{"id":26987,"date":"2019-12-14T09:22:56","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T15:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=26987"},"modified":"2019-12-14T09:22:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T15:22:56","slug":"word-of-the-day-522","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/12\/14\/word-of-the-day-522\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pipet<\/em>:<\/p>\n

n., v. –pet\u2022ted, -pet\u2022ting<\/strong>. n.
\n1. a slender graduated tube for measuring liquids or transferring them from one container to another.
\nv.t.
\n2. to measure or transfer with a pipette.\u00a0[The Free Dictionary<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I thought pipet<\/em> was a typo! Noted in “The Paquim\u00e9 Enigma<\/em>,” Elizabeth Lunday, American Archaeology<\/em><\/strong> (winter \u2666 2019-20, print only<\/strong>), picture caption:<\/p>\n

A researcher pipets a small amount of liquid in preparation for quantifying the amount of DNA in a samples taken from human remains found in the Casas Grandes region.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>American Archaeology<\/strong><\/em> is a magazine put out by The Archaeological Conservancy<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, a private, non-profit organization dedicated to conserving American archaeological resources. Subscriptions to American Archaeology <\/strong><\/em>require you be a member of The Archaeological Conservancy. I’ve been with them, and enjoying their magazine, for years. Here’s where you donate.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pipet: n., v. –pet\u2022ted, -pet\u2022ting. n. 1. a slender graduated tube for measuring liquids or transferring them from one container to another. v.t. 2. to measure or transfer with a pipette.\u00a0[The Free Dictionary] I thought pipet was a typo! Noted in “The Paquim\u00e9 Enigma,” Elizabeth Lunday, American Archaeology (winter \u2666 \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26989,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26987\/revisions\/26989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}