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Meaning of "lorica" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD LORICA

From New Latin, from Latin: leather cuirass; related to lōrum thong.
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PRONUNCIATION OF LORICA

lorica  [lɒˈraɪkə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LORICA

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Lorica is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES LORICA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of lorica in the English dictionary

The definition of lorica in the dictionary is the hard outer covering of rotifers, ciliate protozoans, and similar organisms. Other definition of lorica is an ancient Roman cuirass of leather or metal.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH LORICA


balalaika
ˌbæləˈlaɪkə
biker
ˈbaɪkə
dika
ˈdaɪkə
diker
ˈdaɪkə
Formica
fɔːˈmaɪkə
hiker
ˈhaɪkə
hitchhiker
ˈhɪtʃˌhaɪkə
laika
ˈlaɪkə
liker
ˈlaɪkə
mica
ˈmaɪkə
Micah
ˈmaɪkə
misliker
mɪsˈlaɪkə
myrica
mɪˈraɪkə
pica
ˈpaɪkə
pika
ˈpaɪkə
plica
ˈplaɪkə
spica
ˈspaɪkə
spiker
ˈspaɪkə
Streicher
ˈʃtraɪkə
striker
ˈstraɪkə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LORICA

lorette
lorgnette
lorgnon
loricae
loricate
loricated
lorication
Lorient
lories
lorikeet
lorimer
loriner
loring
loriot
loris

WORDS THAT END LIKE LORICA

Africa
America
Arica
Armorica
Central America
East Africa
erica
French West Africa
Gorica
Horn of Africa
Latin America
North Africa
North America
Podgorica
Republic of South Africa
South Africa
South America
sub-Saharan Africa
United States of America
West Africa

Synonyms and antonyms of lorica in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «lorica» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LORICA

Find out the translation of lorica to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of lorica from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «lorica» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

洛丽卡
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

lorica
570 millions of speakers

English

lorica
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Lorica
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

وريكا
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

домика
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Lorica
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

Lorica
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

lorica
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Lorica
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Lorica
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ロリカ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

lorica
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Lorica
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

lorica
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

லோரிக்கா
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

लॉरिका
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

lorica
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

lorica
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Lorica
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

будиночка
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Lorica
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

lorica
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

lorica
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

lorica
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Lorica
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of lorica

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LORICA»

The term «lorica» is regularly used and occupies the 93.823 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LORICA» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «lorica» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «lorica» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about lorica

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LORICA»

Discover the use of lorica in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to lorica and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Freshwater Algal Flora of the British Isles: An ...
29 Lorica oval to ellipsoidal, or oblong 30 30 Lorica oval with bluntly rounded apices, brown T. intermedia, in part 30 Lorica not as above 31 3 1 Lorica longitudinally ellipsoidal to oval, yellow or reddish-brown T. abrupta var. minor 3 1 Lorica ...
David M. John, Brian A. Whitton, Alan J. Brook, 2002
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Protozoan Plankton Ecology
I I I I Figure 2.4 Phases of lorica formation in Favella ehrenbergii: for explanation see text (after Laval-Peuto, 1981). nature, made of only one layer of irregular alveoli, which are usually smaller near the oral aperture. There are three phases in ...
J.A. Laybourn-Parry, 1992
3
Freshwater Algae of North America: Ecology and Classification
15D, E, 24A–P) Cells are of the Euglena form (e.g., S. taiwanensis var. bigeonii, Thérézien, 1999), but the lorica of most Strombomonas species (and its internal cell), starting from the posterior, gradually tapers toward the anterior apical ...
John D. Wehr, Robert G. Sheath, J. Patrick Kociolek, 2002
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The Biology and Ecology of Tintinnid Ciliates: Models for ...
The lorica wall can have windows (e.g., in Codonellopsis, Dictyocysta, and Stenosemella; Figs 2.1g, h and 2.2b, d), perforations of different sizes (e.g., in Epiplocylis and Cyttarocylis), or pores (e.g., in Rhabdonella and Schmidingerella; Figs ...
John R. Dolan, David J. S. Montagnes, Sabine Agatha, 2012
5
Biological Materials of Marine Origin: Invertebrates
The classification of the about 1200 tintinnid choreotrichid species is merely based on lorica morphology, as cytological features, including the ciliary pattern, are only known in 17 species (Agatha and Riedel-Lorjé 2006; Kofoid and Campbell ...
Hermann Ehrlich, 2010
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Pennak's Freshwater Invertebrates of the United States: ...
Lorica composed of a single cylindrical piece, trilobate in section and with a crescentic opening posteriorly on the left side (Fig. 7.28E); trophi asymmetrical; one uncommon species Order PLOIMA, Elosa Lorica composed of a dorsal and a  ...
Douglas Grant Smith, 2001
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The Path of Celtic Prayer: An Ancient Way to Everyday Joy
LORICA PRAYER Asking God for Protection L I ife is a journey, and journeys are interim passages filled with uncertainties. Where there are journeys there is the certainty that we must do battle with the "slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.
Calvin Miller, 2007
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A History of Infusoria: Including the Desmidiaceae and ...
Lorica depressed, oval, not emar- ginate, attenuated anteriorly, the ends truncated. The alimentary canal of this animalcule is generally filled with a yellowish substance, except when it feeds upon colourless Monads, (x xxiv. 430, a back view; ...
Andrew Pritchard, William Archer, John Thomas Arlidge, 1861
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Medieval Weapons: An Illustrated History of Their Impact
Armor During the second and third centuries AD, Roman armor changed, and the hard, solid, and immobile breastplate was replaced by a more flexible cuirass (a lorica segmentata). Six or seven thick horizontal bronze strips were attached by ...
Kelly DeVries, Robert Douglas Smith, 2007
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Planktonic Choanoflagellates from Disko Bugt, West ...
served fall in two distinct size categories. All specimens from the 60 m samples ( Table 1) were rather large (Figs 86, 87) (lorica length c. 30 um; the distance between the two anterior transverse costae c. 18 um; lorica diameter c. 25 um) thus ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LORICA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term lorica is used in the context of the following news items.
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6 reasons why I like KeystoneML
The O'Reilly Data Show Podcast: Ben Recht on optimization, compressed sensing, and large-scale machine learning pipelines. by Ben Lorica ... «O'Reilly Radar, Jul 15»
2
John Jackson resigns from CMC Markets board of directors
Previously, Mr. Jackson had, congruent to his main business interest and non executive directorships of Lorica and CMC Markets, held the ... «LeapRate, Jul 15»
3
Why data preparation frameworks rely on human-in-the-loop systems
The O'Reilly Data Show Podcast: Ihab Ilyas on building data wrangling and data enrichment tools in academia and industry. by Ben Lorica ... «O'Reilly Radar, Jul 15»
4
DC Fil-Ams hail SCOTUS rulings on marriage equality, Obamacare
On Obamacare, Victor Lorica of Potomac, Maryland remained skeptical. “Politicians have bungled our country's health care system, ” he ... «Inquirer.net, Jun 15»
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Leather without the cow: Flokser launches Artificial Leather based …
Brands abound, including Biothane, Birkibu, Birko-Flor, Clarino, Kydex, Lorica, Naugahyde, Rexine, Vegetan, and Fabrikoid. Most include ... «Biobased Digest, Jun 15»
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A transitional turtle, Pappochelys
It looks distinctly lizardy in the reconstructions, but when you look at the bones you get the impression of a bony box, a kind of underlying lorica ... «ScienceBlogs, Jun 15»
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Errors Hurt Pulaski in Opener
The Lorica, Columbia product drew a one-out walk, reached second on a balk by Danville reliever Ian Stiffler, and later scored on a single by ... «Pinstriped Prospects, Jun 15»
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Knox-inspired dress now on display at Manx Museum
The illuminated manuscript of the Deer's Cry (or St Patrick's Breastplate), which inspired Sarah's design, is a Lorica or prayer of protection ... «isleofman.com, Jun 15»
9
Lorica gets behind zoo's zany zebras
Lorica Insurance Brokers is the latest business to support Marwell Zoo's new public art extravaganza, Zany Zebras, which will see lifesized ... «Daily Echo, Apr 15»
10
Lorica: The 'lost' colonial
It was one of those Felliniesque moments when we disembarked at Santa Cruz de Lorica, turning our backs on the mighty Sinú River, which ... «The City Paper Bogota, Mar 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Lorica [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/lorica>. Apr 2024 ».
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