Crossword clues for isthmus
isthmus
- Canal site, often
- This sum (anag)
- Strip of land with water on both sides
- Panama landform
- Panama Canal site
- Natural bridge
- Narrow land passage
- Kra of Suez
- Good place for a canal
- Geographical neck
- Formation meaning "neck" in Greek
- Connecting strip of land
- Connecting land strip
- Common canal site
- Central America, e.g
- Canal site often
- Land bridge
- Narrow strip of land
- Canal site, maybe
- A relatively narrow strip of land (with water on both sides) connecting two larger land areas
- A narrow band of tissue connecting two larger parts of an anatomical structure
- Panama, e.g.
- Mexico's ___ of Tehuantepec
- Neck of land
- Narrow strip of land connecting areas is therefore restricting motorway
- Narrow neck of land
- Narrow land link
- Island nearly is so invaded by millions
- This difficult sum recalled Panama, perhaps
- Panama, for one
- Panama, e.g
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Isthmus \Isth"mus\ (?; 277), n.; pl. Isthmuses. [L. isthmus, Gr. 'isqmo`s a neck, a neck of land between two seas, an isthmus, especially the Isthmus of Corinth; prob. from the root of 'ie`nai to go; cf. Icel. ei[eth] isthmus. See Issue.] (Geog.) A neck or narrow slip of land by which two continents are connected, or by which a peninsula is united to the mainland; as, the Isthmus of Panama; the Isthmus of Suez, etc.
Isthmus of the fauces. (Anat.) See Fauces.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, from Latin isthmus, from Greek isthmos "narrow passage, narrow neck of land," especially that of Corinth, of unknown origin, perhaps from eimi "to go" + suffix -thmo (compare ithma "a step, movement").
Wiktionary
n. 1 A narrow strip of land, bordered on both sides by water, and connecting two larger landmasses. 2 (context anatomy English) Any such narrow part connecting two larger structures.
WordNet
n. a relatively narrow strip of land (with water on both sides) connecting two larger land areas
a narrow band of tissue connecting two larger parts of an anatomical structure
[also: isthmi (pl)]
Wikipedia
An isthmus is a strip of land connecting two larger bodies of land.
Isthmus may also refer to:
- An anatomically narrow part of an organ. See List of anatomical isthmi
- The visible medial third of the uterine tube is the isthmus of uterine tube or isthmus tubae uterinae
- Isthmus (newspaper) is the name of a weekly newspaper in Madison, Wisconsin
- In graph theory, an isthmus is an edge in a graph whose deletion increases the number of connected components of the graph.
Isthmus is a free alternative weekly newspaper based in Madison, Wisconsin (US). Founded by Vince O'Hern and Fred Milverstedt in 1976, the paper is published on Thursdays, and has a weekly circulation of 50,000. Isthmus also publishes content on Isthmus.com, offering local news, opinion, sports and extensive coverage of the arts, dining and music scenes.
Isthmus takes its name from the land mass that forms the heart of Madison’s downtown and houses the twin engines of the city’s economy, the University of Wisconsin—Madison and the Wisconsin State Capitol. The paper was founded by Vincent P. O'Hern and Fred Milverstedt, the latter a Madison area journalist and the former a Madison transplant originally from Detroit. It was O'Hern and Milverstedt who came up with the paper's somewhat ominous original motto, "To the Death," a mantra that, according to O'Hern, "expressed our determination to succeed," though he noted that "no life has been lost in [the paper's] production." Milverstedt served as original editor of Isthmus until leaving the paper in 1980. O'Hern would remain as the paper's publisher, and write a weekly "Making the Paper" column; his wife, Linda Baldwin, also served as associate publisher.
On July 10, 2014, O'Hern announced that he and Baldwin would retire from Isthmus, and that its parent company would be sold to Red Card Media, a Madison-based company known for the Red Card prepaid dining service for UW—Madison students. Red Card's principal ownership includes the trio of Jeff Haupt, Craig Bartlett, and Mark Tauscher. Haupt and Bartlett, who now respectively serve as Isthmus' publisher and associate publisher, are former operations staffers for Madison-founded satirical newspaper The Onion; Tauscher, like Haupt a UW-Madison alum, is a radio analyst for Green Bay Packers and Wisconsin Badgers football and played on both teams during his playing career.
Isthmus, through both its print edition and its website (Isthmus.com), carries investigative and in-depth articles, offers opinions and commentaries on current events, provides incisive coverage of the arts, and features stories on trends and culture in the Madison area. It has won numerous awards for journalistic excellence over the years, including more than three dozen first-place awards from the Milwaukee Press Club and two Golden Quills, the top honor from the International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors. Isthmus is a member of the Association of Alternative Newsmedia, a North American trade association of alternative newsweeklies.
Isthmus employs more than three dozen full-time staff members. Longtime staffers include editor Judy Davidoff, associate editor Michana Buchman, news editor Joe Tarr, creative director Ellen Meany, and administrative director Kathy Bailey. Notable former staffers include arts writer Kent Williams; editor and TV critic Dean Robbbins; news editor Bill Lueders, who joined the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism in June 2011 after 25 years at Isthmus; and former interns Anthony Shadid and Abigail Goldman, who have gone on to win Pulitzer Prizes.
Usage examples of "isthmus".
Calibrate the neurotracer to monitor at the cingulate gyrus, isthmus, hippocampal gyrus, uncus, and hippocampus.
The expedition of Harris, Coxon, Sharp and their associates across the isthmus in 1680 had kindled the imaginations of the buccaneers with the possibilities of greater plunder and adventure in these more distant regions.
Chief or Captain of the Darien Indians, who in 1679 conducted the buccaneers under Coxon and Harris across the isthmus to attack Santa Maria and afterwards to make an attempt on Panama.
He afterwards led back a party of malcontents under Captain Coxon from the Pacific side of the isthmus.
A vision rose before him of a chain of charred and desolate manor-houses stretching all the way south to the Isthmus, triumphant Folkish rebels controlling the roads everywhere, the last few surviving Masters hunted down one by one and given over to death.
But it may be presumed that they passed over the southern Persian deserts of Sigiston, Makran and Kirman, along the Persian Gulph to the mouth of the Euphrates, thence to Bassora into the deserts of Arabia, and thence into Egypt by the Isthmus of Suez.
Since Ukraine blocked all approaches across the isthmus, their main line of communication ran across the narrow straits of Kerch, from an arm of the Russian Federation that flanked the Black and Azov Seas from Novoazovsk to the Georgian frontier at Gagra.
That morning the British Admiralty had tipped off the American government that a large Japanese invasion fleet had been observed heading across the Gulf of Siam for the Isthmus of Kra, which indicated that the Nipponese were striking first at Thailand and perhaps Malaya.
The Turks were directed by the German general Liman von Sanders, and he expected the landing to be attempted near Bulair on the flat and narrow isthmus which joined the Gallipoli Peninsula to the mainland.
Mu Olokukurtilisop Among the Cuna of the Isthmus of Panama, this was the name of the great preexistent goddess who parthenogenetically produced the sun, took him as her lover, birthed the moon and mated with him, and thus produced the entire skyful of stars.
El Salvador is of native tribes who lived stably with their habitat, the forests and other ecosystems of the isthmus.
The North Zirks have ridden all the way around it, on hipposaur-back, in the high latitudes, and the thalassic peoples at the Equator have sailed all the five equatorial seas and portaged all the isthmuses between.
I massaged the isthmus of the thyroid, pushing it out of the way, hard toward his head, and with my other hand, pressed the knife blade down into the fourth tracheal cartilage.
The pride of Corinth, again rising from her ruins with the honors of a Roman colony, exacted a tribute from the adjacent republics, for the purpose of defraying the games of the Isthmus, which were celebrated in the amphitheatre with the hunting of bears and panthers.
There they careened and provisioned, and being joined by two other Jamaican privateers commanded by Sawkins and Harris, sailed for Golden Island, whence on 5th April 1680, with 334 men, they began their march across the Isthmus of Darien to the coasts of Panama and the South Seas.