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Ashbery, John

(Encyclopedia) Ashbery, John, 1927–2017, American poet, b. Rochester, N.Y., grad. Harvard (B.A., 1949), Columbia (M.A., 1951). Among the most acclaimed and influential American poets of his era, he…

Hebrew language

(Encyclopedia) Hebrew language, member of the Canaanite group of the West Semitic subdivision of the Semitic subfamily of the Afroasiatic family of languages (see Afroasiatic languages). Hebrew was…

Words of Six or More Letters

Try the Find a Word: Crossword Search Agave, MAGUEYAlkaloid: Crystalline, ESERIN, ESERINEAlligator, CAYMANAmphibole, EDENITE, URALITEAnt: White, TERMITEAntelope: African, DIKDIK, DUIKER,…

P - S

palmA hand-held computer. PCPersonal computer. Generally refers to computers running Windows with a Pentium processor.printed circuit boardPC boardPrinted Circuit board. A board printed or…

Stein, Gertrude

(Encyclopedia) Stein, Gertrude, 1874–1946, American author and patron of the arts, b. Allegheny (now part of Pittsburgh), Pa. A celebrated personality, she encouraged, aided, and influenced—through…

Introduction to the First Volume

Introduction to the First VolumeFirst Translation of the UpanishadsDârâ Shukoh, Anquetil Duperron, SchopenhauerTHE ancient Vedic literature, the foundation of the whole literature of India,…

programming language

(Encyclopedia) programming language, syntax, grammar, and symbols or words used to give instructions to a computer. Once the program is written and has had any errors repaired (a process called…

Brewer's: Horse

The public-house sign. The White Horse.The standard of the Saxons, and therefore impressed on hop pockets and bags as the ensign of Kent. On Uffington Hill, Berks, there is formed in the…

semantics

(Encyclopedia) semantics [Gr.,=significant] in general, the study of the relationship between words and meanings. The empirical study of word meanings and sentence meanings in existing languages is a…

international language

(Encyclopedia) international language, sometimes called universal language, a language intended to be used by people of different linguistic backgrounds to facilitate communication among them and to…