Determine whether the following definitions are stipulative, lexical, precising, Theoretical, or persuasive 

1. “Blind” means, for federal income-tax purposes, either the inability to see better than 20/200 in the better eye with glasses or having a field of vision of 20 degrees or less.

2. “Football” means a sport in which modern-day gladiators brutalize one another while trying to move a ridiculously shaped “ball” from one end of the playing field to the other.

3. “Dogbomber” means an inconsiderate person who does not clean up the messes his dog leaves on other people’s lawns.

­4. “Diffident” means lacking confidence in oneself; characterized by modest reserve.

5. “Magnetism” means a property of certain substances such as iron, cobalt, and nickel that arises from the spin of the electrons in the unfilled inner shell of the atoms that compose the substance.

6. “Fiduciary” means having to do with a confidence or trust; a person who holds something in trust.

­7. “Politician” means a person of unquestioned honesty and integrity whom the people, in their collective wisdom, have duly elected to guide the ship of state and protect it from the reefs and shoals that threaten it on every side.

8. “Intoxicated,” for purposes of driving a car in many states, means having a blood-alcohol content of 0.08 percent (.0008) or greater.

9. “Femikin” means a female manikin.

­10. “Sound” means a compression wave, in air or some other elastic medium, having a frequency ranging (for humans) from 20 to 20,000 vibrations per second.

11. “Radioactive area” means, for purposes of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, any area accessible to individuals in which there exists radiation at such levels that a major portion of the body could receive in any one hour a dose in excess of 5 millirems or in any five consecutive days a dose in excess of 100 millirems.

12. “Neurosis” means a chronic emotional disturbance that arises from suppressed or forgotten emotional stress (such as resentment, hostility, aggression, or guilt) experienced in early childhood.

­13. “Petrograb” means invading a country to steal its oil.

14. “Smoker” means a rude and disgusting individual who callously emits noxious tobacco fumes into the air, threatening the health and comfort of everyone in the vicinity.

15. “Diadem” means an ornamental headband worn as a badge of royalty; a crown.

­16. “Psychiatry” means the fortuitous melding of modern medicine with psychology that promises relief to thousands of poor, desperate souls who suffer the pains of emotional disorder.

17. “Gene” means the hereditary unit that occupies a fixed chromosomal locus, which through transcription has a specific effect on phenotype and which can mutate to various allelic forms.

18. “Ramster” means an animal produced by crossbreeding a rat with a hamster.

­19. “Intractable” means not easily governed; obstinate; unruly; not disposed to be taught.

20. “Recession” means, for purposes of the National Bureau of Economic Research, two consecutive quarters of negative growth in real GNP or in aggregate output for the entire economy.

21. “Gravity” means a force that results from the universal attraction that every particle of matter has for every other particle, and which varies directly with the mass of the particles and inversely with the square of the distance between them.

­22. “Assault” means, for legal purposes, an intentional and unprivileged act resulting in the apprehension of an immediate harmful or offensive contact.

23. “Television” means the electronic medium that keeps an entire nation of viewers in a state of seminarcosis by feeding them a steady stream of inane drivel.

24. “Obelisk” means an upright, four-sided pillar that terminates in a pyramid; a dagger.

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