Crystal methamphetamine (aka meth, jib, crystal) use is very prevalent in Manitoba. The drug is cheap and easy to access, and the high lasts for several hours. Crystal meth can be swallowed, crushed and snorted, smoked, or injected.
adjective nautical. (of a sail) pointed at the top or head. (of a sailing vessel or rig) having sails that are triangular.
No, iq is not in the scrabble dictionary.
The JIB-PMES Card and its Issuers
You'll see the acronym JIB appearing on a few cards affiliated to CSCS. JIB stands for Joint Industry Board and denotes that the issuing body responsible for the card in question is recognised by other industry competence measures, including CSCS.Idioms and Phrases with cut of one's jib (1 of 2)
In the 17th century the shape of the jib sail often identified a vessel's nationality, and hence whether it was hostile or friendly. The term was being used figuratively by the early 1800s, often to express like or dislike for someone.To be “three sheets to the wind” is to be drunk. The sheet is the line that controls the sails on a ship. If the line is not secured, the sail flops in the wind, and the ship loses headway and control. If all three sails are loose, the ship is out of control.
Colloquially the term is sometimes used interchangeably with jib. A working jib is no larger than the 100% foretriangle. A genoa is larger, with the leech going past the mast and overlapping the mainsail. To maximize sail area, the foot of the sail is generally parallel and very close to the deck when close hauled.
What's the origin of the phrase 'Cut of your jib'?
The phrase became used in an idiomatic way during the 19th century. Sir Walter Scott used to it in St. Ronan's Well, 1824: "If she disliked what the sailor calls the cut of their jib."verb. A popular slang phrase among the ever growing north eastern youth in the United States, in the cut refers to a male that is interested in or engaged in homosexual intercourse.
1 GiB equals 2 bytes or 1,073,741,824 bytes. Gibibyte is closely related to gigabyte (GB), which can be a synonym of gibibyte or can refer to 10 bytes or 1,000,000,000 bytes in accordance with International System of Units (SI). Gigabyte (GB) can have different meanings in different contexts.
The Gibb name is derived from Gibb, which is a pet form of the personal name Gilbert. This name is derived from the Old English forenames Gislberht and Gislbeorht, which mean bright hostage.
A gigabyte -- pronounced with two hard Gs -- is a unit of data storage capacity that is roughly equivalent to 1 billion bytes. A gigabyte, which uses the abbreviation GB, has been a common unit of capacity measurement for data storage products since the mid-1980s.
gib [castrated male cat] kastrierter Kater {m} zool.
Yes, gib is in the scrabble dictionary.
"Gibbing" is when you hit an enemy so hard the game takes away the sprite/model for the specific enemy and basically replaces it with a spray of meat.
Gib board. n. (Building) informal NZ short for Gibraltar board.
GB (Gigabyte) and GiB (Gibibyte) are two different digital data storage scales defined by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). GiB is base 2, GB is base 10. GiB = 2 to the 30th power (1,073,741,824) bytes (base 2)
