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Nave, the long, narrow central hall of a cruciform church, is a figurative extension of navis, the Latin word for ` ship, 'because the church is conceived as an ark for its congregants.
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Stabat inter alias navis ornatior, tamquam id quoque honori matris daretur.
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I agree that it will show us stuff we never have seen before with an alien planet and alien creatures + Camerons trademark action set pieces, but i don´t buy all talk that the navis will be more convincing, because they will show more human emotion in their faces etc...
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Most commentors who prefer Avatar come with the argument that Avatar is much more complex, technically speaking, and that the navis were much harder to create and are much more convincing because they have emotions, unlike the insectoid prawns.
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The humans just flew into the trap and were attacked by the navis, that was kinda cool, but again there was no real tension.
/Filmcast Ep. 81 - Avatar (GUEST: Dan Trachtenberg from the Totally Rad Show) | /Film 2009
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But "long ship" is the literal English translation of Latin navis longa, "warship," so Bede is saying nothing about the ships except that he presumed them to be warships.
The Female Royal Line: matrilineal succession amongst the Picts? Carla 2008
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Bello victus, per tres dies sedit in prora navis, abstinens ab omni consortio, etiam Cleopatiae, postea se interfecit.
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Finally, the crisis breaks, rather bloodily; then the navis stultorum is abandoned (a little lamely, I thought) and the travelers are disappointedly returned to Buenos Aires by flying boat.
Not So Novel Bergonzi, Bernard 1965
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Behind Nails, as behind navis or naca, we want to have a picture of a dark, slender mass with sail or oars, climbing the ridges, with no officious English word intruding: '
Surprised by Joy Lewis, C. S. 1955
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In 1327, in which year Mr. Walcott tells of a riotous assault by the townsfolk on the pretence of a right of entrance by day or night for the ministration of the Viaticum, an oratory was built, by agreement between the monks and the parishioners, "in angulo navis," for the Reserved
chained_bear commented on the word navis
"Navis, Argo Navis, or the ship Argo, in astronomy, a constellation of the southern hemisphere."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 314
October 13, 2008