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elephantine
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
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el·e·phan·tine
/ ˌeləˈfantēn; -ˌtīn; ˈeləfənˌtēn; -ˌtīn/
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adj.
of, resembling, or characteristic of an elephant or elephants, esp. in being large, clumsy, or awkward:
there was an elephantine thud from the bathroom.
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The Jewish Temple at ELEPHANTINE
Magazine article from: Near Eastern Archaeology; 3/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; The Jewish military colony at Elephantine Island in southern Egypt is well...some one hundred years ago at Elephantine and nearby Aswan. Describing...started work at the southern end of Elephantine Island with the aim of identifying...
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The Elephantine Papyri in English: Three Millennia of Cross-Cultural Continuity and Change.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 4/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...the Upper Egyptian fortress cities of Elephantine and Syrene, dating from the late Old...many years the preeminent scholar in Elephantine Aramaic studies. All of the texts have...for rebuilding the Jewish temple in Elephantine (B19-20), as well as a wide variety...
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The Elephantine Papyri in English: Three Millenia of Cross-Cultural Continuity and Change
Magazine article from: Journal of Biblical Literature; 4/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; The Elephantine Papyri in English: Three Millennia...contribution to our understanding of the the Elephantine Papyri, both in terms of critical...that represent a picture of life at Elephantine over three thousand years. All the...
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Man with "elephantine face" leaves hospital
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 2/14/2007; 430 words
; Man with "elephantine face" leaves hospital GUANGZHOU, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese man with "elephantine face" has left Guangzhou Nanfang Hospital for the Spring Festival after 2.8-kg tumors on his face was removed. Chen Shiping...
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Elephantine Appetite
Newspaper article from: Business Today; 8/13/2006; ; 700+ words
; Elephantine Appetite Good times never stop rolling for Vijay Mallya. Having cobbled together an empire spanning liquor to pharma to aviation...
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FAIRNESS IN ASBESTOS INJURY RESOLUTION ACT OF 2003: SAVING THE "ELEPHANTINE MASS"
Magazine article from: St. John's Law Review; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...thousands more are expected over the next few decades.5 The Supreme Court labeled the asbestos litigation problem an "elephantine mass."6 The massive number of asbestos claims have clogged court dockets, unnecessarily delayed compensation for asbestos...
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Elephantine Expectations: Platinum Capital Expects To Double Its 1997 Record Year
PR Newswire; 1/13/1998; 700+ words
; IRVINE, Calif., Jan. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- How many CEOs would ride into their company's annual meeting atop an 8,000 pound African elephant in order to assure that his "Think Big" message for 1998 will be remembered by all 155 Platinum employees? That's exactly what Mark Moses, CEO of Platinum
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Elephantine sea mammals land at Ao Nuevo
Newspaper article from: Oakland Tribune; 12/11/2006; ; 700+ words
; ANO NUEVO -- They come from the waters of Alaska and Vancouver, riding frigid ocean currents and avoiding shark attacks for hundreds of miles. No one knows how they do it, but every December the elephant seals return to the sandy shores of Ao Nuevo State Reserve to breed, give birth and prepare for
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Elephantine appetite: (WILD ART).(Nation)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 5/30/1997; 228 words
; Elephants from the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus have lunch at the Italian market in Philadelphia, where the circus opened Wednesday. Fruits and veggies were on the pachyderms' menu.
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Elephantine Citigroup will be bail-out's next chapter
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 11/23/2008; ; 449 words
; It was less than three months ago that Sir Win Bischoff, the British chairman of Citigroup, trumpeted to Wall Street his belief that there were unlikely to be any further large bank failures. It is unusual to say this about any investment banker but perhaps he had not been spending enough time
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Elephantine
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Elephantine , island, SE Egypt, in the Nile below the First Cataract, near Aswan...it was a military post guarding the southern frontier of Egypt. The Elephantine papyruses, which date from the 5th cent. BC and describe a colony...
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elephantine
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
...x2CC;tēn; -ˌtīn / • adj. of, resembling, or characteristic of an elephant or elephants, esp. in being large, clumsy, or awkward: there was an elephantine thud from the bathroom.
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Zoser
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Zoser brought to an end a seven-year famine which had afflicted Egypt by presenting to the ram-headed god Khnum of Elephantine, who controlled the Nile inundation, the stretch of territory in Lower Nubia known in Greek as the Dodekaschoinos. The...
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Pepi I
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...c.2275-c.2185 BC) is the longest recorded in history. It was successful because the powerful southern lords at Elephantine organized the Egyptian caravan trade route, which enabled expeditions to penetrate well into Nubia and carry on a prosperous...
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Aswan
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...was first sighted in Egypt. From the syenite quarries nearby came stone for the temples and statuary of the Pharaohs. On Elephantine island, in the Nile opposite Aswan, and Philae island (submerged by the Aswan High Dam complex), south of the city...
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