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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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Gardenia
Gardenia Description Gardenias are members of the madder, or Rubiaceae, family. Though not native to either North or South America, they were named for an eighteenth-century American physician and naturalist, Alexander Garden. Gardenias were originally found only in China and Japan, but today... Read more |
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foyer
foyer. 1. Lobby or entrance-hall of a theatre or other public building. 2. Area outside the auditorium for the audience to meet, promenade, mingle, talk, etc. It acts as a sound-barrier between the exterior and the auditorium. 3. Any public area in a large public or civic building between the... Read more |
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Haik
HAIK Woman's draped, concealing garment. A haik (pl. hiyak ) is a simple, traditional outdoor costume of Moroccan townswomen, worn at the turn of the twentieth century, made of either fine white or coarse lumpy wool, a mixture of silk and wool, or simply cotton. Hiyak are white, with the... Read more |
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mode (statistics)
mode in statistics, an infrequently used type of average . In a group of numbers the mode is the number occurring most frequently. In the group 1, 4, 5, 5, 6, 6, 6, 6, 9, 9, the mode is 6 because it occurs four times and the others only once or twice.... Read more |
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Floris
Floris (or Floris de Vriendt). Netherlandish family of artists active in Antwerp. The most important members were the brothers Cornelis (b Antwerp, c.1514; d Antwerp, 20 Oct. 1575) and Frans (b Antwerp, 1519/20; d Antwerp, 1 Oct. 1570). Both of them spent some time in Rome and returned to Antwerp... Read more |
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Copt
Copt a native Egyptian in the Hellenistic and Roman periods; a member of the Coptic Church. Coptic, the language of the Copts, represents the final stage of ancient Egyptian. It now survives only as the liturgical language of the Coptic Church, the native Christian Church in Egypt, traditionally... Read more |
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Boneset
Boneset Description Boneset (Eupatorium perfoliatum ) is a common perennial that is native to the eastern United States and Canada, with a range from Nova Scotia to Florida. Other names for boneset are feverwort, sweat plant, and thoroughwort. The Native American name for boneset translates into... Read more |
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Mercantile Bankshares Corp
Mercantile Bankshares Corp. P.O. Box 1477Baltimore, Maryland 21203U.S.A.(410) 237-5900Fax: (410) 237-5703 Public CompanyIncorporated: 1970Employees: 1,500Total Assets: $5.5 billionStock Exchanges: NASDAQSICs: 6712 Bank Holding Companies; 6022 StateCommercial Banks; 6021 National Commercial... Read more |
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Fluphenazine
Fluphenazine Definition Fluphenazine is a phenothiazine antipsychotic sold under the brand names Permitil and Prolixin in the United States. It is also available under its generic name. Purpose Fluphenazine is a drug used to treat psychotic disorders, agitation, and ... Read more |
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