Crossword clues for picard
picard
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Picard \Pic"ard\, n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect of Adamites in the fifteenth century; -- so called from one Picard of Flanders. See Adamite.
Wikipedia
Picard may refer to:
- A native of, or anything originating in, Picardy, a region of France
- Picard language, a language of France
- A member of the Picards, a religious sect in the fifteenth century
- Picard (satellite), an orbiting solar observatory built by CNES
- Berger Picard, French breed of dog of the herding group of breeds
- Picard (grape), an alternative name for several wine grape varieties
- Picard, formerly TSS Duke of Cumberland, a steamship which operated between Tilbury and Dunkirk from 1927 to 1936
- Picard, brand name of Picard Surgelés French frozen food company
Picard is a lunar impact crater that lies in Mare Crisium. It is the biggest non-flooded crater of this mare, being slightly larger than Peirce to the north-northwest. To the west is the almost completely flooded crater Yerkes. To east of Picard is the tiny Curtis. The crater is named for 17th century French astronomer and geodesist Jean Picard.
Picard is a crater from the Eratosthenian period, which lasted from 3.2 to 1.1 billion years ago. Inside Picard is a series of terraces that seismologists have attributed to a collapse of the crater floor. The lowest point on the crater floor is approximately 2000 metres below its rim. It has a small hill at the center.
PICARD is a satellite dedicated to the simultaneous measurement of the absolute total and spectral solar irradiance, the diameter and solar shape, and to the Sun's interior probing by the helioseismology method. These measurements obtained throughout the mission will allow study of their variations as a function of solar activity. It launched, along with the Prisma spacecraft, on June 15, 2010 on a Dnepr launcher from Dombarovskiy Cosmodrome, near Yasny, Russia.
Picard is a surname meaning a person from Picardy, a historical region and cultural area of France.
Picard (first name and dates unknown) was an English cricketer who was associated with Middlesex and made his first-class debut in 1830.
Usage examples of "picard".
Picard could see a rather complex diagram of the anomaly with various pieces of sensor information incorporated into it.
Picard and Lagan were legendary for their ability to talk any matter to death.
Une brincqueballe est, en langage picard, le levier qui sert sur les navires a faire jouer le piston de la pompe.
Livia, getting her information through the Rampart Street or octoroon side of the clan, said it was because they were getting none of the resulting money, an opinion with which January could find no fault, though Charles-Louis Trepagier fulminated to Aunt Alicia Picard in terms of letting family land be lived upon by sales americaines.
Picard waved the young woman away with an understanding nod, and she hesitated, handed him a padd, made good her escape.
Picard, and there was silence, although Troi stirred and probably wanted to say something-something more conciliatory, most likely, something to make the news on the padd go away.
The book fell open to the title page, and Tyson saw that it was autographed by Andrew Picard.
Dominique Messier, bassist Marc Langis, and percussionist Paul Picard.
Picard stood slightly removed from the chaos in the starboard brig while Lieutenant Peart tried to rein in the prisoners, who were engaged in a frenzy of finger-pointing.
The field shivered, sizzled, and resituated itself to bisect the cell and separate Picard and Troi.
So they ate in companiable silence for a minute until Picard began talking about some of the galactic scuttlebutt he heard from his fellow captains: promotions and reassignments and the like.
Picard steepled his fingers, composing himself, trying to find an angle that would get through.
Picard was shortly at his side reassuring him that they had indeed stopped Soran from destroying the Veridian star.
Picard assured us that we would have no trouble facing the Furies as just another life-form, yet his actions seem to say otherwise.
Chapter Seventeen DESPITE HIMSELF, Picard felt relief as the Enterprise moved away from the Furies Point.