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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nike

Nike \Nike\ prop. n. (Greek Mythology) [Gr., victory.] The Greek winged goddess of victory; identified with Roman Victoria.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Nike

Greek goddess of victory (identified by the Romans with their Victoria), literally "victory," probably connected with neikos "quarrel, strife," neikein "to quarrel with." As a type of U.S. defensive surface-to-air missiles, attested from 1952.

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Nike may refer to:

  • Nike (mythology), Greek goddess who personifies victory
    • The Nike of Samothrace, an ancient statue of the goddess Nike
  • Nike, Inc., major US marketer of athletic shoes, apparel, and sports equipment
  • Nike (horse), an 18th-century British Thoroughbred racehorse
  • Nike (name), surname and feminine given name
  • Nike Award, Polish language literature prize
  • 307 Nike, sizeable asteroid in the main belt
  • Project Nike, US Army missile project
    • MIM-14 Nike-Hercules, solid fuel propelled surface-to-air missile
    • Nike (rocket stage)
    • Various US sounding rockets named after the upper stage used, including:
      • Nike Apache
      • Nike-Asp
      • Nike-Cajun
      • Nike-Deacon
      • Nike Hawk
      • Nike Hydac
      • Nike Iroquois
      • Nike Javelin
      • Nike Malemute
      • Nike Nike
      • Nike Orion
      • Nike Recruit
      • Nike T40 T55
      • Nike Tomahawk
      • Nike Viper
Nike (mythology)

''' Nike ''' (; , "Victory", ), in ancient Greek religion, was a goddess who personified victory, also known as the Winged Goddess of Victory. The Roman equivalent was Victoria. Depending upon the time of various myths, she was described as the daughter of the Titan Pallas and the goddess Styx, and the sister of Kratos (Strength), Bia (Force), and Zelus (Zeal).

Nike (name)

Nike is a family name and feminine given name found in various cultures, deriving from Greek νίκη (nikē), "victory".

It is sometimes traceable to Nike, the Greek goddess of victory, which is also present in the more frequently-occurring names Nicholas and Nicole.

In the case of people of Nigerian heritage, Nike is an element of Yoruba names signifying "cherished".

Nike (horse)

Nike (often stylised Niké; foaled 1794) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse. She won three of her five starts, including the Oaks Stakes in 1797. She was owned Richard Grosvenor, 1st Earl Grosvenor, and later became a broodmare, with three of her foals placing in Classic races.

Nike (rocket stage)

The Nike stage or Nike booster, a solid fuel rocket motor, was created by the predecessor of Thiokol.

It was initially developed for use as the first stage of the Nike Ajax and Nike Hercules missiles as part of Project Nike.

Subsequently it was employed in a variety of missiles and sounding rockets, becoming one of the most popular and reliable rocket stages, not only in the United States, but also in several other countries around the world.

Nike (Kougioumtzis)

Nike is an abstract sculpture depicting Nike, the Greek goddess of victory, designed by Greek artist Pavlos Angelos Kougioumtzis. Versions of the statue have been donated to every host city of the Olympics since 1996.

Usage examples of "nike".

Naturally I was looking as unattractive as I could possibly make myself, face cream, bendi-curlers and old sweatpants, and there he was, a big gold god, smelling of something fresh and citrus, standing awkwardly in faded shorts, a grey T-shirt and Nikes, unsure where to place his great hands.

Zerbrowski had given me little plastic booties to put over my Nikes, and handed me the box of gloves.

She was following the discussion from the Nike, using relays established by the breadcrumbs that A.

In the street outside, two kids in bomber jackets, neither of them above ten years old, and both wearing nearly-new Nike trainers that had come down the chimney with Santa, were dismantling a black and silver mountain bike whose owner had optimistically left it chained to a parking meter.

An armoire held, besides clothes, boxes of Nike and New Balance running shoes, cigar boxes, a library of videotapes and copies of Windows '95, a regular emporium.

With the exception of a pair of orange-and-white Nikes that look as big as clown shoes, his outfit is totally Gabby: rumpled baggy khakis, red suspenders, a cotton shirt striped like mattress ticking.

Three hundred and twelve more locked onto the Ghost Rider decoys Nike and Hector had deployed, and another sixty looped suddenly back towards the Katanas, only to be ripped apart by the LACs' point defense clusters.

She worked from an At-a-Glance leather-bound diary and made her appointed rounds in a quick, efficient, practiced manner, buying faded jeans for Gwynne, a leather dop kit for Brendan, Nike diving watches for Meredith and Brigid.

He put on the blue Nike running shoes, then buckled on a small fanny pack, not bothering to turn on the lights.

Its wedge fluctuated, then died, and Nike dispatched it to whatever hell awaited its crew with a single missile even as she writhed around to savage one of its consorts.

Last week Karla removed her Nikes, took a plastic squeeze bottle of mineral oil from the bathroom, cut it with sesame oil, and crawled atop Mom's prone form on the foldaway rental bed.

She dragged Tim Forsyth along to a Nike press conference entitled Men Who Fly!

Golem-Two had no time to relay its main battery, and, unlike either Golem, Nike had known exactly where to look for her enemies.

Then Cathy went to a Nike party and, afterwards, nightclubbing and dancing.

She had firm, outthrusting boobs like the nosecones on a Nike missile, a rack that Jane Russell would've have killed for, and they were barely concealed under a blue angora sweater which molded itself to every braless curve.