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Definition von sabine's im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
- Sabine's gull
- A small gull, Xema sabini, breeding in the Arctic and migrating south in autumn
- Sabine
- a member of an ancient tribe of Italy
- Sabine River
- A river that flows through eastern Texas and western Louisiana into the Gulf of Mexico
- sabine
- {a} pertaining to the
- Sabine
- {s} of or pertaining to the Sabine ancient Italian people who lived in central Italy in the Apennines
- Sabine
- {i} language of the Sabine ancient people who lived in central Italy
- Sabine
- {i} member of an ancient Italian people who lived in central Italy in the Apennines
- Sabine
- Any member of an ancient Italic tribe located east of the Tiber River. According to legend, Romulus invited them to a festival and then carried off ("raped") their women to provide wives for his men. The second king of Rome, Numa Pompilius, probably a Sabine, is credited with creating a great number of the early Roman religious institutions and practices. Later groups displaced the Sabines from Rome. The Romans conquered them and granted them partial citizenship in 290 BC; they became full citizens in 268
- Sabine
- {i} female first name; family name; river in east Texas that flows into the Gulf of Mexico
- Sabine River
- River, eastern Texas and western Louisiana, U.S. Rising in northeastern Texas, it flows southeast and south, broadens near its mouth to form Sabine Lake, and continues from Port Arthur, Texas, through Sabine Pass to enter the Gulf of Mexico after a course of 578 mi (930 km). The river forms the southern section of the Texas-Louisiana boundary and is a link in the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway
- sabine
- a river in eastern Texas that flows south into the Gulf of Mexico
- sabine
- Of or pertaining to the ancient Sabines, a people of Italy
- sabine
- One of the Sabine people
- Sir Edward Sabine
- born Oct. 14, 1788, Dublin, Ire. died June 26, 1883, East Sheen, Surrey, Eng. British astronomer and geodesist. He accompanied the expeditions of John Ross (1818) and William Parry (1819) in search of the Northwest Passage. In 1821 he began experiments to determine the Earth's shape more precisely by observing the motion of a pendulum. He thereafter devoted most of his efforts to researches on terrestrial magnetism, overseeing the establishment of magnetic observatories throughout the world. In 1852 he discovered that the periodic variation of sunspots is correlated with certain changes in magnetic disturbances. He was president of London's Royal Society (1861-71). Knighted in 1869, he was promoted to the rank of general in 1870