Mississippi

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. özel isim A state of the United States.

   “Mississippi mud is soaked in black blood / How many more must die?”

2. özel isim A major river in the United States, flowing southward from north-central Minnesota through Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Minnesota and Louisiana, emptying into the Gulf of Mexico.
3. ünlem Used in a common chronometric counting scheme, in which each iteration is sequentially numbered and supposed to be approximately one second in length.

   “Any reader who uses the old “One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, etc.” method to estimate distance to a storm, and doesn't get any further than a count of five to eight had better be in a safe shelter.”

4. isim A recitation of Mississippi (the interjection).

   “I counted five Mississippis between each flash of lightning and the thunder crash that followed.”

5. isim A variant of bagatelle.
6. özel isim A river in Canada that flows from eastern Ontario into the Ottawa River.