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  • 41snub — I. transitive verb (snubbed; snubbing) Etymology: Middle English snibben, snubben, probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse snubba to scold, Swedish dialect snubba to reproach, cut off Date: 13th century 1. to check or stop with a… …

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  • 42snub — [[t]snʌ̱b[/t]] snubs, snubbing, snubbed 1) VERB If you snub someone, you deliberately insult them by ignoring them or by behaving or speaking rudely towards them. [V n] He snubbed her in public and made her feel an idiot... [V n] They snubbed his …

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  • 43Snub hexagonal tiling — In geometry, the Snub hexagonal tiling (or snub trihexagonal tiling ) is a semiregular tiling of the Euclidean plane. There are four triangles and one hexagon on each vertex. It has Schläfli symbol of s{3,6} .Conway calls it a snub hexatille,… …

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  • 44snub — I UK [snʌb] / US verb [transitive] Word forms snub : present tense I/you/we/they snub he/she/it snubs present participle snubbing past tense snubbed past participle snubbed to insult someone by ignoring them or being rude to them II UK [snʌb] /… …

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  • 45Snub polyhedron — A snub polyhedron is a polyhedron obtained by adding extra triangles around each vertex. Chiral snub polyhedra do not have reflection symmetry and hence have two enantiomorphous forms which are reflections of each other. Their symmetry groups are …

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  • 46snub — {{11}}snub (adj.) short and turned up (of the nose), 1724, from SNUB (Cf. snub) (v.). The connecting notion is of being cut short. {{12}}snub (v.) mid 14c., to check, reprove, rebuke, from O.N. snubba to curse, scold, reprove. Meaning treat… …

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  • 47Snub 24-cell — Projections References* H.S.M. Coxeter, Regular Polytopes , Dover Publications Inc., 1973, New York, pp. 151 ndash;153. * T. Gosset: On the Regular and Semi Regular Figures in Space of n Dimensions , Messenger of Mathematics, Macmillan,… …

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  • 48Snub — Who s your fat friend? The famous occasion when Beau Brummell cut the Prince Regent by pretending not to know him.[1] For other uses, see Snub (disambiguation). A snub, cut or slight is a refusal to recognise an acquaintance by ignoring t …

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  • 49snub — snub1 [ snʌb ] verb transitive to insult someone by ignoring them or being rude to them snub snub 2 [ snʌb ] noun count an action or remark intended to snub you …

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  • 50snub — [[t]snʌb[/t]] v. snubbed, snub•bing, n. adj. 1) to treat with disdain or contempt, esp. by ignoring 2) to check or reject with a sharp rebuke or cutting remark 3) to check or stop suddenly (a rope or cable that is running out) 4) to check (a boat …

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