ISIS

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. özel isim An ancient Egyptian goddess, the wife of Osiris and mother of Horus, worshiped as the ideal mother and wife and as the matron of nature and magic; also worshiped by (some) Greeks during the Hellenistic period and featured in Greek mythology, and by Romans involved in what was categorized as the Cult of Isis.

   “Grant me profane kiss / Oh Isis, mother ov all / Thy lips like morphine / Teasing my slumbering heart”

2. özel isim 42 Isis, a main belt asteroid.
3. özel isim A female given name from Egyptian or Ancient Greek.

   “Isis had crawled under the center table with its red plush cover with little round balls for fringe.”

4. özel isim The River Thames between its source and its confluence with the River Thame at Dorchester on Thames.

   “Dorchester is not on the Thames, yet belongs to it certainly, for the Thame, which combines with the Isis to form the Thames, flows past it.”

5. özel isim Ellipsis of HM Prison Isis.
6. özel isim Alternative letter-case form of ISIS.

   “The terrorist threat is growing, the politicians and intelligence services say, due in part to the degradation of Islamic State in Syria and Iraq and the rising numbers of Isis fighters returning to Europe.”

7. isim Any coral of the genus Isis, or family Isididae, composed of joints of white, stony coral, alternating with flexible, horny joints.

   “[…] the numerous families of coral, which, under the form of tubular, starry, or stony stems, are denominated tubipores, madrepores, and isises.”

8. özel isim A Salafist group mainly active in Iraq and Syria, where it has proclaimed itself as a (unrecognized) state and later caliphate.
9. özel isim Initialism of Israeli Secret Intelligence Services (“a pun on the Salafist group”)

   “They didn't know the room was too big, because they didn't have anybody there. How are they going to beat ISIS? I don't think it's gonna happen.”

10. özel isim Initialism of Institute for Science and International Security.