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(Greek mythology) A member of a mythical race of female warriors inhabiting the Black Sea area.
A female warrior.
A tall, strong, or athletic woman.
A river of South America that flows through Brazil for about 4000 miles to the South Atlantic.
A region including much of this river; specifically, the region of the Amazon Rainforest, or of the Amazon River Basin.
To overwhelm or obliterate, in the context of an Internet start-up vastly outperforming its brick-and-mortar competition.
* 1998', George Anders, "Discomfort Zone: Some Big Companies Long to Embrace Web But Settle for Flirtation — They Fear Online Marketing Could Cause Sales Staffs And Distributors to Rebel — A Risk of Getting ‘'''Amazoned ’", ''The Wall Street Journal , 1998-11-04, p. A1. [http://search.proquest.com/docview/398638046]
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* 1999 , Tim Smith, InternetWeek (786), "Getting Customers Totally Integrated – Cisco CIO Pete Solvik", 1999-10-25, p. 98 [http://search.proquest.com/docview/226888867]
* 1999 , "Amazon Expands", InternetWeek (789), 1999-11-15, p. 11 [http://search.proquest.com/docview/226901337]
* 2000 , Bob Tedeschi, "E-Commerce Report: Web and catalog businesses are crossing into storefront territory, creating parallel avenues of retailing", The New York Times , 2000-11-20, p. C12 [http://search.proquest.com/docview/91394028]
* 2001 , Saul Hansell, "Web Sales of Airline Tickets Are Making Hefty Advances", The New York Times , 2001-07-04, p. A1 [http://search.proquest.com/docview/91898346]
* 2001 , Steve Lohr, "Gearhead Nation: A Time Out for Technophilia", The New York Times , 2001-11-18, p. WK4 [http://search.proquest.com/docview/92105390]
* 2002 , Scott Harris, "Roots in Israel, Head in Silicon Valley", The New York Times , 2002-06-30, p. B8 [http://search.proquest.com/docview/92285195]
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* 1848 , John Bunyan and Robert Philip, The Greatness of the Soul: And the Unspeakableness of the Loss Thereof , page 29, T. Nelson
* 1909 , John Fryer and William Crooke, A New Account of East India and Persia: Being Nine Years' Travels, 1672-1681 , page 92, Hakluyt Society
* 1996 August 5, Tim Behrendsen, "Tim Behrendsen Lost and Spaced THE FINAL TRY", rec.games.computer.quake.misc, Usenet
* 1997 November 30, Sir Frederick, "Pro-Mormons are amazing also", alt.religion.mormon.fellowship, Usenet
* 1999 July 13, Irma Dobkin and Mary Jo Peterson, Gracious Spaces , page xix, McGraw-Hill Professional
* 2000 March 24, "Shadow", "Return of the Fulgore Rant!", alt.fan.dragons, Usenet
* 2001 February 3, Brian, "D3 weird FPS", alt.games.descent Usenet
* 2003 June 23, Thomas Bernhard, Three Novellas , page 31, University of Chicago Press
* 2004 October 23, MgClearwater, "George says: Joe and Brian stay..", alt.sports.baseball.ny-yankees, Usenet
* 2006 May 16, Simon Baird, "monkeyGTD is amazing- a few questions and suggestions", GTD TiddlyWiki, Google goups
As a noun amazon
is a tall, strong, athletic woman.As a verb amazing is
.As an adjective amazing is
causing wonder and amazement; possessing uniquely wonderful qualities.amazon
English
(wikipedia Amazon)Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl), Río Amazonas . It is common belief that the Spanish explorer Francisco de Orellana fought a battle against a tribe of Tapuya natives, in which the women fought alongside the men, and that he derived the name from the Amazons in Greek mythology.Proper noun
Derived terms
* Amazonian * Amazon milk frogEtymology 3
Chosen by Jeff Bezos in 1994 as a word beginning with 'A' which had existing connotations (see meanings listed in etymologies 1 & 2) of being exotic, different, and (as the Amazon River) the largest of its kind in the world. Ann Byers, Jeff Bezos: the founder of amazon.com ,pp. 46-7, Rosen Publishing Group, 2007, ISBN 1-4042-0717-1
Verb
(en verb)- Those who hesitate risk being "amazoned ," forfeiting business to an Internet newcomer, in the way that bookstore chains have lost ground to Amazon.com Inc., the online bookseller.
- Venture capitalists' desks are thick with business plans promising ‘we're going to Amazon the insurance/travel/property business...’
- Take the example of MetalSite.com, which is owned by steel companies. The steel companies aren't getting "Amazoned'" by a start-up but, rather, they are doing the "' Amazoning " within their own industry.
- Amazon.com may soon be "amazoning " a few more industries.
- Gone are the days when they agonized about being "Amazoned ", or blind-sided by a dot-com ....
- In other industries, established companies are pulling people and money away from their Internet operations, as their fear of being "Amazoned " by start-ups has subsided.
- Meanwhile, traditional companies would be obliterated — "Amazoned " — by Internet upstarts.
- "Everybody was afraid of getting Amazoned ," Mr. Landan said. "They didn't want to get left behind."
References
amazing
English
Verb
(head)- How many things have men found out to the amazing of one another, to the wonderment of one another, to the begetting of endless commendations of one another in the world
- Fancies to be persuaded of the confused Articulation of Multitudes met as in a Fair, conversing and making a chattering, to the amazing of them all.
- Amazing is judged relative what already exists, and Quake has the best underwater effects so far.
- Reality, especially God's Reality is amazing. For instance that there is something rather than nothing is amazing. [... ] Amazing is amazing.
- The amazing is happening.
- All that is impossibly amazing is considered nothing, and the impossibly amazing is considered normal.
- The amazing is that, in EXACTLY the same situation, the demo2 doesn't show this problem.
- Everything that amazes has its method, until we notice that the amazing is not amazing, has no method.
- Sheffield is an amazing athlete, how much of the amazing is provided from the Chemlab.
- Cool! Of course 99% of the amazing is due to the "powered by TiddlyWiki" part of MonkeyGTD.. :)