slave mechanism

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• slave — slaveless, adj. slavelike, adj. /slayv/, n., v., slaved, slaving. n. 1. a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another; a bond servant. 2. a person entirely under the domination of some influence or person: a slave to a drug. 3. a… …   Universalium

• slave — [[t]sleɪv[/t]] n. v. slaved, slav•ing 1) a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another; bond servant 2) a person entirely under the domination of some influence or person 3) a drudge: a housekeeping slave[/ex] 4) mac a mechanism… …   From formal English to slang

• slave — /sleɪv / (say slayv) noun 1. someone who is the property of and wholly subject to, another; a bondservant. 2. someone who works for and is the prisoner of another; someone who works under duress and without payment. 3. someone entirely under the… …  

• slave — Synonyms and related words: Charlie McCarthy, agent, ancilla, apple polisher, appliance, ass licker, backscratcher, backslapper, beast of burden, bondmaid, bondman, bondslave, bondsman, bondswoman, bootlick, bootlicker, brown nose, brownie,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• slave — I. noun Etymology: Middle English sclave, from Anglo French or Medieval Latin; Anglo French esclave, from Medieval Latin sclavus, from Sclavus Slavic; from the frequent enslavement of Slavs in central Europe during the early Middle Ages Date:… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• mechanism — Synonyms and related words: Charlie McCarthy, Marxism, action, agency, agent, ancilla, animalism, apparatus, appliance, approach, arrangement, art, atomism, automatic switch, behaviorism, channel selector, check valve, clockworks, commonsense… …   Moby Thesaurus

• The Slave Community — Infobox Book name = The Slave Community image caption = Cover of the 1979 revised edition author = John W. Blassingame country = United States language = English subject = Slavery in the United States History of the Southern United States… …   Wikipedia

• Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 — 1793 Fugitive Slave Act (Feb. 12, 1793, ch. 7, 1 Stat. 302) was written in response to a conflict between Pennsylvania and Virginia. Although the problem of fugitive slaves was addressed at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 (in Article IV,… …   Wikipedia

• Shepherd gate clock — The Shepherd Gate Clock is the clock mounted on the wall outside the gate of the Royal Greenwich Observatory building in Greenwich, London. The clock, an early example of an electric clock, was a slave mechanism controlled by electric pulses… …   Wikipedia

• Escapement — redirects here. For the fisheries term for the stock surviving fishing pressures over a spawning cycle, see Spawn (biology). For other uses, see Escapement (disambiguation). A deadbeat escapement, used in many pendulum clocks. Click above to see… …   Wikipedia

• Bluetooth — This article is about the electronic protocol. For the medieval King of Denmark, see Harald I of Denmark. Bluetooth logo Bluetooth is a proprietary open wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances (using short wavelength …   Wikipedia