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Viale, it is Italian for the little way, the alley.

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  1. pronoun Used to refer to that one previously mentioned. Used of a nonhuman entity; an animate being whose sex is unspecified, unknown, or irrelevant; a group of objects or individuals; an action; or an abstraction: polished the table until it shone; couldn't find out who it was; opened the meeting by calling it to order.
  2. pronoun Used as the subject of an impersonal verb: It is snowing.
  3. pronoun Used as an anticipatory subject or object: Is it certain that they will win?
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  • I find the word impossible to pronounce, but they tell me it translates as 'Most Precious of All'—which these cherries are. —  EQMM, May 2005
  • I thought that I had not even heard or read of it, and therefore began to suspect whether it was a temptation. —  From Death into Life
  • Whether it is Dutch tulips in 1637, the South Sea Bubble of 1720, Florida real estate in the 1920s, or mortgage-backed securities today, it is always the same story of financial markets floating like a manic-depressive from euphoria to panic to bust. —  Dollars & Sense blog
  • For those of you who don't know the language of our oppressors, it translates as, Mass Grave in Kulp.
  • The Vatican instead says to use "Adonai," which it translates as "Lord." —  Canadian Christianity - Canadian News
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  1. Middle English, from Old English hit; see ko- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English it, yt, hit, hyt, from Anglo-Saxon hit (genitive his, dative him), neuter of hē, he: see he.
 

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