Norway Definition–noun | Norwegian, Norge. a kingdom in N Europe, in the W part of the Scandinavian Peninsula. 4,404,456; 124,555 sq. mi. (322,597 sq. km). Capital: Oslo. | |
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Flag Definition–noun | 1. | a piece of cloth, varying in size, shape, color, and design, usually attached at one edge to a staff or cord, and used as the symbol of a nation, state, or organization, as a means of signaling, etc.; ensign; standard; banner; pennant. | | 2. | Ornithology. the tuft of long feathers on the legs of falcons and most hawks; the lengthened feathers on the crus or tibia. | | 3. | Hunting. the tail of a deer or of a setter dog. | | 4. | Journalism. | a. | the nameplate of a newspaper. | | c. | the name of a newspaper as printed on the editorial page. | | | 5. | a tab or tag attached to a page, file card, etc., to mark it for attention. | | 6. | Music. hook (def. 12a). | | 7. | Mov
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ies, Television. a small gobo. | | 8. | Usually, flags. the ends of the bristles of a brush, esp. a paintbrush, when split. | | 9. | Computers. a symbol, value, or other means of identifying data of interest, or of informing later parts of a program what conditions earlier parts have encountered. | –verb (used with object) | 10. | to place a flag or flags over or on; decorate with flags. | | 11. | to signal or warn (a person, automobile, etc.) with or as if with a flag (sometimes fol. by down): to flag a taxi; to flag down a passing car. | | 12. | to communicate (information) by or as if by a flag. | | 13. | to decoy, as game, by waving a flag or the like to excite attention or curiosity. | | 14. | to mark (a page in a book, file card, etc.) for attention, as by attaching protruding tabs. | | 15. | (of a brush) to split the ends of the bristles. | —Idiom | 16. | strike the flag, | a. | to relinquish command, as of a ship. | | b. | to submit or surrender: His financial situation is growing worse, but he's not ready to strike the flag. | Also, strike one's flag. | |
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Related topics from Ask NewsNorway sues German company over use of flag in clothes popular with ...
Telegraph - Found Oct. 15, 2008
... which makes Thor Steinar clothes, relies heavily on Norse runes in its marketing and displays Norway's flag - a blue and white cross on a red...
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Norway: Don’t use our flag to flog your clothes!
Russia Today - Found Oct. 24, 2008
Norway has begun legal action against a German company popular with neo-Nazis for using the Norwegian flag in its advertising.
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Norway sues company, alleges flag abuse
Calibre Macro World - Found Oct. 2, 2008
Norway is taking legal action against a German clothing store for using the Norwegian flag in its logo, officials say.
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Demo in Stockholm over Gaza bombings
The Local Sweden - Found 5 hours ago
... air attacks on the Gaza Strip, setting an Israeli flag alight and ... as well as in several towns and cities in neighbouring Norway and ...
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Hundreds march in Nordic cities against Gaza bombings
Breitbart.com - Found 20 hours ago
... and 'Israel, murderer', and set fire to an Israeli flag painted with a ... well as in several towns and cities in neighbouring Norway and ...
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When Barbarism Won
The New Republic Online - Found Dec. 29, 2008
... border, and 1942, when German soldiers hoisted their flag on Mount ... Czechoslovakia, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Finland ...
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Balancing Trade Rules, the Environment and Sustainable Development
AllAfrica.com - Found Dec. 28, 2008
... wanted it, Australia wanted it, Europe was divided, Norway was really ... great surprise, the spokesperson from Venezuela raises his flag and ...
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Steve McClaren leading the way as world clamours to sign British ...
Mail Online UK - Found Dec. 27, 2008
... former Hibernian manager Bobby Williamson flies the flag in Africa with ... Tony Knapp, 72, once of Leicester and Southampton, is legendary in ...
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Ahoy! A Seafaring Past
Washington Post - Found Dec. 26, 2008
... at the prospect of traveling to Oslo and Tromso, Norway, the latter a ... south toward the Antarctic, aiming to plant the Norwegian flag at the
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Business: Croatia's tourism industry to receive record funding boost
Southeast European Times - Found Dec. 26, 2008
... in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina's (FBiH) flag carrier, BH ... *** The Austrian utility EVN and Norway's Statkraft plan to build ...
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In an insidious attempt to alter our sometimes staunchly myopic world view, Canada has made a bold preemptive Christmas strike, declaring that Santa Claus is a Canadian citizen. While Canada, Denmark, Norway, Russia and the United States have all laid claim to the North Pole, as they jockey for position due to the abundance of natural resources (translate: oil) found in the Arctic, Canada’s Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, Jason Kenney, yesterday officially designateSanta can call Canada ho-ho-home
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