Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The ancient Egyptian sun god, the supreme deity represented as a man with the head of a falcon crowned with a solar disk and uraeus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A roe; a deer.
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- noun chemistry Symbol for
radium . - proper noun Egyptian mythology The
Egyptian god of thesun . - noun geology Any of a series of
moraines , in parts of Norway, that are longridges covered withstones .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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The 5th Dynasty witnessed the rise of the Heliopolitan priesthood of Ra: its nine kings regularly assumed the title son of Ra and built obelisk temples dedicated to the sun god.
c. The Old Kingdom and the First Intermediate Period (1st-11th Dynasties) 2001
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Nine, mistress of Ra, it who has its dwelling fixed, because they cause that _Mihtimsaouf Mirini_ may be as _Ra, in its name of the
Scarabs The History, Manufacture and Symbolism of the Scarabæus in Ancient Egypt, Phoenicia, Sardinia, Etruria, etc. Isaac Myer 1869
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I believe Sun Ra is sending the signal from Saturn.
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She-Ra is a fictional character and the heroine in the Filmation cartoon and series of toys produced by Mattel called She-Ra: Princess of Power.
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I thought this was the first peak at Mum-Ra from the live action "Thundercats" movie.
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These themes of interpretation and communication continue to play an integral role in Raúl's artwork, as evidenced by two of his latest projects that explore written languages.
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These themes of interpretation and communication continue to play an integral role in Raúl's artwork, as evidenced by two of his latest projects that explore written languages.
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Of course, if we confirm predictive theories about blind processes that explain evolution and the OOL, we will not have ruled out all possibility of ID, but we will have made ID no more plausible as an explanation of life than Ra is an explanation of solar transit.
The Memory Hole 2005
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The name Ra is associated with kings of earlier dynasties.
The Mystery of the Whispering Mummy Arthur, Robert 1965
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The word Ra, sun, might be written in letters only, or be also followed by the ikonograph, the _solar disk_ (which if alone would still have the same meaning -- Ra, the sun).
hernesheir commented on the word Ra
Reed boats Ra I and II, constructed for Thor Heyerdahl by builders from Lake Chad in 1969 and 1970, based on drawings and models from ancient Egypt, in which he and his team attempted to cross the Atlantic from Morocco.
June 18, 2010