What is "lucy"

fem. proper name, from French Lucie, from Latin Lucia, fem. of Lucius (see Lucian).

n. (context archaic English) the pike (a kind of fish).

Lucy is an English and French feminine given name derived from Latin masculine given name Lucius with the meaning as of light (born at dawn or daylight, maybe also shiny, or of light complexion). Alternative spellings are Luci, Luce, Lucie. Lucy is also an American, Australian, Canadian, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh and French surname.

The English Lucy surname is taken from the Norman language that was Latin-based and derives from place names in Normandy based on Latin male personal name Lucius. It was transmitted to England after the Norman Conquest in the 11th century (see also De Lucy).

Lucy is a feminine given name and a family name.

Lucy may also refer to:

Lucy is the second studio album by Seattle rock band Candlebox. Although the album did not fare as well as its 1993 predecessor, the single "Simple Lessons" received considerable airplay, and Lucy eventually achieved gold certification.

Four tracks from Lucy would be included on The Best of Candlebox in 2006.

Lucy were an English punk band featuring Def Leppard and Man Raze guitarist Phil Collen.

The first line-up of this band featured lead vocalist Paul Mewse, guitarist Phil Collen, bassist Peter Ferris and drummer Len Foster. This line-up recorded demos, but no singles with the highlight being an appearance at the Marquee Club in Wardour Street on 26 Aug 1976 supporting Supercharge from Liverpool.

The second line-up of this band featured lead vocalist Paul Mewse, guitarist Phil Collen, bassist Pete Webb and drummer Len Foster. Reportedly, this line-up recorded demos, and recorded and released two singles.

After Lucy, Phil Collen went on to the band Tush.

Phil Collen and Pete Webb later played together in the band Dumb Blondes.

Reportedly, Pete Webb later rehearsed with Girl briefly, between the time of Mark Megary and Simon Laffy, but never recorded or played live with them.

Lucy is Maaya Sakamoto's third studio album. In addition to writing the lyrics of seven of the songs, she added her own acoustic guitar playing to the mix of several tracks.

Lucy (1964–1987) was a chimpanzee owned by the Institute for Primate Studies in Oklahoma, and raised by Maurice K. Temerlin, Ph.D., a psychotherapist and professor at the University of Oklahoma and his wife, Jane.

Lucy is the common name of AL 288-1, several hundred pieces of bone fossils representing 40 percent of the skeleton of a female of the hominin species Australopithecus afarensis. In Ethiopia, the assembly is also known as Dinkinesh, which means "you are marvelous" in the Amharic language. Lucy was discovered in 1974 near the village Hadar in the Awash Valley of the Afar Triangle in Ethiopia by paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson.

The Lucy specimen is an early australopithecine and is dated to about 3.2 million years ago. The skeleton presents a small skull akin to that of non-hominin apes, plus evidence of a walking-gait that was bipedal and upright, akin to that of humans (and other hominins); this combination supports the view of human evolution that bipedalism preceded increase in brain size.

"Lucy" acquired her name from the song " Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" by the Beatles, which was played loudly and repeatedly in the expedition camp all evening after the excavation team's first day of work on the recovery site. After public announcement of the discovery, Lucy captured much public interest, becoming a household name at the time.

Lucy became famous worldwide, and the story of her discovery and reconstruction was published in a book by Johanson. Beginning in 2007, the fossil assembly and associated artifacts were exhibited publicly in an extended six-year tour of the United States; the exhibition was called Lucy’s Legacy: The Hidden Treasures of Ethiopia. There was discussion of the risks of damage to the unique fossils, and other museums preferred to display casts of the fossil assembly. The original fossils were returned to Ethiopia in 2013, and subsequent exhibitions have used casts.

"LUCY" is the fifth single of singer Anna Tsuchiya released 14 February 2007 under the pseudonym of ANNA TSUCHIYA inspi' NANA (BLACK STONES) for the MAD PRAY RECORDS label, a sub-label to Avex. It is her third single to be released under the NANA franchise, the first being " Rose" and the second being " Kuroi Namida". It debuted at #12 on the Oricon Singles Daily Chart.

Lucy is a 2003 television film directed by Glenn Jordan. It is based on the life and career of actress and comedian Lucille Ball.

"Lucy" is a song written and performed by Julian Lennon, James Scott Cook and Todd Meagher. Recorded and mixed by Jason Stone in NYC. The song, is a sort of follow-up to The Beatles' " Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", originally inspired by a drawing by a then four-year-old Lennon given to his father. The drawing was inspired by Lucy Vodden, a child friend of Lennon, and this song is dedicated to her.

Lucy (1990) is a short novel or novella by Jamaica Kincaid. The story begins in medias res: the eponymous Lucy has come from the West Indies to the United States to be an au pair for a wealthy white family. The plot of the novel closely mirrors Kincaid's own experiences.

Lucy retains the critical tone of A Small Place but simplifies the style of Kincaid’s earlier work by using less repetition and surrealism. The first of her books set completely outside the Caribbean, Lucy, like most of Kincaid’s writing, has a strong autobiographical basis. The novel’s protagonist, Lucy Josephine Potter, shares one of Kincaid’s given names and her birthday. Like Kincaid, Lucy leaves the Caribbean to become an au pair in a large American city. At nineteen, Lucy is older than previous Kincaid protagonists, which lends the book a more mature and cynical perspective than in her previous fiction. Still, Lucy has pangs of homesickness and unresolved feelings about her mother, and she has never lived on her own or seen much of the world. With plenty of room for growth and Lucy becoming a photographer, the story takes the form of a künstlerroman, a novel in which an artist matures.

Lucy also joins the tradition of American immigration literature, tales that recount a newcomer’s experience in the United States, such as those seen in Anzia Yezierska’s Bread Givers, Willa Cather’s My Antonia, and Julia Alvarez’s How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. Along with exploring immigration, Lucy, as does much of Kincaid’s work, grapples with tensions between mother and daughter. Colonial themes of identity confusion and the connection between maternal and imperial rule stand out less clearly in Lucy than in Kincaid’s earlier books but have an underlying presence in Lucy’s relationship with her white, affluent employers, her homeland, and her new surroundings.

"Lucy" is a song performed by Belgian singer-songwriter Tom Dice from his debut album Teardrops. It was released on 13 August 2010. It has so far peaked to number 21 in Belgium. A music video was made for the single and was uploaded to YouTube on 12 August 2010.

"Lucy" is the name George Harrison of the Beatles gave to the unique red Gibson Les Paul guitar he received from Eric Clapton in August 1968. Previously owned by rock guitarists John Sebastian and Rick Derringer, Lucy is one of the most famous electric guitars in the world.

"Lucy" is the fifth single of the 2009 album Awake by the Christian rock band Skillet, and is the twelfth and final track on the album.

Lucy is the debut studio album by American folk musician Lucy Wainwright Roche, released on October 26, 2010 on Strike Back Records. Produced by Stewart Lerman, the album features appearances from Roche's father Loudon Wainwright III, The Roches, Steuart Smith, David Mansfield and Kelly Hogan.

"Lucy" is a song by The Divine Comedy and the only single from the album Liberation.

It is based on three of the Lucy poems by William Wordsworth. The song starts with " I travelled among unknown men", it which the poet tells us of his two-fold love for England and for an Englishwoman called Lucy. The second poem, " She dwelt among the untrodden ways", is about a woman the poet loved called Lucy, who is now dead. The last poem, " A slumber did my spirit seal", is about the deceased Lucy.

Lucy is a 2014 American-French science fiction action film written and directed by Luc Besson and produced by his wife Virginie Besson-Silla for his company Europacorp. The film was shot in Taipei, Paris and New York City. It stars Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, Choi Min-sik and Amr Waked. Johansson portrays the title character, a woman who gains psychokinetic abilities when a nootropic drug is absorbed into her bloodstream.

The film was released on July 25, 2014, and became a box office hit, grossing over $463 million, 11 times the budget of $40 million. It received generally positive, but also polarized, critical reviews, with praise for Johansson's performance, entertaining or intriguing themes and visuals, and criticism for having a nonsensical plot, especially its focus on the ten percent of the brain myth and resulting abilities.

Lucy is the name given to the Gibson Flying V and a series of copies owned by blues guitarist Albert King. King apparently picked the Flying V (at a time when few other guitarists did) because of its style and in return, according to guitar aficionado Steven Seagal, helped make it famous.

Lucy is a proposed mission concept by NASA to tour five Jupiter trojans, which orbit along the planet's path either ahead of or behind Jupiter. Starting in late 2015, the team has one year and 3 million USD to produce more in-depth concept design studies and analyses.

The mission is named after the iconic 'Lucy' hominin skeleton, because studying the trojans could reveal the "fossils of planet formation" or materials that clumped together in the early history of the Solar System to form planets and other bodies.