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banana | spaceship |

As a noun spaceship is

a vehicle that flies through space.

banana

English

(wikipedia banana)

Noun

  • An elongated curved fruit, which grows in bunches, and has a sweet creamy flesh and a smooth yellow skin.
  • The tropical treelike plant which bears clusters of bananas. The plant, of the genus Musa , has large, elongated leaves and is related to the plantain.
  • (uncountable) A yellow colour, like that of a banana's skin.
  • (mildly, pejorative, slang, ethnic slur) A person of Asian descent, especially a Chinese American, who has assimilated into Western culture or married a Caucasian (from the "yellow" outside and "white" inside). Compare .

    • Synonyms

    * (Asian assimilated into Western culture) jook-sing, Twinkie

    Antonyms

    * (Asian assimilated into Western culture) egg (Western assimilated into Asian culture)

    Coordinate terms

    * (Asian assimilated into Western culture) coconut

    Derived terms

    * banana ball * banana bender * banana boat * banana bond * banana hammock * Bananaland * banana shot * banana paper * banana peel * banana pepper * banana plug * bananaquit * banana republic * bananas * bananas Foster * bananery * banana skin * banana split * banoffee * false banana * pink banana * scarlet banana * second banana * snow banana * top banana

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Curved like a banana, especially of a ball in flight.
  • * 2001 , Rayne Barton, The Green Hills Golf Chronicles , page 155, ISBN 0738847917.
    • Even the lowly banana ball, the bane of so many weekenders, sometimes can be exactly right, as in this case.
  • * 2002 , Andrew Collins, Guild of Honor , page 53, ISBN 1403371490.
    • He played the fading, low-banana shot as planned, and the ball whistled left of the oak tree and between the pines.
  • * 2006 , Richard Witzig, The Global Art of Soccer , page 247, ISBN 0977668800.
    • [...]Bernd Schneider closed the scoring in injury-time with a 23 meter free-kick banana shot into the upper-right corner.

    See also

    * abaca * coconut * dining leaf * matoke * oreo * plantain * sinamay * waragi *

    Hypernyms

    * bunch * hand * ----

    spaceship

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A vehicle that flies through space.
  • (cellular automata) A finite pattern that reappears after a certain number of generations in the same orientation but in a different position.
  • * 2002 , Richard Nowakowski, More Games of No Chance (page 433)
    • We describe software that searches for spaceships in Conway's Game of Life and related two-dimensional cellular automata.
  • * 2010 , Andrew Adamatzky, Game of Life Cellular Automata (page 126)
    • Synthesis of spaceship flotillas is even more complicated than synthesis of oscillators, since spaceships are like oscillators that move
  • (computing, programming) The operator <=> in the Perl programming language, which compares two values and indicates whether the first is lesser than, greater than, or equal to the second.
  • * 2012 , Randal Schwartz, ?Brian Foy, ?Tom Phoenix, Intermediate Perl (page 142)
    • If we reverse the positions of $a and $b, the spaceship will sort in the opposite order

    Synonyms

    * (vehicle) spacecraft

    See also

    * flying saucer * UFO

    External links

    * (wikipedia)