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gang1
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n.
1.
an organized group of criminals.
∎
a group of young people involved in petty crime or violence.
∎ inf.
a group of people, esp. young people, who regularly associate together.
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an organized group of people doing manual work:
ninety days of hard labor on the road gang.
2.
a set of switches, sockets, or other electrical or mechanical devices grouped together.
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v.
1. [intr.] (gang together)
(of a number of people) form a group or gang:
the smaller supermarket chains are ganging together to beat the big boys.
∎ (gang up)
(of a number of people) join together, typically in order to intimidate someone:
he is being unfairly ganged up on.
2.
[tr.] (often be ganged)
arrange (electrical devices or machines) together to work in coordination.
gang2
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v. [intr.] Scot.
go; proceed:
gang to your bed, lass.
PHRASAL VERBS:
gang agley
(of a plan) go wrong.
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GANGES' POLLUTION MAY END HOLY BATHS
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 5/17/1998; 700+ words
; ...PHOTO - 2 Bathers wash themselves at sunrise in the Ganges River at Varanasi. Pollution in the river exposes...PHOTO) People wash and dry their laundry in the Ganges River at Varansi. The Ganges has been nearly exhausted by the tons of waste...
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AMCC Announces GANGES IC, The Industry's First OC-192/STM-64 Framer Device To Support Both Channelized and Concatenated 10-Gigabit Traffic.
Business Wire; 5/1/2000; 700+ words
; ...BUSINESS WIRE)--May 1, 2000 GANGES Delivers Unparalleled Flexibility and...today announced the availability of the GANGES (S19202), the industry's first OC...SONET/SDH payloads. The addition of GANGES to AMCC's framer/PHY product line...
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 "Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)")
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HOLY GANGES RIVER SERIOUSLY POLLUTED HINDU PRIEST DEDICATED TO CLEANSING INDIA'S HOLY RIVER OF TONS OF SEWAGE.(News/National/International)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 5/17/1998; 700+ words
; ...Mochan temple, shares their faith in the Ganges River's powers of redemption. But as...old Misra has lived on the banks of the Ganges for decades, worshipping and studying...heavy sewage treatment project along the Ganges in 1986 that failed dismally in reaching...
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Geopolitics, water and development in South Asia: cooperative development in the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta.
Magazine article from: The Geographical Journal; 3/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...ramifications, nowhere more so than in the Ganges- Brahmaputra-Meghna system of the Bengal...opportunities for enhancing effective use of the Ganges--Brahmaputra--Meghna waters through...ultimately addressed in the Indo-Bangladesh Ganges Waters Treaty of December 1996, the paper...
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Hindu priest attempts to give Ganges a new lease of life
News Wire article from: AP Online; 5/16/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Mochan temple, shares their faith in the Ganges River's powers of redemption. But as...old Misra has lived on the banks of the Ganges for decades, worshipping and studying...heavy sewage treatment project along the Ganges in 1986 that failed dismally in reaching...
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Ganges in need of cleansing.(World)(Briefing/Western Asia)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 4/25/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...jostling for space along the banks of the Ganges begins long before dawn, when tens of...funeral pyres catch fire. The belief in the Ganges River's power to cleanse Hindus of their...year, that belief is fast eroding. The Ganges - Hinduism's holiest river and the primary...
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The complete guide to the Ganges At the spiritual heart of Hinduism, the Ganges is India's most sacred river. Its length is strewn with cities, pilgrimage sites, mountains and lush forests. RHIANNON BATTEN dips a toe in the murky water of one of the world's great waterways
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 11/9/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...and then enters Bangladesh. Here, the Ganges merges with the Brahmaputra river and...Brahmaputra is. But, in spiritual terms, the Ganges reigns supreme. WHAT MAKES IT SO SPECIAL...it's difficult to disassociate the Ganges from Hinduism. For Hindus, the number...
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Holy men clean river Ganges in Haridwar.
News Wire article from: Asian News International; 10/12/2009; 532 words
; ...and pilgrims are cleaning the river Ganges of garbage and silt in Haridwar. The...be held early next year in the town. "Ganges Committee members, volunteers and seers...cleaning drive of the river after the Ganges canal is closed for some time annually...
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Climate change imperils Ganges River.(Q)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 7/27/2007; 700+ words
; ...Ramedi cupped the murky water of the Ganges River in her hands, lifted them toward...funeral pyres. To be cremated beside the Ganges, most here believe, brings salvation...provides up to 70 percent of the water of the Ganges during the dry summer months, is shrinking...
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 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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INDIA BREEDS TURTLES TO CLEAN GANGES.(Main)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 11/26/1992; 700+ words
; ...Hindus flock to the shores of the great Ganges River here, where they drink and bathe...project in Indian history - cleaning up the Ganges River, from its glacial source in the...firm belief among many Indians that the Ganges - called "Ganga" by Indians and considered...
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Ganges
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Ganges or Ganga , river, c.1,560 mi (2...sacred river of Hindu India. The fertile Ganges plain is one of the world's most densely...the river is highly polluted. The upper Ganges supplies water to extensive irrigation works...
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Ganges dolphin
Book article from: A Dictionary of Zoology
Ganges dolphin ( Platanista ) See PLATANISTOIDEA .
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Cataract of the Ganges, The
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
Cataract of the Ganges, The (1824). An equestrian melodrama by W. T. Moncrieff, it was presented at the Park Theatre in 1824, a year after its...
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Haridwar
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...392), Uttaranchal state, N India, on the Ganges River. The headworks of the Ganges Canal system are located in Haridwar. Annual...associated with the town's Hindu temple and with the Ganges. The Gurukul school, founded in 1902, is a...
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Asia
Encyclopedia entry from: UXL Encyclopedia of Science
...into three subregions: the Himalayan Mountains, the Ganges Plain, and the Indian peninsula. The Himalayas stretch...Himalayan mountains, lying in northern India, is the Ganges Plain, which holds the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers.
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