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In some senses, rupert is marked as derogatory, slang, UK. Watch for register when choosing this word.
rupert
/ˈɹupɚt/
name 5noun 1adj 1
Collocations
5ADJ.
cool, loved, rectangular
VERB + RUPERT
boxes, like, name
RUPERT + NOUN
', it's, mother, murdoch, passages, s
PREP.
about, down, in
ADV.
somehow
Definitions
name
1
A male given name from the Germanic languages.
A St Oswald's boy can pass off a name like Orlando, can make it sound like peppermint. Even Rupert sounds somehow cool when attached to a navy-blue St Oswald's blazer.
'What about Rupert?' his mother says brightly. 'I've always loved the name Rupert and it's an old family name on my side.' 'Sounds like...a whatdyoucallit?' Ted's father says, folding up the newspaper and tossing it to the floor. 'What?' 'A...' Ted's father puts his hand to his brow '...you know...a thing that children take to bed. Um...Brideshead...um...teddy-bear! That's it. A teddy-bear.'
2
A city, the county seat of Minidoka County, Idaho.
3
An unincorporated community in Ohio.
4
A town in Vermont.
5
A town in West Virginia.
noun
1
A junior army officer.
adj
1
Having or relating to the property of being able to pass through a copy of itself.
A concise way to express that a polyhedron is Rupert is to find two orientations Q and Q of that polyhedron so that π(Q) fits inside π(Q) […] impact the shape of π(Q) are those lying on P, so if P is locally Rupert, Q should be as well. […]
The authors verify that cubes and all rectangular boxes have Rupert passages in any direction not parallel to their faces. […] Huber [...et al.] succeed in showing that also the n-dimensional cube is Rupert.
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A St Oswald's boy can pass off a name like Orlando, can make it sound like peppermint. Even Rupert sounds somehow cool when attached to a navy-blue St Oswald's blazer.
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'What about Rupert?' his mother says brightly. 'I've always loved the name Rupert and it's an old family name on my side.' 'Sounds like...a whatdyoucallit?' Ted's father says, folding up the newspaper
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“Gossip” is about a lot more than just juicy tidbits and the columnists that peddle them, presenting a multifaceted look at gossip’s role in the newspaper/media ecosystem and at Rupert Murdoch’s enter
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A concise way to express that a polyhedron is Rupert is to find two orientations Q and Q of that polyhedron so that π(Q) fits inside π(Q) […] impact the shape of π(Q) are those lying on P, so if P is
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The authors verify that cubes and all rectangular boxes have Rupert passages in any direction not parallel to their faces. […] Huber [...et al.] succeed in showing that also the n-dimensional cube is
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[…] Rupert-shaped film holes in weakening the kidney-shaped vortex generated by the coolant was confirmed. Furthermore, the Rupert-shaped holes improve the attachment of the film to the wall surface.
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