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adj
Initialism of reasonable and nondiscriminatory: a standard used with respect to licensing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable
Topics: law
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name
The Witwatersrand, a gold-mining geographic area also known as the Reef in the province of Gauteng, South Africa, of which the principal city is Johannesburg.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: South-Africa
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name
A surname.
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name
A diminutive of the male given names Randall or Randolph.
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name
A number of places, other than in South Africa:
A village and civil parish in West Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF1078).
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name
A number of places, other than in South Africa:
A small town in Federation council area, southern New South Wales, Australia.
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name
A number of places, other than in South Africa:
An unincorporated community in Jackson County, Colorado, United States.
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name
A number of places, other than in South Africa:
An unincorporated community in Kaufman County, Texas, United States.
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name
A number of places, other than in South Africa:
A census-designated place in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States.
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name
Initialism of Research and Development: a nonprofit global policy think tank.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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noun
The border of an area of land, now especially marshland.
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noun
A strip of meat; a long fleshy piece of beef, cut from the flank or leg; a sort of steak.
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Usage: dialectal, obsolete
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noun
A border, edge or rim; a strip, as of cloth.
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Usage: UK, dialectal, rare
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noun
A strip of leather used to fit the heels of a shoe.
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noun
A single rod woven in and out of the stakes.
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Qualifier: basket-making
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noun
A rocky slope, especially the area over a river valley; specifically, the Rand
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noun
The currency of South Africa, divided into 100 cents.
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noun
A random number.
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Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, programming, sciences
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noun
Alternative letter-case form of rand (the currency of south Africa)
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Usage: alt-of
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verb
To rant; to storm.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, obsolete
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noun
a rocky region in the southern Transvaal in northeastern South Africa; contains rich gold deposits and coal and manganese
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Witwatersrand, Reef
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Broader terms: region, part
noun
United States writer (born in Russia) noted for her polemical novels and political conservativism (1905-1982)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Ayn Rand
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Broader terms: writer, author
noun
the basic unit of money in South Africa; equal to 100 cents
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: South African monetary unit
History
From Afrikaans rand, from English rand; compare English rand.
From Middle English rand, from Old English rand (“edge, border, margin, rim, shore”), from Proto-West Germanic *rand, from Proto-Germanic *randaz, *randō (“edge, rim, crust”), from Proto-Indo-European *rem- (“to rest, prop or support oneself”). Cognate with Dutch rand (“edge, border, outskirts, rim”), German Rand (“edge, border, margin, rim, outskirts”), Swedish rand (“rand, stripe, edge, verge”). Related to rind.
Named after Witwatersrand; the last element is Afrikaans rand (“ridge”), from Dutch rand, from Old Saxon rand, from Germanic *randaz. Compare Etymology 1, and Rand. The sense of currency is because of gold that was extracted from the Witwatersrand rocks.
Shortened from random.
See rant.
Across languages
19 source translations are retained for this English entry.
