tattoo

a picture or design made on someone's body by pricking small holes in the skin and filling them with indelible dye

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What does it mean when you dream about a tattoo?

Since a tattoo is originally a sign of initiation, this dream symbol may indicate that the dreamer is entering a new stage in his or her life.

motherboard tattoo

A unique system identification stored in the PC's BIOS. It ensures that the recovery CD-ROMs that came with the PC or that are generated on the PC can only be used to restore the system on that computer. The tattoo prevents people from using the discs to install the OS on other machines. If the recovery discs are lost, the tattoo may have to be reprogrammed by the vendor. See motherboard and BIOS.

Tech Tats

Biowearable circuits temporarily applied to a person's skin. Pioneered by Chaotic Moon Studios, Austin, TX, this high-tech tattoo uses actual electronic components including a microcontroller. The circuit and sensor paths are conductive ink adhered directly on the skin. See biowearable.

A Tech Tats Tattoo

Health data are transmitted to the user's mobile device via Bluetooth Low Energy (LE). (Image courtesy of Chaotic Moon Studios.)

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Tattoo

(dreams)

Tattoos may represent those things in our lives that seem only “skin deep” but may be interesting and fun. They could represent our thinking, our playful ways, and our seemingly unimportant habits. As time progresses, we may realize that our passing fads have become permanent. Thus, a tattoo may be symbolic of something that we inflict on ourselves, is permanent if not deep, and generally carries with it some negativity.

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Some want to establish their identity or independence, while others get a tattoo in order to assert ownership of their body.

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If you have a lot of visible tattoos, they can prove to be something of an issue in some lines of work, with many employers requiring them to be hidden at all times.

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Being in the tattoo industry has helped me so much - it's saved my life.

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Kayleigh, who lives in Birmingham, got the unusual design on her first day as a tattoo apprentice when she was 24.

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When Razouq finished the tattoo on Lamark's arm, he said that it's the sign of coming to Jerusalem, it is a visa printed on the skin, while Lamark, still with the blue ink on her wrist, said that this is how she will keep her memory of Jerusalem forever, as her friend who accompanied her to the tattoo shop agreed.

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Until the present moment, the discovery did not appertain to artefacts with the Oxford University researchers that found that the oldest tattoo discovered in the world was on the arms of two Egyptian mummies that date back to the predynastic period.

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