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Definition: AN ARTICLE |
AN ARTICLE1. Of virtu , an object of art or antiquity; a curiosity, such as those found in museums or private collections. I had thoughts, in my chambers to place it in view, To be shown to my friends as a piece of virt[`u]. --Goldsmith. |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | She's writing an article for the Saturday Review (Topsy-Turvy; writing credit: Mike Leigh) It's an article on why we're fighting the war. (Band of Brothers; writing credit: Stephen Ambrose; Erik Jendresen) | |
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![]() | U.S. Army, Tripler General Hospital, Honolulu, Hawaii. : Pictures of hospital from an article in Paradise of the Pacific Magazine. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 14 July 1877, depicting (from top to bottom): "1. American Torpedo Vessel Alarm", with her torpedo projecting equipment deployed; "2. Outrigged Torpedo Pinnace attacking an Iron-clad"; "3. A Launch laying down Submarine Mines to protect Entrance to Harbor"; "4. Electrical Pinnace with Counter-Mines"; and "5. Whitehead Torpedo". This engraving accompanied an article entitled "Torpedo Warfare", which is reproduced in Photo # NH 95129 (extended caption). Credit: NAVY. |
![]() | Front page of Patrol, newspaper of the U.S. Submarine Base, Pearl Harbor, for 29 August 1945, celebrating the end of World War II. In addition to headlines and a patriotic cartoon, it features an article by Clarence Strong Williams, entitled V-J Day - Dawn of Peace. Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | Clipping of an article on Arnold Genthe from Die Buhne: Zeitschrift fur Theater und Gesellschaft, dated 1932. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Clippings of an article on Arnold Genthe by Joseph Gregor and an article from Die Bühne. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Clipping from an article on Arnold Genthe called Ein Romantiker der Photographie: Arnold Genthe, consisting of portrait photographs of Eleonara Duse, Greta Garbo and Arnold Genthe. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | But, holding as they do, that labour should not be regarded merely as an article of commerce, they think that there are methods and principles for regulating labour conditions which all industrial communities should endeavour to apply, so far as their special circumstances will permit. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The convenient virtue attributed to these lines was, moreover, an article of faith in the order of the Hospitallers |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | News and World Report features an article that rates hospitals in the United States. (references) | |
Each year usually in August the magazine U.S. News and World Report features an article that rates hospitals in the United States. (references) | ||
Information provided in this document about autism symptoms and diagnosis also comes from The Screening and Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorders, an article authored by a multidisciplinary Consensus Panel assembled at the NIH in 1998. This panel, composed of seven NIH Institutes, nine professional organizations, and three autism parents’ groups, reviewed over 2,500 scientific publications on screening for and diagnosing autism. (references) | ||
Business | Beijing intellectual Fang Jue published and disseminated an article advocating elections, freedom of press, and faster economic reforms. (references) | |
According to an article in June 20th edition of Ren Min You Dian, a key telecommunications newspaper run by MII, 80 percent of China's imports of mobile telecommunications equipment in 1999 were from European countries like Sweden, Finland, Germany and France. (references) | ||
Although some Peruvians still believe that raising walls and hiring security guards, alone, is sufficient to secure homes or businesses, this is no longer the case. According to an article published in the March/April 2000 issue of Contact Peru, the bimonthly journal of the American Chamber of Commerce of Peru, “upwards of 90 percent of crimes were committed by people from within the company. (references) | ||
Children | Belgium | In March 2000, Parliament amended the Constitution to include an article on children's rights. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Guinea | In July 2000, authorities arrested a journalist after he published an article about the electric company Sogel. (references) |
Jordan | In July Senator Jawad Anani claimed that he was forced to resign following his publication of an article that criticized the Government. (references) | |
Economic History | Korea | Under "the partial design systems," parts of an article can be protected as a design, hopefully reducing design-related disputes caused by plagiarism of partial designs. (references) |
Human Rights | Gambia | He was accused of criticizing President Jammeh's foreign policy in an article he wrote in a local newspaper. (references) |
Malaysia | The suits stemmed from an article in which Param and former Malaysian Bar Council President Tommy Thomas argued that certain companies, law firms and individuals enjoyed improper preferential treatment in the courts. (references) | |
Minorities | Romania | There was no further information regarding the status of charges filed in 2000 by Bucharest-based Roma organizations against Marcel Flueraru, a journalist for the National, for using racist language in an article. (references) |
Moldova | One example was an article in the National Journal on April 10 entitled "Sects in Moldova Recruit Followers by Promising Them Everything, After Which they Separate Them from God Forever." Several representatives of religious groups complained that this article was biased, especially in the way that it focused on the less mainstream groups. (references) | |
Political Economy | COLOMBIA | The Pastrana administration amended an article in the 1991 Constitution, repealing the previously allowed expropriation of foreign investment without compensation. (references) |
Political Rights | East Timor | In March the National Council approved a draft election law, but rejected an article concerning compulsory quotas for the number of female candidates. (references) |
Singapore | The bankruptcy judgment stemmed from an article in a WP publication that criticized the organizers of Tamil Week, an event that promoted the use of the Tamil language. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Kazakhstan | There are no laws that specifically prohibit trafficking; however, there is an article of the criminal code that address trafficking in minors. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DELEGATION, n. In American politics, an article of merchandise that comes in sets. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | In the treaty, therefore, which has concluded our warfare with that State an article for the ransom of our citizens has been agreed to. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Uniformity in the demand and price of an article is highly desirable to the domestic manufacturer. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Every citizen in every State who purchases and consumes an article which has paid a duty at that port contributes to the accumulating mass. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Expressions using "AN ARTICLE": an article of virtu ♦ put an article into shape ♦ tag smth. on to an article ♦ write up an article. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "AN ARTICLE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 笆 (an article made of bamboo strips, fence). (various references) | |
French | écrire un article (write up an article). (various references) | |
Hungarian | elkészíti egy cikk árvetését (to cost an article), cikket meghúz (to blue-pencil an article), cikket cenzúráz (to blue-pencil an article). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 一物 (a plot, a thing, secret intention, ulterior motive). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | いちぶつ (a plot, a thing, excellent person, secret intention, superb article, ulterior motive), いちもつ (a plot, a thing, excellent animal, secret intention, ulterior motive). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anay articleay.(various references) | |
Romanian | pune la punct un articol (put an article into shape). (various references) | |
Spanish | pegar algo a un artículo (tag smth. on to an article). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-i-l-n-r-t" | |
-1 letter: analcite, carinate, clarinet, craniate, laitance, tailrace. | |
-2 letters: acarine, actinal, anticar, article, carinae, carinal, carline, cateran, central, ceratin, certain, cranial, creatin, lactean, latrine, ratline, recital, reliant, retinal, tacrine, trenail. | |
-3 letters: acetal, acetin, acinar, aecial, aerial, aliner, anlace, antiar, antler, antral, arcane, arnica, atelic, atrial, canter, cantle, carate, carina, carlin, carnal, carnet, carnie, cartel, catena. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-i-l-n-r-t" | |
+1 letter: carnallite, lacerating, laceration, retinacula. | |
+2 letters: altercating, altercation, antinuclear, cardinalate, carnalities, carnallites, declaration, intercalary, intercalate, interfacial, interracial, intractable, intrathecal, lacerations, reclamation, redactional. | |
+3 letters: accelerating, acceleration, aeronautical, altercations, anticlerical, antiparticle, cardinalates, caterwauling, clairaudient, declarations, extracranial, inaccurately, inarticulate, intercalated, intercalates, intercoastal, interglacial, nonbacterial, reallocating, reallocation, recalcitrant, reclamations, recreational, reescalating, reescalation, tabernacling, uncalibrated, uncharitable. | |
+4 letters: accelerations, antibacterial, anticlericals, antiparticles, ascertainable, cardinalities, cartelization, charlatanries, coplanarities, correlational, craftsmanlike, fractionalize, galvanometric, inarticulates, interactional, intercalating, intercalation, intergalactic, interglacials, interracially, intracellular, intracerebral, intrathecally, nontheatrical, parenthetical, paternalistic, plantocracies, practicalness, prevocational, rarefactional, reallocations, reapplication, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recalcitrants, recalculating, recalculation, recalibrating, recalibration, reescalations, ultradistance, unarticulated, valedictorian. | |
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