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Look up: IDOL

  1. Idol
    A cute, young, manufactured starlet. Both live performers and anime characters can be idols.
    Found on http://www.ryouko.demon.co.uk/ANIGLOSS.H

  2. idol
    [n] - someone who is adored blindly and excessively 2. [n] - a material effigy that is worshipped as a god
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Idol
    Anything in life that takes a position of priority over one's relationship with God.
    Found on http://www.stpeter.dircon.co.uk/pages/gl

  4. Idol
    I'dol noun [ Middle English idole , French idole , Latin idolum , from Greek ..., from ... that which is seen, the form, shape, figure, from ... to see. See Wit , and confer Eidolon .] 1. An image or represent...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/I/5

  5. idol
    graven image noun a material effigy that is worshipped; `thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image`; `money was his god`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  6. Idol
    • (n.) That on which the affections are strongly (often excessively) set; an object of passionate devotion; a person or thing greatly loved or adored. • (n.) A false notion or conception; a fallacy. • (n.) An image or representation of anything. • (n.) An image of a divinity; a r...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  7. idol
    (from the article `Bacon, Francis, Viscount Saint Alban (or Albans), Baron of Verulam`) ...discussed logical fallacies, commonly found in human reasoning, but Bacon was original in looking behind the forms of reasoning to underlying ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/i/6

  8. idol
    idol 1. An image of a god, used as an object or instrument of worship. 2. In monotheistic (one God) belief, any heathen deity.
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  9. idol
    • a material effigy that is worshipped as a god
    • someone who is adored blindly and excessively
    • an ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a concept

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  10. idol
    idol, an object, frequently an image, which is worshiped as a deity. Idols are usually found in human or animal form and may be treated as though alive; they are fed, bathed, anointed, crowned, and sometimes even provided with a consort. Christians and Jews extend the term to include any deity other...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0

  11. Idol
    (Gr. eidolon, and Lat. idolum, image or likeness) Democritus (5th c. B.C.) tried to explain sense perception by means of the emission of little particles (eidola) from the sense object. This theory and the term, idolum, are known throughout the later middle ages, but in a pejorative sense, as indica...
    Found on http://www.ditext.com/runes/i.html

  12. IDOL
    A young Pop singer, actor, or starlet. Japan has been awash with Pop icons since the 1960's, and today new Idols seem to be manufactured on a weekly basis. The all girl group Morning Musume is a fine contemporary example of an Idol group. Satoshi Kon's animated motion picture Perfect Blue is a murder mystery involving a female Idol singing group.
    Found on http://www.theblackmoon.com/Gloss/agloss

  13. IDOL
    Icon-Derived Object Language. An object-oriented preprocessor for Icon. (ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/pub/languages/icon/idol.tar.Z). ['Programming in Idol: An Object Primer', C.L. Jeffery, U Arizona CS TR #90-10].
    Found on http://foldoc.org/IDOL

  14. Idol
    An `idol` is an image or other material object representing a deity to which religious worship is addressed or any person or thing regarded with blind admiration, adoration, or devotion. More specific terms include: ; Worship ; Entertainment ; Other See also: References:
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idol

  15. Idol
    (Polish TV series) | format = Interactive reality creator = Polsat | starring = Maciej Rock<br /> network = Polsat | first_aired = 2002 | last_aired= 2005 <tr><td>`Finalists`<td>(With dates of elimination)<br /> <tr><td>`Season 1`<td> (2002)<br /> <tr><td>Alic...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idol

  16. Idol
    (Norway) | last_aired = | status = on air | num_seasons = 6 | num_episodes = | list_episodes = | website = http://www.tv2.no/idol --> `Idol: Jakten på en superstjerne` is a television show on the Norwegian television channel TV 2, based on the popular British show Pop Idol. T...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idol



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12 February 2012

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/calendar/ On February 12, 1809, Charles Robert Darwin was born at The Mount in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. Darwin was one of the last of the eclectic scientists who preceded the age of professional specialization. His genius lay in his ability to select, from the facts which he so diligently collected, every relevant point and fit it into his bold and far-reaching theories. He was not the first to advance a theory of evolution; but his massive weight of evidence carried conviction where earlier theorists had failed. He was shy and modest and shrank from controversy, an unfortunate trait in the author of the most controversial book of the century. read more

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