(inorganic chemistry) A white powderous substance, CaO, normally made by heating calcium carbonate.

A general guideline, rather than a strict rule; an approximate measure or means of reckoning based on experience or common knowledge. / (attributive, usually hyphenated) Approximated, guesstimated.

A person who is in great need of something will find a way to obtain it.

A linguistic ancestor of the Chinese languages, spoken during roughly the first millennium BCE.

(transitive, informal) To pay out, to hand over

A ring-shaped piece of onion formed from a way of cutting through the natural shell structure of the onion. / A food composed of onions cut into rings, that are then battered and deep-fried.

(idiomatic) To accept punishment or injury without retaliating.

A type of onion with reddish purplish skin.

A west Germanic language historically tied to Anglo-Saxon and Old Low Franconian.

Concept in holism related to the idea that the total effectiveness of a group of things each interacting with one another is different or greater than their effectiveness when acting in isolation from one another.