Monday, June 11, 2007
Horopter
The actual meaning of horopter is actually something that my brain can't fathom. So I'll have to just leave it with you and see if you can make sense of it. Apparently, it's the aggregate of points which are seen singly by the eyes in any given position. Sorry I can't make that any clearer. Science wasn't my strong point. Fortunately, the invented meanings were much easier to figure out. Shari's was one that took my fancy and it went down well with the voters as well. Great work, Shari.
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It's a time machine designed to look like an ordinary helicopter. You take off in one time and land in another. There's only one catch, though...the propellers have to reach a speed of 88mph. Rumoured to be the secret side project of a film producer.
Horopter (n.) is a doctor who specialises in vegetable-related diseases.
Horopter (n.) A thin, 15 cm long device similar to tweezers made out of stainless steel which makes nose-picking in public socially acceptable. Invented originally by the Victorians, it was handed to the Edwardians who eventually sold it to the Davies' at a flea market.
It's a device used for picking at random an hour of the day in which to do a task.
eg: Miss Reeves uses a brass and rosewood horopter to make up her list of things to do for the day.
the horopter was first devised for intergallactic travel. they took a bunch of people and took them on a trip to another galaxy. these people flew on board for almost a day and landed in a wierd place where people spoke funny. then some guy pointed at a bunch of tankers and soldiers from all over the world. they had landed in iraq. so, sadly since they realised the horopter couldnt travel to another galaxy they now use it to spook farmers all over the united states. its even called a UFO sometimes.
A horopter is a whirligig on whose vanes are painted the signs of the Zodiac. You blow on it, and when it stops whirling, you can opt to pay attention to today's horoscope - or not. No one believes in it but everyone does it.
horopter (v.)- a method of travel, comprised of consulting one's daily horoscope before hopscotching for three minutes with the nearest passer-by, followed by the avoidance of all hawks, bald opticians and tall, dark and handsome windmills.
Example: 'Ma'am, are you an Aries? Well, would you care to join me in a game of hopscotch? I need to horopter to the shops for some bacon.'
A horopter is a helicopter that is believed to be haunted or jinxed.
Example: After being tapped on the shoulder too many times and finding no one there, the pilot refused to ride in that "horopter."
Stephen from Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
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A horopter is a slang expression for one who engages in sexual relations with prostitutes.
Horoptor (N.) a recently discovered dinosaur, not to be confused with the velociraptor. Paleontologist estimate that this dinosaur inhabited the midwestern part of the United States approximately 82 million years ago during the late Cretaceous Period. Small in comparison to the other giants of this time, its size can be compared to that of a can of Spam. It was a unipedal herbivore with fluffly fur and walrus-like teeth.
Paleontologists were pleased to uncover its remains after the new construction of a Kwik Shop in the middle of Omaha, Nebraska. The owners of the new Kwik Shop are angry though ... as now they must find a new chunk of land to destroy.
Horopter (n.) - A particularly psychedelic therapist that specializes in diagnosis by horoscope.
Part of a engine.
horopter - a term describing the disorientation that follows when bright light hits the optic nerve directly. (eg, a bright camera flash, or staring straight up at the sun)
Horopter: This device was invented in Finland in 1898, to give fishermen the ability to navigate by the stars. It had a lense that they focused on the North Star, and the light from the star was refracted on to a dial that gave them a relitive bearing angle that they would transfer to their charts, which allowed them to chart a course to their destination.
A horoptor is the newest addition to the Six Flags Great America amusement park. It is the ride of the year. It is designed indoors of a small, tall building. The ride consists of a single helocoptor-like structure where eight riders are strapped tightly in. You get ascended slowly up to the top and there's a big screen that shows the view of majestic mountian tops. But as you listen to the whomp-whomp of the horopter suddenly stop, you get lurched, dropping fast, the scenery changes into a blur and it looks like you are crashing into the mountians.
Copter of Horrors.
Horopter.
Coming soon to a Great America amusement park near you.
Horopter: (n.) a lens through which horrendous items are to be viewed so the sensitivities of the brain and morality are not damaged beyond repair.
Horopter (n)- a word for one whose practice is repairing pogo sticks.
Horopter (N)
The Horopter is a tiny fan-like machine which is used by archaeologists to blow sand away from particularly fragile items with a gentle and unending breeze.
It was invented by Agathae Christie while she joined her husband, archaeologist Max Mallowan, excavating the Royal tombs of Ur, from 1935-1931.
The tombs contained several beautiful gold-items wrapped in very fragile cloth, and to prevent damage to the cloth the Horopter was invented.
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A horopter is a person who stands still and gazes into the sky (regardless of weather) when any flying object, especially a metallic object, enters his/her field of vision. In severe cases, the horopter is unable to move.
A horopter is one who 'rops' prostitutes.
To 'rop' means to bully or tease.
"Ho" ropter!
"Hor" could be an alternate spelling of "whore". "Opter", related to optics, would be an observer.
Therefore, a horopter is one who observes whores.
A horopter is a child who refuses to do as they are told and has you running around after them.
"When Johnny's mum asked him to come inside, he ran around the garden shrieking wildly. Wearily she told her friend 'I don't know what's got into him, he's been a little horopter all day!'"
what a plethora of wonderful definitions today! unfortunately, none of them are correct... a horopter is someone who's timing is chronically "off" -- their watch stops, they forget to set the alarm, they neglected the change to or from daylight savings, etc. They're just time-challenged!
A horopter is a type of parent who hovers around his or her child to the point of annoying all. Horopter is the term used in the Isle of Mann. In the U>S>, this type of parent is called a helicopter parent.
i think that horopter is some new helicopter...one that can hover in the air without that huge blade...
a horopter could possibly be a native of the helicopter!!!!some miniature version...or advanced version...
An Horopter is the person who sits in the lunch room and while people are tyring to eat their lunch, read their books or have a conversation....the Horopter is constantly interrupting everyone, asking what their star sign is and then proceeds to read that persons horoscope for the day to them....quizzing them on whether or not any of the things predicted in their horoscope have actually happened yet or not. Needless to say that when people are sitting at lunch and the office Horopter walks into the room, everyone suddenly remembers something they had to go and get down the road.
Horopter:
A specialist chiropractor who applies therapeutic techniques to fix the bone mis-alignment brought about from wearing watches which are too heavy.
Horopter: (n) a slang word for a cowboy who ropes cattle from the back of a horse.
Horopter - (noun) One who chooses to ride horses over automobiles.
"Felicity looked thoughtfully at the Arabian then over at the Palomino. She was a girl who liked to weigh her horoptions."
Horopter (n) : a helicopter where horror shows are shown
its an um.. a helicopter full of prostitutes
Once again, You're all wrong!
A Horopter is a small remote controlled flying machine with a camera mounted on top. It is used to shoot those extreme close-ups of scared, palpitating actresses in horror movies, and follow them as they run around panic-stricken in circles, in and out of the rooms holding useless weapons.
The Japanese invented the horopter and used them in a string of Horror movies.
When a 'horopter' grows up, it will be a fully fledged helicopter.
Fab blog!
Is a word to describe a person who can't say, "Hello Peter". The get into a stutter repeating themselves endlessly until they lose all strength and die. Horoptr Horoptr Horoptr Horoptr ...... thud.
A person who voulunteers to prdict your future.
The Horopter was the longest surviving member of the terrifying dinosauric roptor (as opposed to feathered raptors) genus solely native to the Horopolis hills locality in Vietnam.
It spotted its prey from on high quickly descending whilst shrieking a blood-curdling 'kakk-kakk-a-dakk-makk' which combined with the increasingly dizzying speed of its encircling its soon-to-be victims caused said prey to experience vertigo and collapse as horrified heaps of humanity who awakened to find themselves devoid of their appendix which was the sole diet of the Horopter. They died out after the Horopolis tribe, the Vietcong, went underground during the tunnel warfare peroid of the V-War. They did try adapting to the appendices of the foreign GI's but choked to death on them due to 1) their larger size and 2) the prescence of sticky saturated fats from the GI's diet high in french fries cf. boiled rice.
Their passing into history has yet to be mourned.
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