<B>sabermetrics, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) measurement and analysis of baseball statistics by computer. <BR> <I>Ex. What sabermetrics offers is a means of recording and making available more knowledge [to answer] the questions that have always stirred baseball lovers. (R.E. Allen).]</I> noun <B>sabermetrician.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="saberrattling">
<B>saber rattling,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a bold or reckless exhibition of military power; threat of violent action in behalf of a cause. </DL>
<A NAME="sabersaw">
<B>saber saw,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a kind of electric jigsaw. <BR> <I>Ex. A portable saber saw is needed to cut out the animals (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<B>saber-toothed, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having very long, curved, upper canine teeth. </DL>
<A NAME="sabertoothedtiger">
<B>saber-toothed tiger</B> or <B>cat,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large, extinct, catlike carnivorous mammal whose upper canine teeth were very long and curved. There were several kinds. </DL>
<A NAME="sabian">
<B>Sabian, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a member of a religious sect in Babylonia classed in the Koran with the Moslems, Jews, and Christians, as believers in the true God. <DD><B> 2. </B>a member of a sect of star worshipers in Mesopotamia in the 800's A.D. </DL>
<A NAME="sabianism">
<B>Sabianism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> star worship. </DL>
<A NAME="sabin">
<B>sabin, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a unit to measure the sound absorption qualities of a surface. It is equivalent to one square foot of a completely absorptive surface. </DL>
<A NAME="sabine">
<B>Sabine, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a member of an ancient tribe in central Italy which was conquered by the Romans in the 200's B.C. <DD><B> 2. </B>their Italic language. <DD><I>adj. </I> of or belonging to the Sabines or their language. </DL>
<A NAME="sabinesgull">
<B>Sabine's gull,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a small gull of arctic regions with a forked tail and black and white wings. </DL>
<A NAME="sabinvaccine">
<B>Sabin vaccine,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a vaccine for preventing the development of paralytic polio. It consists of living but attenuated polioviruses, and it is taken orally in a single dose. </DL>
<A NAME="sable">
<B>sable, </B>noun, pl. <B>-bles</B> or (collectively for 1 and 3) <B>-ble,</B> adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a small, flesh-eating mammal valued for its soft, dark-brown glossy fur. It is related to the marten and is found in northern Europe and Asia. <DD><B> 2. </B>its fur. Sable is one of the most costly furs. <DD><B> 3. </B>the marten of North America; American sable. <DD><B> 4a. </B>the color black. <BR> <I>Ex. clothes of sable.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>black clothing, especially as a symbol of mourning. <DD><B> 5. </B>(Heraldry.) black, as one of the heraldic colors, in engraving represented by crossing horizontal and vertical lines. <DD><I>adj. </I> black; dark. <BR> <I>Ex. ... did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night? (Milton).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>sables,</B> </I>mourning garments. <BR> <I>Ex. Nay then let the Devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of sables (Shakespeare).</I> noun <B>sableness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="sableantelope">
<B>sable antelope,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large South and East African antelope with large, sickle-shaped horns. The male is black with white underparts. </DL>
<A NAME="sablefish">
<B>sablefish, </B>noun, pl. <B>-fishes</B> or (collectively) <B>-fish.</B> <B>=beshow.</B></DL>
<A NAME="sables">
<B>sables, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> See under <B>sable.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="sabot">
<B>sabot, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a shoe hollowed out of a single piece of wood, worn by peasants in France, Belgium, and other European countries. <DD><B> 2. </B>a coarse leather shoe with a thick wooden sole. <DD><B> 3. </B>a cuplike cap fitted to the base of a shell or other projectile to position it correctly in the barrel, prevent the escape of gases, and make contact with the rifling. </DL>
<A NAME="sabotage">
<B>sabotage, </B>noun, verb, <B>-taged,</B> <B>-taging.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>damage done, as to work, tools, or machinery, by workmen as an attack or threat against an employer. <BR> <I>Ex. A part of the syndicalist's method is sabotage, which originally referred to throwing a shoe into a machine so as to stop production and to further revolution (Emory S. Bogardus).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>such damage done by civilians of a conquered nation to injure the conquering forces. <BR> <I>Ex. The jailed cardinal furnished a rallying cause for ... agitation and sabotage (Time).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>damage done by enemy agents or sympathizers in an attempt to slow down a nation's war effort. <DD><B> 4. </B>malicious attacking of or secret working against any cause to which cooperation is due. <BR> <I>Ex. Forces are at work in Germany for the sabotage of the Treaty (Glasgow Herald).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> to damage or destroy by sabotage. <BR> <I>Ex. to sabotage an ammunition plant. Conservatives sabotaged the heavy spending program.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="saboteur">
<B>saboteur, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who engages in sabotage. </DL>
<A NAME="sabra">
<B>sabra, </B>noun, pl. <B>-bras.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a person born in Israel. <BR> <I>Ex. Only three of the authors are sabras, born in Palestine and accustomed to the language from infancy (Time).</I> </DL>
<B>sabulous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> consisting of sand; full of sand; sandy; gritty. </DL>
<A NAME="sac">
<B>sac, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a part like a bag in an animal or plant, often containing a liquid. The human bladder is a sac. The honeybee carries honey in a honey sac. The octopus has an ink sac. (SYN) cyst, vesicle. adj. <B>saclike.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="sac">
<B>Sac, </B>noun, pl. <B>Sac</B> or <B>Sacs,</B> adjective. <B>=Sauk.</B></DL>
<A NAME="sac">
<B>SAC</B> (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> Strategic Air Command. </DL>
<A NAME="sacalait">
<B>sacalait, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Dialect.) any one of various small fishes, especially the crappie and the killifish. </DL>
<A NAME="sacaton">
<B>sacaton, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of several coarse grasses of the dry regions of the southwestern United States, grown for pasture or hay; zacaton. </DL>
<A NAME="saccade">
<B>saccade, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an involuntary jerking of the eye as it moves from one position to another. <BR> <I>Ex. The most common major eye movement is the saccade. Saccades usually take less than a twentieth of a second, but they happen several times each second in reading (Scientific American).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="saccadic">
<B>saccadic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or characterized by a saccade or saccades; jerky. <BR> <I>Ex. saccadic movement.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="saccate">
<B>saccate, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>having the form of a sac or pouch. <DD><B> 2. </B>having a sac or pouch. </DL>
<A NAME="saccated">
<B>saccated, </B>adjective. <B>=saccate.</B></DL>
<A NAME="saccharase">
<B>saccharase, </B>noun. <B>=invertase.</B></DL>
<A NAME="saccharate">
<B>saccharate, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a salt of any saccharic acid. <DD><B> 2. </B>a compound of a metallic oxide with a sugar. <BR> <I>Ex. calcium saccharate.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B><B>=sucrate.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="saccharic">
<B>saccharic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having to do with or obtained from a sugar. </DL>
<A NAME="saccharicacid">
<B>saccharic acid,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a dibasic acid, occurring in three optically different forms, produced by oxidizing glucose and various other hexose sugars. </DL>
<A NAME="saccharide">
<B>saccharide, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a compound consisting of one or more simple sugars; carbohydrate. <DD><B> 2. </B>a compound of sugar with an organic base. <DD><B> 3. </B>a compound of a metallic oxide with a sugar; saccharate. </DL>
<A NAME="sacchariferous">
<B>sacchariferous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> yielding or containing sugar. </DL>
<A NAME="saccharification">
<B>saccharification, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> transformation into sugar. </DL>
<A NAME="saccharify">
<B>saccharify, </B>transitive verb, <B>-fied,</B> <B>-fying.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to change (as starch) into sugar; saccharize. </DL>
<A NAME="saccharimeter">
<B>saccharimeter, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a device for measuring the amount of sugar in a solution, especially a polarimeter. </DL>
<A NAME="saccharimetry">
<B>saccharimetry, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the use of a saccharimeter. </DL>
<A NAME="saccharin">
<B>saccharin, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a very sweet substance used as a substitute for sugar. Saccharin is a white crystalline substance obtained from coal tar. A pellet of it has as much sweetening power as several hundred times its weight of cane sugar. <BR> <I>Ex. Saccharin ... has no food value but is used for sweetening foods, especially foods for diabetics (Monroe K. Offner).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="saccharine">
<B>saccharine, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>very sweet; sugary. <BR> <I>Ex. a saccharine smile. He knew how to handle youngsters without being saccharine or patronizing (Newsweek).</I> (SYN) honeyed. <DD><B> 2. </B>of or like sugar. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>=saccharin.</B> adv. <B>saccharinely.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="saccharinity">
<B>saccharinity, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the quality of being saccharine. </DL>
<A NAME="saccharinsodium">
<B>saccharin sodium,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a white, crystalline powder used as a substitute for sugar. It is a sodium salt of saccharin, up to 500 times as sweet as sugar; Crystallose. </DL>
<A NAME="saccharize">
<B>saccharize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-rized,</B> <B>-rizing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to change into sugar; saccharify. </DL>
