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  2. Saudade - Wikipedia

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    Saudade is a word in Portuguese and Galician that claims no direct translation in English. However, a close translation in English would be "desiderium." Desiderium is defined as an ardent desire or longing, especially a feeling of loss or grief for something lost. Desiderium comes from the word desiderare, meaning to long for.

  3. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    a striking success; used in the phrases "go (like) a bomb" and "go down a bomb"; Go like a bomb also means, when used of a vehicle, to go very fast an explosive weapon (v.) to be a failure ("the show bombed"); also as n. (n., used with the) something outstanding ("that show was the bomb"); sometimes spelled da bomb: bombardier

  4. Glossary of nautical terms (A–L) - Wikipedia

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    1. Any device external to a vessel or aircraft specifically intended to assist navigators in determining their position or safe course, or to warn them of dangers or obstructions to navigation. 2. Any sort of marker that aids a traveler in navigation, especially with regard to nautical or aviation travel.

  5. List of idioms of improbability - Wikipedia

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    The word nikoli, when stressed on the second syllable, means "never", when stressed on the first it is the locative case of Nikola, i.e. Nicholas; Spanish – cuando las vacas vuelen ("when cows fly") or cuando los chanchos vuelen ("when pigs fly"). Its most common use is in response to an affirmative statement, for example "I saw Mrs. Smith ...

  6. Spanish profanity - Wikipedia

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    Concha (lit.: " mollusk shell" or "inner ear") is an offensive word for a woman's vulva or vagina (i.e. something akin to English cunt) in Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Mexico. In the rest of Latin America and Spain however, the word is only used with its literal meaning.

  7. Dating - Wikipedia

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    Dating systems can be systematic and organized ways to improve matchmaking by using rules or technology. The meeting can be in-person or live and separated by time or space, such as by telephone or email or chat-based. The purpose of the meeting is for the two persons to decide whether to go on a date in the future.

  8. Google Translate - Wikipedia

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    Google Translate is a web-based free-to-use translation service developed by Google in April 2006. [12] It translates multiple forms of texts and media such as words, phrases and webpages. Originally, Google Translate was released as a statistical machine translation (SMT) service. [12] The input text had to be translated into English first ...

  9. Cholo - Wikipedia

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    Cholo is a word from the Barlovento Islas [later known as Windward Islands]; it means dog, not of the purebred variety, but of very disreputable origin; and the Spaniards use it for insult and vituperation". [4] Interestingly, the Mexican hairless dog is known as "xoloitzcuintli" or "xolo" in Nahuatl. In Ecuador, mestizas wearing indigenous ...