Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A curriculum vitae.
- noun A short account of a person's life.
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- noun a
curriculum vitae
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The Georgia Tech vita is the official format for an academic resume.
An Academic Blog « Beki's Blog (there's an original name) 2010
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Like the web page, the vita is easier to maintain than to generate.
CVs and webpages « Beki's Blog (there's an original name) 2010
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A Carmelite vita is posted here. posted by John at 7: 37 PM
Three Cheers for Mrs Beamish John 2009
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A Carmelite vita is posted here. posted by John at 7: 37 PM
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Bellum atrox, multiplex, immane, pertinax, cui simile nulla usquam narrat antiquitas: ubi talia gesta referuntur, ut nihil esset quod in vita sua conspicere potuisset egregius, qui hujus miraculi privaretur aspectu.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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An instructive "vita" today on the virtue of obedience taken from Engelbert's Lives of the Saints
01/01/2003 - 02/01/2003 John 2003
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Now that the field of "pop culture" can add a few lines to a "vita," academics suddenly defend rock & roll, extolling its cerebral nature and historical self-consciousness.
Declining Rock? Porter, Carolyn 1977
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This has absolutely nothing to do with academic freedom, but with legal advocacy (by a glorified trade school) despite the fact that many in the academy are prone to conflate vita contemplativa with vita activa.
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With some clever recycling derring-do and a strong dose of whimsy, he resurrects the rejected, which makes perfect sense: if ars longa, vita brevis, why not the same thing with the materials that made the paintings?
James Scarborough: PHOTOS: 'Paint Tube People' Use Every Part Of The Paint Tube James Scarborough 2011
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With some clever recycling derring-do and a strong dose of whimsy, he resurrects the rejected, which makes perfect sense: if ars longa, vita brevis, why not the same thing with the materials that made the paintings?
James Scarborough: PHOTOS: 'Paint Tube People' Use Every Part Of The Paint Tube James Scarborough 2011
mechanolatry commented on the word vita
1. A curriculum vitae.
2. A short account of a person's life.
January 29, 2009
super-kawy commented on the word vita
1. Zoology A streak or band of color, as on the bill of a bird.
2. Botany An oil tube in the fruit of certain plants, such as the carrot or parsley.
vitate adj.
September 23, 2009