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Vocabulary Building Blocks: (5 Down) tropical
(ADJECTIVE) 1. Of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics. 2.
Characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes or metaphor; changed
from its literal sense. Similar: figurative, nonliteral. (Trope is language
used in a figurative or nonliteral sense. Synonyms for trope
include: figure of speech, image.) 3. Relating to, or situated in, or
characteristic of, the tropics (the region on either side of the equator;
between the tropics of Cancer and Capicorn). Similar: equatorial.
Did You Know? (27 Across) A Disk Operating System,
commonly referred to as DOS is a generic term applied to any computer
operating system that is loaded from a disk, as distinguishable from operating
systems that supported tape. MS-DOS, or Microsoft Disk Operating System, is
the single-user system developed for personal computers by Microsoft
co-founder Bill Gates. The Windows operating systems began extending the
capabilities of MS-DOS in Microsoft computers beginning in 1985 and went
through many versions until totally replacing MS-DOS with Windows XP in 2001.
(Note: Microsoft, MS-DOS, Windows, and Windows XP are registered
trademarks.
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