(aviation, shipping) A radio call indicating a minor emergency requiring some assistance, or priority in handling, but not endangering the safety of the vessel or those aboard.

(history) A Japanese prostitute who catered to American GIs in post-WWII occupied Japan.

The highly poisonous agaric Amanita pantherina.

(idiomatic) To describe a class of objects or a kind of phenomenon in general terms, without specific details and without attention to individual variations.

A protective garment worn on a knee to protect it from injury, for example due to a blow or a fall.

The net earnings of a salary or wage earner.

A factory devoted to making paper from wood pulp and other ingredients. / An organization that unethically sells pre-written papers to students.

(electronics) Letting through only a specific range of electromagnetic frequencies.

An abrasive material made by gluing grains of a coarse abrasive to a cloth or paper surface.

An abrasive material, like sandpaper, made by gluing grains of emery to a cloth or paper surface.