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Isis¹ Definition

Isis (īsis)

noun

Egypt. Myth. the goddess of fertility, sister and wife of Osiris, usually represented with a cow's horns surrounding a solar (or lunar) disk

Etymology: L < Gr

Isis² Definition

Isis (īsis)

Thames, esp. at, & west of, Oxford

Isis Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • use: His appointment is joint with the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory where he will work extensively using ISIS.
  • run: The contract states that one of my main task is to run ISIS.

Converse of subject

  • organize: The event, which took place on 29 April 2004, was jointly organized by ISIS and MP Alan Simpson's office.

Modifies a noun

  • publication: Authors of ISIS publications speak only for themselves and within their own particular field of expertise.
  • website: You can also sign on at the ISIS website directly.
  • report: ISIS report 26 June 2004; also Science in Society 2004, 23.
  • facility: These are complemented by muon spin relaxation experiments at the ISIS facility, at the Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire.
  • home: Ibid. , paragraph 48, p. xviii. [ ISIS home ] ISIS is a non-partisan information service to parliamentarians and other interested parties.
  • paper: According to an ISIS paper: Iraq has imported the same form of aluminum tubes from the 1980s onwards, for non-nuclear purposes.

Noun used with modifier

  • source: This includes various neutron techniques, principally at the UK neutron spallation source ISIS and the European reactor source at the Institut Laue-Langevin.
  • neutron: This includes various neutron techniques, principally at the UK neutron spallation source ISIS and the European reactor source at the Institut Laue-Langevin.
  • quot: Very much like in one two-month copper although they quot isis.
  • spallation: This includes various neutron techniques, principally at the UK neutron spallation source ISIS and the European reactor source at the Institut Laue-Langevin.
  • abstract: There is also access to full-text newsletter and abstracts ISIS abstracts on thousands of species.
  • visit: Visit ISIS website for the list of current signatories " U.S.
Isis Quotes

Truth indeed came once into the world with her divine Master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on: but†a wicked race of deceivers†took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely formintoathousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of Truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled bodyof Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb, still as they could find them.We have not yet found them all†nor ever shall do, till her Master's second coming; he shall bring together every joint and member, and shall mould them into an immortal feature of loveliness and perfection.

—Milton,John

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