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Pandora
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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noun
Classical Mythology. the first woman, created by Hephaestus, endowed by the gods with all the graces and treacherously presented to Epimetheus along with a box (originally a jar) in which Prometheus had confined all the evils that could trouble humanity. As the gods had anticipated, Pandora gave in to her curiosity and opened the box, allowing the evils to escape, thereby frustrating the efforts of Prometheus. In some versions, the box contained blessings, all of which escaped but hope.
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| pandora (pænˈdɔːrə) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a handsome red sea bream, Pagellus erythrinus, of European coastal waters, caught for food in the Mediterranean |
| 2. | a marine bivalve mollusc of the genus Pandora that lives on the surface of sandy shores and has thin equal valves |
| 3. | music another word for bandore |
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Pandora
1579, first mortal woman, made by Hephaestus and given as a bride to Epimetheus, from Gk. pandora "all-gifted," from pan "all" + doron "gift," from PIE base *do- "to give." Pandora's box (1579) refers to her gift from Zeus, which was foolishly opened by Epimetheus, upon which all the contents escaped.
EXPANDThey were said to be the host of human ills, or, in a later version, all the blessings of the god, except Hope, which alone remained.
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Pandora definition
languageParlog extended to allow don't-know nondeterminism.
["Pandora: Non-Deterministic Parallel Logic Programming", R. Bahgat et al, Proc 6th Intl Conf Logic Programming, MIT Press 1989 pp. 471-486].
(1995-04-27)
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