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1. Lira
   The Lira was an Italian Partenope Class torpedo boat of 679 tons displacement launched in 1937. She was powered by two 3-drum type boilers providing a top speed of 34 knots and carried a complement of 94. Armaments consisted of three 3.9 inch guns; six 37 mm anti-aircraft guns; two 13 mm anti-aircra...
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2. lira
   [n] - the basic unit of money on Malta 2. [n] - the basic unit of money in Turkey 3. [n] - the basic unit of money in Italy
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3. lira
   Former Italian currency unit, replaced in 2002 by the euro, the single currency of the European Union. ...
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4. Lira
   Li'ra (lē'rȧ) noun ; plural Lire (-ra). [ Italian , from Latin libra the Roman pound. Confer Livre .] An Italian coin equivalent in value to the French franc.
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5. lira
   Origin: It, fr. L. Libra the Roman pound. Cf. Livre. ... An Italian coin equivalent in value to the French franc. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
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6. lira
   noun formerly the basic unit of money in Italy; equal to 100 centesimi
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7. lira
   noun the basic unit of money in Turkey
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8. lira
   noun the basic unit of money on Malta; equal to 100 cents
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9. Lira
   (from libra, the ancient Roman pound) Silver coin, first struck in Venice in 1472. It was adopted later by other Italian states. The lira was the standard monetary unit of Italy from 1861 to the end of 2001.
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10. Lira
    • (n.) An Italian coin equivalent in value to the French franc.
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11. Lira
    (from the article `Kálvos, Andréas Ioannídis`) Kálvos published 20 patriotic odes in two fascicles: Líra (`The Lyre`) at Geneva in 1824 and Néas Odás (`New Odes`) at Paris in 1826. He wrote of an ...
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12. Lira
    (from the article `Uganda`) ...Resistance Army (LRA) led by Joseph Kony; at the beginning of the year, there were still more than one million people living in refugee camps. On ...
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13. lira
    the former monetary unit of Italy and the currency of modern Turkey and Malta.
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14. lira
    in music, a pear-shaped bowed instrument with three to five strings. Closely related to the medieval rebec and, like the rebec, a precursor of the ... [2 related articles]
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15. Lira
    Lira is a cultivated variety of potato.
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16. lira
    
    • the basic unit of money on Malta; equal to 100 cents
    • the basic unit of money in Turkey
    • the basic unit of money in Italy; equal to 100 centesimi
    
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17. Lira
    The Lira is the currency of Turkey. For many years the Lira was the currency of Italy, before Italy adopted the Euro.
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18. Lira
    `Lira` (sign: ₤, £, or L; plural: lire) is the name of the monetary unit of a number of countries, as well as the former currency of Italy, Malta, San Marino and the Vatican City (replaced in 2002 with the euro) and Israel. The term originates from the value of a Troy pound (Latin
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19. Lira
    (mollusc) `Lirae` (singular `lira`) are fine lines or ridges (much finer than ribs) that are a sculptural feature of the outside of the shells of various animals. The term is commonly applied to the shells of molluscs such as gastropods, bivalves and nautiloids. It can also be used to describ...
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20. Lira
    (name) `Lira` is a common surname in the Spanish and Italian languages. It was also a given name during the Medieval period. Lira translates to libra in Latin, which means "balance".
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21. Lira
    (singer) Early life: Her world was shaped by the harsh realities of South Africa’s formerly racial and socioeconomic apartheid. She grew up listening to Miriam Makeba, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin and Nina Simone who would eventually inspire her own songwriting. She began performing ...
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