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horizon

huh rahy zuhn

  • n  the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet
  • n  the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated
    It is beyond the horizon of present knowledge
  • n  a specific layer or stratum of soil or subsoil in a vertical cross section of land
  • n  the great circle on the celestial sphere whose plane passes through the sensible horizon and the center of the Earth

  • What are the latest new ideas in house design? Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, which makes a specialty of scanning the horizon, last week displayed two from the horizonor a .
  • No, actually, there is hope on the horizon -- the distant horizon -- for the overweight people of this world.
  • An all-weather, over-the-horizon, anti-ship missile system.
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  • Jerry Patterson in The Associated Press
    We've said since day one that if and when we have an impact from Deepwater Horizon, it would be in the form of tarballs,Patterson said in a news release. "This shows that our modeling is accurate. Any Texas shores impacted by the Deepwater...
  • Nouri al-Maliki in RTT News
    In another development, US President George W Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki agreed to set a "general time horizon" for the withdrawal of the troops.
  • President Bush in BBC News
    He is a political figure who is capable of thinking over the horizon. He's a long-term thinker,said Mr Bush. "I have found him to be a man who's kept his word which is sometimes rare in the political circles I run in."

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