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573 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oahu | Oahu | Oahu (or Oʻahu) is the third largest of the Hawaiian Islands, in the United States. It means "the gathering place" (a place where people meet) in the Hawaiian language. Most of the people of Hawaii live there (1.2 million of the state's 1.7 million in the mid-1990s). The total land area is . Honolulu, the capital city ... |
575 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20content | Open content | Open content is content that is openly accessible, usable, editable, and distributable by anyone for any purpose, even commercially. Open content is licensed with an open license that authorizes use of the content as described above.
When someone creates something (like a picture or book), they can open it for the use... |
577 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthography | Orthography | Orthography is an official or correct way to write a particular language. It includes rules of spelling. Orthography may also include rules about punctuation, capitalization, and diacritics (e.g. accents). In English, spelling is a problem for all learners, and is the main issue in orthography.
Some languages have som... |
578 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil | Oil | The word oil is used for many different kinds of liquids. Oil usually does not mix with water.
Vegetable oils are made from plants. Many are used in foods and for cooking. Some kinds of plant oils that people use are palm oil, maize (corn), olive, peanut, soy, and sunflower.
Other kinds of oil are made from crude oil... |
579 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK | OK | OK (okay) is a word in the English language. It is used to mean that something is good or correct. It is the opposite of the word bad.
It can often be used instead of the word Yes. It is not certain where the word "OK" originally comes from, but some experts say it came from a funny way of writing "Ol Korrect" (All c... |
584 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxymoron | Oxymoron | An oxymoron is a term for a figure of speech. It is made up of two or more words that seem to be opposite to each other, or actually are opposite.
For example, the phrases "Wise fool", "Warm freezer", and "Legal murder" all have two words. In each one, the one word looks like the opposite of the other word.
You ca... |
587 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating%20system | Operating system | An operating system (OS) is a group of computer programs, including device drivers, kernels, and other software that lets people interact with a computer. It manages computer hardware and software resources. It provides common services for computer programs. An OS can be small (like MenuetOS), or large (like Microsoft ... |
590 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy | Philosophy | Philosophy is the study of underlying things. It tries to understand the reasons or basis for things. It also tries to understand how things should be. "" is the Ancient Greek word for the "love of wisdom". A person who works in the field of philosophy is called a philosopher. A philosopher is a kind of thinker and res... |
591 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics | Physics | Physics is a branch of science. It is one of the most fundamental scientific disciplines. The main goal of physics is to explain how things move in space and time and understand how the universe behaves. It studies matter, forces and their effects.
The word physics comes from the Greek word ἡ φύσις, meaning "nature".... |
592 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics | Politics | Politics is the way that people living in groups make decisions.
Politics is about making agreements between people so that they can live together in groups such as tribes, cities, or countries. In large groups, such as countries, some people may spend a lot of their time making such agreements. These people are calle... |
595 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value%20%28personal%20and%20cultural%29 | Value (personal and cultural) | A value (or principle) usually means an abstract rule, one that can be seen to apply in many experiences, or can be applied by choice in a lot of situations. It can also mean a moral choice one makes often and consistently, for example, some Buddhists avoid eating meat as a matter of principle.
Many groups of people a... |
597 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profanity | Profanity | Profanity, also known as swearing, are words which are considered to be rude, inappropriate or offensive. The adjective is profane. Profanities can also be called curse ("cuss") words, swear words, dirty words, bad words, foul language, strong language, obscenity, obscene language, or expletives. It can be called swear... |
598 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof | Proof | Proof could mean:
An argument, including:
Mathematical proof
Proof theory, a branch of mathematical logic
Logical argument
Evidence (law), tested evidence or a legal proof
Proof (alcohol), measure of an alcoholic beverage's strength
Proofing (baking technique), how a yeast-leavened dough rises
Proofreading
Ar... |
600 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s%20Republic%20of%20China | People's Republic of China | The People's Republic of China (PRC) () is a one-party state in East Asia governed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It was founded on 1 October 1949. It currently has more than 1.4 billion people (as of 2017), which is more than any other country in the world. It covers an area of 9.6 million square kilometers.
T... |
604 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoneuroimmunology | Psychoneuroimmunology | Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) is the study of the interaction between psychological processes and the nervous and immune systems of the human body. PNI takes an interdisciplinary approach.
The main interests of PNI are the interactions between the nervous and immune systems and the relationships between mental processes... |
606 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political%20party | Political party | A political party is an organized group of people or bodies who seek to capture political power through an election in order to run the affairs of a country. It often puts forward candidates for public office. In a democracy, leaders must "run for office" in an election. In a dictatorship, there is generally only one p... |
607 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page | Page | A page can be different things:
Usually, a page is a physical sheet of paper in a book, magazine, newspaper etc. When a page is not in a book (etc.) it is a sheet or piece of paper.
When we talk about computers, a page is also a common abbreviation in net jargon for "webpage". Here the page is not paper, it is a p... |
608 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet | Pet | A pet is a domesticated animal that lives with people, but is not forced to work and is not eaten, in most instances. In most cases, a pet is kept to entertain people or for companionship. Some pets such as dogs and cats are placed in an animal shelter if there is no one willing to take care of them. If no one adopts i... |
609 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product | Product | A product can mean a few things:
Product (as a general idea) is anything which results from a process.
Product (mathematics) is the result of multiplication
Product (consumer goods) in business
Product (chemistry) is a result or something that is made in a chemical reaction. |
620 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program | Program | The term Program can be used in many ways.
A program or programme can be a plan of how to do something. It tells the steps that we think we need to do to make something happen. For example, a government might make a program to improve the health of the people in part of a country by giving the people better food, by h... |
623 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic%20realism | Platonic realism | Platonic realism is the theory of reality developed by Plato, and explained in his theory of Forms. Platonic realism states that the visible world of particular things is a shifting exhibition, like shadows cast on a wall by the activities of their corresponding universal Ideas or Forms. Whereas the visible world of ... |
625 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox | Paradox | A paradox is a sentence in logic that cannot be true but also cannot be false. It is self-contradictory. Many famous problems of this kind exist.
Liar's paradox
A famous paradox is called the liar's paradox. It is the simple sentence "This sentence is a lie", or equivalently, "This statement is false."
If the sentenc... |
626 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato | Potato | A potato is a vegetable, the Solanum tuberosum. It is a small plant with large leaves. The part of the potato that people eat is a tuber that grows under the ground.
A potato contains a lot of starch and other carbohydrates. Potato usually has a light-brown or yellowish skin and is white or yellow inside. If the potat... |
628 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant | Plant | Plants are one of five big groups (kingdoms) of living things. They are autotrophic eukaryotes, which means they have complex cells, and make their own food. Usually they cannot move (not counting growth).
Plants include familiar types such as trees, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae. The s... |
630 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction | Prediction | A prediction is a statement that someone makes about what they think is going to happen. It is often very helpful to know what is going to happen to help prepare for these future events. Predictions are based on the idea that two beginning positions that are like each other will have similar results. By watching someth... |
631 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability | Probability | Probability is a part of applied mathematics. It has to do with chance, the study of things that might happen or might not happen.
For example, using probability, one can show that by throwing a coin up in the air and letting it land, half of the time it will land with one side facing up, and half of the time with the... |
632 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability%20experiment | Probability experiment | A probability experiment is a situation where chance affects the result of an experiment. If the experiment can only have two outcomes, it is named Bernoulli trial. A coin flip is a probability experiment because chance affects whether a coin will land heads or tails when it is flipped.
Probability theory
Experiments |
636 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein | Protein | Proteins are long-chain molecules built from small units known as amino acids. They are joined with peptide bonds.
They are biochemical compounds of one or more polypeptides folded into a round or fibrous shape.
A polypeptide is a single linear polymer chain of amino acids. The sequence of amino acids in a polypeptid... |
637 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic%20table | Periodic table | The 'periodic table' is a table that puts all known chemical elements in a specific order. Elements that has similar characteristics are often put near each other. In the table, the elements are placed in the order of their atomic numbers starting with the lowest number of one, hydrogen. The atomic number of an elemen... |
638 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physiology | Physiology | Physiology is the study of how living things work. Physiologists can study how organs of an organism work together to make things happen. In human beings, for example, the digestion of food hormones and other chemicals are made by the stomach, liver, and pancreas. Muscle contraction happens because of chemical messages... |
639 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet | Planet | A planet is a large object such as Venus or Earth that orbits a star. Planets are smaller than stars, and they do not make light. Jupiter is the biggest planet in the Solar System.
Planets are shaped like a slightly squashed ball (called a spheroid). Objects that orbit planets are called satellites. A star and everyt... |
641 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political%20problems%20of%20China | Political problems of China | Many people say the government stops people from having freedom of speech, freedom of religion and other political rights that people in other countries have. China still has one-party rule, and is not a democracy.
Territorial disputes
The following territories are claimed by China (PRC and/or ROC) and by another cou... |
642 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police | Police | Police are a group of people whose job is to enforce laws, help with emergencies, solve crimes and protect property. A person who carries out this duty is known as a police officer. They work out of a police station. Police are trained in first aid and rescue, because police officers are often one of the first people t... |
643 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi | Pi | Pi () () is a mathematical constant that is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. This produces a number, and that number is always the same. However, the number is rather strange. The number starts as 3.141592653589793... and continues without end. Numbers like this are called irrational numbers.
The... |
644 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proper%20noun | Proper noun | A proper noun or proper name is a noun representing a unique thing (like London, Jupiter, John Hunter, or Toyota), unlike a common noun, which represents a type of thing (like city, planet, person or corporation). Proper nouns are the only nouns in English which always have the first letter capitalized.
In English, ... |
646 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic | Plastic | A plastic is a material that can change its shape easily. Many things are made of plastic, and some types of wood can be made out of plastic, usually because making them in the right shape is easy and plastic gives form to wood and other things. There are many types of plastic. Some can be shaped only when they are fre... |
647 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product%20stewardship | Product stewardship | Product stewardship includes waste disposal measures in the distribution of an industrial product. That is, paying for the safe and proper disposal when you pay for the product, and relying on those who sold it to you, to dispose of it.
The slightly more specific idea of product take-back means that the service of ... |
648 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace | Peace | Peace is a time without any fights or wars. In a larger sense, peace (or peacefulness) can mean a state of harmony, quiet or calm that is not disturbed by anything at all, like a still pond with no ripples.
Many people and organizations want peace. One organization that was set up to bring peace among the nations and ... |
649 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec | Quebec | Quebec ( or ; ) is a province in the eastern part Canada located between the Hudson Bay and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. It is the largest of Canada's ten provinces by size. It also has the second largest number of people, after Ontario. Most of Quebec's inhabitants live along or close to the banks of the Saint Lawrenc... |
652 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading | Reading | Reading is understanding writing in a language.
In more detail, it a cognitive process of understanding information represented by printed or written language. It is a way of getting information about something that is written. It can only be done if one knows the language. Reading and hearing are the two most common ... |
653 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion | Religion | A religion is a set of beliefs regarding the origin, nature, and purpose of existence, usually including a belief in supernatural entities, such as deitys or spirits that have power in the natural world. Religious practices include the rituals and devotions directed at the supernatural. Often religions believe in the s... |
655 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman | Roman | Roman or Romans may refer to:
A thing or person of or from the city of Rome, Italy
History
Ancient Rome (8th century BC – 5th century AD)
Roman Kingdom (753 BC to 509 BC)
Roman Republic (509 BC to 27 BC)
Roman Empire (27 BC to 476/1453 AD)
Roman Britain, part of the island of Great Britain controlled by the ... |
657 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudyard%20Kipling | Rudyard Kipling | Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English author and poet. He was born in Bombay, India. He wrote children's fiction, like Kim, The Jungle Book and Puck of Pook's Hill. He also wrote the well-known poems, If — and Gunga Din, and many short stories set in India. He was awarded the 1907 N... |
658 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recreation | Recreation | Recreation or fun is a person's time of refreshing his or her body and mind.
There are many different forms of recreation which are shaped by individual interests and by environment; a few examples being reading, playing or listening to music, watching movies or TV, gardening, hunting, hobbies, sports, studies, and tr... |
660 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red | Red | Red is the color that is on the edge of the rainbow. It is one of the three primary colors, along with blue and yellow. Red light has a wavelength between 630 and 740 nanometers.
It is sometimes used to mark things that are wrong, important or dangerous.
Red is also commonly used as a warning to stop.
Meaning of red... |
661 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw%20food | Raw food | For the WWE brand/TV Show, see WWE Raw.
Foods are raw when they are not cooked.
Most things are good to eat raw, but some can be poisonous.
Health
There's currently no solid evidence to suggest that raw food is more healthy than cooked food.
Germs
Raw food can sometimes make people sick because of bacteria which w... |
663 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram | Ram | Ram can mean:
Rama, a Hindu god
A male sheep that has not been neutered
Random-access memory (abbreviated "RAM")
Battering ram, something used to break through walls or doors
Hydraulic ram, a type of pump |
664 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%20Empire | Roman Empire | The Roman Empire was the largest empire of the ancient world. Its capital was Rome, and its empire was based in the Mediterranean area. The Empire started in 27 BC, when Octavian became the Emperor Augustus. It fell in 476 AD. Its fall marked the end of the Ancient World and the beginning of the Middle Ages, or Dark Ag... |
666 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regime | Regime | A regime is the leader and other people who run a government of a sovereign state.
There are many kinds of regimes. They can achieve power in many ways. Depending on the time and place and local civics like the electoral system, they can lose power in many ways too. The most common way for a regime to lose power wa... |
673 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/River | River | A river is a stream of water that flows through a channel on the surface of the ground. The passage where the river flows is called the river bed and the earth on each side is called a river bank. A river begins on high ground or in hills or mountains and flows down from the high ground to the lower ground, because of ... |
676 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right%20angle | Right angle | A right angle is an angle with a measurement of 90 degrees. When two lines cross each other so that all the angles have the same size, the result is four right angles. The top of the letter T is at right angles to the vertical line. Walls of buildings are usually at right angles to the floor. Two things that are at rig... |
677 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reward | Reward | A reward is getting something good for doing a given task. It needs someone who has the power to give the good thing. It is the opposite of punishment.
Ideas like risk and reward, reward and punishment are based on the idea that people do things, or avoid doing things, to get rewards. In psychology there is another i... |
679 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranch | Ranch | A ranch is a large farm for raising cows, horses, sheep or other livestock. The word ranch is from the Spanish word "rancho". It is used in American and Canadian English.
A ranch may be on private or public land. The desert areas of the western United States have many ranches, because there is much land that is not ve... |
680 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport%20utility%20vehicle | Sport utility vehicle | A sport utility vehicle (SUV) is a type of vehicle. It is built as a rugged vehicle for cargo and passenger carrying. Originally SUVs were not designed to be fuel efficient but modern designs are getting better fuel mileage. In 2014 US sales of SUVs were over five million vehicles.
Appearance
The typical SUV is a ... |
682 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substance | Substance | Substance is the material, or matter, of which something is made. Substances are physical things that can be seen, touched, or measured. They are made up of one or more elemental parts. Iron, aluminium, water and air are examples of substances.
Problems of definition
The main problem of a clear definition of what the... |
683 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbol | Symbol | A symbol is a drawing, shape, or object that represents an idea, object, or amount of something.
The most common symbols are letters, which are symbols of words and sounds. A symbol can be an actual object (such as the cross, a symbol of Christianity or a scepter, a symbol of royalty and power), or a certain color o... |
684 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/September | September | September (Sep.) is the ninth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar, coming between August and October. It has 30 days. Its name comes from the Latin word sept for "seven" (it was the seventh month of the year, before January and February were added to the beginning of the year.)
September always begins on the s... |
686 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound | Sound | Sound can also mean a body of water, like a bay or channel.
Sound is caused by sound waves. It can be heard when goes through a medium to the ear. All sounds are made by vibrations of molecules. For example, when a person hits a drum or a cymbal the object vibrates. These vibrations make air molecules move. Sound wave... |
689 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society | Society | Society is the term to describe human beings together (collective, the sum of their social networks and social interactions). The term comes from the Latin idea of societas, or the connection between friends or allies (friend or ally being socius). It can also mean a specific group of people who interact, as well as a... |
690 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suggestion | Suggestion | A suggestion is an idea that one suggests, or says is good for another (or others) to follow. Some people may agree to it, and some may disagree. If they disagree or have a different suggestion, the person who first suggested the idea will usually discuss with the other people and find a good conclusion that satisfies ... |
695 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spache%20Readability%20Formula | Spache Readability Formula | Spache Readability Formula is one method of finding out how hard a piece of writing is (its textual difficulty).
The method compares words in a text to a list of words which are familiar in everyday writing. The words that are not on the list are called unfamiliar. The number of words per sentence are counted. This nu... |
699 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport | Sport | Sport is commonly defined as an athletic activity that involves a degree of competition, such as netball or basketball. Some games and many kinds of racing are called sports. A professional at a sport is called an athlete. Many people play sports with their friends. They need coaches to teach or train teams or indivi... |
700 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science | Science | Science is what we do to find out about the natural world. Natural sciences include, chemistry, biology, geology, astronomy, and physics. Science uses mathematics and logic, which are sometimes called "formal sciences". Natural science makes observations and experiments. Science produces accurate facts, scientific laws... |
702 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint%20Lawrence%20River | Saint Lawrence River | The Saint Lawrence River (; Tuscarora: Kahnawáʼkye; Mohawk: Kaniatarowanenneh, meaning "big waterway") is a big river in eastern North America. It flows between the Canadian province of Quebec & Ontario and the American state of New York, and through the major Canadian city of Montreal. It is the third largest river in... |
703 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seville | Seville | Seville () is a city in the southern parts of Spain. A river called the Guadalquivir River goes through Seville. The city of Seville is the capital of the Spanish autonomous community Andalusia and of the province of Sevilla. People from Seville are called Sevillanos.
History
A very old story says that the city was s... |
708 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salami | Salami | Salami is a sausage that first came from Italy. The name comes from the Italian salare meaning to make something salty.
The original salami was made from a mix of chopped pork and salt which was dried using air in a casing. Now there are many types of salamis made in some countries. Nearly all are seasoned with a comb... |
709 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%20English | Special English | Special English is a simple form of the English language. It is used by a public radio station called Voice of America, run by the United States government in Special English programs every day. Its news and feature programs are read more slowly than usual, using fewer English words and simple grammar.
The contents... |
710 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sausage | Sausage | Sausage is a food made of ground-up or chopped-up meat. It often has spices in it and is covered in a casing. Traditionally, a sausage casing is made of animal intestine, but can sometimes be made of plastic. There are many forms of sausages, including hot dog, pepperoni, bologna, and salami.
Sausages often have meat ... |
717 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slang | Slang | Slang are words that are informal. Usually each generation or social group has its own slang - for example, older people can have trouble understanding the slang of younger people. On the other hand, younger people often understand, but find silly or old-fashioned, the slang of older people.
Over time, language ten... |
725 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20contract | Social contract | A social contract or political contract is a perceived agreement among the people of a state about the rules that will define their government. These rules are usually called laws. Laws help to make sure people have rights and that their rights are protected. One kind of social contract is a constitution. A constitutio... |
726 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20capital | Social capital | Social capital is the willingness of people to help each other.
It often replaces money which people would use to buy the same help.
Society works best when there is plenty of social capital. The less social capital there is, the more social problems there usually are. If there is no social capital, war and revolut... |
732 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site | Site | A site is a real fixed physical location where something will or has happened or a place where something is.
Uses
Uses in buildings
It is used very often in building trades to mean the place where a building will go up.
Uses in gravesites
A gravesite is a place where a person will be buried after they die.
Uses i... |
733 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtraction | Subtraction | Subtraction is the arithmetic operation for finding the difference between two numbers, though it can also be generalized to other mathematical objects such as vectors and matrices. The special names of the numbers in a subtraction expression are, minuend - subtrahend = difference. For example, the expression 7 - 4 = 3... |
744 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/String%20theory | String theory | String theory tries to model the four known fundamental interactions—gravitation, electromagnetism, strong nuclear force, weak nuclear force—together in one theory. This tries to resolve the alleged conflict between classical physics and quantum physics by elementary units—the one classical force: gravity, and a new qu... |
748 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientist | Scientist | A scientist is a person who studies or has mastered the field in science. A scientist tries to understand how our world, or other things, work. Scientists make observations, ask questions and do extensive research work in finding the answers to many questions.
Scientists may work in laboratories for governments, compa... |
750 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soapbox | Soapbox | A soapbox is a temporary platform used to give a speech. During the 19th century, soap was transported in wooden boxes. When a person had new or unusual ideas, and wanted to talk to a crowd about them, sometimes he or she would stand on an empty soapbox so that everyone could see and hear the talk well.
People someti... |
752 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernatural | Supernatural | The word supernatural (from ) is used for things that some people believe are real, but that are not part of nature or inexplicable by the scientific laws of nature. Because we cannot prove whether these things are real, people often disagree about these things.
Some say that we should talk about things without talkin... |
753 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit | Spirit | A spirit is considered to be the part of a being that is not the body. Other words with the same meanings are soul and ghost. When a body is alive, it has a spirit in it. Death is when the spirit separates from the body.
Christians believe that spirits exist in Heaven or Hell. (See 1 Timothy 3:16, 4:1)
Spiritualist... |
765 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed | Seed | A seed is the part of a seed plant which can grow into a new plant. It is a reproductive structure which disperses, and can survive for some time. A typical seed includes three basic parts: (1) an embryo, (2) a supply of nutrients for the embryo, and (3) a seed coat.
There are many different kinds of seeds. Some plant... |
766 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sail | Sail | A sail is a large piece of cloth on the top of some boats. The wind goes around the sail and makes the boat move through the water. The piece that the sail is attached to is called a mast. Some boats have many sails, and some have only one. Usually, small boats have only one sail, and bigger boats have more. Boats with... |
769 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish | Spanish | The word Spanish means:
from or about the country of Spain, such as a person from Spain or food from Spain
Spanish people
the Spanish language
Spanish Empire
Other use
Hispanic |
772 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin | Skin | Skin is the outside covering of mammals and some other animals. It has many purposes. First of all, it is a defense against the entry of pathogens such as bacteria and parasites. Second, it regulates (keeps in control) the body's temperature. It allows evaporation from its surface, and adjusts it. It is a physical defe... |
774 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search%20engine | Search engine | A search engine is a website that allows users to look up information on the World Wide Web (WWW), part of the Internet. The search engine will achieve this by looking at many web pages to find matches to the user's search inputs. It will return results ranked by relevancy and popularity by the search engine. Some popu... |
780 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabbath%20in%20Christianity | Sabbath in Christianity | Sabbath in Christianity is the day of rest and service to God. The idea of the Sabbath in Christianity comes directly from the idea
of the Sabbath (or Shabbat) in Judaism. In fact, the word Sabbath itself comes from the Hebrew word Shabbat. Like the Jewish Sabbath (Shabbat), the Sabbath in Christianity comes from th... |
789 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics | Statistics | Statistics is a branch of applied mathematics that deals with collecting, organising, analysing, reading and presenting data. Descriptive statistics make summaries of data. Inferential statistics makes predictions. Statistics helps in the study of many other fields, such as science, medicine, economics, psychology, pol... |
791 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed | Speed | Speed is a measure.
It is velocity but without the direction.
Finding speed
Speed is the distance an object moves in a given amount of time.
The distance is never negative.
If a train takes 1 hour to travel 100 kilometers, it has a speed of .
In fact this is the average speed.
During this one hour, the train may beco... |
793 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server%20log | Server log | A server log records what is happening on a server at any time. For example, an HTTP server runs a web site.
internet
Software
Servers
de:Logdatei |
794 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server | Server | In net jargon, a server is a computer that serves many kinds of information to a user or client machine. Usually a server will only do a few things for many clients. Every type of thing a server does is called a service. Services are used by other computers that are called clients. The relationship between client and s... |
795 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simile | Simile | A simile is a figure of speech that compares two different things, usually by using the words 'like' or 'as'. It is used to make a direct and clear comparison between two things .Similes may be confused with metaphors, which do the same kind of thing. Similes use comparisons, with the words 'like' or 'as'. Metaphors us... |
798 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/State | State | In politics, a state is a country which has control over a geographic area or territory. States have three main features:
Control over a geographic area, or territory
A people, the population of the state.
Institutions which have the power to make laws.
There are different forms of government a state may have, for exa... |
799 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream | Stream | A stream is a natural flow of water moving across land between banks. It is smaller than a river.
The primary meaning of stream is a body of water, confined within a bed and banks, and detectably flowing. Synonyms or related words include river, creek, tributary, run, branch, brook, bourne, wash, and fork. Navigabl... |
800 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar%20System | Solar System | The Solar System is the Sun and all the objects that orbit around it. The Sun is orbited by planets, asteroids, comets and other things.
The Solar System is about 4.6 billion years old. It formed by gravity in a large molecular cloud. Most of this matter came together in the center, and the rest flattened into an orb... |
802 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn | Saturn | Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun located in the Solar System. It is the second largest planet in the Solar System, after Jupiter. Saturn is one of the four gas giant planets, along with Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune.
Saturn is the English transliteration from the Latin word Saturnus, in Roman religion, the god o... |
803 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery | Slavery | Slavery is when a person is treated as the property of another person. This person is usually called a slave, with the owner being called a slavemaster. It often means that slaves are forced to work, or else they will be punished by the law (if slavery is legal in that place) or by their master.
There is evidence that... |
805 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul | Soul | Many philosophies and religions say that a soul is the part of a living human being which is supernatural and lives after death. It is usually said to be immortal. It cannot be discovered by science, because it cannot be tested in any controlled way. Many different opinions exist as to what happens to personal experien... |
807 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap | Soap | Soap is a chemical compound resulting from the reaction of an alkali (commonly sodium or potassium hydroxide) with a fatty acid. Soaps are the metallic salts of long chain fatty acids. When mixed with water during, bathing, cleansing, or washing, they help people and clothes get clean by lowering the chance of dirt and... |
811 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summary | Summary | A summary is a condensed explanation of an event, story, document, etc.. i.e. "summing up the facts." They are not constrained to any medium or topics. Not to be confused with abstract, which is a summary of a document. There are many different levels of summarization that can be done. The summarizer may choose any len... |
813 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service%20economy | Service economy | A service is a job or work done for someone else. All the service trades form a service economy.
Good examples are:
Government is perhaps the largest example.
Hospitals and the health services generally.
Banks and financial services.
Motor trade services. All services except actual products such as parts and petrol ... |
814 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense | Sense | There are several meanings of the word sense. This page is for disambiguation - there are more detailed articles on each meaning:
When a word has several meanings, one can refer to it as being used "in the sense of..." some context or other. In Simple English for instance we avoid using words in unusual senses.
The... |
815 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synagogue | Synagogue | A synagogue is a place where Jews meet to worship and pray to God.
In Hebrew, a synagogue is called beit knesset, which means, a "house of gathering". The word "synagogue" comes from sunagoge, which is a Greek word. In a synagogue, Jews carry out the Jewish services, which consist of prayers, sometimes with special ac... |
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