[vän dər vȧlz′] Johannes Diderik [yō̂ hä′nəs dē′də rik] 1837 1923; Du. physicist

agg. ridetto, replicato, rifatto □ (est.) monotono, meccanico (fig.), noioso CONTR. nuovo

1854, from German, from Gottlieb Biedermeier, name of a fictitious writer of stodgy poems (invented by Ludwig Eichrodt as a satire on bourgeois taste); the name generally applied to styles prevalent in Germany 1815 48; also conventional,…

The Republic of Elbonia is a fictional country supposedly in Eastern Europe from Scott Adams comic strips Dilbert and . It is an extremely poor, fourth world country that has recently abandoned Communism. Most of the nation is covered with waist…

Translation — спбгасу — from russian — to english — 1

1917, from Fr. camoufler, Parisian slang, to disguise, from It. camuffare to disguise, perhaps a contraction of capo muffare to muffle the head. Probably altered by Fr. camouflet puff of smoke, on the notion of blow smoke in someone s face. The…

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(formerly Wei yang), city in Kiangsu province, China. It had connections with the Jewish community of kaifeng . A few scattered references to Jewish and Chinese individuals from Yang chou are found in the Chinese stele inscriptions of the Kaifeng

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Optics, Photog. the range of distances along the axis of an optical instrument, usually a camera lens, through which an object will produce a relatively distinct image. Also called depth of focus. [1910 15] * * *

nm. 1. phil. atribut (narsalarning, hodisalarning ajralmas qismi, xususiyati) 2. o‘ziga xos xususiyat, belgi, alomat 3. gram. atribut, aniqlovchi

(singular, Afer ) was the Latin name for an ancient people located on the shores of the southern Mediterranean Sea near the city of Carthage, nowadays Tunisia. The first record of their existence was made during the Punic Wars (264 146 B.C.)…

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1836, probably a colloquial alteration of SUMPTUOUS (Cf. sumptuous) (q.v.). Originally stylish, splendid; sense of delicious is from 1881