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- UAT
- acronym, User Acceptance Testing; the phase of software testing wherein a final version of a product is run by users to see how it stands up to normal usage—this type of testing is notoriously unreliable as unfortunately there is no way to force-feed shaved bunny rabbits your toxic HTML and Java applets to determine LD50.
- Ubiquity
- n. The gift or power of being in all places at one time, but not in all places at all times, which is omnipresence, an attribute of God and the luminiferous ether only. This important distinction between ubiquity and omnipresence was not clear to the mediaeval Church and there was much bloodshed about it. Certain Lutherans, who affirmed the presence everywhere of Christ’s body were known as Ubiquitarians. For this error they were doubtless damned, for Christ’s body is present only in the eucharist, though that sacrament may be performed in more than one place simultaneously. In recent times ubiquity has not always been understood — not even by Sir Boyle Roche, for example, who held that a man cannot be in two places at once unless he is a bird.
- Ugliness
- n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
- ugly
- differently pretty; beauty challenged.
- ulcer
- 1. an inflammation and festering rupture of the stomach, formed by simple malnutrition—specifically as a result of deficiency in the vitamins T, H, and C.
- 2. the only friend that will be hanging around in the crucial 2–3 weeks after your mate leaves you.
- Ultimatum
- n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions. Having received an ultimatum from Austria, the Turkish Ministry met to consider it. “O servant of the Prophet,” said the Sheik of the Imperial Chibouk to the Mamoosh of the Invincible Army, “how many unconquerable soldiers have we in arms?” “Upholder of the Faith,” that dignitary replied after examining his memoranda, “they are in numbers as the leaves of the forest!” “And how many impenetrable battleships strike terror to the hearts of all Christian swine?” he asked the Imaum of the Ever Victorious Navy. “Uncle of the Full Moon,” was the reply, “deign to know that they are as the waves of the ocean, the sands of the desert and the stars of Heaven!” For eight hours the broad brow of the Sheik of the Imperial Chibouk was corrugated with evidences of deep thought: he was calculating the chances of war. Then, “Sons of angels,” he said, “the die is cast! I shall suggest to the Ulema of the Imperial Ear that he advise inaction. In the name of Allah, the council is adjourned.”
- ultimatum
- the logical “OR” operator, where the proposition is this OR that meaning only one of the two can be; the state of New Hampshire having one of the more succinct examples, “Live free or die,” while, rather unfortunately, doing neither.
- umbilical cord
- the noose from which we all hang and by which strive to become executioners in turn.
- Un-american
- adj. Wicked, intolerable, heathenish.
