What is "eagle"

Eagle \Ea"gle\, n. [OE. egle, F. aigle, fr. L. aquila; prob. named from its color, fr. aquilus dark-colored, brown; cf. Lith. aklas blind. Cf. Aquiline.]

1. (Zo["o]l.) Any large, rapacious bird of the Falcon family, esp. of the genera Aquila and Hali[ae]etus. The eagle is remarkable for strength, size, graceful figure, keenness of vision, and extraordinary flight. The most noted species are the golden eagle ( Aquila chrysa["e]tus); the imperial eagle of Europe ( Aquila mogilnik or Aquila imperialis); the American bald eagle ( Hali[ae]etus leucocephalus); the European sea eagle ( Hali[ae]etus albicilla); and the great harpy eagle ( Thrasaetus harpyia). The figure of the eagle, as the king of birds, is commonly used as an heraldic emblem, and also for standards and emblematic devices. See Bald eagle, Harpy, and Golden eagle.

2. A gold coin of the United States, of the value of ten dollars.

3. (Astron.) A northern constellation, containing Altair, a star of the first magnitude. See Aquila.

4. The figure of an eagle borne as an emblem on the standard of the ancient Romans, or so used upon the seal or standard of any people.

   Though the Roman eagle shadow thee.
   --Tennyson.

   Note: Some modern nations, as the United States, and France under the Bonapartes, have adopted the eagle as their national emblem. Russia, Austria, and Prussia have for an emblem a double-headed eagle.

   Bald eagle. See Bald eagle.

   Bold eagle. See under Bold.

   Double eagle, a gold coin of the United States worth twenty dollars.

   Eagle hawk (Zo["o]l.), a large, crested, South American hawk of the genus Morphnus.

   Eagle owl (Zo["o]l.), any large owl of the genus Bubo, and allied genera; as the American great horned owl ( Bubo Virginianus), and the allied European species ( B. maximus). See Horned owl.

   Eagle ray (Zo["o]l.), any large species of ray of the genus Myliobatis (esp. M. aquila).

   Eagle vulture (Zo["o]l.), a large West African bid ( Gypohierax Angolensis), intermediate, in several respects, between the eagles and vultures.

mid-14c., from Old French egle, from Old Provençal aigla, from Latin aquila "black eagle," fem. of aquilus, often explained as "dark colored" (bird); see aquiline. The native term was erne. Golf score sense is by 1908 (according to old golf sources, because it "soars higher" than a birdie). The figurative eagle-eyed is attested from c.1600.

n. The landing unit of Apollo 11.

1. n. any of various large keen-sighted diurnal birds of prey noted for their broad wings and strong soaring flight [syn: bird of Jove]

2. (golf) a score of two strokes under par on a hole

3. a former gold coin in the United States worth 10 dollars

4. an emblem representing power; "the Roman eagle"

v. shoot in two strokes under par

Eagle is a common name for many large birds of prey of the family Accipitridae; it belongs to several groups of genera that are not necessarily closely related to each other.

Most of the 60 species of eagles are from Eurasia and Africa. Outside this area, just 14 species can be found – two in North America, nine in Central and South America, and three in Australia.

An eagle is a large bird of prey. There are dozens of eagle species, not all closely related to each other.

Eagle or The Eagle may also refer to:

Eagle was a marque of the Chrysler Corporation following the purchase of American Motors Corporation (AMC) and aimed at the enthusiast driver.

Though short-lived, the Eagle Vision sedan sold in respectable numbers, while the sporty Eagle Talon sold more than 115,000 units.

In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth, the eagles were immense flying birds that were sapient and could speak. Often emphatically referred to as the Great Eagles, they appear, usually and intentionally serving as agents of eucatastrophe or deus ex machina, in various parts of his legendarium, from The Silmarillion and the accounts of Númenor to The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Just as the Ents are guardians of plant life, the giant eagles are the guardians of animal life.

These creatures are usually thought to have been similar to actual eagles (for example, as an independent species of the subfamily Buteoninae), but much larger. In The Silmarillion, Thorondor is said to have been the greatest of them and of all birds, with a wingspan of . Elsewhere, the eagles have varied in nature and size both within Tolkien's writings and in later visualisations and films.

The eagle is a base-unit of denomination issued only for gold coinage by the United States Mint based on the original values designated by the Coinage Act of 1792. It has been obsolete as a circulating denomination since 1933. The eagle was the largest of the four main decimal base-units of denomination used for circulating coinage in the United States prior to 1933, the year when gold was withdrawn from circulation. These four main base-units of denomination were the cent, the dime, the dollar, and the eagle, where a dime is 10 cents, a dollar is 10 dimes, and an eagle is 10 dollars. The eagle base-unit of denomination served as the basis of the gold quarter-eagle (US$ 2.50), the gold half-eagle (US $5), the eagle (US $10), and the double-eagle coins (US $20).

With the exceptions of the gold dollar coin, the gold three-dollar coin, the three-cent nickel, and the five-cent nickel, the unit of denomination of coinage prior to 1933 was conceptually linked to the precious or semi-precious metal that constituted a majority of the alloy used in that coin. In this regard the United States followed long-standing European practice of different base-unit denominations for different precious and semi-precious metals. In the United States, the cent was the base-unit of denomination in copper. The dime and dollar were the base-units of denomination in silver. The eagle was the base-unit of denomination in gold although, unlike "cent", "dime" (or "disme"), and "dollar", gold coins never specified their denomination in units of "eagles". Thus, a double eagle showed its value as "twenty dollars" rather than "two eagles".

The United States' circulating eagle denomination from the late 18th century to first third of the 20th century should not be confused with the American Eagle bullion coins which are manufactured from silver or gold (since 1986), or platinum (since 1997).

Eagle was a seminal British children's British comics periodical, first published from 1950 to 1969, and then in a relaunched format from 1982 to 1994. It was founded by Marcus Morris, an Anglican vicar from Lancashire. Morris edited a Southport parish magazine called The Anvil, but felt that the church was not communicating its message effectively. Simultaneously disillusioned with contemporary children's literature, he and Anvil artist Frank Hampson created a dummy comic based on Christian values. Morris solicited the idea to several Fleet Street publishers, with little success, until Hulton Press took it on.

Following a huge publicity campaign, the first issue of Eagle was released in April 1950. Revolutionary in its presentation and content, it was enormously successful; the first issue sold about 900,000 copies. Featured in colour on the front cover was its most recognisable story, Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future, created by Hampson with meticulous attention to detail. Other popular stories included Riders of the Range and P.C. 49. Eagle also contained news and sport sections, and educational cutaway diagrams of sophisticated machinery. A members club was created, and a range of related merchandise was licensed for sale.

Amidst a takeover of the periodical's publisher and a series of acrimonious disputes, Morris left in 1959; Hampson followed shortly thereafter. Although Eagle continued in various forms, a perceived lowering of editorial standards preceded plummeting sales, and it was eventually subsumed by its rival, Lion, in 1969. Eagle was relaunched in 1982 and ran for over 500 issues before being dropped by its publisher in 1994.

Eagle is a 22-metre long impact crater located on the Meridiani Planum extraterrestrial plain, situated within the Margaritifer Sinus quadrangle (MC-19) portion of the planet Mars. The Opportunity rover came to rest inside Eagle crater when it landed in 2004. Scientists were delighted that the rover landed there, as the crater contains rocky outcroppings that helped prove that Meridiani was once an ocean floor. __TOC__

EAGLE is a Web-based, mainframe-powered application server which provides direct, secure, high performance Internet access to mainframe computer data and transactions using real-time transaction processing rather than middleware or external gateways.

Originally based in an IBM 3270 environment developed at the University of Florida to reduce the delivery time of student record applications, the engine was configured for the Web in 1996 and removed the need for a screen scraping interface.

EAGLE stands for, Easily Applicable Graphical Layout Editor in English and, Einfach anzuwendender grafischer Layout-Editor in German. It is designed and developed by CadSoft Computer GmbH and is a flexible, expandable and scriptable, electronic design automation (EDA) application with schematic capture editor, printed circuit board (PCB) layout editor, auto-router and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) and bill of materials (BOM) tools. Autodesk Inc. bought CadSoft Computer GmbH in 2016.

The eagle is used in heraldry as a charge, as a supporter, and as a crest. Sometimes just the headless body ("sans head" eagle) or the head replaced with another symbol, as well as parts of the eagle, such as its head, wing or leg, are used as a charge or crest.

The eagle with its keen eyes symbolized perspicacity, courage, strength and immortality, but is also considered "king of the skies" and messenger of the highest gods. With these attributed qualities the eagle became a symbol of power and strength in Ancient Rome. Mythologically, it has been connected by the Greeks with the God Zeus, by the Romans with Jupiter, by the Germanic tribes with Odin, by the Judeo-Christian scriptures with those who hope in God (Isaiah 40:31), and in Christian art with Saint John the Evangelist.

Eagle, in comics, may refer to:

• Eagle (comic), a British children's comic from the 1950s and 1960s, revived in the 1980s
• Eagle Comics, a US publisher of comic books reprinting 2000 AD stories
• Eagle (Wildstorm), a Wildstorm character from the series Red Menace
• Eagle, another Wildstorm character from the series Wildsiderz
• Eagle Award (comics), a British comic award also known simply as an Eagle
• Eagle: The Making of an Asian-American President, a manga by Kaiji Kawaguchi

It may also refer to:

• American Eagle (comics), a number of characters
• Angry Eagle, a Marvel Comics character and member of the X-People
• Blue Eagle (comics), a superhero
• Eagleman (comics), a DC Comics character
• Eaglet, the sidekick of the Nedor Comics American Eagle
• Golden Eagle (comics), a DC Comics character
• Phantom Eagle, two characters from Fawcett and Marvel Comics

“Eagle” is a song that was recorded in 1977 by the Swedish pop group ABBA. It was the first track on the group's fifth album, ABBA: The Album and the longest selection they ever recorded (at 5:51, 1 second longer than " The Day Before You Came" at 5:50). The fourth and last official single from ABBA: The Album, it was released only in a limited number of territories, with " Thank You for the Music" as the B-side. “Eagle” was not released as a single in the United Kingdom. It was released in the US, but then withdrawn.

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Eagle and Eagles are family names.

Eagle is a font family that is based on '"Eagle Bold", introduced by American Type Founders in 1934.

Eagle is a 1990 Croatian film directed by Zoran Tadić. It is based on Umjetni orao, a novel by Pavao Pavličić.

Eagle is an abstract sculpture by Alexander Calder. It is located at the Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle.

Eagle is a 1991 Indian Malayalam film, directed by Ambili, starring P Sukumar and Poonam Dasgupta in the lead roles.

Eagle is a 12-metre class yacht that competed in the 1987 Louis Vuitton Cup.