Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An Arabian and Turkish unit of weight, a hundred rotls or pounds. Many different rotls are in use in Mohammedan countries, for different commodities, and each has its cantar. The cantar thus has all values from 98.05 pounds avoirdupois (the government cantar of Alexandria) to 880 pounds (the great cantar of Aleppo). The cantar of Constantinople is 124.65 pounds, that of Smyrna 127.43 pounds; that of the calif Almamun (a. d. 813-33) was 103.4 pounds.
Wiktionary
- n. alternative spelling of kantar.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A weight used in southern Europe and East for heavy articles. It varies in different localities; thus, at Rome it is nearly 75 pounds, in Sardinia nearly 94 pounds, in Cairo it is 95 pounds, in Syria about 503 pounds.
- n. A liquid measure in Spain, ranging from two and a half to four gallons.
Examples
“The word cantar, does not necessarily mean sing but to speak to the heavens in such a way that it will appear as a song too doves ears who will flock from the heavens to meet his loved one.”
“79 A camel-load is about five cantars, and a cantar is a hundred weight.”
“An older vaquero is mentoring a hot-headed younger vaquero, they engage in arm-wrestling, sword fighting, who can cantar better, etc.”
“Quando comecei a cantar rap, havia um grupo que se chamava Dinastia Bantu, que era mesmo para contrastar um pouco esta realidade de os rappers moçambicanos se inspirarem, completamente, em rappers americanos e usar nomes ingleses.”
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“Contrapuntos fuertes y en vivo transmitidos en Ecuavisa ni bien el gallo dejaba de cantar.”
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“¿Que puede esperar un venezolano cuando los encargados de informar no lo hacen y en cambio se dedican a utilizar momentos importantes de alerta para cantar su canción revolucionaria?”
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“Quieren conquistarte bien: Los Abandoned: con un estilo musical en inglés y español, cuatro angelinos llegan a nuestra ciudad a cantar "Nada mío es 'fake'". ...”
“A cantar of dates varies from fifteen to twenty-five shillings, say on an average a pound sterling; this will make the amount of the 500 camel-loads at five cantars per load £2,500”
“De pie, cantar el pueblo va a triunfar millones ya, imponen la verdad, de acero son ardiente batallón sus manos van llevando la justicia y la razón mujer con fuego y con valor ya estás aquí junto al trabajador.”
“Yo no canto por cantar ni por tener buena voz, canto porque la guitarra tiene sentido y razón.”
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El perro hace guau guau
Animal sounds in different languages, and the verbs that specify them.
Since Georgetown took down their page, the current definitive website for this information is:
Abbott ani...øf-øf, knor knor, groin groin, grunz, röf-röf, boo boo, hrgu hrgu, nöff-nöff, oink-oink, zumbar, ulular, rebuznar and 154 more...
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al sur del rio
hablabamos, mija, colombiano, playa, porque, conmigo, venga, cantar, bailar, prevenir, peatonal, tequila and 65 more...
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