Rnd 3670 SEKED Results

[John Barrs]

This is a word used in ancient Egypt to define the slope of the faces of a Right Pyramid - such as the Great Pyramid of Giza built around 2550 BC. For the technically minded he seked is proportional to the reciprocal of our modern measure of slope or gradient, and to the cotangent of the angle of elevation.

’

3 vioed for this giving me a D3. Tim L garnered 5* votes and is our next dealer Paul is the ‘winnah’ with 3 votes

Over to you Tim

 

JohnnyB

	Rnd 3670 SEKED(or SEQED) New Word	Author	Voted	Votes From	Vote Total
1	A provisional mark entered beside goods awaiting allocation	Dan W	NoVote	Eric B	1
2	A camel-racing jockey, usually a young boy	Tim L	5*, 10	Shani N, Tim B, Efrem M	5*
3	A red herring	Eric B	1, 10	Mike S	1
4	A slight deviation in a measured vector, usually too small to affect overall calculations	Judy M	5*,6		2
5	An ancient Egyptian term describing the inclination of the triangular faces of a right pyramid	Wiki	N/A	Tim L, Judy M, Debbie E	D3
6	[Arab.] a unit of weight, approximately 900 pounds, being the amount that a camel can normally carry.	Mike S	3, 7	Judy M, Shani N	2
7	[obs] sixteenth	Tony A	NoVote	Mike S	1
8	A Yemeni hot sauce made of peppers, garlic and coriander	Shani N	2, 6	Debbie E	1
9	The concept of justice in Islamic jurisprudence	Efrem M	2, 10		0
10	An Ancient Egyptian word for eternity, or a lifetime, or a very long time period, of a length dependent on context; also, the name of the hieroglyph 𓎛 that was used to represent it	Paul K	DQ	Tim L, Eric B, Efrem M	3
11	fierce; angry [Zulu]	Tim B	2, 11	Tim B	0
	*no def submitted*	Debbie E	5*, 8		2*

 

Dictionary	D3
Tim L	5*
Paul K	3
Debbie E	2*
Judy M	2
Mike S	2
Dan W	1
Eric B	1
Shani N	1
Tony A	1
Efrem M	0
Tim B	0