Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A Japanese ounce, of the same value as the Chinese liang; especially, an ounce of silver; a tael.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the former capital and 2nd largest city of Brazil; chief Brazilian port; famous as a tourist attraction
Examples
“Yet, Mr. Trippitt feels Mr. Horta-Os ó rio is up to the job.”
The Wall Street Journal: A Meteoric Rise for Lloyds's Future Chief
“As well as being Santander's U.K. chief executive, Mr. Horta-Os ó rio is also currently an executive vice president of the Santander Group, a member of its management committee and chairman of Santander Totta in Portugal.”
The Wall Street Journal: A Meteoric Rise for Lloyds's Future Chief
“Lasic laser surgery, microwave industrial processes, electrons (electricity fr those of you in rio linda) running computers and the internet, etching silicon chips, are very very energy intensive uses of energy.”
REVIEW: The Bottomless Well by Peter W. Huber & Mark P. Mills
“Bluff or not, swimming in a rio is massively bad idea.”
“Oct 17th, 2002 at 11: 55 am i’ll believe it when i see it. and does this mean that the red lights at the cross streets will be longer, and the greens shorter? trying to cross 29 from barracks rd. up to rio is already a nightmare. glad i don’t live north of town anymore. will”
“Marvellous – except that many coffee drinkers don't have the same taste as Davids. for instance, there is something called the "rio note" – a harsh medicinal sensation apparently created by certain moulds.”
“The upside to visiting the rio was the weird feeling of dipping my feet into a river that is as hot as a bath .... being from Canada one usually gets a cramp in their foot even before they have dipped thier toe in a Canadian river.”
“Somewhere around the 521st journey down the street, I realized it was what the Venetians call a rio terra, or "dirt river", their picturesque term for a canal that has been filled in.”
“I won't -- 'rio' is such a pretty name," said Sarah, making a mental note of it for future use.”
“If Alec had felt any resentment at her coming for him, it melted under her light treatment of the situation; and by the time they reached the little "rio" he was more like his usual, interested self.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘rio’.
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songbirds
Names of girls in song titles. Not in the lyrics, just in the titles.
Just the name on the list, then the full title with any identifying notes in the comments, please.
Can be the same ...marianne, evie, lady d'arbanville, peggy sue, suzanne, dianne, boni maroni, miss molly, lola, mony, sadie, rita and 207 more...
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Palabras de 3 letras en Español.
La única lista que también incluye flexiónes verbales y pluralizaciones. Aún faltan algunas por encontrar.
(Por ser una lista para Scrabble, los dígrafos ll, rr, y ch se consideran com...aba, aca, aga, ahe, ahi, aho, aja, aje, aji, ajo, ala, ale and 427 more...
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states of mind: from absurdistan to zion
Countries, lands, cities that capture, or haunt, our dreams. Some of the places listed might be the names of actual localities, but here they are states of mind.
absurdistan, banana republic, utopia, mitteleuropa, new jerusalem, deseret, canaan, zion, ruritania, outer slobovia, lower slobovia, avalon and 126 more...
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A Myriad of Irii
Iris varieties.
abbondanza, abiqua falls, about town, above the clouds, acadian miss, acapulco gold, act of kindness, adoregon, aegean wind, afternoon in rio, aggressively forward, agua fresca and 721 more...
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Love
words I love
clipside, shoreline, céu, nuvem, brilho, saudade, silver, you, never, circumstance, introvert, seconds and 19 more...
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Vegas, Baby!
Places of interest in Sin City. What happens on this list, stays on this list.
fremont street, caesar's palace, bellagio, new york, new york, paris, luxor, circus circus, venetian, stratosphere, mirage, mandalay bay, excalibur and 8 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for rio.
chained_bear "Her name is Rio and she dances on the sand,
Just like that river twisting through a dusty land..."
--Duran Duran Feb 9, 2008