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Shylock
Shylock a Jewish moneylender in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, who lends money to Antonio but demands in return a pound of Antonio's own flesh should the debt not be repaid on time; when the debt falls due, and Shylock enforces the penalty, Antonio is saved by Portia, who pleads successfully... Read more |
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pound
pound abbr. lb, unit of either mass or force in the customary system of English units of measurement . Two different pounds of mass are defined, one in the avoirdupois system of units and one in the Troy system. The avoirdupois pound (lb avdp) is now defined in terms of the kilogram , the... Read more |
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Reinforcement
Reinforcement In either classical or operant conditioning, a stimulus that increases the probability that a particular behavior will occur. In classical (Pavlovian) conditioning , where the response has no effect on whether the stimulus will occur, reinforcement produces an immediate... Read more |
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Gabriela Sabatini
Gabriela Sabatini: 1970—: Tennis player, fragrance designer Over her 12-year pro career, tennis player Gabriela Sabatini won 27 career singles titles, including the 1990 U.S. Open and two season-ending Virginia Slims Championships. She came close to winning Wimbledon in 1991, and from age 15... Read more |
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hawse
hawse, strictly, that part of a ship's bow where the hawseholes and hawsepipes are situated through which the anchor cables pass. But it is by extension, and in its most generally accepted meaning, also the distance between the ship's head and its anchor as it lies on the bottom. Thus another... Read more |
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Holidays
HOLIDAYS HOLIDAYS. Holidays are "holy days," when people interrupt the profane, mundane round of production and celebrate with the preparation and eating of special foods and meals. The two basic forms of holidays are a festival (from Latin festum for 'feast'), when people break their normal... Read more |
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Martinus Willem Beijerinck
BEIJERINCK, MARTINUS WILLEM(b. Amsterdam, Netherlands, 16 March 1851; d. Gorssel, Netherlands, 1 January 1931),microbiology, botany.Beijerinck was the youngest of four children of Derk Beijerinck, a tobacco dealer, and Jeannette Henriëtte van Slogteren, After going bankrupt when Martinus was two,... Read more |
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table tennis
table tennis game played, usually indoors, by two or four players; it is more or less a miniature form of lawn tennis . It is also called Ping-Pong, after the trade name that a manufacturer adopted (c.1900) for the equipment. The regulation game is played on a table that measures 9 ft by 5 ft... Read more |
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Charles duc d Orleans
Charles Orléans, duc d' , 1391-1465, French prince and poet; nephew of King Charles VI . After the assassination of his father, Louis d' Orléans , he became (1407) titular head of the Armagnacs (see Armagnacs and Burgundians ). After the English invasion of France in 1415, Charles... Read more |
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angina pectoris
angina pectoris , condition characterized by chest pain that occurs when the muscles of the heart receive an insufficient supply of oxygen. This results when the arteries that supply the heart muscle with oxygenated blood are narrowed by arteriosclerosis . In rare cases angina results from spasms... Read more |
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CAROL DAY THREE CAROL'S PLAN OF ACTION; How the detox diet gave the...
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WEIGHT-WATCH WITH MOTHER.(Features)
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