Wikipedia vs Dragon - What's the difference?
wikipedia | dragon |
A free-content online encyclopedia founded in 2001, collaboratively developed over the World Wide Web in a number of languages.
* 2011 , , January 12.
The community that develops the Wikipedia encyclopedia.
* 2011 , , May 23.
* 2012 , , January 19.
(neologism) A main-belt asteroid (No. ).
A version of the encyclopedia (a free-content online encyclopedia) in a particular language.
* 2005 , , December 14.
A wiki or similar collaborative database.
*
*
*
(figuratively) A source of abundant encyclopedic knowledge.
*
*
*
*
To consult for information.
#
#* 2004 January 7, Mike Pitt, "
#* 2005 August 18, Edward Cherlin, "
#
#* 2006 November 17, Rachel Maddow, on Paula Zahn Now :
#* 2009 , Roger Ebert, Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2010 ,
#* 2010 April 7, "Jeff K.", "
#* 2010 , Rachel Cohn, Very Lefreak , Random House, ISBN 9780375895524,
#
A legendary serpentine or reptilian creature.
# In Western mythology, a gigantic beast, typically reptilian with leathery bat-like wings, lion-like claws, scaly skin and a serpent-like body, often a monster with fiery breath.
#* :
# In Eastern mythology, a large, snake-like monster with the eyes of a hare, the horns of a stag and the claws of a tiger, usually beneficent.
#* 1913 , , chapter XIII:
An animal of various species that resemble a dragon in appearance:
# (obsolete) A very large snake; a python.
# Any of various agamid lizards of the genera Draco'', ''Physignathus or .
# A Komodo dragon.
(astronomy, with definite article, often capitalized) The constellation Draco.
* 1605 , , Act I, Scene 2:
(pejorative) An unpleasant woman; a harridan.
(with definite article, often capitalized) The (historical) Chinese empire or the People's Republic of China.
(figuratively) Something very formidable or dangerous.
A luminous exhalation from marshy ground, seeming to move through the air like a winged serpent.
(military, historical) A short musket hooked to a swivel attached to a soldier's belt; so called from a representation of a dragon's head at the muzzle.
A variety of carrier pigeon.
(Webster 1913)
As a proper noun wikipedia
is (l).As a noun dragon is
(mythical creature).wikipedia
English
Alternative forms
* wikipedia (when used as a common noun)Proper noun
(s)- Civility – translated as savoir-vivre in the French version – is one of the five "pillars" of Wikipedia .
- In August 2009, Wikipedia announced that it planned a move that many saw as a step away from its freewheeling ethos of anyone can edit.
- Wikipedia mounted a 24-hour protest starting at midnight by converting their English page to a shadowy black background and warning readers that "the U.S. Congress is considering legislation that could fatally damage the free and open Internet."
Derived terms
* WikipedianNoun
(en noun)- Work in the open-source software community or contribute to wikipedias on your favourite subjects.
Verb
(en verb)Re: (Non-Euros/SAs Only) How did you become a lover of football?", in rec.sport.soccer, Usenet :
- Did a bit of Wikipediaing :
Re: Slow Re-entry", in rec.arts.sf.science, Usenet :
- Is everybody in this group incapable of arithmetic, Googling, and Wikipediaing ?
][http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.scientology/msg/9a83a0db36532600?q=Wikipediaing
- I mean, it's true, if Katie Holmes had not become engaged to Tom Cruise, we'd all still be Wikipeidaing her, looking her up, trying to figure out exactly why do I know her, what was she in, is she famous?
][http://www.amazon.com/Roger-Eberts-Movie-Yearbook-2010/dp/B003STCR2EAndrews McMeel Publishing, ISBN 978-0-7407-8536-8, page 363:
- He made me curious enough that I Wikipediaed Bob Satterfield and found out, yes, he was a real fighter, nicknamed the Bombadier, and was KO'd by the Raging Bull himself in a 1946 fight in Wrigley Field.
Like a Drunk One Legged Pirate Stores His Rum, The aTable Stores Your Cords" (blog post), in CraziestGadgets.com:
- That’s a true fact, you can Wikipedia that shizz.
chapter 3:
- I wikipediaed the article on science and learned about the scientific method.
External links
* ("Wikipedia" on Wikipedia) * * ----dragon
English
(Dragon)Noun
(en noun)- But as every well-brought-up prince was expected to kill a dragon', and rescue a princess, the ' dragons grew fewer and fewer till it was often quite hard for a princess to find a dragon to be rescued from.
- These tapestries were magnificently figured with golden dragons'; and as the serpentine bodies gleamed and shimmered in the increasing radiance, each ' dragon , I thought, intertwined its glittering coils more closely with those of another.
- My father compounded with my mother vnder the Dragons taile, and my nativity was vnder Vrsa Maior .
- She’s a bit of a dragon .
- Napoleon already warned of the awakening of the Dragon .
- (Fairholt)