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noun

Para n. A piece of Turkish money, usually copper, the fortieth part of a piaster, or about one ninth of a cent.

Para n.

The southern arm of the Amazon in Brazil; also, a seaport on this arm.

Short for Para rubber.

prefix

Para- pref.

A prefix signifying alongside of, beside, beyond, against, amiss; as parable, literally, a placing beside; paradox, that which is contrary to opinion; parachronism.

(Chem.) A prefix denoting:

(a)

Likeness, similarity, or connection, or that the substance resembles, but is distinct from, that to the name of which it is prefixed; as paraldehyde, paraconine, etc.; also, an isomeric modification.

(b)

Specifically: (Organ. Chem.) That two groups or radicals substituted in the benzene nucleus are opposite, or in the respective positions 1 and 4; 2 and 5; or 3 and 6, as paraxylene; paroxybenzoic acid. Cf. Ortho-, and Meta-. Also used adjectively.

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... different water-basin, be it river, lake, igarape, or forest pool. Though the scientific results of the expedition have no place in this little sketch of a single excursion, let me make a general statement as to Mr. Agassiz's collections, to give you some idea of his success. Since arriving in Para, although his exploration of the Amazonian waters is but half completed, he has collected more species than were known to exist in the whole world fifty years ago. Up to this time, something more than a hundred ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 • Various

... demasiado habladores los otros con lgrimas intempestivas. Le hallaba serio, meditabundo; me trataba con tibieza y despego por la primera vez de su vida.... Y es lo cierto que ha llegado la noche, y an tengo aqu este pauelo que haba bordado para drselo hoy. Vlgame Dios! Un da que yo esperaba que fuese tan alegre!... No hay que apurarse: todo se arreglar. S; durante la cena que le tengo preparada.... Llaman.[3] l ser.[4] Qu tontera! Al sentirle volver a casa, me late siempre el corazn. Que halle bien encendida la chimenea.[5] ...

— Ms vale maa que fuerza • Manuel Tamayo y Baus

... elasticity (sa@mskara), merit (dharma) and demerit (adharma); in one part of the sutra the enumeration begins with "para" (universality) and ends in "prayatna," but buddhi (cognition) comes within the enumeration beginning from para and ending in prayatna, whereas in Caraka buddhi does not form part of the list and is separately enumerated. This ...

— A History of Indian Philosophy, Vol. 1 • Surendranath Dasgupta

... referring at first to the opposing states of body and mind, which so change the character of sense-perception, Sextus classifies them according to the popular usage as [Greek: kata physin] and [Greek: para physin]. This distinction was an important one, even with Aristotle, and was especially developed by the Stoics[1] in a broader sense than referring merely to health and sickness. The Stoics, however, considered only normal conditions as ...

— Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism • Mary Mills Patrick

... you thought so little at the time that you would take no action. That was the doing of a Greek, as was established. Say, can you of your own experience of children of the Arabs say that one of us has ever robbed you of a small para, or wronged ...

— Oriental Encounters - Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 • Marmaduke Pickthall

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