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Date "CALIBAN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1611. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Caliban A declarative annotation language for controlling the partitioning and placement of the evaluation of expressions in a distributed functional language. Designed by Paul Kelly |
Literature | Caliban Rude, uncouth, unknown; as a Caliban style, a Caliban language. The allusion is to Shakespeare's Caliban (The Tempestnew creation, but also a new language. "Satan had not the privilege, as Caliban, to use new phrases, and diction unknown."- Dr. Bentley. Coleridge says, "In him [Caliban], as in some brute animals, this advance to the intellectual faculties, without the moral sense, is marked by the appearance of vice." (Caliban is the "missing link" between brute animals and man.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Caliban is a character in Shakespeare's The Tempest, a deformed servant to Prospero. He is the son of a witch, Sycorax, whom Prospero defeated. Prospero explains his harsh treatment of Caliban by describing how the creature, after initially having been taken into Prospero's family, had lusted after his daughter, Miranda. In his resentment, Caliban plots with the shipwrecked sailors to kill Prospero and become lord of the island, but is ultimately foiled. In recent times, Caliban has been used as a symbol by colonial freedom fighters, especially in the West Indies, who have seen him as an aboriginal inhabitant deprived of his land by European colonizers. The name "Caliban" is related to "cannibal" and "Carib".Robert Browning wrote one of his dramatic monologues from the point of view of Caliban, Caliban upon Setebos, in which he views Caliban as a Rousseauean "natural man". Caliban also gives a lengthy monologue in the style of Henry James in W.H. Auden's long poem The Sea and the Mirror, a meditation on the themes of The Tempest.
Caliban can also be a mythical, deformed figure shaped after the Horned Man and other pagan versions of male fertility / nature spirits. In many Anglo and Saxon legends he takes on forms such as troll, ogres, and other subhumans.
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Brett Gladman |
| Discovered in | September 6, 1997 | Orbital characteristics |
| Semimajor axis | 7.1×106 km |
| Eccentricity | 0.08 |
| Orbital period | 578d |
| Inclination | 137.6° (retrograde) |
| Is a satellite of | Uranus |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Mean radius | ~49 km |
| Mass | 7.3×1017 kg |
| Mean density | 1.5 g/cm3 |
| Surface gravity | 0.02 m/s2 |
| Rotation period | unknown |
| Axial tilt | 98.723° |
| Albedo | 0.07 |
| Atmosphere | none |
Caliban is a moon of Uranus, named after a character in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest.
Caliban was discovered on September 6 - September 7, 1997 by Brett Gladman, Phil Nicholson, Joseph Burns, and JJ Kavelaars using the 200-inch Hale telescope; they also discovered the moon Sycorax at the same time.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Caliban."
| 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 |
CALIBAN | English | Causal Calculus based on Nets | Computing, European Union |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ugliness | Eyesore, object, witch, hag, figure, sight, fright; monster; dog, woofer, pig; octopus, specter, scarecrow, harridan, satyr, toad, monkey, baboon, Caliban, Aesop, "monstrum horrendum informe ingens cui lumen ademptum". |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: CALIBAN |
| Specialty definitions using "CALIBAN": Sycorax. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "CALIBAN" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Swedish (caliban). |
| Domain | Title |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | With it Homer could have bound Polyphemus, or Shakspeare Caliban. |
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| "CALIBAN" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 43.48% of the time. "CALIBAN" is used about 23 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 43.48% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (proper) | 39.13% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (singular) | 17.39% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 23 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 |
caliban | 60 |
caliban lyrics | 7 |
tempest caliban | 5 |
caliban tab | 3 |
caliban cove evil resident | 3 |
caliban guitar tab | 2 |
caliban taylor | 2 |
caliban de la tempestad | 2 |
caliban shakespeare | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CALIBAN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | monstër (behemoth, chimera). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | alibancay ser monstruoso. (various references) калибан. (various references) kaliban, šekspirov junak. (various references) monstruo (colossus, dragon, dread, freak, giant, monster). (various references) caliban. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-i-l-n" | |
-2 letters: abaci, banal, binal, blain, cabal, cabin, canal, labia, lanai, liana, linac. | |
-3 letters: alan, alba, anal, anil, baal, bail, bani, blin, cain, clan, laic, lain, nail. | |
-4 letters: aal, aba, ail, ain, ala, alb, ana, ani, baa, bal, ban, bin, cab, can, lab, lac, lib, lin, nab, nib, nil. | |
-5 letters: aa, ab, ai, al, an, ba. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-i-l-n" | |
+1 letter: anabolic, cannibal. | |
+2 letters: antiblack, balancing, baldachin, basilican, botanical, branchial, caballing, cannibals, cantabile, cobalamin, imbalance, incapable, incapably. | |
+3 letters: actionable, actionably, baldachino, baldachins, blatancies, botanicals, cannabinol, cobalamins, imbalanced, imbalances, incunabula, machinable, misbalance, rabbinical, subclavian. | |
+4 letters: ambivalence, bacchanalia, backhauling, backlashing, baldachinos, berascaling, botanically, calibrating, calibration, cannabinols, cannibalise, cannibalism, cannibalize, chamberlain, containable, hibernacula, increasable, inescapable, inescapably, intractable, intractably, lactalbumin, machineable, misbalanced, misbalances, rebalancing, subclavians, unbalancing. | |
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