Look up: Babel

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   Babel
   The tower of Babel was built by the people of Babylon in an attempt to reach heaven.
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   Babel
   Babel is the old Hebrew name for the city of Babylon.
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   babel
   [n] - a confusion of voices and other sounds
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   Babel
   Hebrew name for the city of Babylon, chiefly associated with the Tower of Babel which, in the Genesis story in the Old Testament,...
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   BABEL
   1. A subset of ALGOL 60, with many ALGOL W extensions. ['BABEL, A New Programming Language', R.S. Scowen, Natl Phys Lab UK, Report CCU7, 1969]. 2. Mentioned in The Psychology of Computer Programming, G.M. Weinberg, Van Nostrand 1971, p.241. 3. A language based on higher-order functions and first-order logic. ['Graph-Based Implementation of a Functi...
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   Babel
   Ba'bel noun [ Hebrew Bābel , the name of the capital of Babylonia; in Genesis associated with the idea of 'confusion.'] 1. The city and tower in the land of Shinar, where the confusion of languages took place. « Therefore is the name of it called Babel . Gen. xi. 9. » 2. Hence: A place or scene of noise and confusion; a confused mixture of so ...
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   babel
   noun a confusion of voices and other sounds
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   Babel
   `Babel` (; `Bavel`) is the name used in the Hebrew Bible and the Qur'an for the city of `Babylon` (Akkadian `Babilu`), notable in Genesis as the location of the Tower of Babel. In Gen. 11:9, the name of Babel is etymologized by association with the Hebrew verb `balal`, `to confuse or confound`: `Balal` is regarded as a contraction of earlier `*balbal`. The name `bab-ilu` in Akkadian means `gate of god` (from `bab` `gate` + `ilu` `god`). The wor...
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   Babel
   • (n.) Hence: A place or scene of noise and confusion; a confused mixture of sounds, as of voices or languages. • (n.) The city and tower in the land of Shinar, where the confusion of languages took place.
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    Babel
    (from the article `International Film Awards 2007`) ...feel of Hollywood`s bittersweet romances of the 1940s, with George Clooney (see Biographies) and Cate Blanchett suffering among the ruins of ... ...Guillermo Navarro for Pan`s LabyrinthArt Direction: Eugenio Caballero (art direction) and Pilar Revuelta (set decoration) for Pan`s ......
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    babel
    
    1. a confusion of voices and other sounds
    2. (Genesis 11:1-11) a tower built by Noah's descendants (probably in Babylon) who intended it to reach up to heaven; God foiled them by confusing their language so they could no longer understand one another
    
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    Babel
    Babel (bā'bul) [Heb.,=confused], in the Bible, place where Noah's descendants (who spoke one language) tried to build a tower reaching up to heaven to make a name for themselves. For this presumption the speech of the builders was confused, thus ending the project. The story was perhaps or...
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