[Fictionary] CELATONE ballot

[Matthew Fowles Kulukundis]

Jean-Joseph~


celatone - adj. - The quality of being just at the edge of the human range
> of hearing.  Example: While most birds sing in the audible range, the
> celatone whistle of the Louisiana Waterthrush can seem painfully high.


2 points.



celatone - n. - A fountain designed to produce spectacular ice in winter.


1 point just because I love the idea.


Matt


On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 7:22 AM, Jean-Joseph Cote <jjcote at alum.mit.edu>
wrote:

> Here are some propositions (with no prepositions) as to the meaning of
> CELATONE.  Give me your onesey-twosey opinions and any appropriate
> commentary or heckling by the time I return from delivering a young friend
> to his freshman dorm at James Madison University; I'm due back Thursday
> evening, 27 September.
>
> Jean-Joseph
> ________________________________
>
> celatone - n. - A fountain designed to produce spectacular ice in winter.
>
> CELATONE - n. - A brand of plastic color filters used for tinting lighting
> in theater and film.
>
> celatone - n. - (Fm. Gk.) The state of euphoria after successfully
> completing a feat of physical strength or agility.
>
> celatone - n. - Any instrument or appliance used to simulate the sound of
> crunching celery by Foley artists with oral allergies.
>
> celatone - n. - A helmet with a telescope in place of one of the eyeholes,
> for observing the moons of Jupiter by a sailor sitting in a gimbaled
> chair.  Invented by Galileo Galilei.
>
> celatone - adj. - The quality of being just at the edge of the human range
> of hearing.  Example: While most birds sing in the audible range, the
> celatone whistle of the Louisiana Waterthrush can seem painfully high.
>
> Celatone - n. - A translucent sea-green hard plastic used to make
> refrigerator shelves and drawers, drinking glasses, and other useful
> items.  Once popular in the early 1960's, it was revived for many uses in
> the 1980's.
>
> celatone - n. - 1) A nineteenth-century lotion made from celery; the
> product was sold by Hartwick Brothers of Rochester, NY, between 1854 and
> 1897. 2) A light-green color, halfway between celadon and celery. 3) A
> jocular euphemism for a nauseous appearance.
>
> celatone - n. - A gum-based ink formulation for drawing on cellulose
> acetate. Celatone ink was the first technique permitting the use of opaque
> colors on an animation cel; previous inks and paints all allowed the
> background to show through non-black areas. (From cel + latex + tone.)
>
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