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Syrt

Syrt \Syrt\, n. [L. syrtis a sand bank in the sea, Gr. ?: cf. F. syrte.] A quicksand; a bog. [R.]
--Young.

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trebouxoid

a. (context zoology English) Resembling ''Trebouxia'' algae.

diable

a. flavour with hot spices. n. An unglazed earthenware casserole dish.

syrt

Etymology 1 n. A kind of elevated flatland in Russia and Central Asia. Etymology 2

n. A quicksand or bog.

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NYCO

NYCO is a four-man alternative rock group based in Chicago, Illinois. It is led by Ted Atkatz, a former principal percussionist for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. NYCO stands for New York, from which Atkatz hails, and Colorado, the home of co-founder Rob Kassinger. On February 6, 2007, The New York Times featured NYCO in an article titled "From Lead Percussionist to Different Drummer," noting that "it is rare for an orchestra musician to abandon the classical realm for a career in rock," and "It is even rarer for someone of Mr. Atkatz’s stature to do so."

Nuan

Nuan is a 2003 Chinese film directed by Huo Jianqi. The film won the Grand Prix at the 16th Tokyo International Film Festival. The film is an adaptation of author Mo Yan's short story, The White Dog and the Swing. The film is set in Maoyuan, a small and ancient village in Jiangxi. Nuan's production was delayed by the outbreak of SARS in 2002-2003, making it miss a planned debut at the Venice Film Festival that September.

Auliekol

Auliekol is a village and the administrative center of Auliekol District in Kostanay Region of north-western Kazakhstan. The population is

UTEC

UTEC was a computer built at the University of Toronto (UofT) in the early 1950s. It was one of the first working computers in the world, although only built in a prototype form while awaiting funding for expansion into a full-scale version. This funding was eventually used to purchase a surplus Manchester Mark 1 from Ferranti in the UK instead, and UTEC quickly disappeared. The name was an acronym for University of Toronto Electronic Computer.

Reia

Reia may refer to:

  • Rhea (mythology)
  • Reia, Mozambique
  • Reia (programming language)
Reia (programming language)

Reia was a general-purpose concurrent object-oriented programming language for the Erlang virtual machine. As of August 10, 2011, Reia has been declared defunct in favor of Elixir.

Reia supported multiple programming paradigms including imperative, functional, declarative, object oriented, and concurrent. It used the actor model for concurrency in a manner that worked alongside its object system. It used pattern matching as the primary operation by which it selected branches to take and bind variables. It also had a dynamic type system and automatic memory management; it was therefore similar in varying respects to Erlang, Ruby, and Python.

Asenray

Asenray is a town in the Dutch province of Limburg. It is a part of the municipality of Roermond, and lies about 3 km east of Roermond.

In 2006, Asenray had 883 inhabitants. The built-up area of the town was 0.1 km², and contained 139 residences.

JustShareIt

JustShareIt is a peer-to-peer car rental and car sharing marketplace. It allows individuals to rent vehicles directly from individual car owners or car sharing companies in local neighborhood locations or wherever they are traveling. It allows its members to rent the vehicles by the hour, using their smartphone. As with companies like Airbnb, TaskRabbit, and Zipcar. JustShareIt is considered to be a service provider in the Sharing Economy.

After running a closed Alpha test of its service, JustShareIt launched to the public on January 5, 2012.

Drews

Drews is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Arthur Drews
  • Bill Drews
  • Frank Drews
  • Jürgen Drews (born 1945)
  • Karl Drews (1920–1963), American baseball player
  • Paul Drews
  • Stefan Drews
  • Chris "Drews" Andrews
Irlande

Irlande is a municipality in Les Appalaches Regional County Municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, Canada. Its population was 959 as of the Canada 2011 Census.

Irlande does not have a town or village centre, but the hamlet of Maple Grove, at the intersection of Chemins Craig and Gosford, constitutes the only notable urban agglomeration. This is where the Holy Trinity Anglican Church and the rectory are located.

Syrt

A syrt is a kind of an elevated landform in Russia and Central Asia.

The word means " highland", " ridge" or " backbone" in Turkic languages (sırt) and is present in Turkic toponymy in the mentioned areas: in Tien Shan, Pamirs, South Urals, such as Obshchiy Syrt by Urals, Uzun-Syrt ("Long back") plateau by Koktebel in Crimea.

It is a denudational upland or elevated flatland, a kind of dissected plateau. Syrts may be separated from each other by higher ridges. At the same time, syrts may serve as water divides between drainage basins for larger rivers.

The term should not to be confused with the Latin term syrtis and the derived term "syrt" for sandy shores or quicksand.

Usage examples of "syrt".

The population of the Warm Syrt system combines a thousand two hundred people, out of whom eight hundred people are constantly engaged in the field and, consequentially, are permanently under threat of attack.