Round 3181 CONFIDENTE - time to vote!
Shani Naylor
1.
A con-man.
2.
A confessor [Ital.]
3.
A chest of drawers.
4.
One who confesses; a penitent.
5.
A third-party guarantor in a banking
transaction.
6.
[Fr.] A person who writes letters for people who
are illiterate.
7.
A knight who has sworn an oath to be faithful to
his brothers in a chivalric order.
8.
A person with superior, usually specialized
knowledge or highly refined taste; a connoisseur.
9.
A watchword used by the Spanish Inquisition;
believed to be a short version of Confidente in Deum (Mediaeval Latin),
trusting in God.
10.
A sofa or settee, especially of the 18th
century, having a triangular seat at each end divided from the greater part of
the seat by an armrest.
11.
[Obs.] A sofa where the seating is 's'-shaped so
that a lady and a gentleman can sit one on each side and talk to each other
with an arm between them.
12.
(Computers) A set of symbols used to represent
blocks of binary data, in which the original block of data is represented by a
larger block of data which includes additional bits arranged in such a way that
the original data may be read even if one or more of the bits of the encoded
data is changed, as in a noisy communication channel. Various codes are
available which can correct different numbers or patterns of errors in the
transmitted data.
The deadline is 10.30pm Tuesday 13 July my time (NZDT) or:
Los Angeles, USA Tuesday 13 July at 3.30am
New York, USA Tuesday 13 July at 6.30am
London, United Kingdom Tuesday 13 July at 11.30am
Paris, France Tuesday 13 July at 12.30pm
(please check these times and adjust accordingly)
New players always welcome!
Shani
France International/Mike Shefler
my votes (10 & 11).
Daniel B Widdis
Fein, Deborah
UConn Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor
Department of Psychological Sciences
Department of Pediatrics
University of Connecticut
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I’ll probably be proven wrong, but I don’t see the sofas. I’ll buck the trend and try 4 and 5.
Alan
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The extra time elicited a couple more defs - so here we have it, 12 meanings for our word CONFIDENTE. Please vote for 2 before our deadline:
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