[bksvol-discuss] Re: Is it a scanno or a real word
- From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 09:57:05 -0500
Thanks Sara, I guessed that was what mélange was, as he used it to mean a
mix of city noise, commands, dust, traffic and his dog's harness in the
city. His first visit to Vivey.
I use the BN to edit the books so I am away from Kurzweil but shall use the
google dictionary.
Thanks.
Shelley L. Rhodes and Judson, guiding golden
juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc.
Graduate Advisory Council
www.guidedogs.com
The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to
stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
-- Vance Havner
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From: "Sarah Van Oosterwijck" <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 12:34 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Is it a scanno or a real word
Check it out. Courtesy of the "define:" funtion of google.
Definitions of funicular on the Web:
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cable railway: a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable
and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars
www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn
From Kurzweil dictionary:
noun. A cable railway on a steep incline, especially such a railway with
simultaneously ascending and descending cars counterbalancing one another.
Definitions of melange on the Web:
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A body of rocks consisting of large blocks (mappable size) of different
rocks jumbled together with little continuity of contacts.
www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gloss2geol.html
From the Kurzweil dictionary:
mélange. also melange. noun. A mixture: "[a] building crowned with a
mélange of antennae and satellite dishes" (Howard Kaplan).
Sarah Van Oosterwijck
http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity/
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