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Sabine

1

[ sey-bahyn ]

adjective

  1. of or belonging to an ancient people of central Italy who lived chiefly in the Apennines northeast of Rome and were subjugated by the Romans about 290 b.c.


noun

  1. one of the Sabine people.
  2. the Italic language of the Sabines.

Sabine

2

[ sey-bahyn, -bin suh-been ]

noun

  1. Wallace Clement (Ware), 1868–1919, U.S. physicist: pioneered research in acoustics.
  2. a river flowing SE and S from NE Texas, forming the boundary between Texas and Louisiana and then through Sabine Lake to the Gulf of Mexico. About 500 miles (800 km) long.

Sabine

/ ˈæɪ /

noun

  1. a member of an ancient Oscan-speaking people who lived in central Italy northeast of Rome
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adjective

  1. of, characteristic of, or relating to this people or their language
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Sabine1

1350–1400; Middle English < Latin īԳܲ
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But those numbers reflect national production around the world and could conceal declines within specific regions, said FAO economist Sabine Altendorf.

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Dr Sabine Hildebrandt, a lecturer at Harvard Medical School with a keen interest in the ethics of the period, told the BBC it was an "excruciating fact" that removing tissue after death was not unusual.

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The re-investigation, called Operation Sabine, was ordered by Scotland's top law officer in September.

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Sabine Fischlin, manager of the Woollen Mill on the Royal Mile, said the situation had been getting "significantly worse" since August.

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The next stage - swarm engineering - is about making many robots work together in real world applications, says Prof Sabine Hauert from the University of Bristol, one of the project partners.

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