Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An abbreviation of
Iowa . - noun In mythology, a daughter of Inachus, metamorphosed into a heifer and caused to be tormented by a terrible gadfly by Hera, in jealous revenge for the favors of Zeus. See
Argus , 1. - noun The innermost of the four satellites of Jupiter.
- noun In entomology: A genus of vanessoid butterflies.
- noun [lowercase] The peacock butterfly, Vanessa io: used both as the technical specific name and as an English word.
- noun [lowercase] A showy and beautiful moth of North America, Hyperchiria io, or Saturnia io, of yellow coloration, with prominent pink and bluish eyes on the hinder wings.
- A Latin interjection, or exclamation of joy or triumph: sometimes used as a noun in English.
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- interjection An exclamation of joy or triumph.
- noun A type of
moth , theio moth .
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- noun the closest of Jupiter's moons; has active volcanoes
- noun (Greek mythology) a maiden seduced by Zeus; when Hera was about to discover them together Zeus turned her into a white heifer
Etymologies
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Examples
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(U) Tacitus tells us, that the power of Urgulania was io great, that fhe difdained to ap - pear as a witnefs in a certain caufe before the fenate » fo that a praetor was fent to examine her at her own houfe, though it had been always ufual, even io» ithe Veftal virgins, to attend the forum, and courts of juftice, whenever their evidence was required* to to Taniib of \tk\i.
An universal history, from the earliest accounts to the present time 1780
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With a brafs qua - drant of three feet radius, by one meridian altitude of the fun's upper limb, all neceflary aquations and deductions confidered, I determined the latitude of the place of obfer - vation to be 10° 59 1 1 "; and by another obfervation of the fame kind made on the 6th, io° 5 9 »*J afte r which b 7 a medium of thirty-three obfervations of liars, the largeft and neareft, the firft vertical, I found the latitude to be io 59 '10";
Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 1790
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Fusion-io is not the only company trying to take advantage of Flash.
Fusion-io Gets $47.5M and Flash Storage Gets Interesting 2009
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Drop. io is taking on the likes of WebEx, GoToMeeting and all the other webinar/web conference/meeting apps out there with presentation. io, a service that lets you upload, describe, and manipulate files for anyone with a browser.
Present.io Sets Up No-Software-Needed Web Presentations | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Web site Speed. io is a web-based speed-testing tool for measuring your upload and download bandwidth.
Speed.io Measures Your Bandwidth and More | Lifehacker Australia 2008
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Mirèio is a half-opened rose, still all shining from the rosy light of dawn.
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It is widely believed that today's exclamation point comes from the Latin word io ` joy ', with the one letter placed above the other.)
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An English Version (the Original Crowned by the French Academy) of Frédéric Mistral's Mirèio from the Original Provencal/translated by C. H.
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9: 00AM Adam Pash | Web site Speed. io is a web-based speed-testing tool for measuring your upload and download bandwidth.
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Windows: drop. io is a quick way to share up to 100 MB in files, but it’s easy to forget about.
Drop.io Outlook Plug-In Sends 100MB Attachments | Lifehacker Australia 2010
reesetee commented on the word io
Obsolete name for the Hawaiian Hawk.
December 7, 2007
mollusque commented on the word io
The io moth of North America (OED2); a cry of joy (SOWPODS); Hawaiian Hawk (not obsolete) (MW3).
December 8, 2007