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[zzedar]

I'm not talking about mass energy equivalence, I'm talking about creating energy out of nothing:P

I don't think "form" implies creation out of nothing. When you form a cup out of clay, that doesn't mean you summon the cup into being from the ether.

[UristMcHuman]

The sun doesn't form light, it releases energy in the form of thermal radiation and light energy from nuclear fission...

WHO GIVES A DAMN.

You did say you might make a literal dictionary... Might as well make it literal

I didn't say it was going to be COMPLETELY literal, mind ye.

I'm causing this:

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[Mrhappyface]

Giant Serrated Disc:
N.
1. A metallic disc with serrated edges. Whilst humans saw use in it for neatly sawing lumber into neat even logs, dwarves saw a much more productive purpose for it. i.e. sawing goblins and elves into neat, even chunks. It has been toted the greatest dwarven invention since the anvil and *Sugar Roasts*. This is due to the fact dwarves discovered that while murdering greenskin and treehuggers with an axe is certainly enjoyable, watching them die while you eat a plump helmet and sugar roast in your private dining room is much more higher on the pleasure meter.

[Necro910]

Giant Serrated Disc:
N.
1. A metallic disc with serrated edges. Whilst humans saw use in it for neatly sawing lumber into neat even logs, dwarves saw a much more productive purpose for it. i.e. sawing goblins and elves into neat, even chunks. It has been toted the greatest dwarven invention since the anvil and *Sugar Roasts*. This is due to the fact dwarves discovered that while murdering greenskin and treehuggers with an axe is certainly enjoyable, watching them die while you eat a plump helmet and sugar roast in your private dining room is much more higher on the pleasure meter.

2. The most efficient method of blood extraction, when combined with a pit.

[Loud Whispers]

I don't think "form" implies creation out of nothing. When you form a cup out of clay, that doesn't mean you summon the cup into being from the ether.

The what now...?
Form-

1. To become formed or shaped.
2. To come into being by taking form; arise.
3. To assume a specified form, shape, or pattern.

Well you'd be right in most other circumstances, if it weren't for the syntax of it all >_>
That or I'm also thinking too hard about it ;]

I didn't say it was going to be COMPLETELY literal, mind ye.

I'm causing this:

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I have a horrific half formed image of an eldritch abomination made out of ASCII creating alternate timelines within an earthworm. Don't ask.

Giant Serrated Disc:
N.
1. A metallic disc with serrated edges. Whilst humans saw use in it for neatly sawing lumber into neat even logs, dwarves saw a much more productive purpose for it. i.e. sawing goblins and elves into neat, even chunks. It has been toted the greatest dwarven invention since the anvil and *Sugar Roasts*. This is due to the fact dwarves discovered that while murdering greenskin and treehuggers with an axe is certainly enjoyable, watching them die while you eat a plump helmet and sugar roast in your private dining room is much more higher on the pleasure meter.

2. The most efficient method of blood extraction, when combined with a pit.

The Large Serrated disc will be added
*Surprised I haven't already, referenced it at least 4 times in the dictionary already >_>
Oh and welcome back Necro! (Un)-Surprisingly, you are apparently considered a bay12 meme by 27/40 forumites ._.
Well, welcome to the dictionary... MUAH HA HA HA HA HA.

[Kogut]

Please, turn ">Continued in other posts<" into link.

[daveralph1234]

Spoiler: Pump (stack) (click to show/hide)

1. A corkscrew, fitted into a pipe and controlled by a mechanism housed in a block chassis, the screw pump works by drawing out water through the screw, then using the centrifugal force of the spiralling corkscrew to induce a vomit like effect, pressurising and throwing water out of the corkscrew voilently, in a controlled fashion. A side effect of this is impurities like salt, silt and rocks are either thrown out of the pump or sifted through the corkscrew, in this way the dwarves have not only invented the first centrifuge, but they also manage to distill dirty, parasite infested or even salty water into clean, drinking water; 2. Pump stack adapted to draw magma out instead.

Sorry to nag, but I think you mean the centripetal force, there is no such thing as "the centrifugal force", it is the the centrifugal effect, I can explain why if I really have to but a quick look on the internet or a dictionary will prove it. It's a very common (and annoying) misconception, which as a !!Physics!! student, really bugs me.
Also, should we add to this entery, something about that human Archemedes who blatently stole designs for this marvel of dwarven !!Engeneering!!?

[Loud Whispers]

Spoiler: Pump (stack) (click to show/hide)

1. A corkscrew, fitted into a pipe and controlled by a mechanism housed in a block chassis, the screw pump works by drawing out water through the screw, then using the centrifugal force of the spiralling corkscrew to induce a vomit like effect, pressurising and throwing water out of the corkscrew voilently, in a controlled fashion. A side effect of this is impurities like salt, silt and rocks are either thrown out of the pump or sifted through the corkscrew, in this way the dwarves have not only invented the first centrifuge, but they also manage to distill dirty, parasite infested or even salty water into clean, drinking water; 2. Pump stack adapted to draw magma out instead.

I am a bouse, and I think you mean the centripetal force, there is no such thing as "the centrifugal force", it is the the centrifugal effect. I can explain why if I really have too, but you'd be better off taking a quick look on the internet or I WILL BURN YOUR HOUSE DOWN WITH THE !!PHYSICS!!. It's a very common (and annoying) misconception, which as a !!Physics!! student, really bugs me.
Also, add to this entry, something about that human Archemedes who blatently stole designs for this marvel of dwarven !!Engeneering!!?

Ftfy. Or ftfm. Also fyg.

M_M

[Necro910]

I didn't say it was going to be COMPLETELY literal, mind ye.

I'm causing this:

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I have a horrific half formed image of an eldritch abomination made out of ASCII creating alternate timelines within an earthworm. Don't ask.

Same here.

Oh and welcome back Necro! (Un)-Surprisingly, you are apparently considered a bay12 meme by 27/40 forumites ._.
Well, welcome to the dictionary... MUAH HA HA HA HA HA.

Dankeshoen! And I figured out why I had extreme votes in my first thread that I made and then nearly no votes in my second. I found out reddit was conspiring against me and my Illuminati assimilation plot meme status. Thankfully this poll ended before reddit caught another wiff of it

Also, the proper format for the chorus of iron blood is

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MAGMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Update please 

[Talvieno]

Should the second part of the dictionary remain in this thread, or get it's own?
 Yeshz (new thread)
 No (spread amongst posts)
 >Abstain< *By not voting, elves win.

What about option 4 - rethreading so you can reserve several posts at the front?

[Loud Whispers]

Should the second part of the dictionary remain in this thread, or get it's own?
 Yeshz (new thread)
 No (spread amongst posts)
 >Abstain< *By not voting, elves win.

What about option 4 - rethreading so you can reserve several posts at the front?

Haven't thought about that, REPOLL!
[Mainly because someone voted for elves again ]

[Mrhappyface]

Awww..
No Hammerer article?
Anyways...

Engraving
N.
Engraver.
1. One who engraves words or images into solid material, whether for art or for record keepings. 2. The local graffiti artists in the fort. When not passed out in a pile of vomit and low-quality beer, strange moods being higher than a kite on rat weed, or munching on plump helmet biscuits, they can be seen giggling softly while scratching crude interpretations of cheese and dying dwarves on the walls.

[Talvieno]

It's close to unanimous.

[Loud Whispers]

It's close to unanimous.

I'll wait for a few hundred more votes... Or at least till the poll god's hunger has been satisfied.

OH NUBURUH! I OFFER YOU THESE VOTES!

[Muttonhawk]

Etymology suggestion time!

Suns and other stars in dwarf fortress are actually ex dwarf-inhabited worlds that progressed so far in technology that water wheels could function on the molecular level. When the first of these nano-water wheels was clustered together and used to power endless amounts of millstones, the unprecedented amount of excess power caused the water molecules to turn into a plasma state and fuse together in the immediate area. When the power was suddenly cut off in this event, the amount of job cancellation messages caused planck time to increase and polarise all of the atoms in the world. The mass-defect energy of the previous fusion reaction, now unabated by its containment, turned the entire planet into a huge sphere of constantly fusing and splitting atoms in a matter of days (a few seconds in relative 'conventional' planck time due to job cancellations).