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Look up: Parry

  1. parry
    [v] - impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball), as in sports or fights
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Parry
    defensive action to deflect an opponent's attack by opposing 'forte to opponent's foible'
    Found on http://www.britishfencing.com/British_Fe

  3. Parry
    a block of the attack, made with the forte of one's own blade
    Found on http://www.hpfc.org.uk/glossary.htm

  4. Parry
    Par'ry transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Parried ; present participle & verbal noun Parrying .] [ French paré , past participle of parer . See Pare , transitive verb ] 1. To ward off; to stop, or to turn aside; as, to parry a thrust, a blow, or anything that mea ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/26

  5. Parry
    Par'ry intransitive verb To ward off, evade, or turn aside something, as a blow, argument, etc. Locke.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/26

  6. Parry
    Par'ry noun ; plural Parries A warding off of a thrust or blow, as in sword and bayonet exercises or in boxing; hence, figuratively, a defensive movement in debate or other intellectual encounter.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/26

  7. Parry
    Caleb H., English physician, 1755-1822. ... See: Parry's disease. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  8. PARRY
    `PARRY` is, besides ELIZA, the `other` famous early chatterbot. PARRY was written in 1972 by psychiatrist Kenneth Colby, then at Stanford University. While ELIZA was a tongue-in-cheek simulation of a Rogerian therapist, PARRY attempted to simulate a paranoid schizophrenic. The program implemented a crude model of the behavior of a paranoid schizophrenic based on concepts, conceptualizations, and beliefs (judgements about conceptualizations: accep...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARRY

  9. Parry
    • (v. t.) To ward off; to stop, or to turn aside; as, to parry a thrust, a blow, or anything that means or threatens harm. • (v. i.) To ward off, evade, or turn aside something, as a blow, argument, etc. • (n.) A warding off of a thrust or blow, as in sword and bayonet exercises or in boxing; hence, figuratively, a defensive movement...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  10. Parry
    (from the article `artificial intelligence`) Two of the best-known early AI programs, Eliza and Parry, gave an eerie semblance of intelligent conversation. (Details of both were first published ... The Parry program`s `paranoid` responses are capitalized in this extract from a `conversation` with a psychiatrist:[2 re...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/22

  11. Parry
    Parry is a Welsh boy name. The meaning of the name is `son of Harry` Where is it used? The name Parry is mainly used In Welsh. The name Parry doesn`t appear In the US top 1000 most common names over de last 128 years. The name Parry seems to be unique!
    Found on http://i-am-pregnant.com/names/boys/Parr

  12. Parry
    Caleb H., English physician, 1755–1822. See: Parry disease
    Found on


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21 November 2009

This day in history:
On 21st November 1974 the Provisional IRA plants bombs in two Birmingham pubs: the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town. Twenty-one people die and 182 are injured. A few minutes before the explosions a warning had been telephoned to the local newspaper, the Birmingham Post and Mail, but it was far too late. The first Birmingham bomb, at the Mulberry Bush pub in the basement of the Rotunda, a 20-storey office and retail complex and it exploded six minutes after the telephone warning. There was not enough time for police to clear the area. Earlier that year nine soldiers were killed when a bomb exploded on a coach on the M62 near Bradford, while two bombs in Guildford killed four soldiers and injured scores of other people. read more

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