Crossword clues for carina
carina
- Southern constellation that holds the second-brightest star in the night sky
- Contains the start Canopus
- Any of various keel-shaped structures or ridges such as that on the breastbone of a bird or that formed by the fused petals of a pea blossom
- A keel-shaped constellation in the southern hemisphere
- Canopus's constellation
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Carina \Ca*ri"na\, n. [L., keel.]
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(Bot.) A keel.
That part of a papilionaceous flower, consisting of two petals, commonly united, which incloses the organs of fructification.
A longitudinal ridge or projection like the keel of a boat.
(Zo["o]l.) The keel of the breastbone of birds.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A longitudinal ridge or projection like the keel of a boat. 2 (context botany English) Part of a papilionaceous flower consisting of two petals, commonly united, which encloses the organs of fructification. 3 (context zoology English) The keel of the breastbone of birds.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Carina is a constellation in the southern sky. Its name is Latin for the keel of a ship, and it was formerly part of the larger constellation of Argo Navis (the ship Argo) until that constellation was divided into three pieces, the other two being Puppis (the poop deck), and Vela (the sails of the ship).
Carina may refer to:
The modern constellation Carina lies across one of the quadrants symbolized by the The Vermillion Bird of the South (南方朱雀, Nán Fāng Zhū Què) and The Southern Asterisms (近南極星區, Jìnnánjíxīngōu), that divide the sky in traditional Chinese uranography.
According to the quadrant, possibly constellation Carina in Chinese sky is almost not seen, except Canopus (Alpha Carinae), and Canopus is "south pole" in Chinese sky, and Miaplacidus (Beta Carinae), Aspidiske (Iota Carinae) and Avior (Epsilon Carinae) are bright stars in this constellation that possibly never seen in Chinese sky.
The name of the western constellation in modern Chinese is 船底座 (chuán dǐ zuò), meaning "the bottom of boat constellation".
Carina is a 2008 song written by Christian Antblad and Mats Ymell and performed by Larz-Kristerz. The song was originally performed through the TV program Dansbandskampen and became a successful early 2009 single.
The song was originally performed by Larz-Kristerz at the final of Dansbandskampen on 20 December 2008. The single was released on 28 January 2009, and also became available on the band's 2009 album Hem till dig.
On 6 February 2009 the single topped the Swedish singles chart. making Larz-Kristerz the first dansband ever to top the chart.
He song entered Svensktoppen on 22 February 2009, where it stayed for 10 weeks peaking at third position.
Bengt Hennings performed an own version of the song at Bingolotto on 18 January 2009, which was recorded on the 2009 album Låt kärleken slå till, as "Carina (jag måste ringa)". Larz-Kristerz also performed a jazz version of the song at Babben & Co in 2009.
On 12 July 2009 the song was awarded the Guldklaven dansband award for "Song of the year" during Svenska dansbandsveckan in Malung.
At Dansbandskampen 2009 the song was used as final song, and was performed in different versions by the Playtones and Titanix, where the Playtones won, while the Larz-Kristerz stood at stageside, cheering. During a Dansbandskampen 2010 pause act Larz-Kristerz appeared, performing the song.
Carina is a female given name. Notable persons with that name include:
- Carina Afable (born 1944), Filipino actress and singer
- Carina Aulenbrock (born 1994),German volleyball player
- Carina Axelsson (born 1968), American author
- Carina Bär (born 1990),German rower
- Carina Beduschi (born 1984), Brazilian actress, television host, architect, and model
- Carina Benninga (born 1962), Dutch field hockey player
- Carina Berg (born 1977), Swedish comedian and television presenter
- Carina Burman (born 1960) is a Swedish novelist and literature scholar
- Carina Caicedo (born 1987), Ecuadorian footballer
- Carina Christensen (born 1972), Danish politician
- Carina Cruz (born 1983), Colombian actress, model and designer
- Carina Rosenvinge Christiansen (born 1991), Danish archer
- Carina Dahl (born 1985), Norwegian singer and songwriter
- Carina Adolfsson Elgestam (born 1959), Swedish politician
- Carina Hägg (born 1957), Swedish politician
- Carina Harache (born 1984), New Zealand water polo player
- Carina Herrstedt (born 1971), Swedish politician
- Carina Holmberg (born 1983), Swedish football player
- Carina Horn (born 1989), South African sprinter
- Carina Görlin (born 1963), Swedish cross country skier
- Carina Jaarnek (1962–2016), Swedish singer
- Carina Johansson, Swedish musician
- Carina Kirssi Ketonen (born 1976), Finnish racing cyclist
- Carina Lau (born 1965), Chinese actress
- Carina Lemoine (born 1969), Dutch singer
- Carina Lidbom (born 1957), Swedish actress and comedian
- Carina Ljungdahl (born 1960), Swedish freestyle swimmer
- Carina Lorenzo (born 1994), Dominican handball player
- Carina Moberg (1966–2012), Swedish politician
- Carina E. Nilsson, Swedish pianist
- Carina Ohlsson (born 1957), Swedish politician
- Carina Persson (born 1958), Swedish model
- Carina Raich (born 1979), Austrian alpine skier
- Carina Ricco (born 1969), Mexican actress, singer, musician, producer and composer
- Carina Round (born 1979), British singer-songwriter
- Carina Rozenfeld (born 1972), French author
- Carina Rydberg (born 1962), Swedish writer
- Carina Strobel (born 1997), German ice hockey player
- Carina Wenninger (born 1991), Austrian football player
- Carina Wiese (born 1970), German actress
- Carina Witthöft (born 1995), German tennis player
- Carina Vance Mafla (born 1977), American politician
- Carina Vitulano (born 1975), Italian football referee
- Carina Vogt (born 1992),German ski jumper
- Carina van Zyl (born 1975), South African field hockey player
- Carina Zampini (born 1975), Argentine actress
Usage examples of "carina".
With a firm grip on his shoulder, the emperor of Shan was guiding him through the milling crowd, into the public room where Carina and Adar had set up their aid station.
I told Honorius to take Birdy off somewhere, while I flame-grilled Carina.
I wondered if it might be relevant that Birdy, with his thin-faced look, and Carina with her wider-cheeked features were so unlike each other.
Palatine and the Carinae, when women gave their children into the charge of nurserymaids from every part of the globe?
And luckily the first valuable man Drusus spied was his uncle, Publius Rutilius Rufus, wandering toward the Carinae and his house.
His mother was busy arranging tenants for the house on the Carinae, her boxes already packed for her return to Arpinum, though she did no packing for Cicero and was not there when the time came for him to bid her farewell.
Sulla rode his mule down the Vicus Sandalarius to the great common land of the swamps below the Carinae, where the Via Sacra met the Via Triumphalis.
Now that she mixed with her peers from Palatine and Carinae she heard all the gossip and faithfully reported it to him free of embellishments.
This second son of a humble squire from Arpinum lived in the house on the Carinae which the old man had bought when he first moved his family to Rome in order to give the prodigy Marcus all the advantages his intellect demanded.
Twelve separate fires are to be started throughout the city, including one on the Capitol, two on the Palatine, two on the Carinae, and one at either end of the Forum.
Cicero saw the condemned man at his very luxurious and fortresslike residence on the Carinae, he discovered that Gaius Rabirius had other ideas for his defense.
Everything went exactly according to schedule from our house on the Carinae down into the Forum.
I also informed her that she has long outworn her welcome in this street, and she might be more comfortable housed on the Carinae or the Caelian.
Eutychus can run to the Carinae for Uncle Publius, he can do with the exercise.
In some of the gardens there were brave and defiant shows of bright blooms, barbeton daisies, carinas and flaming red poinsettia, but in most of them the bare untended earth, patched with black-jack and khaki-bush, told of the tenants indifference.