Key terms & definitions

Craving: a grasping desire for experiences or possessions to satisfy us or for life to remain as we want it.

A Sikh code of discipline associated with Bhai Nand Lal and presented as questions to Guru Gobind Singh and his answers.

A disciplinary response to a breach of Sikh religious discipline, assigned through the congregation and normally taking the form of service.

A Sikh who has breached the code of conduct and is liable to penance.

Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean, including communities on Cuba and Hispaniola, who initially traded and cooperated with Columbus’s expedition.

Physical service: using time, effort and practical work to help others without expecting a reward.

A cutting tool used to cut an internal screw thread in a prepared hole.

Using a strip of tape to join or secure textile layers, for example heat-activated fusible tape along a hem or seam.

Supporting a joint with tape or a brace where necessary, for example when returning to activity after an injury.

Cutting an internal screw thread in a drilled hole using a tap.

A hole drilled to a suitable diameter before a tap cuts an internal screw thread into it.

The drill diameter needed before cutting an internal thread; it is smaller than the nominal thread diameter.

Following the guidance of a qualified scholar rather than independently deriving a religious ruling.

Awareness of Allah which encourages a Muslim to live faithfully and avoid wrongdoing.

Additional night prayers offered during Ramadan, often involving extended recitation of the Qur’an.

To set a balance reading to zero, usually with an empty container on it, so that the next reading gives only the mass of the material added.

To set a balance to zero with an empty container on it, so it measures only what is added.

Setting a balance to zero, often with an empty container on it, so that the mass of the container is excluded from the next reading.

A scale function that resets the reading to zero with a container or previously weighed ingredients on the platform, so the next reading shows only the newly added ingredient.

The molecule or cell feature that a particular antibody is designed to bind to.

The value that a search algorithm is trying to find.

A stated performance improvement or level of achievement that a performer aims to reach.

The people a piece of communication is intended to reach.

The people a communication is intended to reach, whose knowledge and needs influence how information should be presented.

The people who will read or use the findings of an investigation.

The people or organisations an action seeks to inform, persuade or encourage to act.

The particular group a media organisation intends to attract through its content and marketing.

A cell that has a compatible receptor for a particular hormone and can therefore respond to it.

A cell with a suitable receptor for a particular hormone, allowing it to respond to that hormone.

A cell or organ that responds to a particular hormone because it has receptors for that hormone.