Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
erg .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Work, measured in terms of the quantity of heat to which it is equivalent.
- noun same as
erg .
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Lucy Duhon, of Toledo, Ohio, suggested "alter ergo (from the Greek ergon, meaning 'work')."
Word Fugitives 2005
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Lucy Duhon, of Toledo, Ohio, suggested "alter ergo (from the Greek ergon, meaning 'work')."
Word Fugitives 2005
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Having bar ends on my bike again made me remember why I first installed them-extra hand positions and more leverage on climbs, but if you don't like the tree-grabbing feature that sometimes comes with them, you can get the same "ergon" omic grips sans, bar ends, in several different configurations.
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It comprises of two Greek words, laos meaning ‘people’ and ergon meaning ‘work’ Luke 1:23; Phil.
Archive 2010-03-01 Alex Tang 2010
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The name erg is derived from the Greek word ergon meaning "work".
Erg 2009
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He, along with Bela Schick, coined the word allergy (from the Greek allos meaning "other" and ergon meaning "reaction") to describe this hypersensitivity reaction.
All Hail Baron Clemens Peter Freiherr von Pirquet Steve Carper 2006
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He, along with Bela Schick, coined the word allergy (from the Greek allos meaning "other" and ergon meaning "reaction") to describe this hypersensitivity reaction.
Archive 2006-08-01 Steve Carper 2006
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E pollaplasion, eoe, to ergon e os nun zeteitai prostatteis.
Theaetetus 2007
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Liddell and Scott, sub.v. For the origin of the game compare curiously enough the first line of the first Elegy of Critias himself, who was a poet and political philosopher, as well as a politician: — “Kottabos ek Sikeles esti khthonos, euprepes ergon on skopon es latagon toxa kathistametha.”
Hellenica 2007
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Critias denies that calculation has an ergon, in the way that a house is the ergon of building or a garment of weaving,
Episteme and Techne Parry, Richard 2007
shevek commented on the word ergon
From Nichomachean Ethics, the trait of a thing that makes it what it is. According to Aristotle, virtue is the degree to which a thing fulfills its ergon.
July 11, 2008