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Definition: Rorschach |
RorschachNoun1. A projective tests using bilaterally symmetrical inkblots; subjects state what they see in the inkblot. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Rorschach is a city in the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland, on Lake Constance. As of 2003 it had a population of 9000 (approx.) and a surface of 178 hectares.
- Alternate uses: Rorschach_(superhero), Rorschach_test
The place was first mentionned in 850 as Rorscahun. In 947, Otto I granted the abbot of St. Gall the right for markets, coinage and tariffs at Rorschach.
Sights include the Kornhaus, lake promenade, aviation museum in Altenrhein, the abbey Mariaberg, as well as the St. Anna, Wartensee, Sulzberg and Wartegg castles.
The city is governed by a city council, headed by mayor Thomas Müller (CVP, elected 2003), and a parliament.
The train lines link the city to St. Gallen, St. Margrethen, Romanshorn. A cog railway leads to Heiden (800 m a.s.l). In 1856, the station became the terminus of the line Zurich-St. Gallen.
External links
- [1] City (non-English)
- [1] Tourism information (non-English)
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Rorschach is a fictional superhero who is a central character in the classic comic book series, Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons and published by DC Comics. He is a modified version of the character, The Question created by Steve DitkoHis real name is Walter Kovacs, the son of a prostitute who felt he interfered in her business and abused him him viciously. At the age of 10, he was cruelly abused by two bullies who enraged him into attacking them and he was arrested and made a ward of the state when his family life was investigated.
Reaching maturity, he found work as a garment worker and was later facsinated by a new garment with special interior dark liquid masses that continually change into symmetrical patterns like a Rorschach test. When he learned of the murder of Kitty Genovese where a woman was murdered in front of a building full of tenants who didn't bother to help her, he modified the cloth as a mask to become Rorschach to lash out against such criminals.
Eventually, he teamed up with another superhero, Nite Owl (II), in a close association in which Rorschach's natural investigation skills were complimented by his partner's technical skills and resources.
By the 1970's, Rorschach was hunting for a kidnapped girl and found a likely hideout to investigate. To his horror, he realized that the girl was murdered and fed to two German Shepherd dogs. In the face of this atrocity, Kovac's mind snapped and assumed the mental identity of Roschach as a seperate personality. With that change, he killed the dogs and later murdered the kidnapper.
With that, Rorschach terrorized criminals on his own and was an apolocalyptic picketter during the day. He grew even more violent, such as when the practice of freelance masked vigilantes were outlawd, he murdered a notorious rapist and pinned a note on the body saying "Never!" before he dumped it front of a police station.
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Eventually in the mid 1980s, he investigated a murder and discovered that the victim was The Comedian, a miscreant superhero he admired. Suspecting a plot to eliminate superheroes, he pursued the case based on that theory and interviewed the various informal members of the hero community. Although they do not support his idea, the public pressure motivated exile of Dr. Manhattan and the attempted murder of Adrian Viedt aka Ozymandais seems to support his idea. Eventually, he finds himself framed for the murder of a old retired supervillain and arrested.
Sent to prison, Rorschach find himself the subject to numerous death threats and attacks by vengeful prisoners, but more he more than holds his own. Eventually, he is forcibly freed by Nite Owl and Silk Spectre in order to investigate the series of events happening around them.
Eventually, they learned that the mastermind behind the plot is Adrian Viedt and he and Nite Owl traveled to his home in Antarctica to confront him. However, they were too late to stop him from executing his plan to fake a disasterous visitation of a monsterous alien devastating New York City in order to frighten the world into uniting.
Faced with the fact that exposing this crime could lead to worse world devastation, the other superheroes agreed to keep silent about it. Rorschach, on the other hand, refused on principle to cooperate and was killed by Dr. Manhattan at his own goading.
However, His legacy may have greater consequences. This is because prior to going to Antarctica, he wrote a complete journal about his investigation and sent it to a reactionary fringe newspaper. Whether the journal's contents will be printed and taken seriously by the public is unknown.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Rorschach (superhero)."
Synonym: RorschachSynonym: inkblot test (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: Fuchs-Rorschach test (medicine), International Rorschach Society (international organizations), Rorschach Inkblot Test (medicine), Rorschach test (medicine), Structured-Objective Rorschach Test (medicine). |
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Screenplays | Rorschach, Thematic Apperception, he folds them into origami's, as you see. (Red Dragon; writing credit: Ted Tally) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Interviewing an adolescent in Asia and application of the Rorschach test. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Eric Schwab.. |
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| "Straight to heaven" by Nick Lobeck Commentary: "Located at rorschach, switzerland." |
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| "Rorschach" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Rorschach" is used about 8 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) | 50% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (singular) | 50% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "Rorschach": Rorschach test. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Rorschach": Rorschach-heiden. | |
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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. |
| Language | Translations for "Rorschach"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | Rorschach-test (Rorschach test). (various references) | |
Dutch | Rorschachtest (Rorschach test), inktvlekmethode (Rorschach test). (various references) | |
Finnish | Rorschachin koe (Rorschach test). (various references) | |
French | test de Rorschach (Rorschach test). (various references) | |
German | Rorschach-Test (Rorschach test). (various references) | |
Greek | δοκιμασία Rorschach (Rorschach test). (various references) | |
Italian | test di Rorschach (Rorschach test). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ローラー族 (bread roll, jelly cake, jelly roll, people devoted to inline rollerskating, Roland, role-playing, roll, roll collar, roll sandwich, rolling, rolling plan, Rolls-Royce, roll-up title, Rorschach test, sandwich roll). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ロールシャッハテスト (Rorschach test). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | orschachray.(various references) | |
Spanish | Rorschach (Rorschach test), psicodiagnóstico de Rorschach (Rorschach test). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-h-h-o-r-r-s" | |
-2 letters: carroch, charros. | |
-3 letters: caroch, charro, charrs, corsac, horahs, scorch. | |
-4 letters: carrs, chaos, charr, chars, coach, cocas, crash, crocs, harsh, hoars, horah, horas, orach, orcas, roach, roars. | |
-5 letters: arch, arco, arcs, carr, cars, cash, chao, char, coca, cors, cosh, croc, hahs, hash, hoar, hora, oars, ocas, orca, orcs, orra, osar, rash, rhos, roar, rocs, scar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-h-h-o-r-r-s" | |
+4 letters: archbishopric. | |
+5 letters: archbishoprics. | |
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