magnum
(noun) a large wine bottle for liquor or wine
Source: WordNet® 3.1
magnum (plural magnums or magna)
(wine) A bottle of wine containing 1.5 liters of fluid, double the volume of a standard bottle.
A powerful firearm cartridge, often derived from a shorter, less powerful cartridge calibre that uses the same bullet.
A handgun that fires a cartridge of this calibre; chiefly a revolver, but rarely an autoloader firing an unusually powerful calibre.
• Mangum
Source: Wiktionary
Mag"num, n. Etym: [Neut. sing. of L. magnus great.]
1. A large wine bottle. They passed the magnum to one another freely. Sir W. Scott .
2. (Anat.)
Definition: A bone of the carpus at the base of the third metacarpal bone.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
29 April 2024
(noun) a geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
