Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A genus of fresh-water ducks, of the family Anatidæ and subfamily Anatinæ, noted for the elegance of their plumage. It includes the celebrated mandarin-duck of China, A. galericulata, and the beautiful wood-duck or summer duck of North America, A. sponsa. Also written
Æx .
WordNet 3.0
- n. wood duck and mandarin duck
Examples
“Raimon cantant Ausis Marc, Veles e vents (una llengua aix no mereix extingir-se), sempre mha semblat agosarat Marc quan escrivia bullir el mar com la cassola al forn”
“Tuesday, January 26, 2010 at 06: 14 PM aix has a most exquisite restaurant, heliade, on the square. best lobster bisque i ever had!”
Que Faire a Aix-en-Provence? / What to do in Aix-en-Provence? - French Word-A-Day
“APEX WINDS, a performance of works by Giacomo Rossini, Jean Fran? aix and August Klughardt. 1: 15 p.m.,”
The Washington Post: D.C. community calendar, May 6 to 13, 2010
“Festival d'Aix en Provence" is an international classical music festival held in several historic town venues featuring dance, concerts and opera, including performances of "Don Giovanni" and "Pygmalion." www. festival-aix.com”
“Tuesday, January 26, 2010 at 06:14 PM aix has a most exquisite restaurant, heliade, on the square. best lobster bisque i ever had!”
Que Faire a Aix-en-Provence? / What to do in Aix-en-Provence? - French Word-A-Day
“The theme, Opera and Myth, features Offenbach's "Orpheus in the Underworld," and Mozart's "Idomeneo" and "Magic Flute," in addition to Aix's new "Götterdämmerung," which completes its Ring cycle, with the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Sir Simon Rattle and direction and sets by Stéphane Braunschweig.www. festival-aix.com Bayreuth July 25-Aug.”
The Wall Street Journal: The Best of Europe's Festival Circuit
“Offenbach was poking lots of lyrical fun at Napoleon III and Second Empire Parisian society with his 1858 operetta, and here a cast of enthusiastic young singers from the Aix festival's European Academy of Music has a wonderful time portraying Jupiter, Juno, Venus, Cupid and Mercury (whizzing around on a bike with winged training wheels) and their fellow Olympians as they storm down to have a helluva lot of fun in Pluto's realm.www. festival-aix.com”
The Wall Street Journal: For Mix of Opera and Mythology, Aix Marks the Spot This Summer
“The only two issues that are keeping me from adopting it full time are that it does not seem to be able to play Orb 2.0 streams .pls, .aix, or .ram like the old version did, and there is no song/artist information being displayed for radio/Shoutcast streams…”
“Modified the Makefile.pre.in file to remove the aix defines and change the shell to /bin/bash.”
“One would distribute the output from autoconf and the end-user would then run configure to generate the Makefile(s) specific to the actual platform (aix, linux, solaris, etc.) being used.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘aix’.
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Duck!
If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, or quacks like a duck, then you should probably list it here.
duck, Duck, turducken, duckling, duck tape, Mallard, rubber duckie, Daffy Duck, Donald Duck, lame duck, ducky, ducks and 95 more...
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Xcessive
Valid 3-letter words with an x. Also, longer words with more than one x in them.
wax, fix, tux, box, sex, max, six, aux, pox, hex, tax, mix and 78 more...
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X Marks the Spot
Words ending in "x" (except proper nouns and trademarks)
ax, ex, ox, soapbox, smallpox, six, sex, sax, rex, pressbox, climax, chickenpox and 208 more...
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Just ducky
bufflehead, merganser, canvasback, muscovy, smew, pochard, shoveler, goosander, teal, seaduck, sheldrake, mallard and 66 more...
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