In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
neighborhoods
plural of neighborhood
Source: Wiktionary
Neigh"bor*hood, n. Etym: [Written also neighbourhood.]
1. The quality or condition of being a neighbor; the state of being or dwelling near; proximity. Then the prison and the palace were in awful neighborhood. Ld. Lytton.
2. A place near; vicinity; adjoining district; a region the inhabitants of which may be counted as neighbors; as, he lives in my neighborhood.
3. The inhabitants who live in the vicinity of each other; as, the fire alarmed all the neiborhood.
4. The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.
Syn.
– Vicinity; vicinaty; proximity.
– Neighborhood, Vicinity. Neigborhood is Anglo-Saxon, and vicinity is Latin. Vicinity does not commonly denote so close a connection as neighborhood. A neigborhood is a more immediately vicinity. The houses immediately adjoining a square are in the neighborhood of that square; those which are somewhat further removed are also in the vicinity of the square.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 October 2024
(noun) a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it; “the sums of the distances from the foci to any point on an ellipse is constant”
In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.