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Alice vs Miranda - What's the difference?

alice | miranda |

As a noun alice

is (military|us|initialism) (all-purpose lightweight individual carrying equipment).

As an adjective miranda is

.

alice

English

Proper noun

(Alice and Bob) (Alice Springs) (en proper noun)
  • popular in England since the Middle Ages .
  • * 1380s-1390s , (Geoffrey Chaucer), :
    • That Iankin clerk, and my gossib dame Alis , / And I my-self, in-to the feldes wente.
  • * 1871 :
    • "My name is Alice , but - "
    "It's a stupid name enough!" Humpty Dumpty interrupted impatiently. "What does it mean?"
    "Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully.
    "Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh, "my name means the shape I am - and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost."
  • * 1968 (Kurt Vonnegut), Welcome to the Monkey House , Delacorte Press, page xiv:
    • She was heavenly to look at, and graceful, both in and out of water. She was a sculptress. She was christened 'Alice'', but she used to deny that she was really an ' Alice . I agreed. Everybody agreed. Sometime in a dream maybe I will find out what her real name was.
  • (cryptography, physics) a placeholder name for the person or system that sends a message to another person or system conventionally known as Bob.
  • (Alice Springs), Australia.
  • * 2002 , Sylvia Lawson, Budgerigars, and Positions of Ignorance'', in ''How Simone de Beauvoir died in Australia: stories and essays , page 17,
    • At that point in my second visit to the Alice', I'd been there only a day. they're ''doing'' Australia in two weeks, with a few days each for Sydney, the ' Alice and the Rock, Kakadu and Cairns.
  • * 2003 , Janet Judy McIntyre-Mills, quoting Olive Veverbrants, Critical systemic praxis for social and environmental justice (page 27),
    • In 1892 my Chinese grandfather lived in Alice .
  • * 2004 , Larry Habegger, Travelers' Tales Australia: True Stories (page 7),
    • "Don't waste yer time in The Alice , get out and see the country — that's what yer 'ere for."
  • A city in North Dakota.
  • A city in Texas.

    • Derived terms

    * Alice band * Alice blue * Alice in Wonderland

    Synonyms

    * Party A (placeholder) * Alice Springs (city)

    Related terms

    * given names : Adelaide, Alicia, Alison, Allison, Alyssa, Heidi

    See also

    * Bob *

    Anagrams

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    miranda

    English

    (wikipedia Miranda)

    Etymology 1

    Invented by Shakespeare for a character in The Tempest'', feminine of (etyl) ''mirandus "admirable".

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • .
  • * ~1611 William Shakespeare: The Tempest: Act III, Scene I :
    • Admir'd Miranda !
    Indeed, the top of admiration; worth
    What's dearest in the world!
  • One of Uranus' moons.
    • Derived terms
    * Mirandan * Mirandian

    Etymology 2

    MIRANDA v. ARIZONA, 384 U.S. 436 (1966) , from a Spanish, Portuguese and Italian habitational surname.

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A Miranda warning

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To read somebody their rights on arrest as set out in Miranda v Arizona.
  • * Has the suspect been Mirandaed ?
  • * McCarthy provided that he was Mirandaed. I told her to videotape or to have someone videotape the conversation. 2003%20documents/03me40mc.pdf

    • Anagrams

    * English female given names from coinages English eponyms ----