"Abaci" is a word in ENGLISH
of Abacus
I could see why Archimedes got all excited. There was nothing finer than the feeling that came rushing through you when it clicked and you suddenly understood something that had puzzled you. It made you think it just might be possible to get a handle on this old world after all.
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A young teenaged girl was a prostitute and, for obvious reasons, kept it a secret from her grandma. One day, the police raided a brothel and arrested a group of prostitutes, including the young girl. The prostitutes were instructed to line up in a straight line on the sidewalk. Well, who should be walking in the neighborhood, but little old Grandma. The young girl was frantic. Sure enough, Grandma noticed her young granddaughter and asked curiously, "What are you lining up for, dear?" Not willing to let grandma in on her little secret, the young girl told her that some people were passing out free oranges and that she was lining up for some. "Mmm, sounds lovely," said Grandma. "I think I'll have some myself," she continued as she made her way to the back of the line. A police officer made his way down the line, questioning all of the prostitutes. When he got to Grandma, at the end of the line, he was bewildered. "But you're so old... how do you do it?" Grandma replied, "Oh, it's quite easy, sonny... I just remove my dentures and suck 'em dry!"
One who uses an abacus in casting accounts; a calculator.
Read the complete definitionAn abacus.
Read the complete definitionThe uppermost member or division of the capital of a column, immediately under the architrave. See Column.
Read the complete definitionA calculating table or frame; an instrument for performing arithmetical calculations by balls sliding on wires, or counters in grooves, …
Read the complete definitionA tablet, panel, or compartment in ornamented or mosaic work.
Read the complete definitionA table or tray strewn with sand, anciently used for drawing, calculating, etc.
Read the complete definitionA board, tray, or table, divided into perforated compartments, for holding cups, bottles, or the like; a kind of cupboard, …
Read the complete definitionof Abacus
Read the complete definitionThe great-grandfather’s or great-grandmother’s grandfather; a fourth grandfather. The ascendlng line of llneal ancestry runs thus: Pater, Avus, Proavus, Abacus, …
Read the complete definitionThat part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked …
Read the complete definitionA molding, the convexity of which is one fourth of a circle, being a member just below the abacus in …
Read the complete definitionThe head or uppermost member of a column, pilaster, etc. It consists generally of three parts, abacus, bell (or vase), …
Read the complete definitionThat part of the Ionic capital between the abacus and quarter round, which forms the volute.
Read the complete definitionBelonging to, or resembling, the oldest and simplest of the three orders of architecture used by the Greeks, but ranked …
Read the complete definitionA massive piece of stone or wood laid immediately on the abacus of the capital of a column or pillar; …
Read the complete definitionOf or pertaining to a style of architecture with pointed arches, steep roofs, windows large in proportion to the wall …
Read the complete definitionA caulicule or little volute under the abacus of the Corinthian capital.
Read the complete definitionChinese abacus.
Read the complete definitionThe Chinese abacus; a schwanpan.
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