Look up: Babel

1. babel
   [n] - a confusion of voices and other sounds
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2. 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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3. 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 th...
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4. babel
   noun a confusion of voices and other sounds
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5. 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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6. 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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7. Babel
   The tower of Babel was built by the people of Babylon in an attempt to reach heaven.
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8. Babel
   Babel was old slang for confusion.
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9. Babel
   Babel was old slang for confusion.
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10. 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-ord...
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11. babel
    
    • a confusion of voices and other sounds
    • (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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12. 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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13. Babel
    Hebrew name for the city of Babylon, chiefly associated with the Tower of Babel which, in the Genesis story in the Old Testament, was erected in the plain of Shinar by the descendants of Noah. It was a ziggurat, or staged temple, seven storeys high (100 m/328 ft) with a shrine of Marduk on the summit. It was built by Nabopolassar, father of Neb...
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14. Babel
    `Babel` is the name used in the Hebrew Bible for the city of Babylon. `Babel` may also refer to: People: Places: Tower of Babel: Literature: Music: Film: Translation aids: Star Trek: Other: See also:
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15. Babel
    (film) `Babel` is a 2006 international drama film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and written by Guillermo Arriaga, starring an ensemble cast. The multi-narrative drama completes Iñárritu`s Death Trilogy, following Amores perros and 21 Grams....
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16. Babel
    (soundtrack) `Babel` is the original soundtrack album, on the Concord label, of the 2006 Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning film Babel starring Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Adriana Barraza, Gael García Bernal, Rinko Kikuchi and Kôji Yakusho. The original ...
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17. Babel
    (book) `Babel` is a book by Patti Smith, published in 1978, and contains Smith`s poems along with her prose, lyrics, pictures and drawings.--> Contents : Radio Ethiopia : # "Notice" # "Italy" # "The Tapper Extracts" # "Grant" # "Street of th...
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18. Babel
    (protocol) The `Babel` routing protocol is a distance-vector routing protocol for Internet Protocol packet-switched networks that is designed to be robust and efficient on both wireless mesh networks and wired networks. Babel is based on the ideas in Destination-Sequenced Distance Vector rout...
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