(anthropology) A ceremony or series of ceremonies, often very ritualized, to celebrate a transition in a person’s life. Baptisms, bar mitzvahs, weddings and funerals are among the best known examples.

(Mormonism) A sacred text of the Latter-Day Saints movement, published in 1830 by Joseph Smith, Jr.

(idiomatic) To confuse; especially, to lose a pursuer. / (idiomatic) To introduce errors or inaccuracies; to skew. / (transitive) Of a horse, to eject its rider. / To expel, reject, or renounce.

A law which has received assent (royal, presidential or gubernatorial) after having been passed by the houses (or house) of a parliament.

(American spelling, idiomatic) An unrelated or only incidentally related matter with distinctly different significance.

(chemistry) potassium hydrogen tartrate (also called potassium bitartrate), a byproduct of wine manufacture, used in baking powder and in cooking to stabilize beaten egg whites.

An Islamic and political organization with the declared aim of "resurrecting" the spiritual, mental, social and economic condition of the black people of America and the world.

(Britain, idiomatic, transitive) To do badly; to make a mess of.

(of a bet, or an amount of money) Bet with another bookmaker to reduce risk. / (of an employee) Made unemployed or redundant.

A component in a device, or a point in a network, that, if it were to fail would cause the entire device or network to fail; normally eliminated by adding redundancy.