Vulcan

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. özel isim The god of volcanoes and fire, especially the forge, also the patron of all craftsmen, especially blacksmiths. The Roman counterpart of Hephaestus.

   “The goddess Venus was the wife of Vulcan.”

2. özel isim A town in Vulcan County, southern Alberta, Canada.
3. özel isim A volcano in Papua New Guinea.
4. özel isim A commune of Brașov County, Romania.
5. özel isim A city in Hunedoara County, Romania.
6. özel isim A village in the commune of Apold, Mureș County, Romania.
7. özel isim A village in the commune of Ciuruleasa, Alba County, Romania.
8. özel isim A ghost town in Gunnison County, Colorado.
9. özel isim An unincorporated community in Norway Township, Dickinson County, Michigan.
10. özel isim An unincorporated community in Iron County, Missouri.
11. özel isim An inactive volcano in New Mexico, United States.
12. özel isim A hypothetical planet proposed in the 19th century to exist in an orbit between Mercury and the Sun.

    “When Mercury's orbit was discovered to deviate from the predictions from Isaac Newton's laws of gravity, astronomers hypothesized the existence of planet Vulcan, whose gravity could be used to affect Mercury in such a way that Newton's laws were obeyed.”

13. özel isim Ellipsis of Vulcan County.
14. isim A blacksmith; a metalworker.

    “How ſay you fryer Robert, out of what foꝛge came theſe warlike engins? they were hammered in Salamanca the ſeuenth day of March, 1602. and are as you ſee, read hote. But what Vulcan was the woꝛkeman of them?”

15. isim One who is lame (unable to walk properly), especially with a twisted or otherwise misshapen leg.

    “To make you merry that are the Gods of Art, and guides vnto heauen, a number of rude Vulcans, vnweldy ſpeakers, hammer-headed clownes (for ſo it pleaſeth them in modeſtie to name themſelues) haue ſet their deformities to view, as it were in a daunce here before you.”

16. isim Fire; a fire.

    “[Ὅ]ταν δὲ τὸν ἄνδρα τῆς ἀδελφῆς ἠφανισμένον ἐν θαλάττῃ καὶ μὴ τυχόντα νομίμου ταφῆς θρηνῶν λέγῃ μετριώτερον ἂν τὴν συμφορὰν ἐνεγκεῖν / Εἰ κείνου κεφαλὴν καὶ χαρίεντα μέλεα / Ἥφαιστος καθαροῖσιν ἐν εἵμασιν ἀμφεπονήθη, / τὸ πῦρ οὕτως, οὐ τὸν θεὸν προσηγόρευσε.”

17. isim A volcano.

    “Mas de los fuegos, que ay en Bolcanes de Indias, que tienen digna conſideracion, diraſe commodamente, quando ſe trate de la diuerſidad de tierras, donde eſſos fuegos, y bolcanes ſe hallan.”

18. özel isim An inhabited planet, the homeworld of the Vulcan species.

    “Steve and I explained the new program to our children, who looked at us as if we had just announced that we were from the planet Vulcan.”

19. özel isim A language constructed for the Star Trek franchise, spoken by the fictional Vulcan species.
20. isim An inhabitant of the planet Vulcan; a species that values a personal emphasis on logic and strict personal emotional control.
21. isim A person who, like the fictional Vulcans, seems to lack emotion or is overly analytical and boring.

    “It’s a personality thing more than anything else, as [Barack] Obama has a tendency to appear cold – unwilling or unable to act anything like a father figure.”

22. sıfat Of, relating to, resembling, or characteristic of the fictional Vulcans.

    “On the other hand, any being with intellect, will and self-awareness is, by definition, human, whatever its outward appearance or solar system of origin. Captain Kirk is properly Terran, as Spock is Vulcan or Worf is Klingon. They are all human.”

23. sıfat Lacking emotion or overly analytical and boring.

    “This car is a victim of C.I., that is, "corporate image." As a brand, Acura is so lacking in emotion it's practically Vulcan.”

24. isim The Avro Vulcan, a type of jet-powered British bomber aircraft built by Avro during the Cold War.