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Solemn (Lat. sollemnis, sollennis, less correctly solennis, yearly, annual; from sollustotus, whole, entire), properly that which occurs annually, hence at stated intervals, regular, established; the term being particularly used of religious rites or ceremonies which recur at stated intervals, hence festive, sacred, marked by religious ceremony or ritual, and so grave, impressive, serious, the most general current usage. Another branch of meaning stresses the formal, customary aspect; and hence in such phrases as solemn act, probate in solemn form, it means that whi ...

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In the traditional sense of the word, a library is a collection of books and periodicals. It can refer to an individual's private collection, but more often it is a large collection that is funded and maintained by a city or institution. This collection is often used by people who choose not to, or cannot afford to, purchase an extensive collection themselves. However, with the collection or invention of media other than books for storing information, many libraries are now also repositories and access points for maps, prints or other ...

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This page is a candidate to be copied to Wiktionary. The information in this article appears to be more suited for a dictionary rather than an encyclopedia. Wikipedia is not a dictionary, but Wiktionary is. Please verify that this article meets the Wiktionary criteria for inclusion. If this article can be modified to be more than a dictionary entry, please do so and remove this message. "Kshetram" is a Malayalam translation for temple. Temple is also called "Ambalam" in Malayalam language.

Prama: Prama is the drama that results from high school teenagers arguing about what to do, who to go with, and what to wear to prom. It is relatively unavoidable and endlessly frustrating. This page is a candidate to be copied to Wiktionary. The information in this article appears to be more suited for a dictionary rather than an encyclopedia. Wikipedia is not a dictionary, but Wiktionary is. Please verify that this article meets the Wiktionary criteria for inclusion. If this article can be modified to be more than a dictionary ...

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List of paradoxes - Semantic paradoxes. These form a well-known (and well-studied) class having in common that any permissible assignment of semantic value (truth, reference) to an expression immediately implies the assignment of a different value. Berry paradox: What is "The first number not nameable in under ten words"? (And has it not just been named in nine?) Curry's paradox: "If this sentence is true, the world will end in a week." Epimenides paradox: A Cretan says "All Cretans ...

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List of paradoxes, List of paradoxes - Logical except mathematical, List of paradoxes - Semantic paradoxes, List of paradoxes - Vagueness, List of paradoxes - Mathematical and statistical, List of paradoxes - Infinity, List of paradoxes - Geometry and topology, List of paradoxes - Psychological and rational, List of paradoxes - Physical, List of paradoxes - Philosophical, List of paradoxes - Economic

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According to Steven Lerner, the creator of Albino Blacksheep, the name was derived from the following definitions (taken from Wiktionary): albino Noun (plural albinos). A person lacking in skin pigmentation. black sheep Noun (idiomatic). A nonconformist; an unusual or unconventional person. Therefore, "Albino blacksheep" is an apparent contradiction in terms; by definition, a black sheep cannot be an albino because it quite obviously possesses skin pigmentation. You can read more about the mean ...

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The word virus has no classically attested plural form in Latin. In antiquity the word had not yet acquired its current meaning. It denoted something like toxicity; venom; a poisonous, deleterious, or unpleasant agent or principle; or poison in the abstract or general sense[2]. Nouns denoting countable entities (such as book) pluralize; noncountable entities (such as air, mood, valor) pluralize only under special circumst ...

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Plural of virus, Plural of virus - Plural of virus in Latin, Plural of virus - Etymology, Plural of virus - Use of the virii form, Plural of virus - Notes

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Interjection - Examples. For a list of English interjections, see the list of English interjections at Wiktionary. English words used mostly as interjections include ugh, wow, ouch, scat, alas, and eureka. Conventions like Hello and Goodbye are also interjections, as are exclamations like Cheers! and Hurray!. In fact, very often they are characterized by exclamation marks depending on the stress of the attitude ...

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Interjection, Interjection - English, Interjection - Examples, Interjection - Phonology, Interjection - Other languages, Interjection - Chinese, Interjection - Bulgarian and South Slavic languages, Interjection - Hebrew

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In much the same way that the selfish gene concept offers a fruitful way of understanding and reasoning about aspects of biological evolution, the meme concept allegedly can conceivably assist in the better understanding of some otherwise puzzling aspects of human culture (and learned behaviors of other animals as well). However, if one cannot test for "better" empirically, the question will remain whether or not the meme concept counts as a valid scientific theory. Memetics thus remains a science in its infancy, a protoscience (although critics sometimes label it a pseudoscience). ...

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Meme, Meme - Basic introduction, Meme - History of the concept of the meme, Meme - Ideas have a life of their own, Meme - Memetics, Meme - Memetic engineering, Meme - Memetic evolution, Meme - Do cultures evolve?, Meme - Propagation of memes, Meme - Biological analogies, Meme - Thoughts as discrete units, Meme - Evolution of memes, Meme - Evolutionary forces affecting memes, Meme - Memetic virus exchange?, Meme - Non-natural selection, Meme - Reproductive isolation in meme speciation, Meme - Forms taken by memes in the brain, Meme - The be happy and make others happy memes, Meme - Religion, Meme - Science, Meme - Meme resistance, Meme - Examples of memes, Meme - Common misconceptions

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The Tamil alphabet has 12 vowels and 18 consonants. These combine to form 216 compound characters. There is one special character (aaytha ezutthu), giving a total of 247 characters. Tamil language - Vowels. The vowels are called uyir ezhuthu (uyir - life, ezhuthu - letter). The vowels are classified into short and lon ...

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Tamil language, Tamil language - History, Tamil language - Classification, Tamil language - Geographic distribution, Tamil language - Legal status, Tamil language - Spoken and literary variants, Tamil language - Dialects, Tamil language - Writing system, Tamil language - Sounds, Tamil language - Vowels, Tamil language - Consonants, Tamil language - Special character, Tamil language - Phonology, Tamil language - Grammar, Tamil language - Parts of speech, Tamil language - Sentence structure, Tamil language - Vocabulary, Tamil language - Examples

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The tools used in social software applications include communication tools and interaction tools. Communication tools typically handle the capturing, storing, and presentation of communication, usually written but increasingly including audio and video also. Interaction tools handle mediated interactions between a pair or group of users. They differ from communication tools in their focus on establishing and maintaining a connection among users, facilitating the mechanics of conversation and talk. Communication tools are generally asynchronous, interaction tools synchronous ( ...

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Social software, Social software - Tools for Online Communication, Social software - Instant Messaging, Social software - Internet Relay Chat, Social software - Internet forums, Social software - Blogs or Weblogs, Social software - Wikis, Social software - Social network services, Social software - Social network search engines, Social software - Social guides, Social software - Social bookmarking, Social software - Social Citations, Social software - Social Libraries, Social software - Social Shopping Applications, Social software - Peer-to-peer social networks, Social software - Collaborative real-time editing, Social software - Virtual presence, Social software - Virtual worlds and Massively-Multiplayer Online Games MMOGs

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In many ways, compared to European Portuguese (EP), Brazilian Portuguese (BP) is conservative in its phonology. In some areas of Brazil, the speech is close to that of Portuguese as spoken in the 16th and 17th centuries. This also occurs in São Tomean Portuguese. BP maintains unstressed vowels to a greater extent than EP. BP maintains the five vowels /a/, /e/, /i/, See also:

Brazilian Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese - History, Brazilian Portuguese - Phonology, Brazilian Portuguese - Brazilian lexicon, Brazilian Portuguese - Spelling, Brazilian Portuguese - Grammar, Brazilian Portuguese - The use of the gerund for describing continuous action, Brazilian Portuguese - Use of tenses, Brazilian Portuguese - Use of reflexives, Brazilian Portuguese - Object pronouns, Brazilian Portuguese - Use of subject pronouns pronomes de tratamento, Brazilian Portuguese - The imperative, Brazilian Portuguese - Borrowings and loan words

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In much the same way that the selfish gene concept offers a fruitful way of understanding and reasoning about aspects of biological evolution, the meme concept allegedly can conceivably assist in the better understanding of some otherwise puzzling aspects of human culture (and learned behaviors of other animals as well). However, if one cannot test for "better" empirically, the question will remain whether or not the meme concept counts as a valid scientific theory. Memetics thus remains a science in its infancy, a protoscience (although critics sometimes label it a pseudoscience). ...

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Meme, Meme - Introduction and definitions, Meme - Dawkins genetic analogy, Meme - Meme complexes and horizontal transmission, Meme - Historical usage of the meme concept, Meme - Quotation: Ideas have a life of their own, Meme - Memetics, Meme - Memetic evolution, Meme - Do cultures evolve?, Meme - Propagation of memes, Meme - Internet propagation, Meme - Memetic engineering, Meme - Biological analogies, Meme - Thoughts as discrete units, Meme - Evolution of memes, Meme - Evolutionary forces affecting memes, Meme - Memetic virus exchange?, Meme - Non-natural selection, Meme - Reproductive isolation in meme speciation, Meme - Forms taken by memes in the brain, Meme - The be happy and make others happy memes, Meme - Religion, Meme - Science, Meme - Meme resistance, Meme - Examples, Meme - Common misconceptions

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Educational software - Children's learning and home learning. An immense number of titles, probably running into the 1000's, were developed and released from the mid-1990’s onwards, aimed primarily at the home education of younger children. Later iterations of these titles often began to link educational content to school curricula (such as England’s National Curriculum). The design of educational software programmes for home use has been influenced strongly by computer gaming concepts – in other words, the ...

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Educational software, Educational software - Major types of educational software, Educational software - Children's learning and home learning, Educational software - Classroom aids, Educational software - Edutainment, Educational software - Reference software, Educational software - Educational software on custom platforms, Educational software - Computer games with incidental learning value, Educational software - Software in corporate training and tertiary education, Educational software - Software for specific educational purposes, Educational software - Selected reports and academic articles, Educational software - Selected products and suppliers, Educational software - Examples of educational software by subject, Educational software - Other kinds of educational software, Educational software - Well-known brands and suppliers of educational software

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Neologisms tend to occur more often in cultures which are rapidly changing, and also in situations where there is easy and fast propagation of information. They are often created by combining existing words (see compound noun and adjective) or by giving words new and unique suffixes or prefixes. Those which are portmanteaux are shortened. Neologisms can also be created through abbreviation or acronym, by intentionally rhyming with existing ...

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Spanish verbs - Contrasting simple and continuous forms. There is not such a strict distinction between simple and continuous forms in Spanish as there is in English. In English, "I do" is one thing (a habit) and "I'm doing" is another (current activity). In Spanish, hago can be either of the two, and estoy haciendo stresses the latter. Though not as strict as English, Spanish is more strict than French or German, which have no systemati ...

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Spanish verbs, Spanish verbs - Mood tense and aspect — forms of the verb, Spanish verbs - Non-finite forms, Spanish verbs - The indicative, Spanish verbs - The subjunctive, Spanish verbs - The conditional, Spanish verbs - The imperative, Spanish verbs - Irregular verbs, Spanish verbs - Use of verbs, Spanish verbs - Contrasting simple and continuous forms, Spanish verbs - Contrasting the present and the future, Spanish verbs - Contrasting the preterite and the imperfect, Spanish verbs - Contrasting the preterite and the perfect, Spanish verbs - Contrasting the indicative and the subjunctive, Spanish verbs - Contrasting the subjunctive and the conditional, Spanish verbs - Contrasting the subjunctive and the imperative, Spanish verbs - Contrasting the present and the future subjunctive, Spanish verbs - Contrasting the preterite and the past anterior, Spanish verbs - Contrasting ser and estar, Spanish verbs - Contrasting haber and tener, Spanish verbs - Negation, Spanish verbs - Expressing movement

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The first libraries were only partly libraries, being composed for the most part of the unpublished records that make up archives. Archaeological findings from the diggings of the ancient city-states of Sumer have revealed temple rooms full of clay tablets in cuneiform script. These archives were made up nearly completely of the records of commercial transactions or inventories, with only a few documents touching theological matters or legends. Things were much the same in the Papyrus based g ...

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Library, Library - Etymology of the word, Library - History, Library - Types of libraries, Library - Description, Library - Library use, Library - Library management, Library - Funding problems, Library - Some famous libraries

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Uncyclopedia entries are often fictional, based loosely on reality but aiming to parody. For example, the Algorithm entry from Uncyclopedia says that an algorithm is a term for "Al Gore getting his groove on." The Al Gore entry states that it is currently unavailable, and suggests that Al Gore might need to re-invent the Interwebs. Some articles are equipped with pictures which are either comic versions of the described item or a ...

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Uncyclopedia, Uncyclopedia - History, Uncyclopedia - Content, Uncyclopedia - Common themes, Uncyclopedia - Main Page Holidays, Uncyclopedia - Notability

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Dictionary - Prescription and description. Dictionary makers apply two basic philosophies to the defining of words: prescriptive or descriptive. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is descriptive, and attempts to describe the actual use of words. Noah Webster, on the other hand, intent on forging a distinct identity for the American language, altered spellings and accentuated differences in meaning and pronunciation of numerous words. This is why American English now uses the spelling ...

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