psychic
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psy·chic
/ ˈsīkik/
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adj.
1.
relating to or denoting faculties or phenomena that are apparently inexplicable by natural laws, esp. involving telepathy or clairvoyance:
psychic powers.
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(of a person) appearing or considered to have powers of telepathy or clairvoyance:
I could sense it—I must be psychic.
2.
of or relating to the soul or mind:
he dulled his psychic pain with gin.
3.
Bridge
denoting a bid that deliberately misrepresents the bidder's hand, in order to mislead the opponents.
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n.
a person considered or claiming to have psychic powers; a medium.
∎ (psychics) [treated as sing. or pl.]
the study of psychic phenomena.
DERIVATIVES:
psy·chi·cal
/ ˈsīkikəl/ adj.
(usu. in sense 1).
psy·chi·cal·ly
/ ˈsīkik(ə)lē/ adv.
psy·chism
/ ˈsīˌkizəm/ n.
(in sense 1).
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Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America
Magazine article from: Business History Review; 10/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Whitney did not invent the cotton gin, and that such simplistic...the first chapter that cotton gins had been used for hundreds...labor than the roller gins. They were particularly...for the short-staple cotton of the Southwest. Lakwete...adopted the saw-toothed gin only after ...
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Lummus Corp. Investment Brings Cotton Gin Back to Savannah, Ga..
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 9/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...product, the cotton gin, has never been...company that makes cotton gins," admits Ross Rutherford...without the cotton gin, the Civil War might...aren't aware that cotton gins are still in use...technology behind the cotton gin is the same as in...
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STATE POLICE INVESTIGATING COTTON GINS SOME SAY MEN SCAMMED THEM; OTHER FARMERS SHOW SUPPORT.(LOCAL)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 11/10/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...or boll weevils. Two cotton gins, partly owned by a farmer...weighing and counting raw cotton taken in for processing...been seized at Southside Gin near Emporia, in Southampton...pounds. Trucks from the gins pick up the modules from...and take them to the gin. The ginning process ...
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Southeastern Virginia to Get New Cotton Gins.(Originated from Daily Press, Newport News, Va.)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 6/4/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...venture to build two cotton gins in Southeastern Virginia...James River - the fifth gin built or planned for...Franklin, and Suffolk Cotton Gin in the Holland area of Suffolk. The gins are opening to keep up with the state's growing cotton crop. Last year, the...
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COTTON GIN RE-OPENS AFTER LICENSE SUSPENSION MINOR INFRACTIONS, INCLUDING PARKING CAR IN WAREHOUSE, HAD FORCED CLOSURE.(BUSINESS)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 3/13/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Agriculture moved in at the gin near Holland on Jan...1997, Ludwig said. Cotton gins are normally inspected...inspectors ruled that Suffolk Cotton Gin manager Richard Ludwig...his Ford Mustang in the cotton warehouse. Ludwig says...the rules regulating gins are outdated.
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When a co-op dies: long-time gin closes doors, one more casualty of California's shrinking cotton industry.
Magazine article from: Rural Cooperatives; 5/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Once dotted with 299 cotton gins, California is...according to the California Cotton Growers and Ginners Associations...Of the remaining gins, 19 are co-ops. Fighting...suffering the fate of other gin casualties. "We fought...bale that larger co-op gins were paying. Gallian and the ...
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ANTHONY FILES DISSENTING OPINION IN COTTON GIN CASE
Newspaper article from: The Journal Record; 6/15/1990; ; 700+ words
; ...does not have cotton gin inspectors as the state statute requires, and few cotton gins file annual reports as...a year. Most of the cotton gins operating in the state are cooperatives in which cotton farmers own shares...consideration in licensing a gin. He added that ...
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New technologies for cotton gins combine for big savings.
Magazine article from: Agricultural Research; 5/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...now found in about 80 gins. With this technology...prescription-process cotton, improving its quality...net value of a bale of cotton by $8 for farmers. Gin process control systems...problems encountered in gins include controlling cotton moisture levels and bale...quality ...
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NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR COTTON GINS COMBINE FOR BIG SAVINGS
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 5/2/2006; 700+ words
; ...now found in about 80 gins. With this technology...prescription-process cotton, improving its quality...net value of a bale of cotton by $8 for farmers. Gin process control systems...problems encountered in gins include controlling cotton moisture levels and bale...quality ...
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Fire rips cotton gin.
Newspaper article from: Star (Shelby, NC); 11/4/2006; 667 words
; ...of the county's two surviving cotton gins Friday evening, then stayed for...employees inside Hamrick Brothers cotton gin when the fire broke out around 5...said. It certainly will impact the cotton industry of the county. The fire...
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Cotton Gin
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...competing patents for gins with sawtoothed cylinders...more efficient system of gin design. Whitney and his...Phineas Miller, kept the cotton gin under their immediate...delayed a shipment of gins, southern blacksmiths...patent that would increase cotton production in America...
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cotton gin
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...United States for long-staple cotton. In the modern roller gin...break the fibers. The saw gin, invented by the American...grate that enclosed the seed cotton. The teeth caught the fibers...short- and medium-staple cotton, has been mechanized and is...plants that are also called ...
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SIC 0724 Cotton Ginning
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Industries
...operated a single gin, while larger companies...many as two dozen gins each. Texas and Missouri are the leading cotton-producing states...remained in use, modern gins have become much...the early 1960s, cotton ginners developed...the Churka roller gin for use on long-fiber Pima ...
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Plains Cotton Cooperative Association
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
...independent ginning outfits and cotton producers in Texas and Oklahoma...effectiveness in facilitating the cotton trade earned it the title...PCCA also introduced an Online Gin Bookkeeping (GBK) system...electronic system designed for cotton gins. In addition to regular payroll...
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Cotton Kingdom
Book article from: American Eras
Cotton Kingdom Whitney ’ s Gin In 1792 Catherine Greene, a widowed...produce. In its first decades the cotton boom benefited almost everyone...Slavery. Before the invention of the cotton gin the institution of slavery apperated...
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