Some disadvantages of the Engineering Cost Estimating method include: [2] 1  It can be expensive to implement and it is time consuming. 2  It is not flexible enough to answer what-if questions. 3  New estimates must be built for each alternative.  The product specification must be well known and stable.
grutch (v.) c. 1200, grucchen, to murmur, complain, find fault with, be angry, from Old French grouchier, grocier to murmur, to grumble, of unknown origin, perhaps from Germanic, probably ultimately imitative. Meaning to begrudge is c. 1400. Compare gruccild (early 13c.) woman who complains, from grutch + suffix of
gout n : a painful inflammation of the big toe and foot caused by defects in uric acid metabolism resulting in deposits of the acid and its salts in the blood and joints [syn: {gouty arthritis}, {urarthritis}] Gout \Gout\ (gout), n. [F. goutte a drop, the gout, the disease being considered as a defluxion, fr. L. gutta drop.] [1913 Webster] 1. A drop; a clot or coagulation. [1913 Webster] On thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood.