"African" is a word in ENGLISH
Of or pertaining to Africa.
A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to
an African race.
Perhaps there are many "nows" of varying duration, depending on just what it is we are doing. We must face up to the fact that, at least in the case of humans, the subject experiencing subjective time is not a perfect, structureless observer, but a complex, multilayered, multifaceted psyche. Different levels of our consciousness may experience time in quite different ways. This is evidently the case in terms of response time. You have probably had the slightly unnerving experience of jumping at the sound of a telephone a moment or two before you actually hear it ring. The shrill noise induces a reflex response through the nervous system much faster than the time it takes to create the conscious experience of the sound.It is fashionable to attribute certain qualities, such as speech ability, to the left side of the brain, whereas others, such as musical appreciation, belong to processes occurring on the right side. But why should both hemispheres experience a common time? And why should the subconscious use the same mental clock as the conscious?
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Did you say that you fell over fifty feet but didn't hurt yourself? Yes - I was trying to get to the back of the bus.
An edentate mammal, of the genus Orycteropus, somewhat resembling a pig, common in some parts of Southern Africa. It burrows …
Read the complete definitionA carnivorous quadruped (Proteles Lalandii), of South Africa, resembling the fox and hyena. See Proteles.
Read the complete definitionAn evergreen shrub (Hibiscus -- formerly Abelmoschus -- moschatus), of the East and West Indies and Northern Africa, whose musky …
Read the complete definitionOne of a sect in Africa (4th century), mentioned by St. Augustine, who states that they married, but lived in …
Read the complete definitionA genus of leguminous trees and shrubs. Nearly 300 species are Australian or Polynesian, and have terete or vertically compressed …
Read the complete definitionA genus of land snails, often large, common in the warm parts of America and Africa.
Read the complete definitionA genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of …
Read the complete definitionA small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera. The common European adder is the Vipera (/ Pelias) berus. The puff …
Read the complete definitionadilantádu a {1} developed, advanced. Adilantádu ang Pilipínas sa Aprika sa panguma, The Philippines is ahead of Africa in agriculture. …
Read the complete definitionAfrica.
Read the complete definitionOne born in Africa, the offspring of a white father and a \"colored\" mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern …
Read the complete definitionA word, phrase, idiom, or custom peculiar to Africa or Africans.
Read the complete definitionApplied to a kind of variegated glass beads of ancient manufacture; as, aggry beads are found in Ashantee and Fantee …
Read the complete definitionA plant (Macrochloa tenacissima) of North Africa; also, its fiber, used in paper making.
Read the complete definitionA tropical plant (Cajanus indicus) and its edible seed, a kind of pulse; -- so called from Angola in Western …
Read the complete definitionA small lemuroid mammal (Arctocebus Calabarensis) of Africa. It has only a rudimentary tail.
Read the complete definitionOne of a group of ruminant quadrupeds, intermediate between the deer and the goat. The horns are usually annulated, or …
Read the complete definitionAprika n Africa. -na n African woman. -nu n African man.
Read the complete definitionOne of a swarthy race occupying Arabia, and numerous in Syria, Northern Africa, etc.
Read the complete definitionA native or an inhabitant of Ashantee in Western Africa.
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