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furoya
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  Value Position Position 2 2 Accepted meanings 15139 2 Obtained votes 88 2 Votes by meaning 0.01 7 Inquiries 434819 3 Queries by meaning 29 7 Feed + Pdf

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trabajar por cuenta propia
  18

It is, precisely, to work ("to work, to do a task"), by (preposition), account ("profit, reason, responsibility of a person"), own ("that belongs or concerns him"). See self-employed .

  
jhoi khoi
  15

It came here not as a query but automatically because it is in the list of synonyms for the plural namacuas (from namacua, native people of Africa), and it is a mistake: it is misformatted. See bok choi, khoikhoi.

  
bolitas de vidrio
  24

See ball, glass, marble, petanque, mebli, belluga, catota, piquis, mable, culin, cachina, chimpa, china, chilota.

  
necrónimo
  89

1º_ It is the name that is put in homage or memory of someone deceased. It is not a widely used word, since it is interpreted that the only merit of the deceased is to have died; but it fits in some very specific situations, such as baptizing a baby with the same name as a brother who died previously. It is taken from the Greek 957; 949; 954; 961; 959; 962; ( nekrós , "corpse , dead" ) 959; 957; 959; 956; 945; ( onoma "name") . 2º_ There is in English the concept of deadname for the case in which someone changes their name, and it would be the "obsolete name, which is no longer going to be used" that in that language is interpreted as a dead name ( "dead name" ). In Spanish it began to be used with the same sense to 'necrónimo', despite the obvious difference between a "name already dead" and a "name of dead" (although strictly speaking 'nekros' in Greek was also used as an adjective).

  
archipiélago
  24

"Set of islands in the middle of the sea", although it has taken some meanings such as "lands surrounded by river arms" or "group of similar constructions distributed in a geographical terrain". At first it was a way of calling the Aegean (with its many islands) with the Greek voices 945; 961; 967; 953; ( archi "superior" ) and 960; 949; 955; 945; 947; 959; 962; ( pélagos "sea" ) .

  
necrodulía
  18

It is a veneration of dead people; it is related to necrolatry, spiritualism, occultism. It consists of the Greek voices 957; 949; 954; 961; 959; 962; ( nekrós , "dead" ) 948; 959; 965; 955; 949; 953; 945; ( doyleía "servitude") .

  
anastasia
  18

1º_ Resurrection, state in which one ceases to be dead, or appear dead. From the Greek 945; 957; 945; ( ana "up, up" ) 963; 964; 945; 963; 953; 962; (stasis "position, posture"), such as "standing up, standing up". 2º_ Vulgar name of the mugwort plant (Tanacetum vulgare) . It is a deformation of its other name athanasia. 3º_ Feminine of the name Anastasio .

  
arquetipo
  21

Original idea or model, as the basis of the following evolutions. It has specific meanings in philosophy and psychology, but all under the same concept. It comes from the Greek 945; 961; 967; 951; ( arcje "origin , beginning" ) 964; 965; 960; 959; 962; ( typos "model" ) .

  
necropsia
  18

It's another way of saying "autopsy." It comes from the Greek 957; 949; 954; 961; 959; 962; ( nekrós , "dead" ) 969; 968; (oops "seen") , such as "looking, examining a dead man".

  
epónimo
  16

Proper name that gives rise to another such as place, time, object, . . . It is of Greek origin by 949; 961; 953; ( epi "on , above" ) 959; 957; 959; 956; 945; ( onoma "name") .

  
policía
  27

Force of public order, backed by a state, government, judiciary. The name is Latin, but its origin is in the 960; 959; 955; 953; 964; 949; 953; 945; (polytheia) Athenian Greek, a "right of citizenship" by which some people were elected to monitor that constitutional laws were enforced.

  
arctica
  23

1º_ Genus of molluscs ( pr . arctic ) . 2º_ Name of an asteroid, in reference to the Arctic Ocean. See Arctic ("ancient Precambrian continent").

  
ciervo
  17

Common deer or deer are names for the animal Cervus elaphus, which naturally inhabits Europe.

  
  22

Common name of Bradypus tridactylus, a folivorous animal of Central and South America also known as "aí aí".

  
hipopótamo
  21

It is the common name of the animal Hippopotamus amphibius. It has Greek etymology, by 953; 960; 960; 959; 962; ( hippos "horse" ) 960; 959; 964; 945; 956; 959; 962; (potamós "river, stream of water"), because someone saw it resemble a "river horse". See prefix hypo- .

  
armadillo
  19

Dasypod mammal animal that inhabits America. Its main feature is an articulated shell that allows it to wrap on itself as protection.

  
toro
  18

1º_ Common name of the male bovid (the female is the cow) Bos taurus . It is also used as an adjective for something or someone very strong. See El Toro. 2º_ Toro is a geometric body that can be described as a cylinder curved to join its bases forming a ring. Also the moldings that have that shape totally or partially. See toroid .

  
caribe negro
  27

1º_ It is one of the names for the fish Serrasalmus rhombeus. See piranha. 2º_ It is a way of calling the zambo between black African slaves in the Lesser Antilles and the Carib natives of the island of Saint Vincent (in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines).

  
dinosaurio
  23

1º_ It is a very generic name for the animal group that dominated the planet from about 200 million years ago until about 66 million years ago, when there was a mass extinction. It is a word meaning "terrible lizard" formed with the Greek voices 948; 949; 953; 957; 959; 962; ( deinós "terrible" ) and 963; 945; 965; 961; 959; 962; ( sauros "lizard" ) , although strictly speaking they were not lizards , but from the first fossils found they were imagined so. 2º_ By the previous and figurative sense, person or anachronistic idea, which does not adapt to its time and tends to disappear in the concept of the environment.

  
chanto
  21

1º_ It is a slab or flat stone that is used as a fence or to cover floors. It is a Galicianism. 2º_ By the previous one, any wood or trunk nailed to the ground as a fence. 3º_ Inflection of the verb chantar ("to plant, to put, to nail especially in a figurative sense") . See verbs/chanto .

  




       


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