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10-29-2006, 11:40 AM
|  | gotoffwivkeily | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: the harbour
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| | | Whats the word??
Whats the word that describes the event where because something is happening in the first place it is making it worse.
For example: Greenlands glaciers are melting, this is releasing methane which is making even more ice melt.
WHATS THE WORD????
Any help?? |
10-29-2006, 11:41 AM
|  | Occam's chainsaw | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: goin down in a blaze of glory
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| | | do you mean like the effects are being compounded? |
10-29-2006, 11:48 AM
|  | nowurshitmakesnosensefkr | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Houston, Texas
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Originally Posted by walterboy Whats the word that describes the event where because something is happening in the first place it is making it worse.
For example: Greenlands glaciers are melting, this is releasing methane which is making even more ice melt.
WHATS THE WORD????
Any help?? |
i know what word you're trying to think of, but i can't remember it either.
the closest i've got to it is "shitty." |
10-29-2006, 11:48 AM
| | gotoffwivkeily | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: the harbour
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| | | compunded, made worse |
10-29-2006, 11:51 AM
|  | for beauty douglas | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: i am the cheese
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| | | vicious circle/cycle?
positive feedback?
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10-29-2006, 11:53 AM
| | gotoffwivkeily | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: the harbour
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Originally Posted by kesh vicious circle/cycle? | Yeah its a word to describe that |
10-29-2006, 11:54 AM
| | nowurshitmakesnosensefkr | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Houston, Texas
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Originally Posted by walterboy Yeah its a word to describe that | oh wait. you don't mean chain reaction, do you?
or cause-and-effect?
aftermath
consequences
backlash
causatum
outcome
reaction |
10-29-2006, 11:55 AM
| | gotoffwivkeily | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: the harbour
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| | | Main Entry: vicious circle
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: endless loop
Synonyms: Catch-22, causal nexus, chain of circumstances, chain reaction, circularity, concatenation of events, domino effect, eternal return, impasse, vicious cycle
Think I'll go with one of them, cause and effect sounds good. I thought there was one particular word to describe it though. Thanks for all your help though |
10-29-2006, 12:59 PM
|  | ShortOrderCookOnABender | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: reading
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| | | Exacerbated? |
10-29-2006, 01:02 PM
| | Occam's chainsaw | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: goin down in a blaze of glory
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| | | self-perpetuating? |
10-29-2006, 04:10 PM
|  | a promise with a catch | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: golden gated
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| | | symbiotic?
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10-29-2006, 05:44 PM
|  | repose most louche | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: feasting with panthers
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| | | "ergo"?
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10-29-2006, 06:23 PM
|  | disasterology | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: mittenland
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| | | i go with exacerbate. |
10-30-2006, 05:06 PM
| | ShortOrderCookOnABender | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: reading
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Originally Posted by make sense i go with exacerbate. | yay!  |
10-30-2006, 05:15 PM
| | Registered Member | | Join Date: Apr 2006
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Originally Posted by walterboy Whats the word that describes the event where because something is happening in the first place it is making it worse.
For example: Greenlands glaciers are melting, this is releasing methane which is making even more ice melt.
WHATS THE WORD????
Any help?? | FUCKED? |
10-30-2006, 05:19 PM
|  | bored to tears | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: New York
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| | | repercussion, reaction, impact, cause, recoil, reverberation, after-effect
therefore, subsequently
in succession, the outcome of, the result of, the root of, counterbalance...ramification?
onomatopea! lol i have no fucking clue |
10-30-2006, 05:28 PM
| | ShortOrderCookOnABender | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: reading
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Originally Posted by kellygirl FUCKED? | that's the badger! |
11-30-2006, 03:45 PM
|  | ---------------> | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: blowing raindrops across a surface
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| | | what's the word that means like a metaphorical "crossroads" of sorts?
i always want to say paradox but that isn't right.
like, where two totally different disciplines come to the same conclusion by different methods. this has been bugging me for months.
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12-03-2006, 10:33 PM
| | Occam's chainsaw | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: goin down in a blaze of glory
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Originally Posted by alpha zygote what's the word that means like a metaphorical "crossroads" of sorts?
i always want to say paradox but that isn't right.
like, where two totally different disciplines come to the same conclusion by different methods. this has been bugging me for months. | I am not sure that these 2 things are the same. 
but you're right in that paradox does not describe either of them. |
12-04-2006, 06:15 AM
|  | lucky like luciano. | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: the murder scene.
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Originally Posted by alpha zygote what's the word that means like a metaphorical "crossroads" of sorts?
i always want to say paradox but that isn't right.
like, where two totally different disciplines come to the same conclusion by different methods. this has been bugging me for months. | well.
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