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Definition: Pisa |
PisaNoun1. A city in Tuscany; site of the famous Leaning Tower. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Pisa" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Larger imageThe Leaning Tower of Pisa is the Campanile, or Bell-Tower, for the Pisa Cathedral complex. It was built to stand vertically but began leaning soon after construction started in August, 1173.
The height of the tower is 55 metres from the ground. Its weight is estimated at 14,453 tonnes. The current inclination is about 10%. The tower has 297 steps.
The government of Italy asked for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over on February 27, 1964.
On January 7, 1990 the Tower was closed to the public due to safety concerns.
Recently, reconstruction work was done to try and reduce the angle of the tower. The tower was reopened to the public on June 16, 2001 after the completion of ten years of work.
External Links
- http://torre.duomo.pisa.it
- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pisa/
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Leaning Tower of Pisa."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Pisa (population 100,000) is a city in Tuscany, Italy at the mouth of the river Arno on the Mediterranean.
Pisa's coat of arms.By far the best known sight in Pisa is the famous leaning tower which is but one of many architecturally and artistically important structures in the city's Campo dei Miracoli or Field of Miracles to the north of the old town center.
Pisa was one of the 4 Marine Republics of Italy (Repubbliche Marinare), together with Genoa, Amalfi and Venice. The city was a very important commercial center during the Middle Ages and controlled a significant Mediterranean fleet.
Pisa's Duomo with the Leaning Tower at right
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The Pisa is also a river in Poland.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pisa."
| 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 |
PISA | English | Portable InformationsSystem Architecture | Computer - (DB, infodas, PISA) |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Obliquity | Noun: obliquity, inclination, slope, slant, crookedness; Adjective: slopeness; leaning; Verb: bevel, tilt; bias, list, twist, swag, cant, lurch; distortion; bend; (curve); tower of Pisa. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Pisa |
| English words defined with "Pisa": Arno ♦ plumb ♦ River Arno. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Pisa": Kilmarth Rocks ♦ Leaning Tower, Line of Direction ♦ P3L ♦ Seven Wonders of the World ♦ Ugolino. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Pisa" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Hungarian (piddle), Portuguese (crushing, treading), Romanian (bother, Bray, contuse, grind, pestle, pound, pulp). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Turnul din Pisa (2002) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Station Post emulating the "Leaning Tower of Pisa" Leg settled badly in vicinity of ditch Tower was rebuilt with one leg placed in center of road. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Pisa. Campo Santo. Gall dell'inconsolab. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Bird's eye view of Pisa. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Baptistery, Pisa, Italy. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Panoramic view of Baptistry, Cathedral and Leaning Tower, Pisa, Italy. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Leaning Tower, Baptistry & Cathedral, Pisa, Italy. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "House in pisa" by Vicu. Commentary: "A nice house in pisa(italy)." | "Pisa" by Djalma Patricio Commentary: "Pisa, Italia." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| "Pisa" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 97.20% of the time. "Pisa" is used about 107 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) | 97.2% | 104 | 31,955 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.8% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 107 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "Pisa": the leaning tower of pisa ♦ tower of Pisa. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
pisa | 1,288 | flight pisa | 8 |
pisa italy | 1,052 | di pisa torre | 8 |
pisa hotel | 540 | history leaning pisa tower | 7 |
leaning tower of pisa | 343 | pisa studie | 7 |
tower of pisa | 121 | cathedral pisa | 7 |
de pisa torre | 40 | de la pisa torre | 7 |
picture of leaning tower of pisa | 34 | bed pisa | 7 |
pisa airport | 24 | calcio pisa | 7 |
pisa map | 21 | pisa torre | 6 |
map of pisa italy | 18 | di marina pisa | 6 |
hotel pisa italy | 15 | cantieri di pisa | 6 |
di hotel marina pisa | 14 | baptistery pisa | 6 |
hotel in pisa italy | 13 | di pisa universita | 6 |
birkenstock pisa | 10 | aeroporto pisa | 5 |
university of pisa | 10 | dkny pisa mule | 5 |
italy leaning pisa tower | 10 | pisa tour | 5 |
pisa tinoisamoa | 9 | laboratorios pisa | 5 |
pisa bed breakfast | 9 | pisa photo | 5 |
catedral de pisa | 8 | italy pisa tower | 5 |
pisa toren van | 8 | car hire pisa | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "Pisa"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | بيزا, برج بيزا. (various references) | |
Chinese | 比萨. (various references) | |
French | Pise, Tour De Pise. (various references) | |
Greek | σαλιγκάρια Πίζας (Pisa snails). (various references) | |
Hungarian | pisai ferde torony (leaning tower of pisa). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ピギーバック輸送 (10^-12, pf, picket, pickles, picnic, pico-, picofarad, picot, pictograph, picture, piggyback system, pique, pixar, pixel, Pygmy). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ピサ . (various references) | |
Pig Latin | isapay.(various references) | |
Romanian | turnul înclinat din pisa (the leaning tower of pisa). (various references) | |
Russian | пиза. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Pisa" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cisa, Gisa, Ippa, Paiba, paisa, Pbsa, Pdsa, Pensa, Pesa, pias, Piast, Pidar, Pila, pisac, Pisani, Pisar, pisca, pissa, Pissard, Pisum, Piswah, Pitsa, Piva, pixa, Pliska, Posa, Ppias, Ppiase, Priesca, Pusa, Pusat, Pusca, Puska. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: pias. | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-p-s" | |
-1 letter: ais, asp, pas, pia, pis, psi, sap, sip, spa. | |
-2 letters: ai, as, is, pa, pi, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-p-s" | |
+1 letter: aphis, apish, apsis, aspic, aspis, lapis, nipas, padis, paiks, pails, pains, pairs, paisa, paise, paris, pavis, pians, picas, pikas, pimas, pinas, pitas, psoai, sapid, sepia, spahi, spail, spait, spica, tapis. | |
+2 letters: aphids, apices, aspics, aspire, aspish, capias, capris, capsid, dipsas, espial, inspan, lapins, limpas, lipase, milpas, mishap, okapis, paints, paisan, paisas, palais, palish, panics, papist, paries, parish, parvis, passim, pastie, pastil, pastis, patins, patios, patois, pavins, pavise, petsai, phasic, phasis, phials, pianos, pibals, pietas, pilafs, pilaus, pilaws, pinnas, pintas, pipals, pitsaw, pizzas, plaids, plains, plaits, poisha, praise, praxis, primas, ptisan, raphis, rapids, rapist, ripsaw, salpid, scampi, sepias, spadix, spahis, spails, spaits, sparid, spavie, spavin, spicae, spicas, spinal, spiral, spirea, spital, sprain, tapirs. | |
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