Religious organization

An elongated enclosure usually bounded by a cylindrical or rectangular metal tube for propagating energy by means of electromagnetic waves within the enclosure. It is a hollow transmission line or a metal tube through which high frequency…

| ̷ ̷ˈdōrə noun Usage: usually capitalized 2d D Etymology: from the name Dora : a stupid and often naïve woman * * * Slang. a foolishly simple, stupid, or scatterbrained woman. [1910 15]

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pankkiosoitus

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The central meanings of this word (‘of or belonging to an academy or institution for higher learning’) survive, but a little more than a century ago it developed a depreciatory range of meanings ‘merely theoretical, having no practical…

Translation — интенсивные возрастания — from russian — to english — 1

m s, = тех. эксцентрик

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   In Persian lore and ZOROASTRIANISM, a wicked and unrighteous DEMON of luxury and vice. Dregvants was a name given to the residents of the city of Gilan south of the Caspian Sea, who were considered to be fiends incarnate

channel of water between the South American coast and the islands south of it

Translation — فأس — from arabic — — 1

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is the official term used to describe a protected object listed on the Austrian cultural property list as kept by the Federal Monuments Office known as the Bundesdenkmalamt (BDA). The Austrian directory of kulturdenkmal objects is kept in…

Translation — easy reading series — from russian — — 1

(1854) 1 Macq. 461 is a UK company law case. It concerns the fiduciary duty of loyalty, and in particular, the duty not not engage in self dealing. It laid down a basic rule that if a director had an interest in a corporate transaction, the…