] /rɪˈtrɛntʃ mənt/ noun 1. the act of retrenching; a cutting down or off, as by the reduction of expenses. 2. Fortification. an interior work that cuts off a part of a fortification from the rest, and to which a garrison may retreat. retrenchment /rɪˈtrɛntʃmənt/ noun 1. the act of reducing expenditure in order […]
- Livonian
[li-voh-nee-uh] /lɪˈvoʊ ni ə/ noun 1. a former Russian province on the Baltic: now part of Latvia and Estonia. 2. a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit. /lɪˈvəʊnɪən/ adjective 1. of or relating to Livonia, a former Russian Baltic province, or its inhabitants noun 2. a native or inhabitant of Livonia /lɪˈvəʊnɪə/ noun 1. a […]
- Althusser
noun Louis. 1918–90, French Marxist philosopher, author of For Marx (1965) and Reading Capital (1965): committed to a mental hospital (1981) after killing his wife Contemporary Examples In France, a whole constellation of (relatively) young thinkers are transforming it: Foucault, althusser, Deleuze, etc. Derrida’s ‘Of Grammatology’ and the Birth of Deconstruction Benoît Peeters December 20, […]
