The Beaufort scale, of course, has become a part of the standard operating lingo for meteorologists and sailors. |
While we're on the subject of units, it's important to understand that construction measurement has a language and lingo all its own. |
Wherever possible, he writes with a seaman's lingo of seaways, gunwales, swells and whitecaps. |
Each subject has its own lingo, meaning that, where appropriate, he lays his particular accent on thicker. |
I guess economists can be a bit specialized but I was once a High School economics teacher so I speak the lingo, as it were. |
Among the expedients resorted to in exploiting a scientific fraud, mystifying lingo is one of the commonest, and in this he was an adept. |