Demon

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An evil being resident in or working for Hell; a devil.
2. isim A false god or idol; a Satanic divinity.
3. isim A very wicked or malevolent person; also (in weakened sense) a mischievous person, especially a child.
4. isim A source (especially personified) of great evil or wickedness; a destructive feeling or character flaw.

   “The demon of stupidity haunts me whenever I open my mouth.”

5. isim A person's fears or anxieties.

   “After a short spell on an adult psychiatric ward, she decided to find her own way to deal with her demons.”

6. isim A person's inner spirit or genius; a guiding or creative impulse.

   “Oh Anthony […] Thy Dæmon that thy spirit which keepes thee, is Noble, Couragious, high vnmatchable.”

7. isim A tutelary deity or spirit intermediate between the major Olympian gods and mankind, especially a deified hero or the entity which supposedly guided Socrates, telling him what not to do.
8. isim A supernatural being not considered to be inherently evil; a (non-Christian) deity.
9. isim A hypothetical entity with special abilities postulated for the sake of a thought experiment in philosophy or physics.

   “Let the orders now be that each demon is to stop all molecules from crossing his area in either direction except 100 coming from A, arbitrarily chosen to be let pass into B, and a greater number, having among them less energy but equal momentum, to cross from B to A.”

10. isim Someone with great strength, passion or skill for a particular activity, pursuit etc.; an enthusiast.

    “He’s a demon at the card tables.”

11. isim A type of patience or solitaire (card game) played in the UK and/or US.

    “‘That's much the best feeling to have.’ She dealt out the first row of ‘demon’.”

12. isim Any of various hesperiid butterflies of the genera Notocrypta and Udaspes.
13. isim Acronym of distinct electron motion particle: a quasiparticle, a type of massless neutral electron excitation associated with superconductivity.
14. isim Alternative spelling of daemon.
15. isim Alternative letter-case form of demon (“card game”).
16. özel isim A male given name from Ancient Greek.

    “Demon writes that Taurus, the chief captain of Minos, was slain by Theseus at the mouth of the port, in a naval combat as he was sailing out for Athens.”