While thanks to American culture, "faggot" is sometimes used as the derogatory name for homosexuals (avoid in polite company), in UK "fagot/faggot" can be used to mean "a cigarette, bundle of firewood, a chopped meatball," or "a bundle of anything", though this is an obscure usage.[1].
Yet even with their obscure origins and absurd usage, they are not going away.
As a high school English teacher, I often find myself consulting the dictionary to make sure I am precise in my usage of obscure words.
In many of the previous investigations, reproductive relationships may have been obscured by high rates of usage of exogenous hormones.
This usage of 'mechanical' tends to obscure the possibility that there may be machines, or biological organs, that calculate (or compute, in a broad sense) functions that are not Turing-machine-computable.
This usage of the term relaxation obscures the most useful experimental feature of relaxation processes.
However, the usage of aggregate emigration factors can obscure the true impact of physician migration on sending countries, if source countries are relatively better off in terms of physician supply, or human development performance[ 7].
The operative word with Merrill's work is recherché in its English usage, meaning exquisite, refined, lavishly elegant, exotic, obscure.
For reasons of space and the likelihood that they would behave like other agents in their class, the more obscure phosphodiesterase inhibitors (PDIs; e.g. olprinone) not in common usage in the UK and Australia are not considered.
In the old days, say circa 2000, most Web bloggers were online diarists, usually political or, worse, technological cranks who engaged in obscure religious battles over trivia such as the creation and proper usage of obscure content-distribution protocols.
Inhibition of initiation by especially strong mRNA structure would obscure effects resulting from factors that influence elongation, such as codon usage, which dominates our results.
