The Collaborative International Dictionary
Phosphoryl \Phos"phor*yl\, n. [Phosphorus + -yl.] (Chem.) The radical PO, regarded as the typical nucleus of certain compounds.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
large river in northern Italy, from Latin Padus, a name of Celtic origin.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (context obsolete English) A peacock. Etymology 2
n. (context UK Australia NZ colloquial dated English) A chamberpot.
Wikipedia
Pô is a city in southern Burkina Faso. It is the capital of the province of Nahouri. The main ethnic group is the Gurunsi. It is said to have been founded in around 1500 and is home to an army base, including the Académie militaire Georges Namoano.
In 1983, an army unit under Blaise Compaoré led a rebellion which resulted in Thomas Sankara's release from prison and ascension to the presidency.
On October 31, 2014 Compaoré announced he had left the presidency and that there was a "power vacuum"; he also called for a "free and transparent" election within 90 days. Yacouba Isaac Zida then took over the reins as head of state in an interim capacity. It was reported that a heavily armed convoy believed to be carrying Compaoré was traveling towards the southern town of Pô. However, it diverted before reaching the town and he then fled to Ivory Coast with the support of President Alassane Ouattara.
" Pô Department", centered on Po, is one of five departments within the province of Nahouri in the Centre-Sud Region of Burkina Faso. It is located on the border with Ghana.
Pô National Park lies near the town.
Pô was a department of the French Consulate and of the First French Empire in present-day Italy. It was named after the river Dora Baltea. It was formed in 1802, when the Subalpine Republic (formerly the mainland portion of the Kingdom of Sardinia) was directly annexed to France. Its capital was Turin.
The department was disbanded after the defeat of Napoleon in 1814. At the Congress of Vienna, the Savoyard King of Sardinia was restored in all his previous realms and domains, including Piedmont. Its territory is now part of the Italian province of Turin.
Master Po Ping (birth name: Lotus) is a title character and the protagonist of the Kung Fu Panda franchise. He is the 20 or 25-year-old anthropomorphism giant panda who is improbably chosen as the Dragon Warrior, champion of the Valley of Peace in the first film. He's the adoptive son of Mr. Ping, and is one of Master Shifu's students. Po is also the prophesied Dragon Warrior, as well as the warrior of black and white. In Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, Po's revealed to have the ability to be able to learn kung fu at a glance.
Po is also the team leader of the Furious Five, although that is not properly part as his other companions he is considered as a second master after Shifu.
The character has received largely positive critical reception, reaching influence to serve as the other characters, video games and films in the media.
The Po (; and Eridanus; ; ancient Ligurian: Bodincus or Bodencus; and Ἠριδανός) is a river that flows eastward across northern Italy. The Po flows either or – considering the length of the Maira, a right bank tributary. The headwaters of the Po are a spring seeping from a stony hillside at Pian del Re, a flat place at the head of the Val Po under the northwest face of Monviso (in the Cottian Alps). The Po ends at a delta projecting into the Adriatic Sea near Venice. It has a drainage area of 74,000 km² in all, 70,000 in Italy, of which 41,000 is in montane environments and 29,000 on the plain. The Po is the longest river in Italy; at its widest point its width is . The Po extends along the 45th parallel north.
The river flows through many important Italian cities, including Turin (Torino), Piacenza and Ferrara. It is connected to Milan through a net of channels called navigli, which Leonardo da Vinci helped design. Near the end of its course, it creates a wide delta (with hundreds of small channels and five main ones, called Po di Maestra, Po della Pila, Po delle Tolle, Po di Gnocca and Po di Goro) at the southern part of which is Comacchio, an area famous for eels. The Po valley was the territory of the Roman Cisalpine Gaul, divided into Cispadane Gaul (South of the Po) and Transpadane Gaul (North of the Po). The Po begins in the Alps, and is in Italy, and flows eastward.
The river is subject to heavy flooding. Consequently, over half its length is controlled with argini, or dikes. The slope of the valley decreases from 0.35% in the west to 0.14% in the east, a low gradient. There are 450 standing lakes.
It is characterized by its large discharge (several rivers over 1,000 km have a discharge inferior or equal to the Po).
A "po" is an idea which moves thinking forward to a new place from where new ideas or solutions may be found. The term was created by Edward de Bono as part of a lateral thinking technique to suggest forward movement, that is, making a statement and seeing where it leads to. It is an extraction from words such as hypothesis, suppose, possible and poetry, all of which indicate forward movement and contain the syllable "po." Po can be taken to refer to any of the following: provoking operation, provocative operation or provocation operation. Also, in ancient Polynesian and the Maori, the word "po" refers to the poporiginal chaotic state of formlessness, from which evolution occurred. Edward de Bono argues that this context as well applies to the term.
For example, Sales are dropping off because our product is perceived as old fashioned.
- po: Change the colour of the packaging
- po: Flood the market with even older-looking products to make it seem more appealing
- po: Call it retro
- po: Sell it to old people
- po: Sell it to young people as a gift for old people
- po: Open a museum dedicated to it
- po: Market it as a new product
Some of the above ideas may be impractical, not sensible, not business-minded, not politically correct, or just plain daft. The value of these ideas is that they move thinking from a place where it is entrenched to a place where it can move. The above ideas might develop into...
- po: Change the colour of the packaging
- update the product casing to bring it up to date (electronic goods can often do this)
- po: Flood the market with even older-looking products to make it seem more appealing
- take a cut down version and release it as an older cheaper one to make this product seem like the top of the line
- po: Call it retro
- instead of retro say "tried and tested" or "industry standard"
- po: Sell it to old people
- good idea
- po: Sell it to young people as a gift for old people
- good idea
- po: Open a museum dedicated to it
- exhibit only your competitor's products
- sell this product in the museum
- make the experience educational within your sector
- open a café
- accept group bookings
- add a theme park
- po: Market it as a new product
- give it a new name and call it state of the art
The point of these examples is that an initial po may seem silly, but a further development may seem very good indeed. The intermediate silly idea is a necessary step to find the good idea. If silly ideas are not allowed to form, the subsequent good idea will be undiscovered. Po allows silly ideas to form so that good ones can follow.
Usage examples of "po".
Keebes took off his headset and dumped it on the Pos Two console, then quickly headed for the aft stairway.
It had been occupied by a Powerful colony of Gauls, who, settling themselves along the banks of the Po, from Piedmont to Romagna, carried their arms and diffused their name from the Alps to the Apennine.
Crea is most easily approached from Casale, a large opulent commercial town uPon the Po, that has already received the waters of the Dora Baltea, and though not yet swelled by the influx of the Ticino and Adda, has become a noble river.
Meanwhile the commander-in-chief had advanced, accompanied by the larger part of his forces, and had crossed the Oglio in two columns: he launched one column, under General Rosenberg, towards Bergamo, and the other, with General Melas in charge, towards the Serio, whilst a body of seven or eight thousand men, commanded by General Kaim and General Hohenzollern, were directed towards Placentia and Cremona, thus occupying the whole of the left bank of the Po, in such a manner that the Austro-Russian army advanced deploying eighty thousand men along a front of forty-five miles.
Hij had er geen idee van wat er allemaal werd gezegd, want hij had geen poging gedaan om iets meer te leren dan de meest rudimentaire woorden die hier werden gebruikt.
Thus situated the French government sent Massena across the Alps, together with generals Soult, Oudinot, and Brune, to refix the national banners on the banks of the Po.
He now knew that the whole secret of manhood did not consist in pos sessing a great strong body.
Bij de zesde poging had Tikat Vader van Ons Allen geleerd de Runa te fokken.
Saint Michel portait toujours un trident camarguais au poing, et, sur son visage la ressemblance de Jean.
Lieutenant Scon Brayton had fallen between the bench and the lower portion of the Pos Three console.
I thought Stires could look out for himself, so long as it was just Ching Po.
These should include da Vinci, Rousseau, Karl Marx, Rameses II, Nietzsche, Bakunin, Alcibiades, Eddy, Ben Jonson, Li Po, Nichiren Daishonin, Asoka, an Ice Age cavewife, Joan of Arc, Gilgamesh, Edwin Booth, Faust et al.
Anita, Cicerovacchio e i figli, con Ugo Bassi, sbarcarono nelle foci del Po.
About 1880 a native of the Gold Coast obtained some beans, probably from Fernando Po.
Benin, Togo, Ghana, and the Ivory Coast to the west, and Cameroon, Rio Muni, Fernando Po, Gabon, and Congo to the south.