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Look up: Vanguard

  1. vanguard
    [n] - the leading units moving at the head of an army 2. [n] - the position of greatest advancement
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Vanguard
    Battleship class, 1944-1960 [UK]
    Found on http://www.jedsite.info/index.html

  3. 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 , Van of an army, Vaward .] (Mil.) The troops who march in front of an army; the advance guard; the van.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/V/5

  4. vanguard
    van noun the leading units moving at the head of an army
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  5. 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 idea of motion was always to the forefront of his mind and central to his philosophy`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  6. Vanguard
    A `vanguard` is the forward element of an advancing military tactical formation. `Vanguard` may also refer to:
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanguard

  7. Vanguard
    A `vanguard` is the forward element of an advancing military tactical formation. `Vanguard` may also refer to:
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanguard

  8. Vanguard
    • (n.) The troops who march in front of an army; the advance guard; the van.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  9. 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 ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/v/7

  10. 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 ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/v/7

  11. 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) ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/v/7

  12. vanguard
    1. the leading units moving at the head of an army
    2. artists or writers whose ideas are ahead of their time
    3. the position of greatest advancement; the leading position in any movement or field

    Found on

  13. Vanguard
    Vanguard 1 An early United States Navy-led project intended to launch America’s first Earth satellite. It began in 1955, at a time of intense interservice rivalry, having been selected ahead of two competitors based on the Redstone and Atlas launch vehicles. The fact that this decision was a mi...
    Found on http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedi

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9 January 2009

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