Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The god of fire and metalworking.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Roman mythology, the god of fire and the working of metals, and the patron of all handicraftsmen.
- noun A hypothetical planet between the sun and the planet Mercury.
- noun A volcano.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Rom. Myth.) The god of fire, who presided over the working of metals; -- answering to the Greek
Hephæstus .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A fictional
inhabited planet . - noun slang, pejorative A person who seems to lack
emotion or is overlyanalytical andboring . - proper noun Roman mythology The god of
volcanoes andfire , especially theforge , also thepatron of allcraftsmen , principallyblacksmiths . - proper noun astronomy, historical A hypothetical
planet proposed to exist in an orbit betweenMercury and the Sun in a 19th-century hypothesis. - proper noun A town in southern Alberta,
Canada .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (Roman mythology) god of fire and metal working; counterpart of Greek Hephaestus
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Mortlake the weaving of a part of the celebrated _Vulcan_ and _Venus_ series, and his monogram can be seen on _The Expulsion of Vulcan from
The Tapestry Book Helen Churchill Hungerford Candee 1905
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The story, while including the somewhat bland villain Vulcan, is a blast.
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Just in case you are not a Star Trek fan, "Vulcan" is a species of highly intelligent aliens in the Star Trek universe.
Thoughts: How Science Fiction Changed the World Code Monkey 2008
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Just in case you are not a Star Trek fan, "Vulcan" is a species of highly intelligent aliens in the Star Trek universe.
Archive 2008-03-01 Code Monkey 2008
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The, again, stay confused, ignorant and misled with the Palin Vulcan mind meld.
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Today, Vulcan is a celebrity hero who leads a new team of X-Men.
Marvel Comics Solicitations for December 2006 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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The final battle between all of the X-Men and Vulcan is an epic one.
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Torturing or maiming a Vulcan is not enough to trigger California's law prohibiting the sale of such games to minors.
High court weighs Calif. effort to ban sale of violent video games to minors Robert Barnes 2010
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Vulcan is destroyed, and everyone seems to know what a Romulan looks like.
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Three of our members have participated in Vulcan productions Integration documentary toolkit which will be available in early 2010.
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