Para
[pɑ:rә]
Definition
(noun.) an estuary in northern Brazil into which the Tocantins River flows.
(noun.) 100 para equal 1 dinar in Yugoslavia.
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Definition
(n.) A piece of Turkish money, usually copper, the fortieth part of a piaster, or about one ninth of a cent.
Checker: Mara
Definition
n. a coin of copper silver or mixed metal in use in Turkey and Egypt the 40th part of a piastre and worth about 1⁄18th of a penny in Turkey and 1⁄16th in Egypt.
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Examples
- Up to this time, all the rubber was called Para rubber, named from the town of Para in Brazil, from which all rubber was shipped. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Our picture shows a bin of crude up-river Para the finest rubber known. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In British Guiana the name is given to another large, much-branched tree, and there are also other varieties in Para and along the Rio Negro, which is a tributary of the Amazon River. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Often, after being coagulated, it is smoked, and smoked plantation sheet is, next to Para, the best rubber obtainable. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The film of rubber that forms on the inside of the cup and the bits of rubber remaining on the tree are collected and sold as coarse Para. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- To Para the distances via Magellan and via the canal are 10,852 and 5,642 miles, respectively. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The province of Para, south of the equator, in Brazil, furnishes the largest part and best quality of gum. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Para, at the mouth of the Amazon, and Manaos, a thousand miles up, are both modern cities of more than one hundred thousand population. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They left New York in September, 1887, arriving in due time at Para, proceeding thence twenty-three hundred miles up the Amazon River to Iquitos. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The superintendent and many of the workers go down the river to Para and Manaos or to villages on higher ground. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In 1899 the United States alone imported crude rubber to the extent of 51,063,066 pounds, as much as 1,000,000 pounds a month coming from the single port of Para. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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