to come to an end; to cease; to terminate; to perish; to become extinct; as, the flame expired; his lease expires to-day; the month expired on Saturday
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RE: Expire
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RE: victorian age
The Victorian Age, also known as the Victorian Era, was the period of Queen Victorias reign in the United Kingdom, from June 1837 until her death in January 1901. It was a time of significant social, political, and economic change, marked by the industrial revolution, expansion of the British Empire, social reforms, and development in arts, science, and technology. This era is often associated with prudish, middle-class standards of social behavior and morality.
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organ transplant
an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient)
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RE: Arms control
a limitation on the size and armament of the armed forces of a country
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vincent's infection
an acute communicable infection of the respiratory tract and mouth marked by ulceration of the mucous membrane
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RE: liftoff
Liftoff is the moment in which an aircraft, spacecraft or rocket begins its flight by leaving the ground or launch pad. It is the point at which all supporting structures are released and the vehicle starts ascending under its own power.
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RE: Logogram
A logogram, or logograph, is a grapheme which represents a word or a morpheme. This stands in contrast to phonograms, which represent phonemes or combinations of phonemes, and determinatives, which mark semantic categories.
Logograms are commonly known also as ideograms. Strictly speaking, however, ideograms represent ideas directly rather than words and morphemes, and none of the logographic systems described here are truly ideographic.
Since logograms are visual symbols representing words rather than the sounds or phonemes that make up the word, it is relatively easier to remember or guess the meaning of logograms, while it might be relatively harder to remember or guess the sound of alphabetic written words. Another feature of logograms is that a single logogram may be used by a plurality of languages to represent words with similar meanings. While disparate languages may also use the same or similar alphabets, abjads, abugidas, syllabaries and the like, the degree to which they may share identical representations for words with disparate pronunciations is much more limited.