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   get rolling
         v 1: start to be active; "Get cracking, please!" [syn: {get
               cracking}, {bestir oneself}, {get going}, {get moving},
               {get weaving}, {get started}, {get rolling}]

English Dictionary: get rolling by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
guttural
adj
  1. like the sounds of frogs and crows; "a guttural voice"; "acres of guttural frogs"
    Synonym(s): croaky, guttural
  2. relating to or articulated in the throat; "the glottal stop and uvular `r' and `ch' in German `Bach' are guttural sounds"
n
  1. a consonant articulated in the back of the mouth or throat
    Synonym(s): guttural, guttural consonant, pharyngeal, pharyngeal consonant
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
guttural consonant
n
  1. a consonant articulated in the back of the mouth or throat
    Synonym(s): guttural, guttural consonant, pharyngeal, pharyngeal consonant
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gutturally
adv
  1. in a guttural manner; "gutturally articulated"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Guide \Guide\, n. [OE. giae, F. guide, It. guida. See {Guide},
      v. t.]
      1. A person who leads or directs another in his way or
            course, as in a strange land; one who exhibits points of
            interest to strangers; a conductor; also, that which
            guides; a guidebook.
  
      2. One who, or that which, directs another in his conduct or
            course of lifo; a director; a regulator.
  
                     He will be our guide, even unto death. --Ps. xlviii.
                                                                              14.
  
      3. Any contrivance, especially one having a directing edge,
            surface, or channel, for giving direction to the motion of
            anything, as water, an instrument, or part of a machine,
            or for directing the hand or eye, as of an operator; as:
            (a) (Water Wheels) A blade or channel for directing the
                  flow of water to the wheel buckets.
            (b) (Surgery) A grooved director for a probe or knife.
            (c) (Printing) A strip or device to direct the
                  compositor's eye to the line of copy he is setting.
  
      4. (Mil.) A noncommissioned officer or soldier placed on the
            directiug flank of each subdivision of a column of troops,
            or at the end of a line, to mark the pivots, formations,
            marches, and alignments in tactics. --Farrow.
  
      {Guide bar} (Mach.), the part of a steam engine on which the
            crosshead slides, and by which the motion of the piston
            rod is kept parallel to the cylinder, being a substitute
            for the parallel motion; -- called also {guide}, and
            {slide bar}.
  
      {Guide block} (Steam Engine), a block attached in to the
            crosshead to work in contact with the guide bar.
  
      {Guide meridian}. (Surveying) See under {Meridian}.
  
      {Guide pile} (Engin.), a pile driven to mark a place, as a
            point to work to.
  
      {Guide pulley} (Mach.), a pulley for directing or changing
            the line of motion of belt; an idler. --Knight.
  
      {Guide rail} (Railroads), an additional rail, between the
            others, gripped by horizontal driving wheels on the
            locomotive, as a means of propulsion on steep gradients.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Guttural \Gut"tur*al\, a. [L. guttur throat: cf. F. gutural.]
      Of or pertaining to the throat; formed in the throat;
      relating to, or characteristic of, a sound formed in the
      throat.
  
               Children are occasionally born with guttural swellings.
                                                                              --W. Guthrie.
  
               In such a sweet, guttural accent.            --Landor.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Guttural \Gut"tur*al\, n.
      A sound formed in the throat; esp., a sound formed by the aid
      of the back of the tongue, much retracted, and the soft
      palate; also, a letter representing such a sound.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Thunderbird \Thun"der*bird`\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      An Australian insectivorous singing bird ({Pachycephala
      gutturalis}). The male is conspicuously marked with black and
      yellow, and has a black crescent on the breast. Called also
      {white-throated thickhead}, {orange-breasted thrust},
      {black-crowned thrush}, {guttural thrush}, and
      {black-breasted flycatcher}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gutturalism \Gut"tur*al*ism\, n.
      The quality of being guttural; as, the gutturalism of A [in
      the 16th cent.] --Earle.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gutturality \Gut"tur*al"i*ty\, n.
      The quality of being guttural. [R.] [bd]The old gutturality
      of k.[b8] --Earle.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gutturalize \Gut"tur*al*ize\, v. t.
      To speak gutturally; to give a guttural sound to.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gutturally \Gut"tur*al*ly\, adv.
      In a guttural manner.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gutturalness \Gut"tur*al*ness\, n.
      The quality of being guttural.

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   Get a real computer! imp.   Typical hacker response to news that
   somebody is having trouble getting work done on a system that (a) is
   single-tasking, (b) has no hard disk, or (c) has an address space
   smaller than 16 megabytes.   This is as of early 1996; note that the
   threshold for `real computer' rises with time.   See {bitty box} and
   {toy}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   Get a real computer!
  
      A typical {hacker} response to news that somebody is
      having trouble getting work done on a {toy} system or {bitty
      box}.
  
      The threshold for "real computer" rises with time.   As of
      mid-1993 it meant {multi-tasking}, with a {hard disk}, and an
      {address space} bigger than 16 {megabytes}.   At this time,
      according to {GLS}, computers with character-only displays
      were verging on "unreal".   In 2001, a real computer has a one
      {gigahertz} processor, 128 MB of {RAM}, 20 GB of hard disk,
      and runs {Linux}.
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
      (2001-06-22)
  
  
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