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Look up: stunning

  1. stunning
    [Adjective] Amazing or very attractive.
    Example: The cricketer made a stunning catch to win the match.
    Found on http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/glossary

  2. stunning
    [adj] - causing great astonishment and consternation 2. [adj] - causing or capable of causing bewilderment or shock or insensibility 3. [adj] - strikingly beautiful or attractive
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. stunning
    any process which,when applied to an animal,causes immediate loss of consciousness which lasts until death Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  4. Stunning
    Stun'ning adjective 1. Overpowering consciousness; overpowering the senses; especially, overpowering the sense of hearing; confounding with noise. 2. Striking or overpowering with astonishment, especially on account of excellence; as, ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/216

  5. stunning
    adjective strikingly beautiful or attractive; `quite stunning with large dark eyes and a beautiful high-bosomed figure`; `stunning photographs of Canada`s wilderness areas`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  6. stunning
    adjective causing or capable of causing bewilderment or shock or insensibility; `laid the poor fellow senseless with one stunning blow`; `a stunning detonation with volumes of black smoke`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  7. stunning
    adjective causing great astonishment and consternation; `the strike came as a stunning protest against management`; `a stunning defeat`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  8. Stunning
    • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stun • (a.) Striking or overpowering with astonishment, especially on account of excellence; as, stunning poetry. • (a.) Overpowering consciousness; overpowering the senses; especially, overpowering the sense of hearing; confounding with noise.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  9. stunning
    (from the article `commercial fishing`) The method called stunning may involve poisoning with toxic plants and special chemicals or mechanical stunning by explosions under water. The most ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/s/175

  10. stunning
    (from the article `meat processing`) As the slaughter process begins, livestock are restrained in a chute that limits physical movement of the animal. Once restrained, the animal is ... After the birds have been transferred to the moving shackles, they are usually stunned by running their heads through a water bath that conducts an ... ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/s/175

  11. Stunning
    `Stunning` is the process of rendering animals immobile or unconscious, without killing the animal, prior to their being slaughtered for food. History: This process has been common for centuries in the case of cattle, which were poleaxed prior to being bled out. In the United Kingdom and Europe more...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stunning



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12 February 2012

This day in history:
/calendar/ On February 12, 1809, Charles Robert Darwin was born at The Mount in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. Darwin was one of the last of the eclectic scientists who preceded the age of professional specialization. His genius lay in his ability to select, from the facts which he so diligently collected, every relevant point and fit it into his bold and far-reaching theories. He was not the first to advance a theory of evolution; but his massive weight of evidence carried conviction where earlier theorists had failed. He was shy and modest and shrank from controversy, an unfortunate trait in the author of the most controversial book of the century. read more

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