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after spending the summer (in oz) listening to the iboga crew/ phoney orphants i'd like someone, if anyone knows, to fill me in on exactly what an ORPHANT is ??!!!??

 

also ..

i don't really know phonetics, but does any one know the correct pronunciation of

 

yumade..is it

 

you made ..or you mar de ??? whilst we're at it TICON is it tee con or tie con

 

any others ???

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Guest Mike D

Nothing for orphant but this was for orphan?

 

or·phan Pronunciation Key (ôrfn)

n.

 

A child whose parents are dead.

A child who has been deprived of parental care and has not been adopted.

A young animal without a mother.

One that lacks support, supervision, or care: A lack of corporate interest has made the subsidiary an orphan.

An orphan technology or product.

 

A line of type beginning a new paragraph at the bottom of a column or page.

A short line of type at the bottom of a paragraph, column, or page; a widow.

 

adj.

Deprived of parents.

Intended for orphans: an orphan home.

Lacking support, supervision, or care.

Not developed or marketed, especially for being commercially unprofitable: “an aggregation of every orphan technology at the Pentagon, stuff that's been around for years that nobody would buy” (Harper's).

Affecting so few people that the development of treatment is neglected or abandoned for being unprofitable: an orphan disease.

 

tr.v. or·phaned, or·phan·ing, or·phans

To deprive (a child or young animal) of a parent or parents.

 

 

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[Middle English, from Late Latin orphanus, from Greek orphanos, orphaned. See orbh- in Indo-European Roots.]

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orphan·hood n.

 

Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.

Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

 

 

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orphan

 

Or"phan, n. [L. orphanus, Gr. ?, akin to L. orbus. Cf. Orb a blank window.] A child bereaved of both father and mother; sometimes, also, a child who has but one parent living.

 

Orphans' court (Law), a court in some of the States of the Union, having jurisdiction over the estates and persons of orphans or other wards. --Bouvier.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

 

 

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orphan

 

Or"phan, a. Bereaved of parents, or (sometimes) of one parent.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

 

 

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orphan

 

Or"phan, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Orphaned; p. pr. & vb. n. Orphaning.] To cause to become an orphan; to deprive of parents. --Young.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

 

 

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orphan

 

adj : deprived of parents by death or desertion [syn: orphaned] n : a child who has lost both parents v : deprive of parents

Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University

 

 

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orphan

 

n. [unix] A process whose parent has died; one inherited by `init(1)'. Compare zombie.

 

 

Source: Jargon File 4.2.0

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