Away mode is a new feature included in Update Rollup 2 for Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 that allows the computer to appear off to the user while it continues to perform tasks that do not require user input, such as recording television and viewing Media Center Extender sessions.
parosteal. Definitions: 1. Relating to the tissues immediately adjacent to the periosteum of a bone. The definition information for parosteal is provided by Stedman's.
SYNONYMY NOTE: quack 1, charlatan both apply to a person who unscrupulously pretends to knowledge or skill he or she does not possess, but , quack 2 almost always is used of a fraudulent or incompetent practitioner of medicine; , mountebank, in modern use, applies to a person who resorts to cheap and degrading methods in his or her work, etc.; , impostor applies especially to a person who fraudulently impersonates another and, more generally, to anyone who is a hypocrite; , faker is an ...