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April | Months | April (Apr.) is the fourth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars, and comes between March and May. It is one of four months to have 30 days. April always begins on the same day of the week as July, and additionally, January in leap years. April always ends on the same day of the week as December. Apri... | simple-english |
August | Months | August (Aug.) is the eighth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar, coming between July and September. It has 31 days. It is named after the Roman emperor Augustus Caesar. August does not begin on the same day of the week as any other month in common years, but begins on the same day of the week as February in lea... | simple-english |
Art | Art, Non-verbal communication, Basic English 850 words, Visual arts | Art is a creative activity. It produces a product, an object. Art is a diverse range of human activities in creating visual, performing subjects, and expressing the author's thoughts. The product of art is called a work of art, for others to experience. Some art is useful in a practical sense, such as a sculptured clay... | simple-english |
A | Basic English 850 words, Vowel letters | A is the first letter of the English alphabet. The small letter, a, is used as a lowercase vowel. alt=Writing vowel "A"|thumb|Writing "A" in block font When it is spoken, ā is said as a long a, a diphthong of ĕ and y. A is similar to Alpha of the Greek alphabet. That is not surprising, because it means the same sound... | simple-english |
Air | Basic English 850 words, Atmosphere | Air is the Earth's atmosphere. Air is a mixture of many gases and tiny dust particles. It is the clear gas in which living things live and breathe. It has an indefinite shape and volume. It has mass and weight, because it is matter. The weight of air creates atmospheric pressure. There is no air in outer space. Earth's... | simple-english |
Autonomous communities of Spain | Autonomous communities of Spain | Spain is divided in 17 parts called autonomous communities. Autonomous means that each of these autonomous communities has its own executive, legislative, and judicial powers. These are similar to, but not the same as, states in the United States of America, for example. Spain has fifty smaller parts called provinces. ... | simple-english |
Alan Turing | English computer scientists, English LGBT people, English mathematicians, Gay men, LGBT scientists, Scientists from London, Suicides by poison, Suicides in the United Kingdom, 1912 births, 1954 deaths, Officers of the Order of the British Empire | Alan Mathison Turing (London, 23 June 1912 – Wilmslow, Cheshire, 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician and computer scientist. He is known as the father of computer science. He was born in Maida Vale, London. Turing was born in Maida Vale, London. His father came from a Scottish merchant family. His mother, Ethel S... | simple-english |
Alanis Morissette | 1974 births, Living people, Alanis Morissette, American child actors, American movie actors, American pop musicians, American rock singers, Singer-songwriters from Los Angeles, American television actors, Canadian movie actors, Canadian pop singers, Canadian rock singers, Canadian singer-songwriters... | Alanis Nadine Morissette (born June 1, 1974) is a Grammy Award-winning Canadian-American singer and songwriter. She was born in Ottawa, Canada. She began singing in Canada as a teenager in 1990. In 1995, she became popular all over the world. As a young child in Canada, Morissette began to act on television, including ... | simple-english |
Adobe Illustrator | Vector graphics editors, Adobe software | Adobe Illustrator is a computer program for making graphic design and illustrations. It is made by Adobe Systems. Pictures created in Adobe Illustrator can be made bigger or smaller, and look exactly the same at any size. It works well with the rest of the products with the Adobe name. It was first released in 1986 for... | simple-english |
Andouille | Sausage | Andouille is a type of pork sausage. It is spicy (hot in taste) and smoked. There are different kinds, all with different combinations of pork meat, fat, intestines (tubes going to the stomach), and tripe (the wall of the stomach). Other sorts are "French andouille" and "German andouille"; they are less spicy than Caju... | simple-english |
Farming | Agriculture | Farming is growing crops and keeping animals for food and raw materials. Farming is a significant part of agriculture. Farming began in different parts of the world, independently; There were at least 11 separate centers of origin. Rice was domesticated in China between 11,500 and 6,200 BC with the earliest known culti... | simple-english |
Arithmetic | Arithmetics | In mathematics, arithmetic is the basic study of numbers. The four basic arithmetic operations are addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, although other operations such as exponentiation and roots are also studied in arithmetic. Other arithmetic topics includes working with negative numbers, fractions, de... | simple-english |
Addition | Basic English 850 words, Hyperoperations | Not to be confused with building extensions which are also called additions. In mathematics, addition, represented by the symbol +, is an operation which combines two mathematical objects together into another mathematical object of the same type, called the sum. Addition can occur with simple objects such as numbers, ... | simple-english |
Australia | Australia, Australasia, Commonwealth realms, English-speaking countries, Federations, 1901 establishments | Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is an island country and sovereign state located in the southern hemisphere, in Oceania. Its capital city is Canberra, and its largest city is Sydney. It is mostly a desert country. Australia is the sixth biggest country in the world by land area, and is part of the ... | simple-english |
American English | American English | American English, or US English, is the dialect of English that is spoken in the United States. It is different from other types of English like British English. Most types of American English came from local dialects in England. During the 18th and 19th centuries, pronunciation changed less in America than in England.... | simple-english |
Aquaculture | Aquaculture | Aquaculture is the farming of fish, shrimp, abalones, algae, and other seafood. Aquaculture supplies fish, such as catfish, salmon, and trout. It was developed a few thousand years ago in China. Aquaculture supplies over 20% of all the seafood harvested. Fish farming has been practiced, in some parts of the world, f... | simple-english |
Abbreviation | Linguistics, Abbreviations | An abbreviation is a shorter way to write a word or phrase. People use abbreviations for words that they write a lot. The English language occasionally uses the apostrophe mark ' to show that a word is written in a shorter way, but some abbreviations do not use this mark. Borrowed Latin phrases More often, they use per... | simple-english |
Angel | Angels | In many mythologies and religions, an angel is a good spirit. The word angel comes from the Greek word angelos which means "messenger". Angels appear frequently in the Old Testament, the New Testament, Qur'an and Aqdas. Different references to angels throughout the Bible suggest different kinds and ranks of angels, suc... | simple-english |
Ad hominem | Latin words used in English | Ad hominem is a Latin word for a type of argument. It is a word often used in rhetoric. Rhetoric is the science of speaking well, and convincing other people of your ideas. Translated to English, ad hominem means against the person. In other words, when someone makes an ad hominem, they are attacking the person they ar... | simple-english |
Native American | Ethnic groups, Native Americans, Ethnic groups in Canada, Ethnic groups in the United States | Native Americans (also called Aboriginal Americans, American Indians, Amerindians, or Indigenous peoples of the Americas) are the indigenous peoples and their descendants, who were in the Americas before the Europeans arrived. The people are sometimes called Indians, but that may be confusing, because it is the same wo... | simple-english |
Apple | Basic English 850 words, Apples, Territory symbols of Jammu and Kashmir, State symbols of Himachal Pradesh, National symbols of Poland | The apple tree comes from southern Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Uzbekistan; Turkey; and the northwestern part of China. Apples have been grown for thousands of years in Asia and in Europe. They were brought to North America by European World Colonial settlers. Apples have Religious and mythological significance in many cult... | simple-english |
American Units Of Measurement | #REDIRECT United States customary units | simple-english |
Abrahamic religions | Abrahamic religions, Mythology | The Abrahamic religions are a group of religions that claim they came from the religion of the ancient Israelites (Judaism) and believe in the God of Abraham. The Abrahamic religions are monotheistic, meaning they only believe in one god. The term derives from Patriarch Abraham, an important person from the Hebrew Bibl... | simple-english |
Algebra | Algebra | Algebra is a part of mathematics. It uses variables to represent a value that is not yet known or can be replaced with any value. When an equals sign (=) is used, this is called an equation. A very simple equation using a variable is: 2+3=x. In this example, x=5, or it could also be said that "x equals five". This is c... | simple-english |
Atom | Chemistry, Nuclear physics, Atoms | An atom is an extremely small piece of matter. All normal matter – everything that has mass – is made of atoms. This includes solids, liquids, and gases. The atom cannot be broken to parts by chemistry, so people once thought it was the smallest piece of matter that could exist. There are over 100 different kinds of at... | simple-english |
Astronomy | Astronomy | Astronomy is the scientific study of celestial bodies. It is a major branch of space science. Stars, galaxies, planets, moons, asteroids, comets and nebulae are studied, as are supernovae explosions, gamma ray bursts, and cosmic microwave background radiation. Astronomy includes the development, physics, chemistry, met... | simple-english |
Architecture | Architecture | Architecture is the process of designing structures and buildings. It uses both art and engineering. Examples include houses, churches, hotels, office buildings, roads, tunnels and bridges. Architecture is the profession of an architect. Usually, a person must study at an institution of higher education (university) to... | simple-english |
Anatomy | Anatomy | Anatomy is the study of the bodies of people and other animals. Anatomy is the study of the inside of the body and outside the body. Anatomy notes the position and structure of organs such as muscles, glands and bones. A person who studies anatomy is an anatomist. The history of anatomy dates back to 1600 BC when Egypt... | simple-english |
Asteroid | Asteroids | An asteroid is a minor planet that orbits within the inner solar system. It is a small object in the Solar System that travels around the Sun. It is like a planet but smaller. They range from very small (smaller than a car) to 600 miles (1000 km) across. A few asteroids have an asteroid moon. The name "asteroid" means ... | simple-english |
Afghanistan | Least developed countries, Members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, 1709 establishments in Asia, Landlocked countries, Current dictatorships, Afghanistan, Totalitarian states | Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is a country in Asia. It borders Pakistan in the south and east (border with India is disputed), Iran in the west, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in the north, and China in the far northeast. Kabul is the capital city. Afghanistan is currently governed... | simple-english |
Angola | Angola, Portuguese-speaking countries, Least developed countries, 1975 establishments in Africa, HIV/AIDS in Angola, Current dictatorships | Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country in southern Africa. It shares borders with Namibia in the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the north, and Zambia in the east. Its west border touches the Atlantic Ocean. Its coastline is 1600 kilometers. Angola's capital is Luanda. The country has ma... | simple-english |
Argentina | Argentina, Spanish-speaking countries | Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in South America. Argentina is the second-largest country in South America and the eighth-largest country in the world. Spanish is the most spoken language, and the official language, but many other languages are spoken. There are minorities speaking Italian, G... | simple-english |
Austria | Austria, European Union member states, German-speaking countries, Federations | Austria (, ; ), officially the Republic of Austria ( ), is a country in Central Europe. Around Austria are the countries of Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Italy, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein. The people in Austria speak German, a few also speak Hungarian, Slovenian and Croatian. The capit... | simple-english |
Armenia | Armenia, Caucasus | Armenia (, Hayastān), officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked country located in the Armenian Highlands in the Caucasus region of Western Asia. The Hittites and Hayasa-Azzi may have played a significant role in the ethnicity of Armenians. It has an ancient cultural heritage. One of the earliest Armenian ki... | simple-english |
Archaeology | Archaeology | Archaeology, or archeology, is the study of the human past. It looks at remains and objects left by the people who lived long ago. These remains may include old coins, tools, buildings, and inscriptions. Archaeologists, the people who study archaeology, use these remains to understand how people lived. When archaeologi... | simple-english |
Application | The word application has several uses. In medicine, 'application' means putting some drug or ointment usually on the skin where it is absorbed into the human body. In computer software, an application is a type of program which is designed for a particular function. Example: word processing. It is most used to mean a ... | simple-english |
Animal | Animals, Basic English 850 words | Animals (or Metazoa) are living creatures with many cells that make up the kingdom Animalia. Animals get their energy from other living things. Usually, they eat them or are parasites. Animals, plants, fungi, and some other living things have complex cells, so they are grouped together as eukaryotes. The study of anima... | simple-english |
Acceleration | Basic physics ideas, Mechanics | Acceleration is a measure of how fast velocity changes. Acceleration is the change of velocity divided by the change of time. Acceleration is a vector, and therefore includes both a size and a direction. Acceleration is also a change in speed and direction. There is: Speed (a scalar quantity) (uses no direction) Distan... | simple-english |
Black pudding | Sausage | Black pudding is an English name for zwarte pudding. It is food made by cooking down the blood of any mammal (usually pigs or cattle) with meat, fat or filler until it is thick enough to congeal (become firm or solid) when cooled. Types of black pudding In Great Britain, blood sausage is called "black pudding". The i... | simple-english |
Boot device | software, Computer hardware | A boot device is used to start a computer. It is named after a boot which fits on the foot. The word bootstrap is also closely related, and means, to use something simpler to get something more complex to make itself work better. It comes from the English phrase "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps." Before a com... | simple-english |
Boot | Basic English 850 words, Boots | alt=|thumb|200x200px|Combat leather boots A boot is a type of footwear that protects the foot and ankle. Boots are higher and larger than shoes and sandals. Some boots are high enough to protect the calves (lower part of the leg) as well. Some boots are held on with bootstraps or bootlaces. Some also have spats or ga... | simple-english |
Bankruptcy | Finance, Business law | Bankruptcy is a legal process which happens when a person or an organization does not have enough money to pay all of its debts. Legally they are insolvent. Where it is a person who cannot pay their debts, the person's creditors may ask the court to appoint a trustee in bankruptcy. This is a professional accountant ... | simple-english |
Breakfast sausage | Sausage, Breakfast foods | Breakfast sausage is a type of fresh pork sausage made from seasoned ground meat mixed with bread crumbs. Breakfast sausage has a blander flavor than many other types of sausage, such as British or Italian-style sausages. History of breakfast sausages The journey of breakfast sausages began centuries ago in Europe, wit... | simple-english |
Browser | Animals by eating behavior | A browser is a name given to any animal, usually a herbivorous mammal, which eats leaves and shrubs rather than grass. It is contrasted with grazers, which eat grass. | simple-english |
Beekeeping | Beekeeping | Beekeeping or apiculture is the farming of honeybees. The keeping of bees is usually, and has been in the past, for honey. That is becoming less true. Instead, it is more used for crop pollination and other products. These are wax and propolis. There is only one queen bee in each hive and she is bigger than the rest. S... | simple-english |
British English | British English | British English is the dialect of English that is spoken in the United Kingdom. It is different in some ways from other types of English such as American English. British English is widely spoken in most countries that were once part of the British Empire. Use in other countries American English is used in the United S... | simple-english |
Being | Philosophy, Religion | Being is also a present tense part of to be The word being means a living person or animal. ‘Human being’ means the same as ’person’. Men, women, and children are human beings. Some people write stories or make movies about beings from other planets. Most religions talk about supernatural beings, for example spirits, a... | simple-english |
Beijing | Beijing, Olympic cities | Beijing is the capital of the People's Republic of China. The city used to be known as Peking. It is in the northern and eastern parts of the country. Having more that 21 million residents, it is one of the most populous capital cities in the world. The city of Beijing has played a very important role in the developme... | simple-english |
Bottle | Basic English 850 words, Containers, Drinkware | A bottle is a container used to carry liquids. Bottles can have many different sizes. Bottles are usually made of glass or plastic. Drinks such as milk, wine, lemonade, soft drinks, and water are often put into bottles. Other liquids put into bottles include chemicals like bleach or detergent, and some kinds of medicin... | simple-english |
Berry | Berries | The word berry is used for many different kinds of small fruits that have many seeds and can be used as food. Some examples are raspberry, strawberry, sutberry, lingonberry and blueberry. When botanists talk about berries, they mean a simple fruit produced from a single ovary. They sometimes call this true berry, to di... | simple-english |
Boil | Basic English 850 words | Boiling, heating a liquid to the point where it turns into gas Boil, a type of Staphylococcal infection | simple-english |
Beard | Facial hair | A beard is the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face. The hair that grows on the upper lip of some men is a mustache. When a man has hair only below the lower lip and above the chin, it is called a soul patch. Some men have a lot of hair and a big beard, and some have very little. In the modern world, many m... | simple-english |
Black | Basic English 850 words | In the subtractive color system, a way to create black is to mix pigments. A pigment works by reflecting only the color of other colored objects because they absorb more light. In the additive color system, it is the absence of light. Black is a neutral color. It is not a cool color, nor a warm color. Black is seen as ... | simple-english |
Bubonic plague | Plague, Pulmonology, Zoonoses | Bubonic plague is the best-known form of the disease plague caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. The name bubonic plague is specific for this form of the disease, which enters through the skin, and travels through the lymphatic system. The plague was spread by fleas on rats. This method of spreading disease is call... | simple-english |
Biology | Biology, Science-related lists | Biology is the science that studies life, living things, and the evolution of life. Living things include animals, plants, fungi (such as mushrooms), and microorganisms such as bacteria and archaea. The term 'biology' is relatively modern. It was introduced in 1799 by a physician, Thomas Beddoes. It comes from the Gree... | simple-english |
Botany | Botany | Botany is the study of plants. It is a science. It is a branch of biology. It is also called plant biology, and sometimes phytology. Scientists who study botany are called botanists. They study how plants work. Agronomy—Applying plant science to crop production Bryology—Mosses, liverworts, and hornworts Forestry—Forest... | simple-english |
Belgium | Belgium, European Union member states, Benelux, Current monarchies, Dutch-speaking countries, French-speaking countries, German-speaking countries, Federations | Belgium (officially the Kingdom of Belgium; , , ) is a country in Western Europe. Its capital, Brussels, is the home of many organizations, including the European Union and NATO. Belgium is bordered by the Netherlands in the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast and France to the south. Belgium has an... | simple-english |
Brazil | Brazil, Portuguese-speaking countries, 1825 establishments in South America, Former Portuguese colonies, 1822 establishments in South America | Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is a country in South America. It is the world's fifth-largest country by area, behind Russia, Canada, the United States, and China, with a total area of . It is also the world's seventh-largest country by population, with about 212 million people. Brazil's capital ... | simple-english |
Britain | Great Britain, a large island with the countries of England, Scotland and Wales The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, a sovereign state in Europe with Great Britain and the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland. The realm of the Monarchy of the United Kingdom, comprising the United Kingdom, th... | simple-english |
Chemistry | Chemistry | Chemistry is the science that studies what everything is made of and how it changes. It looks at matter, which is anything that takes up space. Chemistry tries to understand how matter is built, how it behaves, and how it can change. Chemistry explores how tiny particles called atoms and molecules come together, break ... | simple-english |
Compound | Compound may refer to: Architecture and built environments Compound (enclosure), a group of buildings that has a shared purpose, usually inside a fence or wall Compound (fortification), a type of the above with defensive structures Compound (migrant labour), a hostel for migrant workers The Compound, an place in Palm B... | simple-english |
Computer science | Computer science, Formal sciences | 144px|alt=large capital lambda|Programming language theory|link=Programming language theory 144px|alt=Plot of a quicksort algorithm|Computational complexity theory|link=Computational complexity theory 144px|alt=Example of Computer animation produced using Motion capture|Computer graphics|link=Computer graphics (compute... | simple-english |
Computer | Computers, Computer science | A computer is a machine that uses electronics to input, process, store, and output data. Data is information such as numbers, words, and lists. Input of data means to read information from a keyboard, a storage device like a hard drive, or a sensor. The computer processes or changes the data by following the instructio... | simple-english |
Chinese | Anything related to the country of China Chinese people, the people of China Chinese characters, the symbols used to write the Chinese and Japanese languages | simple-english |
Continent | Continents, Geology | A continent is a large area of the land on Earth that is joined. There are no strict rules for what land is considered a continent, but in general the Earth is known to have seven continents; these being, Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, North America, South America and Oceania or Australia Continents of the world Con... | simple-english |
Classical Elements | #REDIRECT Classical element | simple-english |
Classical element | Ancient Greece, History of science | The Greek classical elements are fire, air, water, and earth. In Greek philosophy, science and medicine, these make up a whole. Fire is both hot and dry. Air is both hot and wet. Water is both cold and wet. Earth is both cold and dry. The image below has two squares on top of each other. The corners of one are the clas... | simple-english |
China | Divided regions, China, Geographic regions, Regions of Asia | China ( Pinyin: Zhōngguó) is a cultural region, an ancient civilization, and a nation in East Asia. Geographically, China’s longest river is the Yangtze River, which runs through mega cities and is home to many species. It is the world’s third longest river. The first recorded use of the word "China" is dated to be 190... | simple-english |
Country | Countries, Basic English 850 words | 280px|thumb|World map with the current political division of countries. A country is a distinct territory with defined borders, boundaries, people and government. Most countries are sovereign states while others make up one part of a larger state. The people that live in a country are referred to as a nation. The gover... | simple-english |
Colchester | Colchester, 43, 1st-century establishments in Europe, Establishments in England | Colchester is a city in the northern part of the English county of Essex. It has a population of 130,245 people. People believe that Colchester is the oldest Roman town in England. Before Roman times, Colchester was Camulodunon. This is a Celtic name that came from Camulos. Camulos was the Celtic god of war. The Romans... | simple-english |
Cartography | Geodesy, History of science, Topography, Topology | 250px|thumb|right|World map (2004, CIA World Factbook) Cartography is making maps. It is part of geography. How people make maps is always changing. In the past, maps were drawn by hand, but today most printed maps are made using computers and people usually see maps on computer screens. Someone who makes maps is calle... | simple-english |
Creator | Theology | A creator is a person who creates something. In some religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) God (or Allah meaning the God in Arabic) is the most important and original creator of the whole universe - including Man who is made "in his image" (see Genesis) to observe it and control it like God. The idea that anything t... | simple-english |
Contact network | Contact network may mean: | simple-english |
Chorizo | Sausage | Chorizo is a pork (pig-meat) sausage which people first made in the Iberian Peninsula. It is made with large pieces of fatty pork, chili pepper and paprika. The special taste of this sausage comes from the mild Spanish paprika in it. In the western hemisphere, the Mexican and Caribbean types are better known. These typ... | simple-english |
Creativity | Human behavior, Creativity, Critical thinking skills | Creativity is the ability to make something new. Creativity is involved in all parts of life - including science, art, writing and music. Creativity is difficult to measure. We do not understand why people are creative. It can be controversial to judge creativity. Some people say that making something is only creative ... | simple-english |
Catharism | Gnosticism, Nontrinitarianism, Christianity in the Middle Ages | The Cathar faith was a version of Christianity. They were usually considered Gnostics. The word 'Cathar' comes the Greek word katharos meaning 'unpolluted' (from Tobias Churton, The Gnostics) or "the pure ones". They used Bible translations in the language people spoke. Most other Western Christians used a Bible in La... | simple-english |
Cosmology | Astrophysics, Cosmology | Cosmology is the branch of astronomy that deals with the universe. NASA defines cosmology as "The study of the structure and changes in the present universe". Another definition of cosmology is "the study of the universe, and humanity's place in it". Modern cosmology is dominated by the Big Bang theory, which brings to... | simple-english |
Church (building) | Churches | A church is a building that was constructed to allow people to meet to worship together. These people are usually Christians, or influenced by Christianity. Some other non-Christian religious groups also call their religious buildings churches, most notably Scientology. The following description is about Roman Catholic... | simple-english |
City | Cities | A city is a place where many people live close together. A city has many buildings and streets. It has houses, hotels, condominiums, and apartments for many people to live in, shops where they may buy things, places for people to work, and a government to run the city and keep law and order in the city. People live in ... | simple-english |
Cooking | Cooking, Basic English 850 words | Cooking is a process to make food ready to eat by heating it. Cooking is often done in a kitchen using a stove or an oven. It can also be done over a fire (for example, over a campfire or on a barbecue). The heat for cooking can be made in different ways. It can be from an open fire that burns wood or charcoal. It can ... | simple-english |
Chat | Communication, Internet communication, Messaging | To chat is to talk about ordinary things that are not usually very important. However, important issues can also classify as “chat”, for instance when organising gatherings, meetings or events, such as air show attendance. A person can chat with another person, or to many people. People also use this word now for part... | simple-english |
Cup | Basic English 850 words | A cup is any kind of container used for holding liquid and drinking. These include: Measuring cup, a measuring instrument for liquids and powders, used primarily in cooking Cup (unit), a customary unit of volume and measure Cancer of unknown primary origin, form of cancer The cup of a brassière, the part that covers th... | simple-english |
Crime | Basic English 850 words, Crime, Criminal law | A crime (or misdemeanor or felony) is an act done by a person which is against the laws of a country or region. A person who does this is called a criminal. The basic idea of what things are called "crimes" is that they are thought to be things that might cause a problem for another person. Things like killing another ... | simple-english |
Time Cube | Pseudoscience, American websites, 1997 establishments in the United States, Conspiracy theories | Time Cube was a personal website created in 1997 by Otis Eugene Ray. On that website, Ray explained his theory of everything, known as "Time Cube". It described the planet Earth as having a cubic symmetry, and time as rotating four "corners". He also said that all of modern physics is wrong. Scientists reject these ide... | simple-english |
Census of Marine Life | Biological oceanography, Censuses | The Census of Marine Life was a ten-year survey of life in the oceans, starting in 2000. Its head was Ron O'Dor of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. It used data from researchers all over the world. More than 70 nations were involved and over a billion US dollars were spent on it. It was a major wor... | simple-english |
Maize | Maize, Model organisms | Maize or Indian corn (called corn in some countries) is Zea mays, a member of the grass family Poaceae. It is a cereal grain which was first grown by people in ancient Central America. Approximately 1 billion tonnes are harvested every year. However, little of this maize is eaten directly by humans. Most is used to mak... | simple-english |
Civics | Political science | Civics is the study of government. It most often refers to studying government in high school to prepare to be a good citizen. In college, civics is usually called political science. Since a city has the most unsimple government problems, the word for this study is like that for city. Theories of civics can be group... | simple-english |
Calculus | Calculus | Calculus is a branch of mathematics that describes continuous change. There are two different types of calculus. Differential calculus divides (differentiates) things into small (different) pieces, and tells us how they change from one moment to the next, while integral calculus joins (integrates) the small pieces toge... | simple-english |
Coin | Coins | A coin is a piece of metal that is used as currency, or money. The earliest coins were in Lydia, in what is Turkey today, in 7th Century BC. They were made from electrum, an alloy found in riverbeds. Most people use coins as currency. They usually have lower value than banknotes. Most are made in government mints. Many... | simple-english |
Conceptual metaphor | Metaphors | A conceptual metaphor or cognitive metaphor is a metaphor which refers to one domain (group of ideas) in terms of another. For example, treating quantity in terms of direction: I attacked every weak point in his argument. (Argument as war rather than enquiry or search for truth). Love talked about as if it were war or ... | simple-english |
Crust | Crust is a piece of bread where the edge where it is harder and darker. Crust can also mean: Crust (geology) - the outer solid layer of a planet such as the Earth but other planets also. On Earth the crust can be divided into: continental crust on which the land of the planet Earth sits oceanic crust which forms most o... | simple-english |
Comedy | Comedy | Comedy (from ), in modern times, is an entertainment with generally funny content. It is able to make people laugh. This definition was used for theatre plays, and was first used in Ancient Greece. Aristotle defined this as “Comedy is, as we have said, an imitation of characters of a lower type- not, however, in the fu... | simple-english |
Comet | Comets | A comet is a ball of mostly ice that moves around in outer space. Comets are often described as "dirty snowballs". They are very different from asteroids. The orbital inclinations of comets are usually high and not near the ecliptic where most solar system objects are found. Most of them are long-period comets and come... | simple-english |
Cytology | Cell biology, Molecular biology | Cytology is the study of the cells, especially their appearance and structure. Cells are the small parts that make up all living things, and their effects on each other and their environment. There are two types of cells. Prokaryotic cells do not have a clear and easy-to-see nucleus, and do not have a membrane, or wall... | simple-english |
Christian | Christians | A Christian () is a person who believes in Christianity, an Abrahamic monotheistic religion. Christianity is mostly about the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, in the Bible's New Testament and interpreted or prophesied in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. Christianity is the world's largest religion, with 2.1 billion f... | simple-english |
Cheese | Basic English 850 words, Cheese | Cheese is a dairy product that is made from milk from many different animals. There are many types of cheese, such as cheddar, Swiss, and provolone. Many things affect the form, texture, color and flavor of a cheese. These include the milk (cow or goat), if the milk has been pasteurized, the amount of butterfat, bacter... | simple-english |
Constitution | Constitutions | The constitution of a country (or a state) is a special type of law document that tells how its government is supposed to work. Every country has its own constitution, it tells how the country's leaders are to be chosen and how long they get to stay in office, how new laws are made and old laws are to be changed or rem... | simple-english |
Circle | Shapes, Conic sections | A circle is a round, two-dimensional shape. All points on the edge of the circle are at the same distance from the center. The point on the side. Mathematicians use the letter r for the length of a circle's radius. The center of a circle is the point in the very middle. It is often written as O. The diameter (meaning "... | simple-english |
Capitalization | Spelling | Capitalization (North American spelling), or capitalisation (British spelling), is a process to make one letter or more uppercase. The first letter of a sentence is capitalised in many languages, as are the first letters of proper nouns such as names of people and places. In German, however, all nouns are capitalized. ... | simple-english |
Capitalize | #REDIRECT capitalization | simple-english |
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