The reason people held this opinion [that Iblis was not an angel]
is that God stated in His Book that He created Iblis from the fire of
the Samum (15:27) and from smokeless fire (plasma) (55:15),
but did not state that He created the angels from any like of that. And
God states he was of the jinn, so they said that it is not possible
that he should be related to that which God does not relate him to;
they said that Iblis had progeny and offspring, but the angels do not procreate or have children.
Researchers have succeeded in increasing the conductivity of
eumelanin – the dark brown pigment that colours skin, hair and eyes – to
a record value of up to 318 S/cm by simply annealing it at high
temperatures in vacuum. The material could thus now be employed in a
variety of melanin-based bioelectronics.
Eumelanin is a form of melanin and conducts electricity – albeit
weakly – in its natural state. Researchers first discovered that the
polyindolic pigment was a semiconductor in the 1970s and suggested that
this behaviour comes from energy bands associated with a non-localized
empty molecular orbital within the eumelanin polymer chain. They also
suggested that the material might be used in biocompatible electronics,
but unfortunately, and not for lack of trying, they have been unable to
significantly improve the conductivity of either natural or synthetic
eumelanin.
Not too close, but not too far. That’s long been the rule describing
how distant a planet should be from its star in order to sustain life.
But a new study challenges that adage: A planet can maintain water and
other liquids on its surface if it’s heated, not by starlight, but by
radioactive decay, researchers calculate. That opens up the possibility
for many planets—even free-floating worlds untethered to stars—to host
life, they speculate.
Radioactive isotopes such as uranium-238, thorium-232, and
potassium-40 pepper Earth’s crust and mantle. As these unstable
radionuclides decay, they generate a small amount of power—roughly
one-thirty-thousandth that received from the Sun. But researchers have
now proposed that some planets, particularly ones that form near the
center of our Milky Way Galaxy, might possess enough of these
radioactive isotopes to generate sufficient heat to keep their surfaces
from freezing entirely solid.
“That gives you the freedom to be anywhere,” says Avi Loeb, an
astrophysicist at Harvard University and a co-author of the new study.
“You don’t need to be close to a star.”
Loeb and Manasvi Lingam, an astrobiologist at the Florida Institute
of Technology, looked at three sources of heat for a sunless planet:
heat leftover from its formation, the radioactive decay of long-lived
isotopes over billions of years, and the radioactive decay of
short-lived isotopes over hundreds of thousands of years. They then
modeled the surface temperatures of planets with different masses and
radionuclide abundances to determine whether water, ammonia, and
ethane—three solvents found in the Solar System—could exist as liquids.
St. Elmo's fire is named after St. Erasmus of Formia (also called St. Elmo, one of the two Italian names for St. Erasmus, the other being St. Erasmo), the patron saint
of sailors. The phenomenon sometimes appeared on ships at sea during
thunderstorms and was regarded by sailors with religious awe for its
glowing ball of light, accounting for the name.
No name for this soldier is given in the canonical Gospels; the name Longinus is instead found in the Acts of Pilate, a text appended to the apocryphalGospel of Nicodemus. Longinus did not start out as a saint. An early tradition, found in a sixth or seventh century pseudepigraphal "Letter of Herod to Pilate",
claims that Longinus suffered for having pierced Jesus, and that he was
condemned to a cave where every night a lion came and mauled him until
dawn, after which his body healed back to normal, in a pattern that
would repeat till the end of time.[6] Later traditions turned him into a Christian convert, but as Sabine Baring-Gould observed: "The name of Longinus was not known to the Greeks previous to the patriarch Germanus,
in 715. It was introduced amongst the Westerns from the Apocryphal
Gospel of Nicodemus. There is no reliable authority for the Acts and
martyrdom of this saint."[5]
The name is probably Latinized from the Greek lonche (λόγχη), the word used for the lance mentioned in John19:34.[7] It first appears lettered on an illumination
of the Crucifixion beside the figure of the soldier holding a spear,
written, perhaps contemporaneously, in horizontal Greek letters, LOGINOS (ΛΟΓΙΝΟϹ), in the Syriac gospel manuscript illuminated by a certain Rabulas in the year 586, in the Laurentian Library, Florence. The spear used is known as the Holy Lance, and more recently, especially in occult circles, as the "Spear of Destiny", which was revered at Jerusalem
by the sixth century, although neither the centurion nor the name
"Longinus" were invoked in any surviving report. As the "Lance of
Longinus", the spear figures in the legends of the Holy Grail.[citation needed]
Blindness or other eye problems are not mentioned until after the tenth century.[8]Petrus Comestor
was one of the first to add an eyesight problem to the legend and his
text can be translated as "blind", "dim-sighted" or "weak-sighted".
Isaiah 30
God’s Promise to Zion
18
Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you;
therefore he will rise up to show mercy to you.
For the Lord is a God of justice;
blessed are all those who wait for him.
19 Truly, O people in Zion, inhabitants of Jerusalem, you shall weep no
more. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry; when
he hears it, he will answer you. 20 Though the Lord may give you the
bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your Teacher will
not hide himself any more, but your eyes shall see your Teacher. 21 And
when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left, your ears shall
hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.” 22 Then
you will defile your silver-covered idols and your gold-plated images.
You will scatter them like filthy rags; you will say to them, “Away with
you!”
23 He will give rain for the seed with which you sow the ground, and
grain, the produce of the ground, which will be rich and plenteous. On
that day your cattle will graze in broad pastures; 24 and the oxen and
donkeys that till the ground will eat silage, which has been winnowed
with shovel and fork. 25 On every lofty mountain and every high hill
there will be brooks running with water—on a day of the great slaughter,
when the towers fall. 26 Moreover the light of the moon will be like
the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, like
the light of seven days, on the day when the Lord binds up the injuries
of his people, and heals the wounds inflicted by his blow.
Judgment on Assyria
27
See, the name of the Lord comes from far away,
burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke;[c]
his lips are full of indignation,
and his tongue is like a devouring fire;
28
his breath is like an overflowing stream
that reaches up to the neck—
to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction,
and to place on the jaws of the peoples a bridle that leads them
astray.
29 You shall have a song as in the night when a holy festival is kept;
and gladness of heart, as when one sets out to the sound of the flute to
go to the mountain of the Lord, to the Rock of Israel. 30 And the Lord
will cause his majestic voice to be heard and the descending blow of his
arm to be seen, in furious anger and a flame of devouring fire, with a
cloudburst and tempest and hailstones. 31 The Assyrian will be
terror-stricken at the voice of the Lord, when he strikes with his rod.
32 And every stroke of the staff of punishment that the Lord lays upon
him will be to the sound of timbrels and lyres; battling with brandished
arm he will fight with him. 33 For his burning place[d] has long been
prepared; truly it is made ready for the king,[e] its pyre made deep and
wide, with fire and wood in abundance; the breath of the Lord, like a
stream of sulfur, kindles it.
Leviticus 19
23 When you come into the land and plant all kinds of trees for food,
then you shall regard their fruit as forbidden;[c] three years it shall
be forbidden[d] to you, it must not be eaten. 24 In the fourth year all
their fruit shall be set apart for rejoicing in the Lord. 25 But in the
fifth year you may eat of their fruit, that their yield may be increased
for you: I am the Lord your God.
Galactus was originally the explorer Galan of the planet Taa, which existed in the prime pre-Big Bang universe.
When an unknown cosmic cataclysm gradually begins killing off all of
the other life in his universe, Galan and other survivors leave Taa on a
spacecraft and are engulfed in the Big Crunch. Galan, however, does not die: after bonding with the Sentience of the Universe,
he changes and gestates for billions of years in an egg made of the
debris of his ship that the current universe formed after the Big Bang. He emerges as Galactus, and though a Watcher observed Galactus's birth and recognizes his destructive nature, the Watcher chooses not to kill Galactus.[24][25][26]
Starving for sustenance, Galactus consumes the nearby planet of
Archeopia—the first of many planets he would destroy to maintain his
existence.[24][27]
Subsequently, in memory of his dead home world Taa, and the first
planet (Archeopia) to fall prey to his hunger, Galactus constructs a new
"home world": the Möbius strip-shaped space station called "Taa II".
Galactus becomes involved in a civil war among the "Proemial
Gods", who had come into being during the universe's infancy. When a
faction of the gods led by Diableri of Chaos attempts to remake the
universe in their own image, Galactus kills Diableri and imprisons three
others (Antiphon, Tenebrous, and Aegis) in the prison called the Kyln.[28]
Galactus then decides to create a herald to locate worlds for sustenance, but fails when the first—Tyrant—rebels,[29] and the second—the Fallen One—is dismissed for his bloodthirsty attitude.[30] When approaching the planet of Zenn-La, Galactus accepts the offer of Norrin Radd to become his herald, the Silver Surfer, in exchange for sparing his world.[31] Eventually locating Earth, Galactus is driven off by the Fantastic Four, Uatu the Watcher, and the rebellious Silver Surfer after the Human Torch—with the Watcher's assistance—retrieves the Ultimate Nullifier
from Taa II. Although Galactus leaves Earth, vowing that he will never
try to consume it again, he banishes the Surfer to Earth for betraying
him.[32][33] Galactus later returns for his former herald, but the Surfer is unrepentant and chooses to remain on Earth.[34]Thor learns of Galactus's origin when the entity comes into conflict with Ego the Living Planet.
1580s, "the whole world, cosmos, the totality of existing things," from Old French univers (12c.), from Latin universum "all things, everybody, all people, the whole world," noun use of neuter of adjective universus "all together, all in one, whole, entire, relating to all," literally "turned into one," from unus "one" (from PIE root *oi-no- "one, unique") + versus, past participle of vertere "to turn, turn back, be turned; convert, transform, translate; be changed" (from PIE root *wer- (2) "to turn, bend").
The Mushroom Kingdom (キノコ王国, Kinoko Ōkoku) is a principality in Nintendo's Mario series. The Mushroom Kingdom is a location from the Mario franchise[2] which is the setting of most main-series Mario games though it is presented very inconsistently throughout the series. It is uncertain if many areas in the Mario franchise are part of the Mushroom Kingdom or the larger Mario universe. There is no established canon regarding the topography of the Mario world.
Cumulonimbus (from Latincumulus, "heaped" and nimbus, "rainstorm") is a dense, towering vertical cloud,[1] forming from water vapor
carried by powerful upward air currents. If observed during a storm,
these clouds may be referred to as thunderheads. Cumulonimbus can form
alone, in clusters, or along cold front squall lines. These clouds are capable of producing lightning and other dangerous severe weather, such as tornadoes and hailstones. Cumulonimbus progress from overdeveloped cumulus congestus clouds and may further develop as part of a supercell.
Towering cumulonimbus clouds are typically accompanied by smaller cumulus
clouds. The cumulonimbus base may extend several kilometres across and
occupy low to middle altitudes - formed at altitude from approximately
200 to 4,000 m (700 to 10,000 ft). Peaks typically reach to as much as
12,000 m (39,000 ft), with extreme instances as high as 21,000 m
(69,000 ft) or more.[2] Well-developed cumulonimbus clouds are characterized by a flat, anvil-like top (anvil dome), caused by wind shear or inversion near the tropopause. The shelf of the anvil may precede the main cloud's vertical component for many kilometres, and be accompanied by lightning. Occasionally, rising air parcels surpass the equilibrium level (due to momentum) and form an overshooting top culminating at the maximum parcel level.
When vertically developed, this largest of all clouds usually extends
through all three cloud regions. Even the smallest cumulonimbus cloud
dwarfs its neighbors in comparison.
Cumulonimbus calvus: cloud with puffy top, similar to cumulus congestus which it develops from; under the correct conditions it can become a cumulonimbus capillatus.
Mamma or mammatus: consisting of bubble-like protrusions on the underside.
Mammatus (mamma[1] or mammatocumulus), meaning "mammary cloud", is a cellular pattern of pouches hanging underneath the base of a cloud, typically cumulonimbus rainclouds, although they may be attached to other classes of parent clouds. The name mammatus is derived from the Latin mamma (meaning "udder" or "breast"). According to the WMO International Cloud Atlas, mamma
is a cloud supplementary feature rather than a genus, species or
variety of cloud. They are formed by cold air sinking down to form the
pockets contrary to the puffs of clouds rising through the convection of
warm air. These formations were first described in 1894 by William Clement Ley.
Mammatus are most often associated with anvil clouds and also severe thunderstorms. They often extend from the base of a cumulonimbus, but may also be found under altostratus, and cirrus clouds, as well as volcanic ash clouds.[4]
When occurring in cumulonimbus, mammatus are often indicative of a
particularly strong storm. Due to the intensely sheared environment in
which mammatus form, aviators are strongly cautioned to avoid cumulonimbus with mammatus as they indicate convectively induced turbulence.[5] Contrails may also produce lobes but these are incorrectly termed as mammatus.[1]
Mammatus may appear as smooth, ragged or lumpy lobes and may be
opaque or translucent. Because mammatus occur as a grouping of lobes,
the way they clump together can vary from an isolated cluster to a field
of mammae that spread over hundreds of kilometers to being organized
along a line, and may be composed of unequal or similarly-sized lobes.
The individual mammatus lobe average diameters of 1–3 kilometres
(0.6–1.9 mi) and lengths on average of 1⁄2
kilometre (0.3 mi). A lobe can last an average of 10 minutes, but a
whole cluster of mamma can range from 15 minutes to a few hours. They
are usually composed of ice, but also can be a mixture of ice and liquid
water or be composed of almost entirely liquid water.
True to their ominous appearance, mammatus clouds are often
harbingers of a coming storm or other extreme weather system. Typically
composed primarily of ice, they can extend for hundreds of miles in each
direction and individual formations can remain visibly static for ten
to fifteen minutes at a time. While they may appear foreboding they are
merely the messengers - appearing around, before or even after severe
weather.
"an animal of the class Mammalia; an animal that suckles its young," 1826, Englished form of Modern Latin Mammalia (1773), coined 1758 by Linnaeus for that class of animals from neuter plural of Late Latin mammalis "of the breast," from Latin mamma "breast," which is cognate with mamma.
With the exception of a few egg-laying species, all bear live young and
have the mammary gland for the young to suck. All also are warm-blooded
and breathe air. In Middle English, mammille was "a woman's breast" (early 15c.).
personification of riches and worldliness, mid-14c., from Late Latin mammona, from Ecclesiastical Greek mamōnas, from Aramaic mamona, mamon
"riches, gain;" a word left untranslated in Greek New Testament
(Matthew vi.24, Luke xvi.9-13), retained in the Vulgate, and regarded
mistakenly by medieval Christians as the name of a demon who leads men
to covetousness.
The reconstructedProto-Oceanic
word "mana" is thought to have referred to "powerful forces of nature
such as thunder and storm winds" rather than supernatural power.[2] That meaning became detached as the Oceanic-speaking peoples spread eastward and the word started to refer to unseen supernatural powers.
"mother," a word used especially by children and infants, 1570s, representing the native form of the reduplication of *ma- that is nearly universal among the Indo-European languages (Greek mamme "mother, grandmother," Latin mamma, Persian mama, Russian and Lithuanian mama "mother," German Muhme "mother's sister," French maman, Welsh mam "mother").
Probably
a natural sound in baby-talk, perhaps imitative of sound made while
sucking. Its late appearance in English is curious, but Middle English
had mome (mid-13c.) "an aunt; an old woman," also an affectionate term of address for an older woman.
In
educated usage, the stress is always on the last syllable. In terms of
the recorded appearance of the variant or related words in English, mama is from 1707, mum is from 1823, mummy in this sense from 1839, mommy 1844, momma 1852, and mom 1867. Mamma's boy "soft, effeminate male" is by 1901 (by hijacks).
The Cathars (also known as Cathari from the Greek Katharoi for “pure ones”)
Cathars believed that Satan had tricked a number of angels into falling from heaven and then encased them in bodies. The purpose of life was to renounce the pleasures and enticements of the world and, through repeated incarnations, make one’s way back to heaven.
Cathars rejected the teachings of the Catholic Church as immoral and most of the books of the Bible as inspired by Satan.
Metempsychosis (Reincarnation) – a soul would be continually reborn until it renounced the world completely and escaped incarnation.
Cosmic Duality – the existence of two powerful deities in the universe, one good and one evil, who were in a constant state of war. The purpose of life was to serve the good by serving others and escape from the cycle of rebirth and death to return home to God.
Vegetarianism - though eating fish was allowed to credentes and sympathizers.
Cathars rejected and repudiated every aspect of the Church, including most of the books of the Bible. Scholar Malcolm Barber notes:
They believed that the devil was the author of the Old Testament except these books: Job, the Psalms, the books of Solomon [Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon], The Book of Jesus (Joshua) son of Sirach [better known as the Book of Ecclesiasticus], of Isaiah, Ezekiel, David, and of the twelve prophets. (93)
The only books of the New Testament they accepted were the gospels, completely rejecting the epistles of Paul and the others, with a special emphasis on the Gospel According to John.
Their central religious text was The Book of Two Principles, passages of which would be read by one of the perfecti to a congregation and interpreted for them by another member of the group. The Book of Two Principles related, among other aspects of the faith, the dualist nature of life and how humans, once divine spirits of light, came to be bound in corruptible mortal flesh.
18
Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you;
therefore he will rise up to show mercy to you.
For the Lord is a God of justice;
blessed are all those who wait for him.
19 Truly, O people in Zion, inhabitants of Jerusalem, you shall weep no
more. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry; when
he hears it, he will answer you.
Sound uttered
by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus
uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character
The human voice is the oldest musical instrument in history.
She has a pleasant voice.
His low voice allowed him to become a bass in the choir.
(phonetics) Sound made through vibration of the vocal cords; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; — distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in whispering and voiceless consonants.
by 1650s, of land, "till, prepare for crops;" by 1690s of crops, "raise or produce by tillage;" from Medieval Latin cultivatus, past participle of cultivare "to cultivate," from Late Latin cultivus "tilled," from Latin cultus "care, labor; cultivation," from past participle of colere "to cultivate, to till; to inhabit; to frequent, practice, respect; tend, guard," from PIE root *kwel- (1) "revolve, move round; sojourn, dwell."
Figurative
sense of "improve by labor or study, devote one's attention to" is from
1680s. Meaning "court the acquaintance of (someone)"
It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit cakram "circle, wheel," carati "he moves, wanders;" Avestan caraiti "applies himself," c'axra "chariot, wagon;" Greek kyklos "circle, wheel, any circular body, circular motion, cycle of events,"polos "a round axis" (PIE *kw- becomes Greek p- before some vowels), polein "move around;" Latin colere "to frequent, dwell in, to cultivate, move around," cultus "tended, cultivated," hence also "polished," colonus "husbandman, tenant farmer, settler, colonist;" Lithuanian kelias "a road, a way;" Old Norse hvel, Old English hweol "wheel;" Old Church Slavonic kolo, Old Russian kolo, Polish koło, Russian koleso "a wheel."
Proto-Indo-European root meaning "far" (in space or time). Some sources connect this root with *kwel- (1), forming words to do with turning, via the notion of "completion of a cycle."
It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit caramah "the last;" Greek tele "far off, afar, at or to a distance," palaios "old, ancient," palai "long ago, far back;" Breton pell "far off," Welsh pellaf "uttermost."
Zayin (also spelled zain or zayn or simply zay) is the seventh letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Zayin , Hebrew 'Zayin ז, Yiddish Zoyen ז, Aramaic Zain , Syriac Zayn ܙ, and Arabic Zayn or Zāy ز. It represents the sound [z].
In Modern Hebrewslang, zayin (זין) means "penis" and lezayen (לזין) is a vulgar term which generally means to perform sexual intercourse,[1][2] although the older meaning survives in maavak mezuyan ("armed struggle") (מאבק מזוין), kokhot mezuyanim ("armed forces") (כוחות מזוינים), and beton mezuyan (בטון מזוין) ("armed, i.e., reinforced concrete").
Handcuffs are restraint devices designed to secure an individual's wrists in proximity to each other.[1] They comprise two parts, linked together by a chain, a hinge, or rigid bar. Each cuff has a rotating arm which engages with a ratchet
that prevents it from being opened once closed around a person's wrist.
Without the key, the handcuffs cannot be removed, and the handcuffed
person cannot move his or her wrists more than a few centimetres or
inches apart, making many tasks difficult or impossible.
Handcuffs are frequently used by law enforcement agencies worldwide to prevent suspected criminals from escaping from police custody.
Arabic zāy
The letter is named zāy. It has two forms, depending on its position in the word:
The similarity to rāʼ ر
is likely a function of the original Syriac forms converging to a
single symbol, requiring that one of them be distinguished as a dot; a
similar process occurred to jīm and ḥāʼ.
In modern Hebrew, the frequency of the usage of zayin, out of all the letters, is 0.88%.
Hebrew spelling: זַיִן
In modern Hebrew, the combination ז׳ (zayin followed by a geresh) is used in loanwords and foreign names to denote [ʒ] as in vision.
Significance
Numerical value (gematria)
In gematria, zayin represents the number seven,[4] and when used at the beginning of Hebrew years it means 7000 (i.e. זתשנד in numbers would be the future date 7754).
Use in Torah scroll
Zayin is also one of the seven letters which receive a special crown (called a tagin) when written in a Sefer Torah (Torah scroll), besides ʻayin, gimel, teth, nun, shin, and tzadi.
Meaning as a noun
For the Biblical and Modern Hebrew meaning of 'zayin' as a noun, see above.
It is one of several Hebrew letters that have an additional meaning as a noun. The others are:
bet [ב, the 2nd letter], whose name is a grammatical form of the word for 'house' (בית);
vav [ו, the 6th letter], whose name means 'hook' (וו);
kaf [כ, the 11th], whose name means 'palm [of the hand]' or 'tablespoon' (כף);
ʻayin [ע, the 16th], whose name means 'eye' (עין);
pe [פ, the 17th], whose name means 'mouth' (פה);
qof [ק, the 19th], whose name means 'monkey' or "eye of needle" (קוף);
tav [ת, the 22nd], whose name means 'mark' (תו),
and several other Hebrew letters, whose names are ancient Hebrew forms
of nouns still used, with a slight change of form or pronunciation, as
nouns in modern Hebrew.
Comments
Researchers have succeeded in increasing the conductivity of eumelanin – the dark brown pigment that colours skin, hair and eyes – to a record value of up to 318 S/cm by simply annealing it at high temperatures in vacuum. The material could thus now be employed in a variety of melanin-based bioelectronics.
Eumelanin is a form of melanin and conducts electricity – albeit weakly – in its natural state. Researchers first discovered that the polyindolic pigment was a semiconductor in the 1970s and suggested that this behaviour comes from energy bands associated with a non-localized empty molecular orbital within the eumelanin polymer chain. They also suggested that the material might be used in biocompatible electronics, but unfortunately, and not for lack of trying, they have been unable to significantly improve the conductivity of either natural or synthetic eumelanin.
Not too close, but not too far. That’s long been the rule describing how distant a planet should be from its star in order to sustain life. But a new study challenges that adage: A planet can maintain water and other liquids on its surface if it’s heated, not by starlight, but by radioactive decay, researchers calculate. That opens up the possibility for many planets—even free-floating worlds untethered to stars—to host life, they speculate.
Radioactive isotopes such as uranium-238, thorium-232, and potassium-40 pepper Earth’s crust and mantle. As these unstable radionuclides decay, they generate a small amount of power—roughly one-thirty-thousandth that received from the Sun. But researchers have now proposed that some planets, particularly ones that form near the center of our Milky Way Galaxy, might possess enough of these radioactive isotopes to generate sufficient heat to keep their surfaces from freezing entirely solid.
“That gives you the freedom to be anywhere,” says Avi Loeb, an astrophysicist at Harvard University and a co-author of the new study. “You don’t need to be close to a star.”
Loeb and Manasvi Lingam, an astrobiologist at the Florida Institute of Technology, looked at three sources of heat for a sunless planet: heat leftover from its formation, the radioactive decay of long-lived isotopes over billions of years, and the radioactive decay of short-lived isotopes over hundreds of thousands of years. They then modeled the surface temperatures of planets with different masses and radionuclide abundances to determine whether water, ammonia, and ethane—three solvents found in the Solar System—could exist as liquids.
St. Elmo's fire is a weather phenomenon in which luminous plasma is created by a corona discharge from a sharp or pointed object in a strong electric field in the atmosphere (such as those generated by thunderstorms or created by a volcanic eruption).
St. Elmo's fire is named after St. Erasmus of Formia (also called St. Elmo, one of the two Italian names for St. Erasmus, the other being St. Erasmo), the patron saint of sailors. The phenomenon sometimes appeared on ships at sea during thunderstorms and was regarded by sailors with religious awe for its glowing ball of light, accounting for the name.No name for this soldier is given in the canonical Gospels; the name Longinus is instead found in the Acts of Pilate, a text appended to the apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus. Longinus did not start out as a saint. An early tradition, found in a sixth or seventh century pseudepigraphal "Letter of Herod to Pilate", claims that Longinus suffered for having pierced Jesus, and that he was condemned to a cave where every night a lion came and mauled him until dawn, after which his body healed back to normal, in a pattern that would repeat till the end of time.[6] Later traditions turned him into a Christian convert, but as Sabine Baring-Gould observed: "The name of Longinus was not known to the Greeks previous to the patriarch Germanus, in 715. It was introduced amongst the Westerns from the Apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus. There is no reliable authority for the Acts and martyrdom of this saint."[5]
The name is probably Latinized from the Greek lonche (λόγχη), the word used for the lance mentioned in John 19:34.[7] It first appears lettered on an illumination of the Crucifixion beside the figure of the soldier holding a spear, written, perhaps contemporaneously, in horizontal Greek letters, LOGINOS (ΛΟΓΙΝΟϹ), in the Syriac gospel manuscript illuminated by a certain Rabulas in the year 586, in the Laurentian Library, Florence. The spear used is known as the Holy Lance, and more recently, especially in occult circles, as the "Spear of Destiny", which was revered at Jerusalem by the sixth century, although neither the centurion nor the name "Longinus" were invoked in any surviving report. As the "Lance of Longinus", the spear figures in the legends of the Holy Grail.[citation needed]
Blindness or other eye problems are not mentioned until after the tenth century.[8] Petrus Comestor was one of the first to add an eyesight problem to the legend and his text can be translated as "blind", "dim-sighted" or "weak-sighted".Galactus was originally the explorer Galan of the planet Taa, which existed in the prime pre-Big Bang universe. When an unknown cosmic cataclysm gradually begins killing off all of the other life in his universe, Galan and other survivors leave Taa on a spacecraft and are engulfed in the Big Crunch. Galan, however, does not die: after bonding with the Sentience of the Universe, he changes and gestates for billions of years in an egg made of the debris of his ship that the current universe formed after the Big Bang. He emerges as Galactus, and though a Watcher observed Galactus's birth and recognizes his destructive nature, the Watcher chooses not to kill Galactus.[24][25][26] Starving for sustenance, Galactus consumes the nearby planet of Archeopia—the first of many planets he would destroy to maintain his existence.[24][27] Subsequently, in memory of his dead home world Taa, and the first planet (Archeopia) to fall prey to his hunger, Galactus constructs a new "home world": the Möbius strip-shaped space station called "Taa II".
Galactus becomes involved in a civil war among the "Proemial Gods", who had come into being during the universe's infancy. When a faction of the gods led by Diableri of Chaos attempts to remake the universe in their own image, Galactus kills Diableri and imprisons three others (Antiphon, Tenebrous, and Aegis) in the prison called the Kyln.[28]
Galactus then decides to create a herald to locate worlds for sustenance, but fails when the first—Tyrant—rebels,[29] and the second—the Fallen One—is dismissed for his bloodthirsty attitude.[30] When approaching the planet of Zenn-La, Galactus accepts the offer of Norrin Radd to become his herald, the Silver Surfer, in exchange for sparing his world.[31] Eventually locating Earth, Galactus is driven off by the Fantastic Four, Uatu the Watcher, and the rebellious Silver Surfer after the Human Torch—with the Watcher's assistance—retrieves the Ultimate Nullifier from Taa II. Although Galactus leaves Earth, vowing that he will never try to consume it again, he banishes the Surfer to Earth for betraying him.[32][33] Galactus later returns for his former herald, but the Surfer is unrepentant and chooses to remain on Earth.[34] Thor learns of Galactus's origin when the entity comes into conflict with Ego the Living Planet.universe (n.)
1580s, "the whole world, cosmos, the totality of existing things," from Old French univers (12c.), from Latin universum "all things, everybody, all people, the whole world," noun use of neuter of adjective universus "all together, all in one, whole, entire, relating to all," literally "turned into one," from unus "one" (from PIE root *oi-no- "one, unique") + versus, past participle of vertere "to turn, turn back, be turned; convert, transform, translate; be changed" (from PIE root *wer- (2) "to turn, bend").
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Mammatus are most often associated with anvil clouds and also severe thunderstorms. They often extend from the base of a cumulonimbus, but may also be found under altostratus, and cirrus clouds, as well as volcanic ash clouds.[4] When occurring in cumulonimbus, mammatus are often indicative of a particularly strong storm. Due to the intensely sheared environment in which mammatus form, aviators are strongly cautioned to avoid cumulonimbus with mammatus as they indicate convectively induced turbulence.[5] Contrails may also produce lobes but these are incorrectly termed as mammatus.[1]
Mammatus may appear as smooth, ragged or lumpy lobes and may be opaque or translucent. Because mammatus occur as a grouping of lobes, the way they clump together can vary from an isolated cluster to a field of mammae that spread over hundreds of kilometers to being organized along a line, and may be composed of unequal or similarly-sized lobes. The individual mammatus lobe average diameters of 1–3 kilometres (0.6–1.9 mi) and lengths on average of 1⁄2 kilometre (0.3 mi). A lobe can last an average of 10 minutes, but a whole cluster of mamma can range from 15 minutes to a few hours. They are usually composed of ice, but also can be a mixture of ice and liquid water or be composed of almost entirely liquid water.
True to their ominous appearance, mammatus clouds are often harbingers of a coming storm or other extreme weather system. Typically composed primarily of ice, they can extend for hundreds of miles in each direction and individual formations can remain visibly static for ten to fifteen minutes at a time. While they may appear foreboding they are merely the messengers - appearing around, before or even after severe weather.
"an animal of the class Mammalia; an animal that suckles its young," 1826, Englished form of Modern Latin Mammalia (1773), coined 1758 by Linnaeus for that class of animals from neuter plural of Late Latin mammalis "of the breast," from Latin mamma "breast," which is cognate with mamma. With the exception of a few egg-laying species, all bear live young and have the mammary gland for the young to suck. All also are warm-blooded and breathe air. In Middle English, mammille was "a woman's breast" (early 15c.).
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Mammon (n.)
personification of riches and worldliness, mid-14c., from Late Latin mammona, from Ecclesiastical Greek mamōnas, from Aramaic mamona, mamon "riches, gain;" a word left untranslated in Greek New Testament (Matthew vi.24, Luke xvi.9-13), retained in the Vulgate, and regarded mistakenly by medieval Christians as the name of a demon who leads men to covetousness.
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mammary (adj.)
"of or pertaining to a breast," 1680s, from French mammaire (18c.) or Medieval Latin mammarius, from Latin mamma "breast" (see mamma).
mammary cloud
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mamma (n.)
"mother," a word used especially by children and infants, 1570s, representing the native form of the reduplication of *ma- that is nearly universal among the Indo-European languages (Greek mamme "mother, grandmother," Latin mamma, Persian mama, Russian and Lithuanian mama "mother," German Muhme "mother's sister," French maman, Welsh mam "mother").
Probably a natural sound in baby-talk, perhaps imitative of sound made while sucking. Its late appearance in English is curious, but Middle English had mome (mid-13c.) "an aunt; an old woman," also an affectionate term of address for an older woman.
In educated usage, the stress is always on the last syllable. In terms of the recorded appearance of the variant or related words in English, mama is from 1707, mum is from 1823, mummy in this sense from 1839, mommy 1844, momma 1852, and mom 1867. Mamma's boy "soft, effeminate male" is by 1901 (by hijacks).
- first-person singular present indicative of daveren
- imperative of daveren
Anagramsdaver (plural davers)
Verb
daver (third-person singular present davers, present participle daverin, past davert, past participle davert)
Etymology
Verb
daveren
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Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or characterThe human voice is the oldest musical instrument in history. She has a pleasant voice. His low voice allowed him to become a bass in the choir. - (phonetics) Sound made through vibration of the vocal cords; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; — distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in whispering and voiceless consonants.
- The tone or sound emitted by an object
- The faculty or power of utterance
to cultivate the voice
cultivate (v.)
by 1650s, of land, "till, prepare for crops;" by 1690s of crops, "raise or produce by tillage;" from Medieval Latin cultivatus, past participle of cultivare "to cultivate," from Late Latin cultivus "tilled," from Latin cultus "care, labor; cultivation," from past participle of colere "to cultivate, to till; to inhabit; to frequent, practice, respect; tend, guard," from PIE root *kwel- (1) "revolve, move round; sojourn, dwell."
also *kwelə-, Proto-Indo-European root meaning "revolve, move round; sojourn, dwell."
It forms all or part of: accolade; ancillary; atelo-; bazaar; bicycle; bucolic; chakra; chukker; collar; collet; colonial; colony; cult; cultivate; culture; cyclamen; cycle; cyclo-; cyclone; cyclops; decollete; encyclical; encyclopedia; entelechy; epicycle; hauberk; hawse; inquiline; Kultur; lapidocolous; nidicolous; palimpsest; palindrome; palinode; pole (n.2) "ends of Earth's axis;" pulley; rickshaw; talisman; teleology; telic; telophase; telos; torticollis; wheel.
It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit cakram "circle, wheel," carati "he moves, wanders;" Avestan caraiti "applies himself," c'axra "chariot, wagon;" Greek kyklos "circle, wheel, any circular body, circular motion, cycle of events,"polos "a round axis" (PIE *kw- becomes Greek p- before some vowels), polein "move around;" Latin colere "to frequent, dwell in, to cultivate, move around," cultus "tended, cultivated," hence also "polished," colonus "husbandman, tenant farmer, settler, colonist;" Lithuanian kelias "a road, a way;" Old Norse hvel, Old English hweol "wheel;" Old Church Slavonic kolo, Old Russian kolo, Polish koło, Russian koleso "a wheel."
*kwel- (2)
Proto-Indo-European root meaning "far" (in space or time). Some sources connect this root with *kwel- (1), forming words to do with turning, via the notion of "completion of a cycle."
It forms all or part of: paleo-; tele-; teleconference; telegony; telegraph; telegram; telekinesis; Telemachus; telemeter; telepathy; telephone; telescope; television.
It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit caramah "the last;" Greek tele "far off, afar, at or to a distance," palaios "old, ancient," palai "long ago, far back;" Breton pell "far off," Welsh pellaf "uttermost."Zayin (also spelled zain or zayn or simply zay) is the seventh letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Zayin
, Hebrew 'Zayin ז, Yiddish Zoyen ז, Aramaic Zain 
, Syriac Zayn ܙ, and Arabic Zayn or Zāy ز. It represents the sound [z].
The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek zeta (Ζ), Etruscan z
, Latin Z, and Cyrillic Ze З.
Original and modern meaning of the noun 'zayin'
In Modern Hebrew slang, zayin (זין) means "penis" and lezayen (לזין) is a vulgar term which generally means to perform sexual intercourse,[1][2] although the older meaning survives in maavak mezuyan ("armed struggle") (מאבק מזוין), kokhot mezuyanim ("armed forces") (כוחות מזוינים), and beton mezuyan (בטון מזוין) ("armed, i.e., reinforced concrete").
Handcuffs are restraint devices designed to secure an individual's wrists in proximity to each other.[1] They comprise two parts, linked together by a chain, a hinge, or rigid bar. Each cuff has a rotating arm which engages with a ratchet that prevents it from being opened once closed around a person's wrist. Without the key, the handcuffs cannot be removed, and the handcuffed person cannot move his or her wrists more than a few centimetres or inches apart, making many tasks difficult or impossible.
Handcuffs are frequently used by law enforcement agencies worldwide to prevent suspected criminals from escaping from police custody.
Arabic zāy
The letter is named zāy. It has two forms, depending on its position in the word:
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The similarity to rāʼ ر is likely a function of the original Syriac forms converging to a single symbol, requiring that one of them be distinguished as a dot; a similar process occurred to jīm and ḥāʼ.
Arabic zāy
The letter is named zāy. It has two forms, depending on its position in the word:
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Že
It also has a modified version: ژ Persian pronunciation: [ʒe], which is used in Persian, Pashto, Kurdish, Urdu and Uyghur (see K̡ona Yezik̡).
Hebrew zayin
In modern Hebrew, the frequency of the usage of zayin, out of all the letters, is 0.88%.
Hebrew spelling: זַיִן
In modern Hebrew, the combination ז׳ (zayin followed by a geresh) is used in loanwords and foreign names to denote [ʒ] as in vision.
Significance
Numerical value (gematria)
In gematria, zayin represents the number seven,[4] and when used at the beginning of Hebrew years it means 7000 (i.e. זתשנד in numbers would be the future date 7754).
Use in Torah scroll
Zayin is also one of the seven letters which receive a special crown (called a tagin) when written in a Sefer Torah (Torah scroll), besides ʻayin, gimel, teth, nun, shin, and tzadi.
Meaning as a noun
For the Biblical and Modern Hebrew meaning of 'zayin' as a noun, see above.
It is one of several Hebrew letters that have an additional meaning as a noun. The others are: bet [ב, the 2nd letter], whose name is a grammatical form of the word for 'house' (בית); vav [ו, the 6th letter], whose name means 'hook' (וו); kaf [כ, the 11th], whose name means 'palm [of the hand]' or 'tablespoon' (כף); ʻayin [ע, the 16th], whose name means 'eye' (עין); pe [פ, the 17th], whose name means 'mouth' (פה); qof [ק, the 19th], whose name means 'monkey' or "eye of needle" (קוף); tav [ת, the 22nd], whose name means 'mark' (תו), and several other Hebrew letters, whose names are ancient Hebrew forms of nouns still used, with a slight change of form or pronunciation, as nouns in modern Hebrew.