Glossary- antlers
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ant·ler
(ānt'lər) Pronunciation Key n. One of a pair of hornlike, bony, deciduous growths, usually elongated and branched, on the head of a deer, moose, elk, caribou, or other member of the deer family.
[Middle English aunteler, from Old French antoillier, from Vulgar Latin *antoculāre, anteoculāre : Latin ante-, ante- + Latin oculāris, of the eye; see ocular.]
ant'lered adj.
Antlers
- architects
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ar·chi·tect (är'kĭ-těkt') Pronunciation Key
n.- One who designs and supervises the construction of buildings or other large structures.
- One that plans or devises: a country considered to be the chief architect of war in the Middle East.
[Latin architectus, from Greek arkhitektōn : arkhi-, archi- + tektōn, builder; see teks- in Indo-European roots.]
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clas⋅si⋅cal
[klas-i-kuh
l] –adjective1. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Greek and Roman antiquity: classical literature; classical languages. 2. conforming to ancient Greek and Roman models in literature or art, or to later systems modeled upon them. 3. marked by classicism: classical simplicity. 4. Music. a. of, pertaining to, or constituting the formally and artistically more sophisticated and enduring types of music, as distinguished from popular and folk music and jazz. Classical music includes symphonies, operas, sonatas, song cycles, and lieder. b. of, pertaining to, characterized by, or adhering to the well-ordered, chiefly homophonic musical style of the latter half of the 18th and the early 19th centuries: Haydn and Mozart are classical composers. 5. Architecture. a. noting or pertaining to the architecture of ancient Greece and Rome, esp. the religious and public architecture, characterized by the employment of orders. Compare order (def. 27b). b. noting or pertaining to any of several styles of architecture closely imitating the architecture of ancient Greece or Rome; neoclassic. c. noting or pertaining to architectural details or motifs adapted from ancient Greek or Roman models. d. (of an architectural design) simple, reposeful, well-proportioned, or symmetrical in a manner suggesting the architecture of ancient Greece and Rome. 6. (often initial capital letter ) pertaining to or designating the style of fine arts, esp. painting and sculpture, developed in Greece during the 5th and 4th centuries b.c., chiefly characterized by balanced composition, the separation of figures from an architectural background, and the naturalistic rendering of anatomical details, spatial movement, and distribution of weight in a figure. Compare archaic (def. 4), Hellenistic (def. 5).7. of or pertaining to a style of literature and art characterized by conformity to established treatments, taste, or critical standards, and by attention to form with the general effect of regularity, simplicity, balance, proportion, and controlled emotion (contrasted with romantic ). 8. pertaining to or versed in the ancient classics: a classical scholar. 9. relating to or teaching academic branches of knowledge, as the humanities, general sciences, etc., as distinguished from technical subjects. 10. (of a given field of knowledge) accepted as standard and authoritative, as distinguished from novel or experimental: classical physics. 11. classic (defs. 1–5, 8, 10). 12. Ecclesiastical. pertaining to a classis. –noun13. classical music: a jazz pianist who studied classical for years.
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
- galaxy
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gal⋅ax⋅y
[gal-uhk-see] –noun, plural -ax⋅ies.1. Astronomy. a. a large system of stars held together by mutual gravitation and isolated from similar systems by vast regions of space. b. (usually initial capital letter ) Milky Way. 2. any large and brilliant or impressive assemblage of persons or things: a galaxy of opera stars.
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1350–1400; ME galaxie, galaxias < ML galaxia, galaxias, ult. < Gk galaxías kýklos the Milky Way; see galacto-
Galaxy
- Golden Ratio
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ain Entry: golden ratio Part of Speech: n Definition: the value (1 + sqrt(5)) / 2, which is approximately 1.6180339887, the ratio of a diagonal of a pentagon to its side; also called golden ratio, golden section, golden number, divine proportion Example: The golden ratio is used to give proportions of height to width when laying out text and illustrations.
golden ratio
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Main Entry: divine proportion Part of Speech: n Definition: See golden ratio Main Entry:
golden ratio Part of Speech: n Definition: the value (1 + sqrt(5)) / 2, which is approximately 1.6180339887, the ratio of a diagonal of a pentagon to its side; also called golden ratio, golden section, golden number, divine proportion Example: The golden ratio is used to give proportions of height to width when laying out text and illustrations.
Divine Porportions of Human Face
- mollusks
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mol⋅lusk
[mol-uhsk] any invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, typically having a calcareous shell of one, two, or more pieces that wholly or partly enclose the soft, unsegmented body, including the chitons, snails, bivalves, squids, and octopuses.
Mollusk
- Ocean
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o⋅cean
[oh-shuhn] –noun1. the vast body of salt water that covers almost three fourths of the earth's surface. 2. any of the geographical divisions of this body, commonly given as the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Antarctic oceans. 3. a vast expanse or quantity: an ocean of grass.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME ocean(e) (< OF) < L ōceanus, special use of Ōceanus Oceanus < Gk ōkeanós, Ōkeanós
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o⋅cean⋅like, adjectiveIn Cold Areas, You can see Icebergs in the Ocean (photo below)Future generations will not be able to see this.
- Parthenon
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Par⋅the⋅non
[pahr-thuh-non, -nuhn] –noun the temple of Athena Parthenos on the Acropolis at Athens, completed c438 b.c. by Ictinus and Callicrates and decorated by Phidias: regarded as the finest Doric temple.
Parthenon
