VITUS BERING

Meaning of VITUS BERING in English

n. (1681-1741) Danish-born explorer and navigator who enlisted in the Russian navy and explored the north Pacific Ocean for the Russians and discovered the Bering Strait, the first person to map the west coast of Alaska

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VITUS BERING — Беринг, Витус
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
BERING — biographical name Vitus Jonassen 1681-1741 Danish navigator
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
BERING — [c mediumvioletred] (as used in expressions) Bering Sea Bering Sea Dispute Bering Vitus Jonassen
Английский словарь Британика
BERING — /bear"ing, ber"-, bair"-/ ; Dan. /bay"rdding/ , n. Vitus /vee"toos/ , 1680-1741, Danish navigator: explorer of the N Pacific. Also, …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
VITUS — n. (Latin) first name that means "lively"; St. Vitus, Christian Sicilian martyr (died in the year 303) who was helper …
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BERING — n. family name; Vitus Bering (1681-1741), Danish-born explorer and navigator who enlisted in the Russian navy and explored the north …
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BERING — biographical name Vitus Jonassen 1681-1741 Danish navigator
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
VITUS — Vitus BrE AmE ˈvaɪt əs AmE \ ˈvaɪt̬ əs
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
BERING — Bering BrE AmE ˈbeər ɪŋ ˈber- AmE ˈbɪr ɪŋ ˈber- —Danish [ ˈbeː ʁeŋ \] ▶ ˌ Bering ˈ Sea, …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
BERING — n. Bering Sea Bering Sea Dispute Bering Vitus Jonassen
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
VITUS — Saint, dancing master whose repertoire did not include the turkey trot.
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VITUS — Vitus
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VITUS — Vitus
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BERING — берингов
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VITUS — Святой Витт
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
BERING — Беринг
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VITUS — Vitus
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BERING — берингов
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VITUS — Vitus
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BERING — берингов
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BERING, VITUS (JONASSEN) — born 1681, Horsens, Den. died Dec. 19, 1741, Bering Island, near the Kamchatka Peninsula Danish-born Russian navigator. He joined the …
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BERING, VITUS — Additional reading Glimpses of personality have to be found in the descriptions of Bering's expeditions, such as F.A. Golder, Bering's …
Britannica English vocabulary
BERING, VITUS — born 1681, Horsens, Den. died Dec. 19, 1741, Bering Island, near the Kamchatka Peninsula Danish-born Russian navigator. He joined the …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
BERING SEA — Body of water, northern Pacific Ocean. Enclosed by Alaska, the Aleutian Islands , the Siberia , it covers 885,000 sq …
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SAINT VITUS'S DANCE — noun see: Saint Vitus' dance
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
SAINT VITUS' DANCE — noun Etymology: Saint Vitus, 3d century Christian child martyr Date: 1621 chorea
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
BERING SEA DISPUTE — Dispute between the U.S. and Britain (and Canada) over the international status of the Bering Sea . In an attempt …
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SAINT VITUS'S DANCE — -ˈvīd.əs(ə̇z)-, -ˈvītəs(ə̇z)- noun Usage: usually capitalized S&V Etymology: after St. Vitus, 3d century Christian child martyr who was invoked by …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
BERING SEA — ˈberiŋ-, ˈbir- adjective Usage: usually capitalized B&S Etymology: from Bering Sea, part of the northern Pacific : old bering sea
Webster's New International English Dictionary
ST. VITUS'S DANCE — /vuy"teuh siz/ , Pathol. chorea (def. 2). Also, St. Vitus dance /vuy"teuhs/ , St. Vitus' dance /vuy"teuhs, -teuh siz/ , …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SAINT VITUS'S DANCE — /vuy"teuh siz/ . See St. Vitus's dance. Also, Saint Vitus' dance .
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SAINT VITUS'S DANCE — see Saint Vitus' dance
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SAINT VITUS' DANCE — noun Etymology: Saint Vitus, 3d century Christian child martyr Date: 1621 : chorea — called also Saint Vitus's dance same
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
ST VITUS'S DANCE — [ 'vʌɪtəsɪz ] ■ noun old-fashioned term for Sydenham's chorea . Origin so named because a visit to the shrine …
Concise Oxford English vocab
SAINT VITUS' DANCE — [Saint Vi.tus' dance] n [St. Vitus, 3d cent. Christian child martyr] (1621): chorea--called also Saint Vitus's dance
Merriam-Webster English vocab
BERING, VITUS (JONASSEN) — born 1681, Horsens, Den. died Dec. 19, 1741, Bering Island, near the Kamchatka Peninsula navigator whose exploration of the Bering …
Britannica English vocabulary
BERING STRAIT — Russian Proliv Beringa, strait linking the Arctic Ocean with the Bering Sea and separating the continents of Asia and North …
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BERING SEA AND STRAIT — The Bering Sea and the Bering Strait. Russian Beringovo More and Proliv Beringa, northernmost part of the Pacific Ocean, separating …
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BERING SEA DISPUTE — dispute between the United States, on the one hand, and Great Britain and Canada, on the other, over the international …
Britannica English vocabulary
BERING SEA — Russian Beringovo More, body of water in the northernmost Pacific Ocean that separates the continents of Asia (northeastern Siberia) and …
Britannica English vocabulary
ST VITUS — St Vitus BrE AmE s ə n t ˈvaɪt əs AmE seɪnt ˈvaɪt̬ əs ▷ St Vitus', St Vitus's s …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
BERING, VITUS JONASSEN — born 1681, Horsens, Den. died Dec. 19, 1741, Bering Island, near the Kamchatka Peninsula Danish-born Russian navigator. He joined the …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
BERING STRAIT — the narrow passage of water between Alaska and Russia. It connects the Bering Sea , the most northern part of …
Oxford Guide to British and American Culture English vocabulary
SYDENHAM, THOMAS — born 1624, Wynford Eagle, Dorset, Eng. died Dec. 29, 1689, London British physician. His Observationes medicae (1676) was a standard …
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SEA COW — or Steller's sea cow Extinct aquatic mammal ( Hydrodamalis gigas ) that lived around islands in the Bering Sea. It …
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SAINT ELIAS MOUNTAINS — Segment of the Pacific Coast Ranges in the southwestern Yukon Territory of Canada and eastern Alaska, U.S. The mountains extend …
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CHOREA — Neurological disorder causing irregular, involuntary, purposeless movements. It is believed to be caused by degeneration of the basal ganglia in …
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ALASKA — I State (pop., 2000: 626,932) of the U.S., lying at the northwest extremity of North America. It is the largest …
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BEHRING — /bay"rdding/ , n. 1. Emil von /ay"meel feuhn/ , 1854-1917, German physician and bacteriologist: Nobel prize in medicine 1901. 2. …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SEA COW — also called Steller's Sea Cow (Hydrodamalis gigas), large aquatic mammal of the order Sirenia that formerly inhabited the frigid waters …
Britannica English vocabulary
CHOREA — also called Hyperkinesia, in dogs, a disorder in which muscle spasms are prominent. It is usually associated with distemper, encephalitis, …
Britannica English vocabulary
YUKON RIVER — one of the major rivers of North America, whose remotest headwaters originate in the McNeil River north of the border …
Britannica English vocabulary
PRAGUE — Czech Praha city, capital of the Czech Republic. Situated on the Vltava River, Prague is the country's major economic and …
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PACIFIC OCEAN — body of saltwater extending from the Antarctic region in the south to the Arctic in the north and lying between …
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KOMANDOR ISLANDS — Russian Komandorskiye Ostrova, English Commander Islands, group of four islands, Kamchatka oblast (province), extreme eastern Russia. Geographically part of the …
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CHIRIKOV, ALEKSEY ILICH — born , 1703 died November 1748, Moscow, Russia explorer, second in command on the Arctic expeditions of Vitus Bering, whose …
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ARCTIC — northernmost region of the Earth, centred on the North Pole and characterized by distinctively polar conditions of climate, plant and …
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ALASKA — constituent state of the United States of America. It lies at the extreme northwest of the North American continent and …
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DANCE — 1. сущ. 1) а) танец barn dance ≈ сельский праздник с танцами They met at a dance. ≈ Они познакомились …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
DANCE — 1. сущ. 1) а) танец barn dance ≈ сельский праздник с танцами They met at a dance. ≈ Они познакомились …
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