Ephemerida : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

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English Dictionary: Ephemerida	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ephemera n something transitory; lasting a day
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ephemeral adj lasting a very short time; "the ephemeral joys of childhood"; "a passing fancy"; "youth's transient beauty"; "love is transitory but it is eternal"; "fugacious blossoms" Synonym(s): ephemeral, passing, short-lived, transient, transitory, fugacious n anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form Synonym(s): ephemeron, ephemeral
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ephemerality n the property of lasting for a very short time [syn: ephemerality, ephemeralness, fleetingness]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ephemeralness n the property of lasting for a very short time [syn: ephemerality, ephemeralness, fleetingness]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ephemerid n short-lived insect Synonym(s): ephemerid, ephemeropteran
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Ephemerida n mayflies [syn: Ephemeroptera, order Ephemeroptera, Ephemerida, order Ephemerida]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Ephemeridae n mayflies Synonym(s): Ephemeridae, family Ephemeridae
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ephemeris n an annual publication containing astronomical tables that give the positions of the celestial bodies throughout the year; "today computers calculate the ephemerides"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ephemeris time n (astronomy) a measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion; terrestrial time is mean solar time corrected for the irregularities of the Earth's motions Synonym(s): terrestrial time, TT, terrestrial dynamical time, TDT, ephemeris time
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ephemeron n anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form Synonym(s): ephemeron, ephemeral
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Ephemeroptera n mayflies [syn: Ephemeroptera, order Ephemeroptera, Ephemerida, order Ephemerida]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ephemeropteran n short-lived insect Synonym(s): ephemerid, ephemeropteran
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
epimorphic adj characterized by incomplete metamorphosis; having the same number of body segments in successive stages
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
eye opener n an alcoholic drink intended to wake one up early in the morning something surprising and revealing
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
May \May\, n. [F. Mai, L. Maius; so named in honor of the goddess Maia (Gr. [?]), daughter of Atlas and mother of Mercury by Jupiter.] 1. The fifth month of the year, containing thirty-one days. --Chaucer. 2. The early part or springtime of life. His May of youth, and bloom of lustihood. --Shak. 3. (Bot.) The flowers of the hawthorn; -- so called from their time of blossoming; also, the hawthorn. The palm and may make country houses gay. --Nash. Plumes that micked the may. --Tennyson. 4. The merrymaking of May Day. --Tennyson. {Italian may} (Bot.), a shrubby species of {Spir[91]a} ({S. hypericifolia}) with many clusters of small white flowers along the slender branches. {May apple} (Bot.), the fruit of an American plant ({Podophyllum peltatum}). Also, the plant itself (popularly called {mandrake}), which has two lobed leaves, and bears a single egg-shaped fruit at the forking. The root and leaves, used in medicine, are powerfully drastic. {May beetle}, {May bug} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of large lamellicorn beetles that appear in the winged state in May. They belong to {Melolontha}, and allied genera. Called also {June beetle}. {May Day}, the first day of May; -- celebrated in the rustic parts of England by the crowning of a May queen with a garland, and by dancing about a May pole. {May dew}, the morning dew of the first day of May, to which magical properties were attributed. {May flower} (Bot.), a plant that flowers in May; also, its blossom. See {Mayflower}, in the vocabulary. {May fly} (Zo[94]l.), any species of {Ephemera}, and allied genera; -- so called because the mature flies of many species appear in May. See {Ephemeral fly}, under {Ephemeral}. {May game}, any May-day sport. {May lady}, the queen or lady of May, in old May games. {May lily} (Bot.), the lily of the valley ({Convallaria majalis}). {May pole}. See {Maypole} in the Vocabulary. {May queen}, a girl or young woman crowned queen in the sports of May Day. {May thorn}, the hawthorn.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Ephemeron \[d8]Ephem"eron\, n.; pl. {Ephemera}. [NL. See {Ephemera}.] (Zo[94]l.) One of the ephemeral flies.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ephemeral \Ephem"eral\, a. 1. Beginning and ending in a day; existing only, or no longer than, a day; diurnal; as, an ephemeral flower. 2. Short-lived; existing or continuing for a short time only. [bd]Ephemeral popularity.[b8] --V. Knox. Sentences not of ephemeral, but of eternal, efficacy. --Sir J. Stephen. {Ephemeral fly} (Zo[94]l.), one of a group of neuropterous insects, belonging to the genus {Ephemera} and many allied genera, which live in the adult or winged state only for a short time. The larv[91] are aquatic; -- called also {day fly} and {May fly}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ephemeral \Ephem"eral\, n. Anything lasting but a day, or a brief time; an ephemeral plant, insect, etc.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ephemeral \Ephem"eral\, a. 1. Beginning and ending in a day; existing only, or no longer than, a day; diurnal; as, an ephemeral flower. 2. Short-lived; existing or continuing for a short time only. [bd]Ephemeral popularity.[b8] --V. Knox. Sentences not of ephemeral, but of eternal, efficacy. --Sir J. Stephen. {Ephemeral fly} (Zo[94]l.), one of a group of neuropterous insects, belonging to the genus {Ephemera} and many allied genera, which live in the adult or winged state only for a short time. The larv[91] are aquatic; -- called also {day fly} and {May fly}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ephemeran \Ephem"eran\, n. (Zo[94]l.) One of the ephemeral flies.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ephemeric \Ephem"eric\, a. Ephemeral.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ephemeris \Ephem"eris\, n.; pl. {Ephemerides}. [L., a diary, Gr. [?], also, a calendar, fr. [?]. See {Ephemera}.] 1. A diary; a journal. --Johnson. 2. (Anat.) (a) A publication giving the computed places of the heavenly bodies for each day of the year, with other numerical data, for the use of the astronomer and navigator; an astronomical almanac; as, the [bd]American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac.[b8] (b) Any tabular statement of the assigned places of a heavenly body, as a planet or comet, on several successive days. 3. (Literature) A collective name for reviews, magazines, and all kinds of periodical literature. --Brande & C.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ephemeris \Ephem"eris\, n.; pl. {Ephemerides}. [L., a diary, Gr. [?], also, a calendar, fr. [?]. See {Ephemera}.] 1. A diary; a journal. --Johnson. 2. (Anat.) (a) A publication giving the computed places of the heavenly bodies for each day of the year, with other numerical data, for the use of the astronomer and navigator; an astronomical almanac; as, the [bd]American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac.[b8] (b) Any tabular statement of the assigned places of a heavenly body, as a planet or comet, on several successive days. 3. (Literature) A collective name for reviews, magazines, and all kinds of periodical literature. --Brande & C.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ephemerist \Ephem"erist\, n. 1. One who studies the daily motions and positions of the planets. --Howell. 2. One who keeps an ephemeris; a journalist.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ephemerous \Ephem"erous\, a. Ephemeral. [R.] --Burke.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Epimeron \[d8]Epim"eron\, n.; pl. {Epimera}. [NL., fr. Gr. 'epi` upon + [?] a part.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) In crustaceans: The part of the side of a somite external to the basal joint of each appendage. See Illust. under {Crustacea}. (b) In insects: The lateral piece behind the episternum. [Written also {epimerum}.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Epimeral \Epim"eral\, a. (Zo[94]l.) Pertaining to the epimera.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Epimere \Ep"i*mere\, n. [Epi- + -mere.] (Biol.) One of the segments of the transverse axis, or the so called homonymous parts; as, for example, one of the several segments of the extremities in vertebrates, or one of the similar segments in plants, such as the segments of a segmented leaf. --Syd. Soc. Lex.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Epimeron \[d8]Epim"eron\, n.; pl. {Epimera}. [NL., fr. Gr. 'epi` upon + [?] a part.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) In crustaceans: The part of the side of a somite external to the basal joint of each appendage. See Illust. under {Crustacea}. (b) In insects: The lateral piece behind the episternum. [Written also {epimerum}.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Epineural \Ep`i*neu"ral\, a. [Pref. epi- + neural.] (Anat.) Arising from the neurapophysis of a vertebra.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Evener \E"ven*er\, n. 1. One who, or that which makes even. 2. In vehicles, a swinging crossbar, to the ends of which other crossbars, or whiffletrees, are hung, to equalize the draught when two or three horses are used abreast.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Eye opener \Eye opener\ That which makes the eyes open, as startling news or occurrence, or (U. S. Slang), a drink of liquor, esp. the first one in the morning.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
ephemeral port A {TCP} or {UDP} {port} number that is automatically allocated from a predefined range by the {TCP/IP stack} software, typically to provide the port for the client end of a {client-server} communication. {BSD} used ports 1024 through 4999 as ephemeral ports, though it is often desirable to increase this allocation. {(http://www.ncftpd.com/ncftpd/doc/misc/ephemeral_ports.html)}. (2002-10-06)