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quadrant
quadrant in technology, angle-measuring device based on a scale of 90°. It is sometimes confused with the sextant , a similar instrument based on a scale of 60°. The quadrant is rarely used today. ... Read more
Babel
Babel [Heb.,=confused], in the Bible, place where Noah's descendants (who spoke one language) tried to build a tower reaching up to heaven to make a name for themselves. For this presumption the speech of the builders was confused, thus ending the project. The story was perhaps originally an etiolo... Read more
Darius the Mede
Darius the Mede in the Bible, a king of the Medes who succeeded to the throne of Babylonia after Belshazzar. Otherwise unknown outside biblical tradition, it is likely that this Darius has been confused with Cyrus the Persian, who succeeded Belshazzar and decreed (539 BC) the return of exiled Jews.... Read more
lockout
lockout intentional closing up of a company, factory, or shop by an employer to prevent employees from working during a strike or labor dispute. The term lockout is sometimes confused with the term strike , since what employers will frequently designate as a strike will in turn be referred to ... Read more
labyrinth
labyrinth , intricate building of chambers and passages, often constructed so as to perplex and confuse a person inside. In Egypt, Amenemhet III of the XII dynasty built himself a funeral temple in the form of a great labyrinth near Lake Moeris. More celebrated was a labyrinth in Crete built, accord... Read more
Saint Peter Gonzalez
Saint Peter Gonzalez , 1190-1246, Spanish Dominican priest. He worked first among the Moors, then among the mariners of NW Spain. As a patron of sailors he acquired the name St. Elmo, perhaps in confusion with an earlier mariners' saint of that name, a 4th-century martyr. Saint Elmo's fire was reg... Read more
Ferdinand Bol
Ferdinand Bol , 1616-80, Dutch painter. He studied with Rembrandt in Amsterdam, and his early work (e.g., Elizabeth Bas, Amsterdam) has sometimes been confused with that of his master. His style was modified after 1650 through contact with van der Helst. Thereafter he moved away from a preoccupati... Read more
Chaos
Chaos , in Greek religion and mythology, vacant, unfathomable space. From it arose all things, earthly and divine. There are various legends explaining it. In one version, Eurynome rose out of Chaos and created all things. In another, Gaea sprang from Chaos and was the mother of all things. Eventu... Read more
chigoe
chigoe or jigger, small parasitic flea of tropical America and the S United States. Humans and their domestic animals are the main hosts. The fertilized female bores into the flesh (usually of the feet or legs) and feeds on the blood causing a painful, pustulous sore. She retains her eggs in ... Read more
Freyja
Freyja or Freya , Norse goddess of love, marriage, and fertility. Her identity and attributes were often confused with those of the goddess Frigg. As a deity of the dead, Freyja was entitled to half the warriors killed in battle, the other half going to Odin. She was the sister of the god Frey a... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "A Bit Confused."

Rickettsial Infections
Encyclopedia entry from: Complete Human Diseases and Conditions ...People become infected by breathing in the bacteria in airborne bits of dust contaminated with one of those substances. Rocky Mountain...dih-LEER-e-um) is a condition in which a person is confused, is unable to think clearly, and has a reduced level of consciousness...
John Frederick Peto
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...wall, next to the rack, he displayed tiny newspaper clippings, old bits of string, perhaps a notebook trapped in the tape, sometimes an old...disentangling his work from Harnett's, with which it had for so long been confused. □
Mime in American Theatre
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre ...between 1977 and 1980. Mime in these instances should not be confused with English‐style pantomime, which flourished...and Fool Moon (1993), push the parameters of mime a bit but have endeared many to the old art form.
Oral Infections
Encyclopedia entry from: Complete Human Diseases and Conditions ...infectious organism. However, they are very common and can be confused with the sores that appear with some mouth infections. The...eats away at the enamel of teeth. The acid, bacteria, and bits of food in the mouth combine into a thin film known as plaque...
Sexual Orientation
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Education ...Hesitantly Defined When a compass is moved, the needle fluctuates for a bit before settling on true north. Similarly, a significant number of adolescents will find themselves confused about their sexual orientation and gender before settling into their...
vasectomy
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body ...gained in connection with rejuvenation, for many years it was confused in both the lay and the medical mind with castration . The very...through a small puncture wound; the ends are then separated by a bit of tissue. It is interesting to note that Professor Li started...
handedness
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body ...of them prefer the left foot when picking up small objects or bits of food! Right-handedness appears to be universal among humans...the greatest geniuses of all time, was left-handed, and confused the right-handed world by writing, in mirror-image fashion...

Dictionary entries related to "A Bit Confused."

channel coding theorem
Book article from: A Dictionary of Computing ...xBD;ν log 2 (1 + P S / P N ) bit/s If it is a discrete-time channel...criterion , C = W log 2 (1 + P S / P N ) bit/s This is sometimes called the Shannon...capacity of specific channels should not be confused with the channel coding theorem, which...
Jābir Ibn Aflah Al-Ishbīlī, Abū Muḥammad
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...by the Latinized name Geber, J ā bir has often been confused with the al-chemist J ā bir ibn Hayy ā n...both have derived their fundamental theorems from Th ā bit ibn Qurra ’ s tract on Menelaus ’ theorem...

Thesaurus entries related to "A Bit Confused."

trifle
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...gimcrack, gewgaw, toy, doodad, whatnot.   3. I paid a mere trifle for it synonyms : next to nothing, hardly anything, pittance; inf. piddling amount.   4. he is a trifle confused synonyms : bit, small amount, touch.
indefinite
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...answer synonyms : vague, unclear, imprecise, inexact, ambiguous, ambivalent, equivocal, confused, evasive, abstruse.   4. she's a bit indefinite about whether she's going or not synonyms : undecided, indecisive, irresolute...
senile
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...adjective  she's in her nineties, but she's not a bit senile synonyms : doddering, doddery, decrepit, senescent...feeble; aged, long in the tooth, in one's dotage; mentally confused, having Alzheimer's (disease), having senile dementia...

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Vic: Missing British teen turns up "a bit confused"
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 10/21/2003; 417 words ; ...Missing British teen turns up "a bit confused" By Susan Murdoch MELBOURNE, Oct...station last night "tired and a bit vague", police said. The 17...his disappearance and was a "bit confused". "He wasn't sure what was going...
A BIT CONFUSED? YOU'RE NOT ALONE
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 10/12/1997; ; 511 words ; KEVIN G. DeMARRAIS, Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 10-12-1997 A BIT CONFUSED? YOU'RE NOT ALONE -- COMPLEXITIES WILL ALL ADD UP By KEVIN G. DeMARRAIS, Staff Writer Date: 10-12-1997, Sunday Section...
A bit confused, BILL ALLEMAN, Weare - Letter
Newspaper article from: Concord Monitor; 6/19/2006; 409 words ; Re "No taxes? No help" (Monitor letter, June 15): First, Mr. Langevin is a bit confused: Taxes don't pay for private contract insurance, and taxpayers have no business dictating that private contract's conditions...
I was a bit confused: Gilmartin.(NEWS)
Magazine article from: Evening Herald (Dublin, Republic of Ireland); 5/30/2007; 652 words ; ...from Bertie Ahern's close friend Joe Burke. On the stand, at the tribunal today, Tom Gilmartin said he was ''a bit confused'' during his questioning yesterday with tribunal counsel Pat Quinn. It was yesterday said that Joe Burke had allegedly...
'perhaps lee is a bit confused'.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: Cape Times (South Africa); 12/24/2008; 700+ words ; ...without Clark doing a holding job, perhaps Lee gets a little confused about his role. I think he's at his best when he's striking...that, Arthur said. We could have exploited the tail a little bit better, but we didn't. Maybe we got our plans slightly wrong...
Desires are different, and he's a bit confused
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 11/1/2006; ; 693 words ; AMY DICKINSON The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 11-01-2006 Desires are different, and he's a bit confused AMY DICKINSON Date: 11-01-2006, Wednesday Section: ENTERTAINMENT Edtion: All Editions Column: ASK AMY Q. I have been...
SOME FIRST-TIME FLIERS, LURED BY LOW FARES, ARE A BIT CONFUSED.(Travel)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 8/9/1992; 700+ words ; ...You should have checked this," the flight attendant said. "What? You need a check?" the young woman asked, looking confused. If you haven't flown during the past two months but are planning a trip before mid-September, you should brace yourself...
Players in Playboy 'Sex Court' Case Leave Judge a Bit Confused.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 12/20/2002; 513 words ; ...went into preproduction for the TV show at least a week before that. The lawyers agree on little except that consumers are confused by the similarly named smut ventures. For the record, Judge Julie settles disputes of a sexual nature on the TV show, and...
Football: THE MOLE - SHEP A BIT CONFUSED.(Sport)
Newspaper article from: Sunday Mirror (London, England); 4/6/2008; 296 words ; ...chairman Gordon Shepherd is unhappy the Tykes will pocket just pounds 250,000 from their Wembley day out, saying: The FA take a bit and the clubs pay rent but no one knows how much - there should be greater clarity. Perhaps he should ask the chairman of the...
Views, Reviews, Previews; Summer Comings & Goings; Toto, a Bit Confused, in Morocco
Newspaper article from: Oakland Post; 7/9/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...from one another as those in New Zealand or Switzerland. Casablanca and Tangier are messy but vital, nondescript big cities, bits of 21st century development superimposed on a mixture of British India and French-colonial look, with touches of East Europe...