cast out nines (third-person singular simple present casts out nines, present participle casting out nines, simple past and past participle cast out nines)
(arithmetic) To apply a procedure for verifying whether an arithmetic operation is probably correct or certainly incorrect using modulo characteristics of these specific integer combinations.

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Curtis: Hi Spencer, I thought we might talk about fashion a little bit. Could you describe to me your style or your fashion sense? Spencer: Well my fashion sense has definitely changed over the last decade. I was kind of recently out of uni and my un

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Last week, the Minister of Conservation, Nick Smith, gave permission for a new open-cast coal mine on conservation land on the West Coast. The Environment Court last month said it would probably give permission for the mine. Now the Forest and Bird o

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Without a care we stand fast, before an endless sea. Impervious to any storm blowing our way. Without fear we glance into spiteful eyes, as we walk determined, dressed to the nines. Carelessly we let them sling their pebbles at our feet. Continuously

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学英语单词
a shipyard
a. submentalis
Aasax
acquisition of the right to a mark
ada (ada)
adaptive robot
agatize,agatized
aideress
alkaliplant
alternating-group flashing light
ambulophobia
an unfavourable balance
anterior segmental bronchus
antijury
antimalarine
applanator
approximation suture
autoprecipitation
Bernoulli,Jean
beta-ascharite (szaibelyite)
black-leg
bowling out
bulwark handrail
Carcans
change side
circumoval precipitate
cold degree-day
collaborative information system development
columbia pk.
Core PCE deflator
cover material
curd strength
cut swathes
daphnids
demodulated colour subcarrier
deoxythymidylic acid(TMP,dTMP)
desoxyglucosamine
digitately
diplazium tomiteroanum masam.
double nip
earth-moving scraper
ebony stick
engine test plant
flemish dialects
game-license
gas pistol
glutaminyl-
granulomas
high grounding
Ht.
hyperrealism
imprecise probability
Indigofera howellii
industrial-relations
initiate
inverse estimation
John Rowlands
june-july
Karelian pie
kitchenary
lagrange
laparonephrectomy
Li'l Abner
light client
light-proof enclosure
love-child
magruder
main-and-tail haulage
Maiya
Mission Bay
moving average filter
muonium chemistry
negative electron affinity photocathode
non-tidal basin
nonlinear regulation
numbering system
optional delivery
oryzalexins
oxygen consumption rate of exercise
planectomy
planning on
predefined futures calendar spreads
Private Annuity
realite
reel arm
seat arm cap
sew
snap-back forming
spherical colony
suboccipito-fronta1 diameter
Suwa-bonchi
T.share
tetrapodisis
traffic island refuge
uniform substantive law
Ust'-Chizhapka
vannice
VHML
vocal function
whistle-stopped
witticize
Würding