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- (countable) A weather vane.
- Any of several usually relatively thin, rigid, flat, or sometimes curved surfaces radially mounted along an axis, as a blade in a w:turbine, turbine or a sail on a windmill, that is turned by or used to turn a fluid.
- The flattened, weblike part of a feather, consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft.
- A sight on a w:sextant, sextant or compass.
- One of the metal guidance or stabilizing fins attached to the tail of a bomb or other missile.
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- an arena, having an oval banked track for bicycle racing
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noun
- The image of Jesus's face believed to have been made on the cloth with which St Veronica wiped his face as he went to be crucified; or the cloth used for this.
- 1973, Nicholas Monsarrat, The Kapillan of Malta:
- :A veil that had wiped off the sweat of Christ? Who could possibly believe that? (") The only true Veronica of this century was the veronica of the matador " the classic slow swing of the cape before the bull"s face, imitating that holy wiping, mocking it.
- A devotional image of Jesus's face.
- 1988, Anthony Burgess, Any Old Iron:
- :He wiped the lady"s martini glass, having had some trouble with a kind of of lipstick, spat in it viciously, then washed it again.
- (context, bullfighting) A circular swinging movement of the cape.
- 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:
- :The cougher makes a lunge. Slothrop sweeps aside, gives him a quick with his cape, sticks his foot out and trips the kid, who lies on the ground cursing
- (botany) A flower of the genus Veronica, usually having blue petals.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 871:
- :meadows full of wildflowers that seemed to Kit enormous, violets as big as your hand, yellow lilies and blue you could shelter from the rain under
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- The act of seeing or looking at something.
- He changed seat to get a complete of the stage.
- The range of vision.
- If there are any rabbits in this park, they keep carefully out of our .
- Something to look at, such as a scenery.
- My flat has a of a junkyard.
- A picture.
- There was a of the accident site on the front page.
- A mental image.
- I need more information to get a better of the situation.
- A way of understanding something, an opinion, a theory.
- Your on evolution is based on religion, not on scientific findings.
- A point of view.
- From my view that is a stupid proposition.
- An intention or prospect.
- I gave you the money with the view that you would invest it wisely.
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noun - The simultaneous firing of a number of missiles; the missiles so fired
- (sport) The flight of a ball just before it bounces
- (sport) A shot, especially in tennis, in which the ball is played before it hits the ground
verb
- (transitive) To fire a volley of shots
- (context, sport, transitive) To hit the ball before it touches the ground
- (intransitive) To be fired in a volley
- (context, sport, intransitive) To make a volley
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- (context, uncountable) A game played on a rectangular court between two teams of two to six players which involves striking a ball back and forth over a net.
- (context, countable) The inflated ball used in such a game.
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- In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical potential and electromotive force (voltage); the potential difference across a conductor when a current of one ampere uses one watt of power. Symbol: V
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