Miscellaneous Math "Definitions" #2

We all know that definitions play an important role in mathematics.
Test your wits by matching the definition given in Column A with the appropriate mathematical term in Column B.

Column A
1. Where people go for committing crimes
2. What termites can do to a wooden ship
3. What a farmer might say to another
4. What gentlemen go to the beach to become
5. A dessert
6. What little acorns say when they grow up
7. What to do when it rains
8. What to call a dead parrot
9. African drum music
10. A couple who goes bowling
11. Straight forward magic tricks
12. A no good, double dealing bum
13. Where mermaids live
14. How you make a sweater
15. Advice to a young man when he takes his girl home
16. Desert her
17. Untidy kitchen floor
18. Smart time piece
19. Not up on things
20. Vile
21. How to make a ditch
22. An impotent witch's spell
23. What you do with a worm

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Column B
a. lever
b. unit
c. tangents
d. digit
e. decagon
f. polygon
g. clockwise
h. directrix
i. logarithm
j. pi
k. indices
l. coefficient
m. square
n. geometry
o. parabolas
p. hexagon
q. prism
r. locus
s. fulcrums
t. mean
u. coincide
v. loci
w. mantissa

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