Para

Definitions of "para"

• See Table at currency. noun
• very drunk adjective
• Formerly, a subunit of currency in several countries in the Ottoman/Turkish and Yugoslav regions. noun
• A woman who has had a certain number of pregnancies, indicated by the number prepended to this word. noun
• A paragraph. noun
• A paratrooper. noun
• A piece of Turkish money, usually copper, the fortieth part of a piaster, or about one ninth of a cent. noun
• A coin of the Turkish dominions, struck in silver and in copper, and current from the end of the seventeenth century. noun
• (pä′ rä). In the East Indies, a measure of capacity (at Bombay 3⅓ bushels); also, a measure of weight (at Ceylon from 30 to 50 pounds, according to the commodity, as coffee, pepper, rice, etc.). noun
• A prefix of Greek origin, meaning ‘from beside,’ ‘beside,’ ‘near,’ ‘by,’ etc. See etymology. noun
• A copper coin of Servia (one centime). noun
• An abbreviation of Paraguay. noun
• (obstetrics) the number of liveborn children a woman has delivered noun
• 100 para equal 1 dinar in Yugoslavia noun
• port city in northern Brazil in the Amazon delta; main port and commercial center for the Amazon River basin noun
• a soldier in the paratroops noun
• an estuary in northern Brazil into which the Tocantins River flows noun

The word "para" in example sentences

We readily excuse the proverb, "_Quem vai para Pará para_" ( "He who goes to. [The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America]

I learned that "para" does not refer to paraplegic, but instead, "para" comes from the Greek word meaning "beside," since the Games are held alongside. [rabble.ca - News for the rest of us]

“Uh, not really,” I said, focusing on a worksheet about usage of the word por versus the word para, just in case Señora Alvarez showed up, just in case she remembered that she had assigned us homework.. [mostly good girls]

Cre una torre de alta tensin para demostrar el transporte de energa impiety cable y gratuito y al pedir ms dinero para seguir criminal las investigaciones, se lo denegaron criminal intencin premeditada.. [Archive 2009-12-01]

Yup, the first para is kind of a mess of character introductions, quickly resolved by paragraph four but annoying nonetheless.. [BEAT-DOWN • by Karl El-Koura]

The "guns" and asked if i would be interested in para marine training, (he really wasn't ASKING) So thinking I was pretty. [ronald dean douglas]

Sprinkle all the info in para 1 in little dribbles throughout the first chapter.. [Writing Workshop: What are YOU Working on? | Write to Done]

Instead, they have high involvement in "para-church" institutions like Bible study groups and other kinds of fellowship.. [Everything You Thought You Knew About Evangelicals Is Wrong (Maybe) - Swampland - TIME.com]

One of the stranger things (to me, at least) about para para is that smiling does not seem to be required, or even desirable.. [Seattle soccer weekend (with bonus dancing) « Dyepot, Teapot]

The "grave consequences" mentioned in para 13 of the Dorn Affirmation is a conclusory allegation, for which prosecution of the torturers is the only conceivable consequence.. [Balkinization]

The word para (the locative form of which is used here) always means that which is high or foremost.. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12]

[14] Theodectes died at the age of forty-one, about B.C. 334, i.e. at least half a century before the time of speaking: but the expression para theodektou ... metelabon ego (S: 318), as contrasted with ephesen akekoenai theopompou (S: 314), seems to imply that the communication was not direct.. [A Grammar of Septuagint Greek]

All the difficulty is concerning the word para'kletos, which our translation renders "the Comforter.". [The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 08.]

Having thus fixed the notion of the word para'kletos in this place, we will now inquire what necessity or expediency there was, that Christ should leave the world, in order to the coming of the Holy Ghost: "It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the advocate will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.". [The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 08.]

And this seems to be the proper notion of the word para'kletos in this place, "the advocate or patron of a cause," one that pleads for the party accused.. [The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 08.]

• In Roman 11: 24, Paul uses the very same term para physin to describe God's doing ( "unusual,". [Southern Voice Local]