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Look up: Karate

  1. karate
    [n] - a traditional Japanese system of unarmed combat
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. karate
    noun a traditional Japanese system of unarmed combat; sharp blows and kicks are given to pressure-sensitive points on the body of the opponent
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  3. karate
    unarmed martial-arts discipline employing kicking, striking, and defensive blocking with arms and legs. Emphasis is on concentrating as much of the ... [2 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/k/11

  4. karate
    karate: see martial arts.
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sports/A09

  5. Karate
    Karate (empty hand) is a form of Japanese unarmed combat which has developed over thousands of years with aspects coming from India, Okinawa, China and Japan. It was originally a dual form of meditation and self-defence, it has more recently been perverted into a sport which doesn't do justice to the deep spiritual origins of karate.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  6. karate
    One of the martial arts. Karate is a type of unarmed combat derived from kempo, a form of the Chinese Shaolin boxing. It became popular in the West in the 1930s
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency

  7. Karate
    is a martial art system developed in the Ryukyu Islands from indigenous fighting methods and Chinese kempo. Karate is generally a striking art using punching, kicking, knee and elbow strikes and openhanded techniques.
    Found on http://www.fightmagazine.com/mma-glossar

  8. Karate
    empty-hand self-defense art
    Found on http://www.cocoabeachkarate.com/glossary

  9. Karate
    Empty hand
    Found on http://www.lyon-karate.com/karate_terms_

  10. Karate
    Empty Hand. When Karate was first introduced to Japan, it was called "TO-DE". The characters of TODE could be pronounced. However, the meaning of TODE is Chinese Hand.
    Found on http://www.blackpoolkarate.com/japanese_

  11. KARATE
    Empty Hand. When Karate was first introduced to Japan, it was called "TO-DE". The characters of TODE could be pronounced. However, the meaning of TODE is Chinese Hand. There are also philosophical explanations of KARATE (explained in Gichin Funakoshi's _Karate-Do Kyohan_.
    Found on http://www.jkra.com/karate_glossary.htm

  12. Karate
    (band) `Karate` was an American band, formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1993 by Geoff Farina, Eamonn Vitt and Gavin McCarthy. In 1995, Jeff Goddard joined the band as bass player, and Vitt moved to second guitar. Vitt departed Karate to pursue a medical career in 1997.--> The band was charac...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karate

  13. Karate
    (album) `Karate` is the self-titled debut album by Boston band Karate. Track listing: #"Gasoline" #"If You Can Hold Your Breath" #"Trophy" #"What Is Sleep?" #"–" – 4:29 #"Bad Tattoo" #"Every Sister" - 4:36 #&q...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karate

  14. Karate
    (video game) `Karate` is a video game for the Atari 2600 produced by Ultravision and released by that company and later by Froggo. Designed by black belt Joseph Amelio, the game was released in late 1982 for NTSC systems. The Froggo release is more widely available and better known, so...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karate

  15. Karate
    (disambiguation) `Karate` is a martial art of Okinawan origin. `Karate` may also refer to: `Karateka` is the Japanese word for a practitioner of karate. `Karateka` may also refer to:
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karate



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