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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]
* 1999', Andrew Wileman, "Smart cookies: Get set to '''Amazon ", ''Management Today . Aug 1999, p. 79 [http://search.proquest.com/docview/214769716]
* 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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A plant, Allium sativum , related to the onion, having a pungent bulb much used in cooking.
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As nouns the difference between amazon and garlic
is that amazon is a tall, strong, athletic woman while garlic is a plant, allium sativum , related to the onion, having a pungent bulb much used in cooking.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
garlic
English
(Allium sativum)Alternative forms
* (l) (archaic)Noun
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