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Re: Darn Those Definitions
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Fri, 6 Aug 1999 17:55:38 GMT
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Jonathan Woodward <WOODWARD@GUESSWORK.COMspamless>
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At 10:21 AM 8/6/99 -0600, John A. deVries II wrote:
> At 08:25 AM 08/06/1999 , you wrote:
> > Actually, it involves a fluid, not a liquid. Might seem like semantics, • but
> > by the scientific definition gases are fluids.
> Wrong-o. Sorry to be flameish about this, but generally speaking
> (approximately) four states of matter are accepted: solid, liquid, gas • and
> plasma. Liquids and gases have fairly distinct differences having to do
> with the degree of inter-particle forces.
-Obviously. However, in my dictionary (Columbia), "fluid" includes
both gases and liquids, and "hydraulic" says "moved or operated by a
fluid". Now, I completely agree that "hydraulic" _ought_ to mean "moved
or operated by a liquid", but that isn't what my dictionary says. Yours
may differ.
> A couple of definitions:
> > pneu·mat·ic
> > Pronunciation: nu-'ma-tik, nyu-
> > Function: adjective
> > Etymology: Latin pneumaticus, from Greek pneumatikos, from pneumat-, • pneuma
> > air, breath, spirit, from pnein to breathe
> > hy·drau·lic
> > Pronunciation: hI-'dro-lik
> > Function: adjective
> > Etymology: Latin hydraulicus, from Greek hydraulikos, from hydraulis
> > hydraulic organ, from hydr- + aulos reed instrument
-Those aren't definitions, those are etymologies. If I told you that
"monitor" came from the Latin for "to warn", that wouldn't tell you much
about the object you're looking at right now.
-JW
Jonathan Woodward woodward@guesswork.com http://www.io.com/~woodward/
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