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who has found an intriguing mathematical connection between: 1) how the skin cells of a frog decide whether or not to grow hair; and, 2) how to create a new system of air-traffic control so that planes can fly closer together. She is interested in the first question because she believes it will help us find an answer to the second, which will let us understand air traffic, and prevent accidents in our increasingly crowded skies." see also :
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Stas Bekman : [T]aking mod_perl to the commercial world
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is patrician
| source : web1913 |
Patrician \Pa*tri"cian\, n. [L. patricius: cf. F. patricien.]
1. (Rom. Antiq.) Originally, a member of any of the families
constituting the populus Romanus, or body of Roman
citizens, before the development of the plebeian order;
later, one who, by right of birth or by special privilege
conferred, belonged to the nobility.
2. A person of high birth; a nobleman.
3. One familiar with the works of the Christian Fathers; one
versed in patristic lore. [R.] --Colridge.
| source : web1913 |
Patrician \Pa*tri"cian\, a. [L. patricius, fr. patres fathers or
senators, pl. of pater: cf. F. patricien. See {Paternal}.]
1. (Rom. Antiq.) Of or pertaining to the Roman patres
(fathers) or senators, or patricians.
2. Of, pertaining to, or appropriate to, a person of high
birth; noble; not plebeian.
Born in the patrician file of society. --Sir W.
Scott.
His horse's hoofs wet with patrician blood.
--Addison.
| source : wn |
patrician
adj 1: of the hereditary aristocracy or ruling class of ancient
Rome or medieval Europe; of honorary nobility in the
Byzantine empire [ant: {plebeian}, {proletarian}]
2: belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or
aristocracy; "an aristocratic family"; "aristocratic
Bostonians"; "aristocratic government"; "a blue family";
"blue blood"; "the blue-blooded aristocracy"; "of gentle
blood"; "patrician landholders of the American South";
"aristocratic bearing"; "aristocratic features";
"patrician tastes" [syn: {aristocratic}, {aristocratical},
{blue}, {blue-blooded}, {gentle}]
n 1: a person of refined upbringing and manners
2: a member of the aristocracy [syn: {aristocrat}, {blue blood}]