Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A constellation in the polar region of the celestial Southern Hemisphere near Carina and Dorado.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The constellation Piscis Volans.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun astronomy A small
circumpolar constellation of thesouthern sky, said to resemble aflying fish .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere near Dorado and Carina
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Stein B, Volans G. Dixarit overdose: the problem of attractive tablets.
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At the editing stage, Henry Volans at Faber was a font of sage suggestions while Trevor Horwood cleaned and polished the manuscript with perspicacity and good humor.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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At the editing stage, Henry Volans at Faber was a font of sage suggestions while Trevor Horwood cleaned and polished the manuscript with perspicacity and good humor.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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At the editing stage, Henry Volans at Faber was a font of sage suggestions while Trevor Horwood cleaned and polished the manuscript with perspicacity and good humor.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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Still, the image helped set the stage for a wonderful new piece of music that sounded like sort of a mixture of John Adams at his best and Bernstein's "Age of Anxiety" piano symphony and a voice that is all Volans' own.
Atlantic Crossing sfmike 2006
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Still, the image helped set the stage for a wonderful new piece of music that sounded like sort of a mixture of John Adams at his best and Bernstein's "Age of Anxiety" piano symphony and a voice that is all Volans' own.
Archive 2006-11-01 sfmike 2006
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Or you mean Nolans but Volans, an alibi, do you Mutemalice, suffering unegoistically from the singular but positively enjoying on the plural?
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Like John Adams, Volans is something of a minimalist in his use of repeating patterns but like Adams he's very much a "post-minimalist."
Atlantic Crossing sfmike 2006
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Like John Adams, Volans is something of a minimalist in his use of repeating patterns but like Adams he's very much a "post-minimalist."
Archive 2006-11-01 sfmike 2006
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As with much of Volans's music, ideas don't so much develop as explode into action.
Evening Standard - Home Nick Kimberley 2011
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