How to pronounce“obelisk”in English
nounuh so far uh they're making progress as the reports said and they're making progress of course in zapparija which is the oblast in the south of Ukraine the
Obelisk that leads to Crimea and back in September General zaleshny who's the commander-in-chief of Ukrainian Armed Forces made it very clear and said
explicitly that the center of gravity of our operations in these counter-offensive operations have been foregrounded for months will be Crimea
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Definitions of “obelisk”
A tall, square, tapered, stone monolith topped with a pyramidal point, frequently used as a monument.
“"The clay envelope is Sumerian. It is from the third millennium B.C. It was dug up from the city of Eridu is southern Iraq. The black stele or obelisk is the Code of Hammurabi, which dates from about 1750 B.C.”
Synonym of obelus.
To adopt the obelisk posture; to point the tip of the abdomen towards the sun.
“Dragonflies that spend the day in full sun may obelisk to minimize the sunlight striking the body. An obelisking dragonfly looks like it's doing a headstand[…]”
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