Thu, 30 April

LIAISON n. 1. The act of binding; specifically, the thickening of a sauce by the introduction of a foreign element — egg, cream, blood. 2. In military usage, the maintenance of communication between units so that they may act in concert. 3. A connection between persons who are not, officially, connected. 4. (Phonetics) The carrying-over of a final consonant to a following initial vowel, so that what was silent becomes, in proximity, pronounced. 5. The dashed line: a hypothesis about two points in space. 6. The wobble in a freshly drawn mark — evidence of the hand still deciding. 7. One node, floating. 8. The gesture of someone who was about to speak.