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1. Vanguard
   HMS Vanguard was a British battleship of 19250 tons displacement. She was lost as the result of an internal explosion, on the night of July the 9th 1917, at Scapa Flow. Her nominal complement was 724, and there were only 97 survivors. The Vanguard was launched in 1909, being one of the three battles...
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2. vanguard
   [n] - the leading units moving at the head of an army 2. [n] - the position of greatest advancement
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3. Vanguard
   Battleship class, 1944-1960 [UK]
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4. Vanguard
   Van'guard` noun [ For vantguard , avantguard , French avant-garde ; avant before, fore + garde guard. See Avant , Ab- , Ante- , and Guard , and confer Advance , Vamp , ...
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5. vanguard
   van noun the leading units moving at the head of an army
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6. vanguard
   forefront noun the position of greatest importance or advancement; the leading position in any movement or field; `the Cotswolds were once at the forefront of woollen manufacturing in England`; `the ide...
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7. Vanguard
   • (n.) The troops who march in front of an army; the advance guard; the van.
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8. Vanguard
   (from the article `airplane`) ...of these planes and the high fuel consumption in comparison with the best piston planes never made them exceptionally popular. The Vickers ...
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9. Vanguard
   (from the article `space exploration`) ...rather than to the army`s Redstone Arsenal, where Braun worked, so that the work would not interfere with Redstone`s higher-priority development ...
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10. Vanguard
    any of a series of unmanned U.S. experimental test satellites. Vanguard I, launched March 17, 1958, consisted of a tiny 3.25-pound (1.47-kilogram) ...
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11. Vanguard
    Vanguard is a cultivated variety of potato.
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12. vanguard
    
    • the leading units moving at the head of an army
    • artists or writers whose ideas are ahead of their time
    • the position of greatest advancement; the leading position in any movement or field
    
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13. Vanguard
    A vanguard is the troops who march in front of an army forming the advance guard.
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14. Vanguard
    Early series of US Earth-orbiting satellites and their associated rocket launcher. Vanguard 1 was the second US satellite, launched on 17 March 1958 by the three-stage Vanguard rocket. Tracking of its orbit revealed that the Earth is slightly pear-shaped. The series ended in September 1959 with Vanguard 3
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15. Vanguard
    (rocket) The `Vanguard rocket` was intended to be the first launch vehicle the United States would use to place a satellite into orbit. Instead, the Sputnik crisis caused by the surprise launch of Sputnik 1 led the U.S., after the failure of Vanguard TV3, to quickly orbit the Explorer 1 satel...
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16. Vanguard
    (microkernel) `Vanguard` was an experimental microkernel developed at Apple Computer in the early 1990s. Based on the V-System, Vanguard introduced standardized object identifiers and a unique "message chaining" system for improved performance. Vanguard was not used in any of Apple`...
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17. Vanguard
    (horse) `Vanguard` (foaled 1835) was a Thoroughbred steeplechase racehorse. At age eight, he defeated fifteen rivals to win the Grand National at his first attempt. Provided jockey, Tom Olliver with his second consecutive victory and became such a favourite of his rider that when he died, Oll...
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18. Vanguard
    (synthesizer) `Vanguard` is a VSTi and AU software synthesizer by reFX. It is a virtual analog synthesizer with 3 oscillators, 32 waveforms, up to 10-times unison, a filter with a number of frequency responses, delay and reverb effects and stereo pattern controlled noise gate and arpeggiator,...
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19. Vanguard
    (Marvel Comics) `Vanguard` is a name shared by a fictional mutant character as well as a fictional team of characters in the Marvel Comics Universe. Vanguard (Nikolai Krylenko): image= --> `Vanguard` (`Nikolai Krylenko`) is a fictional mutant character in the Marvel Comics Universe. His first...
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20. Vanguard
    (Image Comics) `Vanguard` is a fictional alien hero created by Gary Carlson and Erik Larsen for Carlson`s self-published anthology Megaton. Vanguard is a white alien with small antennae who has been given the unenviable job of guarding Earth, which is viewed by the aliens as bor...
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21. Vanguard
    (journal) `Vanguard: A Libertarian Communist Journal` was a monthly anarchist political and theoretical journal, based in New York City, published between April 1932 and July 1939, and edited by Samuel Weiner, among others. Vanguard began as a project of the Vanguard Group, comp...
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22. Vanguard
    (Nigeria) The `Vanguard` is a daily newspaper published by Vanguard Media, based in Lagos, Nigeria. Vanguard Media was established in 1983 by Mr. Sam Amuka-Pemu, a veteran Journalist, with three friends.--> The paper has an online edition.--> The newspaper is one of the few in Nigeria that is...
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23. Vanguard
    (military formation) The `vanguard` is the leading part of an advancing military formation. It has a number of functions, including seeking out the enemy and securing ground in advance of the main force. Medieval origins : The vanguard derives from the traditional division of a medieval army ...
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24. Vanguard
    (magazine) `Vanguard` was a periodical produced in Vancouver, British Columbia from 1972 to 1989, containing reviews and critical articles on Canadian art and artists. It was published by the Vancouver Art Gallery from 1972 to 1984, and by the Vancouver Society for Critical Arts Publications ...
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