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(n.) = flying trapeze

Ex. Also known as 'Man on the Flying Trapeze', this light-hearted song is a young man's lament over the betrayal of his sweetheart as she disappears into the arms of a trapeze artist.

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अगस्ति [विन्ध्याख्यं अगं अस्यति; अस्-क्तिच् शकन्ध्वादि˚, Uṇ.4. 179, or अगं विन्ध्याचलं स्त्यायति +स्तभ्नाति, स्त्यै-क; or अगः कुम्भः तत्र स्त्यानः संहतः इत्यगस्त्यः]

1 'Pitcher-born,' N. of a celebrated Ṛiṣi or sage.

-2 N. of the star Canopus, of which Agastya is the regent.

-3 N. of a plant (बकवृक्ष) Sesbana (or Ӕschynomene) Grandiflora [Mar. रुईमंदार]. [The sage Agastya is a very reputed personage in Hindu mythology. In the Ṛigveda he and Vasiṣṭha are said to be the off-springs of Mitra and Varuṇa, whose seed fell from them at the sight of the lovely nymph Urvaśī at a sacrificial session. Part of the seed fell into a jar and part into water; from the former arose Agastya, who is, therefore, called Kumbhayoni, Kumbhajanman, Ghaṭodbhava, Kalaśayoni &c; from the latter Vasiṣṭha. From his parentage Agastya is also called Maitrāvaruṇi, Aurvaśeya, and, as he was very small when he was born, he is also called Mānya. He is represented to have humbled the Vindhya mountains by making them prostrate themselves before him when they tried to rise higher and higher till they wellnigh occupied the sun's disc and obstructed his path. See Vindhya. (This fable is supposed by some, to typify the progress of the Āryas towards the south in their conquest and civilization of India, the humbling of the mountain standing meta- phorically for the removal of physical obstacles in their way). He is also known by the names of Pītābdhi, Samudra-chuluka &c.; from another fable according to which he drank up the ocean because it had offended him and because he wished to help Indra and the gods in their wars with a class of demons called Kāleyas who had hid themselves in the waters and oppressed the three worlds in various ways. His wife was Lopāmudrā. She was also called Kauṣītakī and Varapradā. She bore him two sons, Dṛḍhāsya and Dṛḍhāsyu. In the Rāmāyaṇa Agastya plays a distinguished part. He dwelt in a hermitage on mount Kunjara to the south of the Vindhya and was chief of the hermits of the south. He kept under control the evil spirits who infested the south and a legend relates how he once ate up a Rākṣasa named Vātāpi, who had assumed the form of a ram, and destroyed by a flash of his eye the Rākṣasa's brother who attempted to avenge him. In the course of his wandering Rāma with his wife and brother came to the hermitge of Agastya who received him with the greatest kindness and became his friend, adviser and protector. He gave Rāma the bow of Viṣṇu and accompanied him to Ayodhyā when he was restored to his kingdom after his exile of 14 years. The superhuman power which the sage possessed, is also represented by another legend, according to which he turned king Nahuṣa into a serpent and afterwards restored him to his proper form. In the south he is usually regarded as the first teacher of science and literature to the primitive Dravidian tribes, and his era is placed by Dr. Caldwell in the 7th or 6th century B.C. The Purāṇas represent Agastya as the son of Pulastya (the sage from whom the Rākṣsas sprang) and Havirbhuvā the daughter of Kardama. Several 'hymn-seers' are mentioned in his family, such as his two sons, Indra- bāhu, Mayobhuva and Mahendra, also others who served to perpetuate the family. The sage is represented as a great philosopher, benevolent and kind-hearted, unsurpassed in the science of archery and to have taken a principal part in the colonization of the south; निर्जितासि मया भद्रे शत्रुहस्तादमर्षिणा । अगस्त्येन दुराधर्षा मुनिना दक्षिणेव .दिक् ॥ Rām; अगस्त्याचरितामाशाम् R.4.44; cf. also; अगस्त्यो दक्षिणामाशामाश्रित्य नभसिः स्थितः । वरुणस्यात्मजो योगी विन्ध्यवातापिमर्दनः ॥ and R.6.61; Mv.7.14.] अगस्तितुल्या हि घृताब्धिशोषणे । Udbhaṭa.

(Sp. model spelled same [sopilóte] < Náhuatl tzopílotl 'hanging trash' < tzotl 'filth' andpílotl 'hanging' < piloa 'to hang something')

   Carlisle: 1927. A buzzard native to the Southwest ( Cathartes aura), also known as a turkey vulture. It is commonly depicted in western literature and films. Santamaría references it as a Mexicanism for the black vulture ( Cathartes atratus), which has a bald head and a curved beak. The bird is known by a number of other names throughout the American continents, including gallinazo and zamuro.

    Also called (in Mexico): zope, chombo, shope, nopo.

    Alternate form: sopilote.

an accounting ratio of the income from an investment to the amount of the investment, used to measure financial performance.

There is a basic formula that will serve most needs, at least initially:

If $1,000 in capital is invested in stock, and one year later the investment yields $1,100, the rate of return of the investment is calculated like this:

Now, assume $1,000 is invested again. One year later, the investment grows to $2,000 in value, but after another year the value of the investment falls to $1,200. The rate of return after the first year is:

The rate of return after the second year is:

     The average annual return for the two years (also known as average annual arithmetic return) can be calculated using this formula:

     Accordingly:

The average annual rate of return is a percentage, but one that is accurate over only a short period, so this method should be used accordingly.

     The geometric or compound rate of return is a better yardstick for measuring investments over the long term, and takes into account the effects of compounding. This formula is more complex and technical.

     The real rate of return is the annual return realized on an investment, adjusted for changes in the price due to inflation. If 10% is earned on an investment but inflation is 2%, then the real rate of return is actually 8%.

Also known as return

an employee who spends a substantial amount of working time away from the employer’s main premises and communicates with the organization through the use of computing and telecommunications equipment. A teleworker may be based at home, in which case the worker is known as a homeworker, or in a telecenter, or on a variety of sites, in which case he or she may be known as a mobile worker.

Also known as telecommuter

(Sp. model spelled same [t∫ut∫upáte], of unknown origin)

   1) DARE: 1937. A lovage, especially the Ligusticum porteri.

   2) California: 1961. A biscuit root (including Lomatium californicum), a plant of the genus Lomatium; also the root of the plant.

    Also called parsley, hog fennel, prairie fennel, whiskbroom parsley, wild carrot, wild parsley.

   Carlisle glosses chuchupate as a plant that Mexicans use for relief from indigestion.

   Smith also references chucupate as "a bitter root of a Southwest plant used as a tonic, particularly for flatulence." He notes that Indians often carried a piece of this root to be used for medicine and to ward off rattlesnakes. It is unclear whether Smith and Carlisle are referring to (1) or (2). According to Cobos, chuchupate is a variety of wild celery, also known as oshá (in northern New Mexico).