Shutdown The phrase or term "shut down", "shut-down" or "shutdown" can be used to mean "turning off" something, but most commonly used for machines, especially nuclear reactors and computers. It also has a use in economics, for profit maximization. The verb forms, such as "to shut down", are always separate words, as otherwise would lead to absurd forms as "shutdowning".
	ShutterBug ShutterBug is a Mac OS X only WYSIWYG template-based website creation tool. External links
	Shuttlecock A shuttlecock is a high-drag projectile used in the sport of badminton. It has an open conical shape: the cone is formed from sixteen overlapping goose feathers embedded into a rounded cork base. The cork is covered with thin leather. The shuttlecock's shape makes it extremely aerodynamic stable.
	Shylock Shylock is a central character in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice who famously demanded a "pound of flesh" from the title character. His portrayal as the stereotype of a miserly money lending Jew has raised questions over possible Anti-Semitism on Shakespeare's part.
	SÍ S? is an abbreviation for S?rv?gur ?t?ttarfelag a sports association in the Faroe Islands. It was founded March 171905.
	Sialidae The family Sialidae contains the Neuroptera insects known as alderflies. They are closely related to the dobsonfly, and have long filamentous antenna and four large Insect wings, of which the anterior pair is slightly longer than the posterior.
	Siamang The Siamang is an arboreal, black furred gibbon native to the forests of Malaysia and Sumatra. The largest of the lesser apes, the siamang can be twice the size of other gibbons, reaching 1 m in height, and weighing up to 23 kg. The Siamang is the only species in the genus Symphalangus.
	Siberia Siberia is a vast region of Russia constituting almost all of North Asia. It extends eastward from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, and southward from the Arctic Ocean to the hills of north-central Kazakhstan and the borders of both Mongolia and People's Republic of China.
	Siberian Elm Siberian Elm Ulmus pumila is native to Turkestan, eastern Siberia, Mongolia, Tibet, northern China, India and Korea. It is also called 'Asiatic Elm' , 'Dwarf Elm' and 'Chinese Elm'. It has also been widely cultivated throughout Asia, North America and, to a lesser extent, southern Europe.
	Siberian Husky akcgroup = Working | akcstd = altname = Chukcha, Chuksha, Keshia | ankcgroup = Group 6 | ankcstd = ckcgroup = Group 3 | ckcstd = country = Russia | fcigroup = 5 | fcinum = 270 | fcisection = 1 | fcistd = image = Husky_L.jpg | image_caption = Four-year-old black and white Siberian Husky | kcukgroup = Working
	Siberian Larch The Siberian Larch or Russian Larch is a frost-hardy tree native to western Russia, from close to the Finland border east to the Yenisei valley in central Siberia, where it intergrades with the Dahurian Larch L. gmelinii of eastern Siberia. It is a medium-size to large deciduous Pinophyta tree reaching 20-40 m tall, with a trunk up to 1 m diameter.
	Sibling Sibling denotes a brother or sister, respectively meaning a male or female who shares at least one parent with the person being referenced. This is usually taken to mean that the two people are genetically very close, though it is not always necessarily the case, i.e. an adoption.
	Sibyl The word sibyl comes from the ancient Greek word sibylla, meaning prophetess. The earlier oracular seeresses known as the sibyls of antiquity, "who admittedly are known only through legend" prophesied at certain holy sites, probably all of pre-Indo-European origin, under the divine influence of a wiktionary:deity, originally one of the chthonic earth-goddesses.
	Sichuan Sichuan is a Provinces of China in central-western China with its capital at Chengdu.
	Sicily Sicily is an Autonomous regions with special statute of Italy and the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, with an area of 25,700 km and 5 million inhabitants.
	Sickle A sickle is a curved, hand-held agricultural tool typically used for harvesting cereal crops before the advent of modern harvesting machinery. It consists of a curved blade with a short, one-hand handle attached. The inside of the curve is sharp, so that the user can swing the blade against the base of the crop, catching it in the curve and slicing it at the same time.
	Sickle-cell disease Sickle-cell disease is a general term for a group of genetic disorders caused by hemoglobin . In many forms of the disease, the red blood cells change shape upon deoxygenation because of polymerization of the abnormal sickle hemoglobin. This process damages the red blood cell membrane, and can cause the cells to become stuck in blood vessels.
	Sida rhombifolia Sida rhombifolia is a perennial plant or sometimes annual plant in the Family Malvaceae, native to the New World tropics and subtropics. Other common names include Paddys Lucerne, Jelly leaf, and also somewhat confusingly as Cuban jute, Queensland hemp, and Indian hemp.
	Side Side was an ancient maritime city of Pamphylia, about 16 kilometers from Seleucia; it currently lies on the southern coast near the villages of Manavgat and Selimiye, in Antalya Province, in the Asian part of Turkey. Side is located on the eastern part of the Pamphylian coast, which lies about 20 km east of the mouth of the Eurymedon River.
	Side dish A side dish, sometimes referred to as a side order or simply a side, is a food item that accompanies the entre or main course at a meal. A typical meal with a meat-based main dish might include one vegetable side dish, sometimes in the form of a salad, and one starch side dish, such as bread, potatoes, rice, or pasta.
	Side Pocket Side Pocket is a Billiards computer and video games made by Data East in 1987. During play, the player may put various spins on the ball, such as "Billiards#English", "Billiards#The mass shot", or perform a "Billiards#The jump shot".
	Side-blotched lizard Side-blotched lizards are lizards of the genus Uta. They are some of the most abundant and commonly observed lizards in the deserts of western North America.
	Sideburns Sideburns are patches of facial hair on the sides of one's face, in front of the ears. They were originally called burnsides, possibly after General Ambrose Everett Burnside. His hairstyle, commonly known as mutton chops or chops, connected thick sideburns via the moustache but left the chin clean-shaven.
	Sidecar A sidecar is a one-wheeled device attached to the side of a motorcycle, producing a three-wheeled vehicle. Early sidecars were intended to be removable devices that could be detached from the motorcycle. A sidecar motorcycle is a three wheel vehicle with the sidewheel not directly aligned with the rear motorcycle wheel, and is usually powered by the rear wheel only.
	Sidekick A sidekick is a stock character, a close companion who assists a partner in a superior position. Sancho Panza in Don Quixote, Dr. Watson in Sherlock Holmes, and Robin, Batman's companion, are some well-known sidekicks. The origin of the term comes from pickpocket slang of the late 19th and early 20th century.
	SideKick SideKick was an early Personal Information Manager software application software by Borland launched in 1983 under Philippe Kahn's leadership. It was notable for being a Terminate and Stay Resident program, which enabled it to load into memory then return the computer to the DOS command prompt, allowing the user to load another application program, but still activate SideKick using a hot key combination.
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	Sidereal time Sidereal time is time measured by the apparent diurnal motion of the vernal equinox, which is very close to, but not identical with, the motion of stars. They differ by the precession of the vernal equinox relative to the stars. Solar time is measured by the apparent diurnal motion of the sun, and local noon in solar time is defined as the moment when the sun is at its highest point in the sky .
	Siderite Siderite is also the name of a type of iron meteorite.Siderite is a mineral composed of iron carbonate FeCO3. It takes its name from the Greek word sideros, iron. It is a valuable iron mineral, since it is 48% iron and contains no sulfur or phosphorus.
	Sidesaddle The sidesaddle is a type of Horse_tack#Saddles on which the rider sits aside rather than astride the mount. The sidesaddle was designed for use by women, as it was considered unbecoming for a lady to straddle a horse whilst riding. This results from cultural norms in Western Europe in the Middle Ages where a lady or gentlewoman was much more restricted in her movements.
	Sideshow In America, a sideshow is an extra, secondary production associated with a circus , carnival, fair or other such attraction. Its proper name is a "Ten in One", referring to the practice of having a revolving show of ten acts under a single tent. When a single person or object is featured, it is known as a single-o.
	SideStep SideStep is a privately held internet travel company based in Santa Clara, California. Its main offering is a travel metasearch site that enables users to search more than 100 sites to find the Webs best travel bargains. It checks online agencies, consolidators, and the sites of the airlines, hotels, vacation package providers and rental car companies to find deals and cheap fares.
	Sideswipe Sideswipe is the name to three different characters in the Transformers Universes. This name is now spelt 'Side Swipe' with a space between the two words on the packaging to the toys as Hasbro have lost the license to use original spelling of the name.
	Sidewalk A sidewalk , pavement , or footpath is a path for pedestrians that is situated alongside a road or formed like sidewalks that are alongside roads . They are usually constructed of concrete , asphalt, brick , stone or rubber, designed for pedestrian traffic and often running alongside a road.
	Sideways Sideways is a 2004 in film Academy Awards- winning and Golden Globe Award-winning comedy film/drama film, co-written and directed by Alexander Payne. It is based on the Sideways of the same name by Rex Pickett. Tagline: "In search of wine.
	Siding Siding is the outer covering of a house meant to shed water and protect from the effects of weather. Siding may be formed of horizontal boards, vertical boards, shingles, or sheet materials. In all four cases, avoiding wind and rain infiltration through the joints is a major challenge, met by overlapping, by covering or sealing the joint, or by creating an interlocking joint such as a tongue-and-groove or rabbet.
	Sidney Poitier Sir Sidney Poitier Order of British Empire , is a Bahamian American Academy Award-winning actor , film director, and activist. He has been hailed as a breakthrough star thanks to acclaimed performances, which, by consciously defying racial stereotyping, gave a new dramatic credibility for black actors to mainstream film audiences in the Western world.
	Sidon Sidon, Zidon or Saida, is the third-largest city in Lebanon. It is located in the South Governorate, Lebanon of Lebanon, on the Mediterranean Sea coast, about 40 km north of Tyre and 50 km south of the capital Beirut. Its name means a fishery.
	Siege A siege is a military blockade and Attack of a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by force or Battle of attrition. A siege occurs when an attacker encounters a city or fortress that refuses to surrender and cannot be easily taken by a frontal assault.
	Siege of Orléans The Siege of Orlans marked a turning point in the Hundred Years' War between France and England. This was Joan of Arc first majormilitary victory and the first major French success to follow the crushing defeat at Agincourt in 1415. The outset of this siege marked the pinnacle of English power during the latter stages of the war.
	Siegfried Line The original Siegfried line was a line of defensive forts and tank defenses built by Germany as a section of the Hindenburg Line 1916-1917 in northern France during World War I. However, in English, Siegfried line more commonly refers to the similar World War II defensive line, built during the 1930s, opposite the French Maginot Line, which served a corresponding purpose.
	Sienna Sienna is a form of limonite clay most famous in the production of oil paint pigments. Its yellow-brown colour comes from ferric oxides contained within. As a natural pigment, it was one of the first pigments to be used by humans, and is found in many cave paintings. Sienna, in and of itself, is sometimes referred to as "raw sienna", in order to differentiate it from "Burnt Sienna", which is a more common pigment than the raw form.
	Sierra Leone Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Guinea on the north and Liberia on the south, with the Atlantic Ocean on the west. The name Sierra Leone was adapted from the Portuguese language name for the country: Serra Leoa. The literal meaning is "Lionesse Mountain." During the 1700s Sierra Leone was an important centre of the Atlantic slave trade.
	Sierra Madre Occidental The Sierra Madre Occidental is a mountain range in western Mexico and the extreme southwest of the United States, extending 1500 km from southeast Arizona southeast through eastern Sonora, western Chihuahua, Durango, Zacatecas, Aguascalientes to Guanajuato, where it joins with the Sierra Madre Oriental and the Eje Volcánico Transversal of central Mexico.
	Sierra Madre Oriental The Sierra Madre Oriental is a mountain range in northeastern Mexico, spanning 1000 km from Coahuila south through Nuevo León, southwest Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí, Hidalgo, to northern Puebla and Quertaro, where it joins with the Sierra Madre Occidental and the Eje Volcánico Transversal of central Mexico.
	Siesta A siesta is a short nap taken in the early afternoon, often after the midday meal. Such a period of sleep is a common tradition in hot countries. The word siesta is Spanish language, from the Latin HORA SEXTO - "the sixth hour".
	Sif For other uses, see SIF. Sif is, in Norse mythology, a goddess of the sir, wife of Thor and mother of Thrud, Ullr and Mi and Magni. Thor is not the father of Ullr. Sif was not the mother of Magni; this was Thor's son with Jrnsaxa. She has hair of gold which grows just like natural hair, made by the dwarves called "sons of Ivaldi".
	Sigma Sigma is the 18th letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 200. When used at the end of a word, and the word is not upper case, the final form is used. The letter is ultimately derived from Phoenician Shin Lower case s is used for:
	Sigmoidoscopy Sigmoidoscopy is the minimally invasive medicine examination of the large intestine from the rectum through the last part of the colon. There are two types of sigmoidoscopy, flexible sigmoidoscopy, which uses a flexible endoscopy, and rigid sigmoidoscopy, which uses a rigid device.
	Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud The name Freud is generally pronounced [] in English language and [] in German language. He is commonly referred to as "List of people known as father or mother of something" and his work has been tremendously influential in the popular imagination popularizing such notions as the unconscious, defense mechanisms, Freudian slips and dream symbolism while also making a long-lasting impact on fields as diverse as literature, film, Marxism
	Sign language A sign language is a language which uses manual communication instead of sound to convey meaning - simultaneously combining handshapes, orientation and movement of the hands, arms or body, and facial expressions to express fluidly a speaker's thoughts. Sign languages commonly develop in deaf community, which can include interpreters and friends and families of deaf people as well as people who are deaf or hard of hearing themselves.
	Sign of the cross The Sign of the Cross is a ritual performed mainly within Latin Rite, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, Eastern Rite Catholic Churches, Anglicanism, and Lutheranism. For the members of the Faith, it symbolizes, by manifestly marking directly on one's own body or in the air, the four points of the Christian cross on Calvary.
	Signal box A signal box or signal cabin is a building from which railway signals and railroad switch are controlled. Originally all signalling was done by machine; cables or rods, connected at one end to the signals and turnouts and at the other to levers in the signal box, ran alongside the railway.
	Signal-to-noise ratio Signal-to-noise ratio is an electrical engineering concept defined as the ratio of a given transmitted signal to the background noise of the transmission medium.
	Signaller In the armed forces, a signaller is a soldier or seaman in a Corps or trade responsible for military communications and related tasks. Most signallers are employed in the operation of Military technology and equipment#Communications equipment, but other signallers may be responsible for the construction and maintenance of telephone lines and telephone switchboards for field telephone systems, information technology infrastructure, or electronic warfare.
	Signature A signature is a handwritten depiction of someone's name that a person writes on documents as a legal proof of Personal identity and will . It acts as a seal . The writer of a signature is a signatory.
	Signboard A signboard is a board carrying a sign or notice, usually used for advertising of products, events, realty or let, etc. They are also used for cautionary or educational purposes. The ancient Egypt are known to have used trade signboards.
	Significant Other Significant Other is the second album by Limp Bizkit, released on June 22, 1999.
	Signify Signify is the fourth studio album by United Kingdom progressive rock band Porcupine Tree, first released in September, 1996. It was the first album that frontman Steven Wilson did with a full group of musicians on board from the beginning. Previously he had been recording albums primarily as a one-man band with help gradually from other musicians.
	Sigrid Undset Sigrid Undset was a Norwegian language novelist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1928. Undset was born in Kalundborg, Denmark, but her family moved to Norway when she was two years old. In 1924, she converted to Roman Catholic Church.
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	Sikh A Sikh is an adherent of Sikhism. The term originates from the Punjabi language where it means student or disciple. Most Sikhs come from the Punjab region although converts from across the globe are increasingly prevalent.
	Sikhism Sikhism is a religion that began in 16th century Northern India with the teachings of Guru Nanak Dev and nine successive human Sikh Gurus. This system of religious philosophy and expression has been traditionally known as the Gurmat or the Sikh Dharma.
	Sikkim Sikkim is a landlocked Indian States and territories of India nestled in the Himalayas. It is the least populous state in India, and the second smallest in area after Goa. Sikkim was an independent state ruled by the Chogyal monarchy until 1975, when a referendum to make it India's twenty-second state succeeded.
	Silage Silage is fermentation, high-moisture forage to be fed to ruminants, cud-chewing animals like cattle and sheep. It is fermented and stored in a storage silo, a process called ensilage. Silage is most often made from grass crops, including maize or sorghum.
	Silence Silence is a relative or total lack of sound. An environment with sound below 20 decibels is considered quiet or silent.
	Silene Silene is a genus of flowering plants in the family Caryophyllaceae. Common names include campion and catchfly. Red Campion and White Campion are common wildflowers throughout Europe and elsewhere. They readily hybridise to produce plants with paler pink flowers.
	Silene vulgaris Silene vulgaris or Bladder Campion is a plant species of the genus Silene.
	Silent Movie Silent Movie is a 1976 in film comedy film directed by and starring Mel Brooks. The ensemble cast includes Dom DeLuise, Marty Feldman, Bernadette Peters, Sid Caesar, Anne Bancroft, Liza Minnelli, Burt Reynolds, James Caan, and Paul Newman.
	Silesia Silesia is a Historical regions of Central Europe. Most of it is now within the borders of Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic and Germany. Silesia is located along the upper and middle Oder river, upper Vistula river and along the Sudeten mountains, Carpathian Mountains mountain range.