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Definition: Argus |
ArgusNoun1. (Greek mythology) a giant with 100 eyes; was guardian of the heifer Io and was slain by Hermes. 2. Large brilliantly patterned East Indian pheasant. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Argus" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to glisten", "to shine". |
Date "Argus" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Argus \Ar"gus\, noun. [Latin expression Argus, Greek]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Argus |
Space | A 1958 experiment by the US military, to create artificial radiation belts by exploding small nuclear bombs above the atmosphere. (project). (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
One of three figures in Greek mythology:1. Argus ("bright") (also known as Panoptes) is a monster with a hundred eyes. He was thus a very effective watchdog, as only a few of the eyes would sleep at a time; there were always several eyes still awake. Argus was Hera's servant; her last task for him was to guard a white heifer from Hera's husband, Zeus. Hera knew that the heifer was in reality Io, one of Zeus' many girlfriends.
To free Io, Zeus had Argus slain by Hermes. Hermes succeeded in putting all of Argus' eyes asleep with boring stories, being disguised as a shepherd. To reward good service, Hera had the hundred eyes of Argus preserved forever, in a peacock's tail.
Ovid I, 625.
2. Argus (or Argos) is also the name of a long-lived dog owned by Odysseus in Odyssey. When Odysseus returns from his voyages and wears the disguise of a beggar that Athena places upon him, only Odysseus's old dog, Argus, recognizes him.
3. Argus in the tale of the Argonauts is a shipwright, the builder of the ship the Argo, named after its builder. The vessel was used by Jason in his quest for the Golden Fleece, Jason and his compatriots called themselves Argonauts, after the ship.
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Operation Argus was secretly conducted during August and September of 1958, in the South Atlantic (see: South Atlantic Anomaly), by the US Atomic Energy Commission, in conjunction with the Explorer IV mission. About 1800 km southwest of Cape Town, South Africa the USS Norton Sound AVM-1, of Top Secret Task Force 88, launched three modified X-17a missiles armed with 1.7 kt W-25 nuclear warheads into the upper atmosphere, in order to conduct tests regarding the magnetosphere and the Van Allen radiation belts. The tests were proposed by Nicholas Christofilos of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory (LRL) as a means to determine the possibility of creating artificial radiation belts for military purposes.The Argus explosions created artificial electron belts resulting from the β-decay of fission fragments. These lasted for several weeks. Such radiation belts affect radio and radar transmissions, damage or destroy arming and fusing mechanisms of Intercontinental Ballistic Missile warheads, and endanger crews of orbiting space vehicles.
The tests were first reported by the New York Times on March 19, 1959. More than 4,500 people participated in the operation. Followed the Hardtack I series, but preceded Hardtack II
Argus Missile Launches
See also: Operation Hardtack I
- Argus I
- Time: 02:28 August 27, 1958 (GMT)
- Location: 38.5° South, 11.5° West
- Altitude: 160 km
- Argus II
- Time: 03:18 August 30, 1958 (GMT)
- Location: 49.5 deg South, 8.2 deg West
- Altitude: 182 Miles
- Argus III
- Time: 22:13 September 6, 1958 (GMT)
- Location: 48.5 deg South, 9.7 deg West
- Altitude: 466 Miles
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Operation Argus."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
argus | English | Advanced research on groups under stress | N/A |
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Synonym: ArgusSynonym: argus pheasant (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Care | Watchfulness; Adjective: vigilance, surveillance, eyes of Argus, watch, vigil, look out, watch and ward, loeil du maitre. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Argus |
| English words defined with "Argus": Argus shell, Argusianus ♦ genus Argusianus. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Argus": Avalon/C ♦ Hundred-eyed ♦ partridges, peacocks, pheasants ♦ quails. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Argus" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (Argus), Albanian (argus), Dutch (Argus), French (Argus), German (Argus), Manx (Argus ), Serbo-Croatian (argus), Turkish (argus). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Operation Argus (1966) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Caribbean Spiny lobster, Panulirus argus. Range: western tropical Atlantic (North Carolina to Brazil, to depths of 90m). Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Spiny lobster, unlike its northern relative, has no big crusher claw. Panulirus argus. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
 | In heavy seas, while participating in exercises of the Atlantic and Mediterranean Fleets near the Balearic Islands, circa the later 1920s, as seen from HMS Rodney. Barham is followed by the battleship Malaya and the aircraft carrier Argus. Credit: NAVY. |  | Battleships Barham and Malaya and aircraft carrier Argus at sea during exercises near the Balearic Islands, circa the later 1920s. Photographed from HMS Rodney, whose "White Ensign" is in the foreground. Credit: NAVY. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Homer | Then dark death seized Argus, as soon as he had seen Odysseus in the twentieth year. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Argus snored all night |
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| "Argus" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 52.27% of the time. "Argus" is used about 44 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 52.27% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Noun (singular) | 43.18% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Noun (plural) | 2.27% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 2.27% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 44 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Canada | Argus Corporation Limited |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Argus, CA |
Expressions using "Argus": argus giganteus ♦ argus Grayi ♦ argus pheasant ♦ argus shell ♦ Cypraea argus ♦ eyes of Argus. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Argus": Argus-eyed. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
argus | 1,057 | argus cape | 50 |
a3 argus audi | 939 | argus l | 47 |
argus leader | 786 | argus moto | 45 |
goldsboro news argus | 294 | 3810 argus dc | 45 |
argus times | 265 | argus voiture | 43 |
argus camera | 233 | argus current | 43 |
argus leader sioux falls | 225 | argus leader.com | 40 |
argus digital camera | 203 | argus dc3500 | 36 |
argus automobile | 146 | argus press | 36 |
argus newspaper | 123 | argus barre times | 34 |
argus herald laporte | 118 | argus courier | 31 |
argus auto | 112 | argus dc1500 | 30 |
argus news | 108 | argus fund | 29 |
the argus | 108 | lewistown news argus | 28 |
carlsbad current argus | 100 | argus cote | 27 |
argus fremont | 78 | argus software | 26 |
argus island rock | 78 | argus county livingston press | 25 |
argus brighton | 68 | argus herald | 25 |
argus observer | 65 | argus fremont newspaper | 24 |
argus hillsboro | 51 | caledonia argus | 24 |
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| Language | Translations for "Argus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | Argus. (various references) | |
Albanian | argus, rojë vigjilent. (various references) | |
Arabic | آرغوس عملاق أسطوري. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ревностен пазител, великан (giant), аргус. (various references) | |
Chinese | 阿 斯. (various references) | |
Danish | stor argusfasan (great argus pheasant). (various references) | |
Dutch | Argus. (various references) | |
Esperanto | Argo. (various references) | |
French | Argus. (various references) | |
German | Argus. (various references) | |
Greek | φασιανός άργος (great argus pheasant). (various references) | |
Hungarian | árgus. (various references) | |
Italian | argo (argon). (various references) | |
Manx | Argus. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | argusay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | Argos (ARGOS). (various references) | |
Russian | аргус. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | argus. (various references) | |
Spanish | argos (ARGOS). (various references) | |
Swedish | argusögon (argus-eyed). (various references) | |
Turkish | argus, yüz gözlü prens. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Argo. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Argus": arguses. (additional references) | |
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"Argus" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Agcus, Areus, Argaw, Argov, Argun, Argusoft, Arhus, Arpus, Arques, Artusi, Arups, Aruz. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Argus" (pronounced Ä"rgus) |
| 3 | -g u s | analogous, asparagus, bodegas, bogus, Degas, dingus, esophagus, fungus, heterozygous, homologous, homozygous, humongous, Negus, sarcophagus. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: gaurs, guars, sugar. | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: gars, gaur, guar, rags, ruga, rugs, sura, ursa. | |
-2 letters: ars, gar, gas, rag, ras, rug, sag, sau. | |
-3 letters: ag, ar, as, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: argues, augers, augurs, gradus, guards, rugosa, sauger, sugars, sugary, tragus. | |
+2 letters: aerugos, arguers, arguses, cougars, curaghs, desugar, dustrag, gaugers, giaours, grampus, guisard, guitars, jaguars, kurgans, langurs, muggars, ourangs, ragouts, rugolas, rugosas, saguaro, saugers, sevruga, sugared, vulgars. | |
+3 letters: argufies, arousing, arugolas, arugulas, assuring, auberges, augurers, auguries, auguster, barguest, bearhugs, bugbears, burgages, burglars, choragus, courages, curraghs, cutgrass, desugars, draughts, dustrags, earplugs, fraughts, garigues, gastrula, gauffers, gestural, glabrous, glamours, gouramis, gracious, graduals, graduses, granules, graupels, gravures, grayouts, guaranis, guarders, guisards, gurnards, hamburgs, jugulars, languors, laughers, leaguers, nonsugar, nutgrass, organums, osnaburg, outbrags, outdrags, outrages, pagurids, piraguas, plaguers, pugarees, pugmarks, reargues, regauges, regulars, rummages, saguaros, sastruga, sastrugi, sevrugas, singular, sluggard, speargun, spurgall, squaring, subgrade, subgraph, suffrage, sugarier, sugaring, surgical, umbrages, unguards, upgrades, upsprang, zastruga, zastrugi. | |
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