Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The lower layer of the earth's outer crust that underlies the sial and is rich in silica, iron, and magnesium.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In architecture, an erroneous spelling of cyma.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Arch.) A cyma.

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  • noun geology, uncountable The lower layer of the earth's outer crust that underlies the sial and is rich in silica, iron, and magnesium.
  • noun architecture, countable The upturned edge of a roof which acts as a gutter; a cyma.

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  • noun rock that form the continuous lower layer of the earth's crust; rich in silicon and magnesium

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[si(lica) + ma(gnesium).]

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Si (silicon) + Ma (magnesium)

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Examples

  • They would later be buried with the "sima" stone placed on top.

    Thailand Blogs Richard Barrow 2010

  • In Thai these are called "sima" (see-maa) and are often leaf shaped.

    Thailand Blogs Richard Barrow 2010

  • They would later be buried with the "sima" stone placed on top.

    Thailand Blogs Richard Barrow 2010

  • In Thai these are called "sima" (see-maa) and are often leaf shaped.

    Thailand Blogs Richard Barrow 2010

  • Mai compy haz sima… simlr… almost same problem… and iz sorry if my lolspeak be bad… iz nu to loling…

    OK! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • The forms of it (the bandage?) are the simple, the slightly winding (called ascia), the sloping (sima), the monoculus, the rhombus, and the semi-rhombus.

    On The Surgery 2007

  • The Dharmagupta and Mulasarvastivada ordination procedures differ concerning the number of rules kept by shikshamana (Dharmagupta six, Mulasarvastivada twelve), the texts and words recited during the bhikshuni ordination ritual, the extent of the large and small ceremonial boundaries (mtshams, Skt. sima, Pali: sima) that are set up for the ordination ritual, and the numbers of bhikshus and bhikshunis required in the ordaining assembly.

    A Summary Report of the 2007 International Congress on the Women's Role in the Sangha: Bhikshuni Vinaya and Ordination Lineages ��� Part Two: Day One 2006

  • They were clad in brilliantly-painted cloths, and the soldiers were armed with the saw-toothed war-club, the bow and arrows barbed and poisoned with the juice of the euphorbium, the cutlass, the “sima,” a long sabre (also with saw-like teeth), and some small battle-axes.

    Five Weeks in a Balloon 2003

  • Tubers are peeled, sun-dried, ground into flour and made into stiff porridge, sima (Digo).

    Chapter 7 1999

  • As for the Bozo, their name for Sirius A is sima kayne, which translates literally as 'sitting trouser.

    Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas Robbins, Tom 1994

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