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stanley
(encz) | Stanley,Stanley n: [jmén.] příjmení, okres v USA, mužské křestní
jméno Zdeněk Brož a automatický překlad |
stanley
(czen) | Stanley,Stanleyn: [jmén.] příjmení, okres v USA, mužské křestní
jméno Zdeněk Brož a automatický překlad |
stanley
(wn) | Stanley
n 1: United States inventor who built a steam-powered automobile
(1849-1918) [syn: Stanley, Francis Edgar Stanley]
2: Welsh journalist and explorer who led an expedition to Africa
in search of David Livingstone and found him in Tanzania in
1871; he and Livingstone together tried to find the source of
the Nile River (1841-1904) [syn: Stanley, {Henry M.
Stanley}, Sir Henry Morton Stanley, John Rowlands] |
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stanley
(encz) | Stanley,Stanley n: [jmén.] příjmení, okres v USA, mužské křestní
jméno Zdeněk Brož a automatický překlad |
stanley knife
(encz) | stanley knife,pracovní nůž n: [tech.] např. na koberce ap. PinoStanley knife,lámací nožík n: Ivan MasárStanley knife,lámací nůž n: Ivan Masár |
erle stanley gardner
(czen) | Erle Stanley Gardner,Gardnern: [jmén.] americký spisovatel
(1889-1970) Petr Prášek |
stanley
(czen) | Stanley,Stanleyn: [jmén.] příjmení, okres v USA, mužské křestní
jméno Zdeněk Brož a automatický překlad |
Gallus Stanleyi
(gcide) | Jungle \Jun"gle\ (j[u^][ng]"g'l), n. [Hind. jangal desert,
forest, jungle; Skr. ja[.n]gala desert.]
1. A dense growth of brushwood, grasses, reeds, vines, etc.;
an almost impenetrable thicket of trees, canes, and reedy
vegetation, as in India, Africa, Australia, and Brazil.
The jungles of India are of bamboos, canes, and
other palms, very difficult to penetrate. --Balfour
(Cyc. of
India).
[1913 Webster]
2. Hence: (Fig.) A place of danger or ruthless competition
for survival. /'bdIt's a jungle out there./'b8
[PJC]
3. Anything which causes confusion or difficulty due to
intricacy; as, a jungle of environmental regulations.
--MW10.
[PJC]
Jungle bear (Zool.), the aswail or sloth bear.
Jungle cat (Zool.), the chaus.
Jungle cock (Zool.), the male of a jungle fowl.
Jungle fowl. (Zool.)
(a) Any wild species of the genus Gallus, of which
several species inhabit India and the adjacent
islands; as, the fork-tailed jungle fowl ({Gallus
varius}) of Java, Gallus Stanleyi of Ceylon, and
Gallus Bankiva of India.
Note: The latter, which resembles the domestic gamecock, is
supposed to be one of the original species from which
the domestic fowl was derived.
(b) An Australian grallatorial bird (Megapodius tumulus)
which is allied to the brush turkey, and, like the
latter, lays its eggs in mounds of vegetable matter,
where they are hatched by the heat produced by
decomposition.
[1913 Webster] |
arthur stanley jefferson laurel
(wn) | Arthur Stanley Jefferson Laurel
n 1: United States slapstick comedian (born in England) who
played the scatterbrained and often tearful member of the
Laurel and Hardy duo who made many films (1890-1965) [syn:
Laurel, Stan Laurel, Arthur Stanley Jefferson Laurel] |
erle stanley gardner
(wn) | Erle Stanley Gardner
n 1: writer of detective novels featuring Perry Mason
(1889-1970) [syn: Gardner, Erle Stanley Gardner] |
francis edgar stanley
(wn) | Francis Edgar Stanley
n 1: United States inventor who built a steam-powered automobile
(1849-1918) [syn: Stanley, Francis Edgar Stanley] |
g. stanley hall
(wn) | G. Stanley Hall
n 1: United States child psychologist whose theories of child
psychology strongly influenced educational psychology
(1844-1924) [syn: Hall, G. Stanley Hall, {Granville
Stanley Hall}] |
genus stanleya
(wn) | genus Stanleya
n 1: prince's plume [syn: Stanleya, genus Stanleya] |
granville stanley hall
(wn) | Granville Stanley Hall
n 1: United States child psychologist whose theories of child
psychology strongly influenced educational psychology
(1844-1924) [syn: Hall, G. Stanley Hall, {Granville
Stanley Hall}] |
henry m. stanley
(wn) | Henry M. Stanley
n 1: Welsh journalist and explorer who led an expedition to
Africa in search of David Livingstone and found him in
Tanzania in 1871; he and Livingstone together tried to find
the source of the Nile River (1841-1904) [syn: Stanley,
Henry M. Stanley, Sir Henry Morton Stanley, {John
Rowlands}] |
sir arthur stanley eddington
(wn) | Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
n 1: English astronomer remembered for his popular elucidation
of relativity theory (1882-1944) [syn: Eddington, {Sir
Arthur Stanley Eddington}] |
sir henry morton stanley
(wn) | Sir Henry Morton Stanley
n 1: Welsh journalist and explorer who led an expedition to
Africa in search of David Livingstone and found him in
Tanzania in 1871; he and Livingstone together tried to find
the source of the Nile River (1841-1904) [syn: Stanley,
Henry M. Stanley, Sir Henry Morton Stanley, {John
Rowlands}] |
stanley
(wn) | Stanley
n 1: United States inventor who built a steam-powered automobile
(1849-1918) [syn: Stanley, Francis Edgar Stanley]
2: Welsh journalist and explorer who led an expedition to Africa
in search of David Livingstone and found him in Tanzania in
1871; he and Livingstone together tried to find the source of
the Nile River (1841-1904) [syn: Stanley, {Henry M.
Stanley}, Sir Henry Morton Stanley, John Rowlands] |
stanley baldwin
(wn) | Stanley Baldwin
n 1: English statesman; member of the Conservative Party
(1867-1947) [syn: Baldwin, Stanley Baldwin, {1st Earl
Baldwin of Bewdley}] |
stanley frank musial
(wn) | Stanley Frank Musial
n 1: United States baseball player (born in 1920) [syn:
Musial, Stan Musial, Stanley Frank Musial, {Stan the
Man}] |
stanley kubrick
(wn) | Stanley Kubrick
n 1: United States filmmaker (born in 1928) [syn: Kubrick,
Stanley Kubrick] |
stanley smith stevens
(wn) | Stanley Smith Stevens
n 1: United States psychologist and psychophysicist who proposed
Stevens' power law to replace Fechner's law (1906-1973)
[syn: Stevens, Smitty Stevens, S. Smith Stevens,
Stanley Smith Stevens] |
stanley steamer
(wn) | Stanley Steamer
n 1: a steam-powered automobile |
stanleya
(wn) | Stanleya
n 1: prince's plume [syn: Stanleya, genus Stanleya] |
stanleya pinnata
(wn) | Stanleya pinnata
n 1: perennial of southwestern United States having leathery
blue-green pinnatifid leaves and thick plumelike spikes of
yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Cleome [syn:
desert plume, prince's-plume, Stanleya pinnata,
Cleome pinnata] |
william stanley jevons
(wn) | William Stanley Jevons
n 1: English economist and logician who contributed to the
development of the theory of marginal utility (1835-1882)
[syn: Jevons, William Stanley Jevons] |
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