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turtle | entity |

As a proper noun turtle

is a river in saskatchewan, canada.

As a noun entity is

that which has a distinct existence as an individual unit often used for organisations which have no physical form.

turtle

English

(wikipedia turtle)

Etymology 1

Modification of (etyl) tortue (probably under the influence of (turtledove)). See (tortoise) for more.

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any land or marine reptile of the order (l), characterised by a protective shell enclosing its body.
  • (Australia, British) A sea turtle.
  • (military) An Ancient Roman attack method, where the shields held by the soldiers hide them, not only left, right, front and back, but also from above.
  • (computing) A type of robot having a domed case (and so resembling the reptile), used in education, especially for making line drawings by means of a computer program.
  • (computing) An on-screen cursor that serves the same function as a turtle for drawing.
  • * 1997 , Brian Harvey, Computer Science Logo Style: Symbolic computing
  • Depending on which version of Logo you have, the turtle may look like an actual animal with a head and four legs or — as in Berkeley Logo — it may be represented as a triangle.
  • (printing, historical) The curved plate in which the form is held in a type-revolving cylinder press.
  • A small element towards the end of a list of items to be bubble sorted, and thus tending to take a long time to be swapped into its correct position. Compare rabbit.
  • Synonyms
    * (l) * (l)
    Derived terms
    * African helmeted turtle * Afro-American sideneck turtle * Alabama red-bellied turtle * alligator turtle, alligator-turtle * American turtle * Ancient and Honorable Order of Turtles * Arakan forest turtle * Australian short-necked turtle * Austro-American sideneck turtle * black marsh turtle * black turtle bean * Blanding's turtle * bog turtle * box turtle, box-turtle * chicken turtle, chicken-turtle * common snakeneck turtle * cooter turtle * diamond-backed turtle * dragon turtle * eastern long-neck turtle * Fitzroy River turtle * flatback turtle * Florida redbelly turtle * Fly River turtle * golden coin turtle * gopher turtle * greaved turtle * Greenland turtle * green turtle * have a turtle's head * hawk-billed turtle, hawksbill sea turtle, hawk's-bill turtle, hawksbill turtle * horned turtle * land turtle * leaf turtle * leather turtle * leatherback turtle * leather-turtle * leathery turtle * loggerhead turtle, logger-headed turtle * lyre turtle * Madagascan big-headed turtle * map turtle * marine turtle * marsh turtle * mata mata turtle, matamata turtle * Mary River turtle * mock turtle * mock turtle soup * mud turtle * musk turtle * New Guinea snakeneck turtle * Olive Ridley turtle * painted turtle * pancake turtle * pig-nosed turtle, pig-nose turtle, pignose turtle * pitted-shelled turtle * plateless turtle * Plymouth redbelly turtle * pond turtle * purple turtler * red-bellied turtle * river turtle * roofed turtle * sea turtle, sea-turtle * side-necked turtle * silver stater with a turtle * snake-eating turtle * snake-necked turtle * snapping turtle, snapping-turtle * soft-shelled turtle, soft-shell turtle, softshell turtle * spiny turtle * spotted turtle * toad-headed turtle * twisted-necked turtle * tortoise-shell turtle * trunk turtle, trunk-turtle * turn the turtle * turn turtle * turning turtles * turtle-back, turtleback * turtle bean * turtleburger * turtle-corral * turtle cowrie, turtle cowry * turtle-crab * turtle-crawl * turtle-deck * turtledom * turtle-egging * turtle excluder device * turtle-footed * turtle-frolic * turtle graphics * turtle grass, turtle-grass * turtle-head, turtlehead * turtle hull * turtle-insect * turtle-kraal * turtle neck, turtle-neck, turtleneck * turtle peg, turtle-peg * turtle-press * turtler * turtle racing * turtles all the way down * turtle shell * turtle ship * turtle soup * turtle stone * turtle-shell * turtle-soup * turtle-stone * turtlet * turtle trade * turtle-twine * turtling * turtly * water turtle * western swamp turtle * wood turtle

    Verb

    (turtl)
  • To flip over onto the back or top; to turn upside down.
  • * 1919 , Iowa Highway Commission, Service Bulletin, Issues 15-32?, page 48
  • Were speeding when car turtled' Auto crashed into curb and ' turtled .
  • To turn and swim upside down.
  • * 2009 , Amy Waeschle, Chasing Waves: A Surfer's Tale of Obsessive Wandering? , page 149
  • I turtled my board beneath it, flipped upright, and started paddling again.
  • To hunt turtles, especially in the water.
  • * 1973 , Bernard Nietschmann, Between Land and Water: The Subsistence Ecology of the Miskito Indians , page 153
  • Of these, 80 turtled' (65%), 26 hunted and ' turtled (20%), and 18 hunted (15%).
  • (video games) To build up a large defense force and strike only punctually, rather than going for an offensive strategy.
  • See also

    * chelonian * hatchling (turtle young) * terrapin * tortoise * (Turtle)

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) turtla, ultimately from (etyl) , of imitative origin.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A turtle dove.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.8:
  • The same he tooke, and with a riband new, / In which his Ladies colours were, did bind / About the turtles neck .
    Derived terms
    * turtle-bird * turtle dove, turtle-dove, turtledove * turtleish, turtlish * turtleise, turtlise, turtleize, turtlize

    entity

    English

    (wikipedia entity)

    Noun

    (entities)
  • That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit. Often used for organisations which have no physical form.
  • *
  • It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities .
  • An existent something that has the properties of being real, and having a real existence.
  • (computing) Anything about which information or data can be stored in a database; in particular, an organised array or set of individual elements or parts.
  • The state or quality of being or existence.
  • The group successfully maintains its tribal entity.
  • * Quotation: The policy of the government of the United States is to seek . . . to preserve Chinese territorial and administrative entity --
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * entitative * entity-relationship model * geopolitical entity * legal entity * nonentity