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pal | veronica |

As a noun pal

is pole, post.

As a proper noun veronica is

; a cognate of the english veronica.

pal

English

(wikipedia PAL)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (television, uncountable) or of (Phase Alternation Line). (TV standard)
  • (electronics, countable) .

    • Derived terms

    * (television) PALplus

    Related terms

    * (electronics) PLA

    See also

    * (television) NTSC , SECAM * (electronics) PIC , FPGA

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)

    • Anagrams

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    veronica

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Roman Catholicism) The image of Jesus's face believed to have been made on the cloth with which St Veronica wiped his face as he went to be crucified; or the cloth used for this.
  • * 1973 , Nicholas Monsarrat, The Kapillan of Malta :
    • A veil that had wiped off the sweat of Christ? Who could possibly believe that? (…) The only true Veronica of this century was the veronica of the matador – the classic slow swing of the cape before the bull’s face, imitating that holy wiping, mocking it.
  • * 1988 , Anthony Burgess, Any Old Iron :
    • He wiped the lady’s martini glass, having had some trouble with a kind of veronica of lipstick, spat in it viciously, then washed it again.
  • (bullfighting) A circular swinging movement of the cape, used to avoid the bull.
  • * 1973 , Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow :
    • The cougher makes a lunge. Slothrop sweeps aside, gives him a quick veronica with his cape, sticks his foot out and trips the kid, who lies on the ground cursing
  • * 1989 , Martin Amis, London Fields , Vintage 2003, p. 357:
    • He stepped aside as a fight got going between an attendant and some kid by the Alkool display, hopping backwards in a practised veronica when a bottle broke, fearful for his flares.
  • (botany) A flower of the genus Veronica , usually having blue petals.
  • * 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 871:
    • meadows full of wildflowers that seemed to Kit enormous, violets as big as your hand, yellow lilies and blue veronica you could shelter from the rain under
  • * 1978 , Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea , Vintage 1999, p. 11:
    • There are also (placed there by man or nature?) quite a lot of skinny fuchsias and dense veronicas , all in flower, and some kind of rather attractive grey-leaved sage.