Что (кто) такое elephantine - определение
ISLAND IN THE NILE
Elephantine Island; Elaphantine; Elophantine; Yeb; Syene-Elephantine
![The [[Aswan Museum]], and a [[nilometer]] (lower left)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/IlhaElefantina.jpg?width=200 "The [[Aswan Museum]], and a [[nilometer]] (lower left)")
![Elephantine, as published in the 1809 [[Description de l'Égypte]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Île d'Éléphantine in the 1809 Description de l'Égypte.jpg?width=200 "Elephantine, as published in the 1809 [[Description de l'Égypte]].")
![[[Nubia]]n houses on central Elephantine Island](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nubian village Elephantine Island.JPG?width=200 "[[Nubia]]n houses on central Elephantine Island")
![Verdant Elephantine Island, opposite Assuan, Egypt", 1908. Lantern slide. [[Brooklyn Museum]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/View 071, Verdant Euphantine Island, opposite Assuan, Egypt, 1908.jpg?width=200 "Verdant Elephantine Island, opposite Assuan, Egypt\", 1908. Lantern slide. [[Brooklyn Museum]]")
![Edwin Howland Blashfield]]. [[Brooklyn Museum]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Brooklyn Museum - Island of Elephantine (Egypt) - Edwin Howland Blashfield - overall.jpg?width=200 "Edwin Howland Blashfield]]. [[Brooklyn Museum]]")
Elephantine
·adj Pertaining to the elephant, or resembling an elephant (commonly, in size); hence, huge; immense; heavy; as, of elephantine proportions; an elephantine step or tread.
elephantine
[?l?'fant??n]
¦ adjective resembling or characteristic of an elephant, especially in being large or clumsy.
elephantine
Used of programs or systems that are both conspicuous hogs
(owing perhaps to poor design founded on {brute force and
ignorance}) and exceedingly hairy in source form. An
elephantine program may be functional and even friendly, but
(as in the old joke about being in bed with an elephant) it's
tough to have around all the same (and, like a pachyderm,
difficult to maintain). In extreme cases, hackers have been
known to make trumpeting sounds or perform expressive
proboscatory mime at the mention of the offending program.
Usage: semi-humorous. Compare "has the elephant nature" and
the somewhat more pejorative monstrosity. See also
second-system effect and baroque.
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Википедия
Elephantine
Elephantine ( EL-if-an-TY-nee, -TEE-; Ancient Egyptian: 𓍋𓃀𓅱𓃰, romanized: ꜣbw; Egyptian Arabic: جزيرة الفنتين; Greek: Ἐλεφαντίνη Elephantíne; Coptic: (Ⲉ)ⲓⲏⲃ (e)iēb, Late Coptic [jæb]) is an island on the Nile, forming part of the city of Aswan in Upper Egypt. The archaeological sites on the island became a World Heritage Site in 1979 along with other examples of Upper Egyptian architecture, as part of the "Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae" (despite Elephantine being neither Nubian, nor between Abu Simbel and Philae).
Примеры употребления для elephantine
1. Their front feet are shovel–like, their back limbs elephantine and perfect for bracing.
2. At 6ft 1in, I was an elephantine 258.3 (18st 6lbs), in my socks.
3. Companies innocent of profits and with mouse–sized shareholders equity, but elephantine ambitions, raised money on the market.
4. Yes, but a?) we just didn?t think ?heavy? would be ?elephantine? and b?) Change ?some? to ?everybody invested in anything other than government bonds.? 10.
5. Teva Pharmaceutical, meanwhile, tumbled 3.1 percent on elephantine turnover of NIS 440 million, a fifth of the total turnover in stocks and bonds.