Amazon — قاموس الإنجليزية

اسم

1. A member of a mythical race of female warriors inhabiting the Black Sea area.

   الاستعمال

   • Greek

   كلمات ذات صلة

   AmazonomachiaAmazonomachygladiatrixshieldmaidenValkyrie

   أمثلة

   When, therefore, one envisions a matriarchy, one should not conjure up visions of a gang of Amazons lopping off breasts and testicles to rule by force of arms.

2. A female warrior.

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   أمثلة إضافية (1)

   In some parts of Africa, Asia, and South America, amazon cultures still existed during the Middle Ages, such as that ruled by Queen Nzingha in Angola, who led her amazon army against the Portuguese in a series of wars during the first half of the seventeenth century. In Dahomey also in traditionally gynarchal West Africa, the army was made up of amazons even through the nineteenth century.

3. A tall, strong, or athletic woman.

اسم علم

1. A river in South America, that flows through Brazil for about 4000 miles to the Atlantic.

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   • attributive
   • sometimes

2. A region including much of this river; specifically, the region of the Amazon Rainforest, or of the Amazon River Basin.

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   • attributive
   • sometimes

   أمثلة

   Amazon milk frog

   In February, a young man from an isolated Indigenous tribe in Brazil made brief contact with the outside world before returning to the Amazon rainforest.

اسم

1. Any of the large parrots from the genus Amazona.

اسم علم

1. Amazon.com Inc., a very large Internet retailer.

   أمثلة

   Google is one of several Big Tech firms that has made an aggressive push into gaming in recent years, along with Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL) and Facebook (FB).

فعل

1. To overwhelm or obliterate, in the context of an Internet start-up vastly outperforming its brick and mortar competition.

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   • متعدٍ

   أمثلة

   أمثلة إضافية (1)

   Those who hesitate risk being "amazoned," forfeiting business to an Internet newcomer, in the way that bookstore chains have lost ground to Amazon.com Inc., the online bookseller.

   Venture capitalists' desks are thick with business plans promising ‘we're going to Amazon the insurance/travel/property business...’

   أمثلة إضافية (1)

   Take the example of MetalSite.com, which is owned by steel companies. The steel companies aren't getting "Amazoned" by a start-up but, rather, they are doing the "Amazoning" within their own industry.

   Amazon.com may soon be "amazoning" a few more industries.

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   Gone are the days when they agonized about being "Amazoned", or blind-sided by a dot-com ....

   In other industries, established companies are pulling people and money away from their Internet operations, as their fear of being "Amazoned" by start-ups has subsided.

   Meanwhile, traditional companies would be obliterated — "Amazoned" — by Internet upstarts.

   "Everybody was afraid of getting Amazoned," Mr. Landan said. "They didn't want to get left behind."

2. To order (something) on Amazon.

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   • متعدٍ

   أمثلة

   […] “There are people who Uber everywhere, who Seamless everything, who Amazon everything, and render their lives completely smooth.”

اسم

1. (Greek mythology) one of a nation of women warriors of Scythia (who burned off the right breast in order to use a bow and arrow more effectively)

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   mythical being