- Industry: Language
- Number of terms: 220363
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
MICRA, Inc. is a small corporation in New Jersey primarily concerned with building lexical databases for use in Natural Language Understanding.
A plant formerly valued for its restorative qualities (Valeriana officinalis, or V. Pyrenaica).
Industry:Language
A psaltery. A stringed instrument of music used by the Hebrews, the form of which is not known.
Industry:Language
A rapid inspiratory act, in which the mouth is kept shut and the air drawn in through the nose.
Industry:Language
A small fish of the genus Liparis, having a ventral sucker. It lives among stones and seaweeds.
Industry:Language
An instrument to show the time of day by means of the shadow of a gnomon, or style, on a plate.
Industry:Language
An Old World finch of the genus Minia, as the M. Malabarica of India, and M. cantans of Africa.
Industry:Language
An upstart. One who has risen suddenly, as from low life to wealth, power, or honor; a parvenu.
Industry:Language
Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes of the order Plagiostomi, found in all seas.
Industry:Language
Sir; Mr; -- a title of address or respect among the Italians. Before a noun the form is Signor.
Industry:Language
Something scraped off; hence, a small piece; a bit; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
Industry:Language
