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  • 31garble — To mix up a story; to distort the facts in relating an occurrence or event. In very rare usage, to sort the good from the bad in a quantity of a commodity …

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  • 32garble — v.tr. 1 unintentionally distort or confuse (facts, messages, etc.). 2 a mutilate in order to misrepresent. b make (usu. unfair or malicious) selections from (facts, statements, etc.). Derivatives: garbler n. Etymology: It. garbellare f. Arab.… …

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  • 33gabler — garble …

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  • 34Garbled — Garble Gar ble, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Garbled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Garbling}.] [Formerly, to pick out, sort, OF. grabeler, for garbeler to examine precisely, garble spices, fr. LL. garbellare to sift; cf. Sp. garbillar to sift, garbillo a coarse… …

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  • 35Garbling — Garble Gar ble, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Garbled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Garbling}.] [Formerly, to pick out, sort, OF. grabeler, for garbeler to examine precisely, garble spices, fr. LL. garbellare to sift; cf. Sp. garbillar to sift, garbillo a coarse… …

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  • 36garblings — Garble Gar ble, n. 1. Refuse; rubbish. [Obs.] Wolcott. [1913 Webster] 2. pl. Impurities separated from spices, drugs, etc.; also called {garblings}. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 37garbler — garble ► VERB ▪ reproduce (a message or transmission) in a confused and distorted way. ► NOUN ▪ a garbled account or transmission. DERIVATIVES garbler noun. ORIGIN originally in the sense «sift out, cleanse»: from an Arabic word meaning «sift» …

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  • 38Secondary surveillance radar — SSR antenna of Deutsche Flugsicherung at Neubrandenburg, in Mecklenburg/Western Pomerania Secondary surveillance radar (SSR)[1] is a radar system used in air traffic control (ATC), that not only detects an …

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  • 39garbled — gar|bled [ˈga:bəld US ˈga:r ] adj [Date: 1400 1500; Origin: garble to remove impure parts by putting through a container with small holes (15 19 centuries), from Old Italian garbellare, from Arabic gharbala, from ghirbal sieve ] a garbled… …

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  • 40Joseph Rochefort — Infobox Military Person name=Joseph John Rochefort born= 1898 died= death year and age|1976|1898 placeofbirth= placeofdeath= caption=Joseph J. Rochefort nickname= allegiance= United States of America branch= United States Navy serviceyears=1918… …

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