Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A table, or something resembling a table.
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- proper noun astronomy A
summer constellation of thesouthern sky, originally named after Table Mountain in South Africa. It lies between the constellations ofHydrus andVolans . - proper noun Mensa International; an organization for people with very high
IQs .
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- noun a faint constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere and containing part of the Large Magellanic Cloud
Etymologies
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Examples
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(I found out many years ago I was qualified to join Mensa but wasn't really interested and have since lost the paperwork which proved my intelligence level.)
Magic, Mensa and Mayhem by Karina L. Fabian nissa_amas_katoj 2009
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How do those of us who don't belong in Mensa fix the fact that we will soon be obsoleted by offshore resources?
Income Mobility, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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“Your high school Vice-Principal suggested you join Mensa (because of his 174 IQ), and you just laughed it off with that joke about being too busy ‘eating Girl Scout cookies’ … but why didn’t you go to college?”
Peter Sumaruck 2010
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The exact nature of the explosion, police do not know at this particular stage, what caused this blast in the Frank Sinatra area, it is called, but the actual cafeteria called the Mensa (ph) cafeteria.
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I wonder if this is some kind of Mensa level ploy to divert attention from the Boylanophillia in the previous thread.
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This is the kind of Mensa-level question posed by the D.J. on the radio show I sometimes listen to in the A.M. It piqued my curiosity because just mere minutes before there was a commercial for a b ...
Charlotte Hilton Andersen: Can You Tell If Someone is Obese Over the Phone? 2008
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This is the kind of Mensa-level question posed by the D.J. on the radio show I sometimes listen to in the A.M. It piqued my curiosity because just mere minutes before there was a commercial for a b ...
Charlotte Hilton Andersen: Can You Tell If Someone is Obese Over the Phone? 2008
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This is the kind of Mensa-level question posed by the D.J. on the radio show I sometimes listen to in the A.M. It piqued my curiosity because just mere minutes before there was a commercial for a bariatric surgery clinic that went like this:
Charlotte Hilton Andersen: Can You Tell If Someone is Obese Over the Phone? 2008
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Another question that's bothered me for a while is this: If the "Mensa" people are so smart, why did they pick a stupid name like "Mensa" for their little club?
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local bronco beer 2010
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Another question that's bothered me for a while is this: If the "Mensa" people are so smart, why did they pick a stupid name like "Mensa" for their little club?
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local XBronco 2010
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