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Look up: elite

  1. Elite
    [song] "Elite" is a song by American rock band Deftones from their 2000 album White Pony. In 2001, Deftones won a Grammy for performing "Elite", and received an award for Best Metal Performance. "Elite" was also featured on the Dragon Ball Z feature film Lord Slug. ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_(song

  2. elite
    1. (language) A Lisp variant originally implemented for DEC-20s by Chuck Hedrick of Rutgers. 2. (language) A common abbreviation for Emacs Lisp. Use of this abbreviation is discouraged because 'Elisp' is or was a trademark. [Still a trademark? Whose?] (1995-04-04)
    Found on http://foldoc.org/elite

  3. elite
    [Adjective] When someone is the best at what they do.
    Example: He is an Olympic champion. He is an elite athlete.
    Found on http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/glossary

  4. elite
    [n] - a group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  5. elite
    pertaining to plants,trees and stands,verified by appropriate testing as superior or desirable under a specified propagation system Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries • a typewriter spacing system having 12 characters to the linear inch. Category: ...
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  6. Élite
    É`lite' noun [ French, from élire to choose, Latin eligere . See Elect .] A choice or select body; the flower; as, the élite of society.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/É/21

  7. Élite
    É`lite' (ā`lēt') noun See Army organization , Switzerland .
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/É/21

  8. elite
    elite group noun a group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  9. Elite
    • (n.) A choice or select body; the flower; as, the elite of society. • (n.) See Army organization, Switzerland.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  10. elite
    (from the article `oligarchy`) ...In this sense, oligarchy is a debased form of aristocracy, which denotes government by the few in which power is vested in the best individuals. ... During this period Peter`s administrative reforms began to bear fruit. The Table of Ranks became the framework for a class of servicemen whose lives ... ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/e/22

  11. elite
    elite 1. Belonging to an elite, especially in being more talented, privileged, or highly trained that the rest. 2. A group or class of people enjoying superior intellectual, social, or economic status. 3. A small group of people within a larger group who have more power, social standing, wealth, o...
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  12. Elite
    An elite in political and sociological theory, is a small group of people who control a disproportionate amount of wealth and/or political power. ==Identity and social structure== Mills wrote in his 1957 book The Power Elite that the "elite" are "those political, economic, and military circles, which as an intricate set of overlapping small but...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite

  13. Elite
    [video game] Elite is a seminal space trading video game, originally published by Acornsoft in 1984 for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron computers. The game`s title derives from one of the player`s goals of raising their combat rating to the exalted heights of "Elite." It was written and dev...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_(vide

  14. Elité
    a brand name used by Nylstar for its PBT (polybutylterephthalate) fibre.
    Found on http://www.textilesintelligence.com/glo/

  15. elite
    A small group of people with a disproportionate amount of public decision-making power.
    Found on http://polisci.nelson.com/glossary.html

  16. elite
    A small group with power in a society, having privileges and status above others. An elite may be cultural, educational, religious, political (also called `the establishment` or `the governing circles`), or social. Sociological interest has centred on how such minorities get, use, and hold on to power, and on what distinguishes ...
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency



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27 May 2012

This day in history: The Queen Mary made her maiden voyage, on the Southampton-Cherbourg-New York route, on 27 May 1936. The passenger accommodation emphasised the first two classes, cabin and tourist. The propulsion machinery of the ship produced a massive 160,000 SHP and gave it a speed of over 30 knots. Despite expectations that the ship would try to break speed records on its first voyage a thick fog destroyed any hope of this. The Queen Mary spent a short time in drydock during July whilst adjustments were made to the propellers and turbines. When the ship returned to service, in August, it made a record voyage from Bishop's Rock to Ambrose light and took the Blue Riband from the Normandie. read more

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