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Definition: Wiener |
WienerNoun1. United States mathematician and founder of cybernetics (1894-1964). 2. A smooth-textured sausage of minced beef or pork usually smoked; often served on a bread roll. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Wiener" was first used: 1904. (references) |
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Vienna (German official name: Wien, Hungarian: Bécs, Czech: Vídeň, Slovak: Viedeň) is the capital of Austria, and also one of Austria's nine federal statess (Bundesland Wien). It is situated on the river Danube, and is surrounded by the Austrian federal state of Lower Austria. With a population of about 1.8 million, Vienna is the largest city and the cultural and political centre of Austria.
- Alternate meanings: See places and things called after Vienna
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and the International Atomic Energy Agency are situated in Vienna.
The Austrian state of Vienna on the map of AustriaHistory
Vienna was originally a Celtic city founded around 500 BC. In 15 BC, it became a frontier city guarding the Roman Empire against the German tribes to the north. In the Middle Ages, it became the home of the Babenberg and, later, the Habsburg dynasties and through the latter the capital of the Holy Roman Empire and later the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Ottoman Turkish invasions of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries were stopped at Vienna. See the Battle of Vienna (1683). In 1815, Vienna was the site of the Congress of Vienna which redrew national boundaries in Europe after the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo.During the Cold War, Vienna was a hotbed of international espionage owning to its location in neutral Austria, between the Western and Eastern blocs.
Other famous Viennese items include the Lippizaner stallions, the Vienna Boys' Choir (Wiener Sängerknaben), Wiener Schnitzel, Sachertorte, and Danish pastries. Viennese cafes claim to have invented the process of filtering coffee from the captured baggage after the second Turkish invasion of 1683.
Memorial against War and Fascism (1981-1991) by Alfred Hrdlicka
at Albertinaplatz in Vienna's city centre
Historical population
1800: 231,900 inhabitants
1830: 338,700
1850: 446,400
1880: 724,800
1900: 1,675,000
1925: 1,869,000
Districts
The city itself is composed of 23 districts (Bezirke), which although they all have their own names are numbered for the sake of convenience:
Looking at the postal code one can easily find out in which district the given address can be found; 1XXA - 1 denotes Vienna, XX the district number (if it is a single digit then with a leading zero), A is the number of the post office (irrelevant in this case, usually zero). Example: 1070 for Neubau (which, incidentally, is the only place in Austria with a Green majority).
- Innere Stadt (city centre)
- Leopoldstadt
- Landstraße
- Wieden
- Margareten
- Mariahilf
- Neubau
- Josefstadt
- Alsergrund
- Favoriten
- Simmering
- Meidling
- Hietzing
- Penzing
- Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus
- Ottakring
- Hernals
- Währing
- Döbling
- Brigittenau
- Floridsdorf
- Donaustadt
- Liesing
To the south-east of the city is the Prater amusement park. This park is the site of a large Ferris wheel, built originally in 1897, and made famous as the location where Orson Welles, in his role as Harry Lime in the film The Third Man, looked down upon the people beneath and compared them to ants.
Trams are widely used in Vienna.
The "Sezession" building. (See also the Austrian € 0.50 coin)
The motto reads: "DER ZEIT IHRE KUNST, DER KUNST IHRE FREIHEIT"
Intellectual Life
Turn of the century Vienna was home to a thriving intellectual scene. Most prominent was the father of psychonalysis, Sigmund Freud. Other famous products were the philosophers Franz Brentano, Bernard Bolzano, Ernst Mach and Edmund Husserl.
The University of Vienna was the cradle of the Austrian School of economics. The founders of this school who studied here included Carl Menger, Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, Friedrich von Wieser, Joseph Schumpeter,Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich A. von Hayek.
They were a somewhat more liberal crowd compared to other German speaking intelectuals in Prussia (indeed the very term Austrian was a term of abuse used to suggest a provincial outlook, see Methodenstreit). Simply put in Germany the influence of Hegel led academics to try to "overcome" the ideas of Western Europe, Austrian scholars used these ideas as a basis for their own theories.
See also the Vienna Circle.
Culture
For many centuries, Vienna has been a center of classical music and opera. Christoph Willibald Gluck, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Johannes Brahms, and Anton Bruckner among others, worked in Vienna, and Antonio Vivaldi died there. Johann Strauss II and his family created their waltzes here. Later, the city became the home of the so called Second Viennese School, with Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg and Anton Webern all being born there. It's also home to the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
Vienna is also noted for its art and architecture. Many Baroque buildings exist although every time period is represented. The summer palace of the emperors, Schönbrunn, was built to rival Versailles but while huge and ornate, never quite became as large. Tiergarten Schönbrunn Zoo Vienna is located in the palace area. The Cathedral of St. Stephen (or Stephansdom), which was built in the 12th century, is also notable. The modern architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser has constructed some buildings in the city in his idiosyncratic style.
"Sezession" and Jugendstil were twentieth century art movements related to art nouveau important in Vienna. Gustav Klimt worked here.
Many of Vienna's great individuals are buried at the Zentralfriedhof
Events
See also: Vienna International Airport
- 1873 - Weltausstellung 1873 Wien
External links
- Vienna www.wien.gv.at
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Vienna."
Synonyms: WienerSynonyms: frank (n), frankfurter (n), hot dog (n), hotdog (n), weenie (n), wienerwurst (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Wiener |
| Non-English Usage: "Wiener" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (Viennese), Swedish (Vienna). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Oh, I gotta go, my damn wiener kids are lookin' at me (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Sorry, Moe, gotta go. My damn wiener kids are listening (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) We are not wiener kids (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Ketchup, relish, kraut, onions, chili. I tell you, it breaks my heart, defiling a perfectly good wiener when it can be simply and elegantly complimented with the all-American zester, yellow mustard (Third Watch; writing credit: Grant Taylor) I'm just gonna kill myself once I lose my wiener. (Jackass: The Movie; writing credit: Jeff Tremaine; Spike Jonze) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Wiener Blut (1971) Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald (1961) Hundert Jahre Wiener Operette (1959) Wiener Luft (1958) Ein Wiener Musikantenmädel (1928) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | PATHFINDER wardroom 1959 Front Row: Carter, Keltner, Stavran, Harper, Kinney Center Row: Nygren, Clark, Captain Rubottom, CME Gilgan, Popper Back Row: Poor, McCall, Meiers, Taetz, Wiener, Newton, Ten Eyck, Degroot. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Baldur von Schirach sprach vor der Wiener HJ. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Die Wiener geben uns recht : das Wichtige zuerst : Erhard Busek. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Veranstaltung in der Wiener Stadthalle, Samstag, 9. November 1968, 15 Uhr. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Economic History | Austria | Costs associated with the registration of a company include corporate tax, court costs, fees for incorporation, an announcement in the semi-official Austrian newspaper Die Wiener Zeitung, and the fees of an attorney or Notary Public. (references) |
Austria | Diamond Aircraft Industries, in Wiener Neustadt, manufactured a total of 80 single engine motor gliders (including 15 DA 40's - a four seat single engine glider with a new production line) and upgraded 25 gliders in 2000, most of which were exported. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Wiener" is generally used as an unclassified items -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Wiener" is used about 47 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Unclassified Items | 100% | 47 | 49,740 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Wiener" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Wiener | Last name | 2,000 | 6,509 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| Austria | Wiener Staedtische Allgemeine Versicherung AG |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "Wiener": Norbert Wiener ♦ Wiener process ♦ wiener roast ♦ wiener Schnitzel. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Wiener": Wiener-Hopf, Wiener-Khintchine, Wiener-neustadt. | |
Ending with "Wiener": alt-wiener. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "Wiener"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | نقانق فرانكفورت. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | телешки котлет, шницел (schnitzel), кренвирш (weeny), виенски котлет. (various references) | |
Chinese | 熏肉香 . (various references) | |
Danish | Wiener's biologiske forligelighedsprøve (Wiener biological test), Wiener-Khintchine-sætning (Wiener-Khintchine theorem), Wiener-Hopf-teknik (Wiener-Hopf technique), Brown'ske bevægelser (Brownian motion, Brownian motion process, Brownian movement, Brownian-Zsigmondy movement, Wiener process), Brownske bevægelse (Bachelier process, Brownian motion process, Wiener process), Brownsk bevægelse (Brownian motion, Brownian motion process, Brownian movement, Brownian-Zsigmondy movement, Wiener process). (various references) | |
Dutch | Wiener-proces (Bachelier process, Brownian motion process, Wiener process), Wiener-Khintchine-theorema (Wiener-Khintchine theorem), techniek van Wiener-Hopf (Wiener-Hopf technique), Brownwbeweging (Brownian motion, Brownian motion process, Brownian movement, Brownian-Zsigmondy movement, Wiener process), Brownse beweging (Brownian motion, Brownian motion process, Brownian movement, Brownian-Zsigmondy movement, Wiener process), biologische test van Wiener (Wiener biological test), beweging van Brown (Brownian motion, Brownian motion process, Brownian movement, Brownian-Zsigmondy movement, Wiener process). (various references) | |
Finnish | Wienerin-Khintchinen lause (Wiener-Khintchine theorem), Wienerin-Hopfin tekniikka (Wiener-Hopf technique), Wienerin prosessi (Bachelier process, Brownian motion process, Wiener process), Brownin liike (Brownian motion, Brownian motion process, Brownian movement, Brownian-Zsigmondy movement, Wiener process), brownilainen kulkuprosessi (Bachelier process, Brownian motion process, Wiener process), Bachelierin prosessi (Bachelier process, Brownian motion process, Wiener process). (various references) | |
French | saucisse de frankfort. (various references) | |
German | Wiener-Hopf-Technik (Wiener-Hopf technique), Wiener Schnitzel (schnitzel, Schnitzel Wiener ~), Wiener Prozess (Bachelier process, Brownian motion process, Wiener process), Wiener biologischer Test (Wiener biological test), Satz von Wiener-Khintchine (Wiener-Khintchine theorem), Brown'sche Bewegung (Brownian motion, Brownian motion process, Brownian movement, Brownian-Zsigmondy movement, Wiener process), Brownsche Bewegung (Bachelier process, Brownian motion process, Wiener process), Brown-Molekularbewegung (Brownian motion, Brownian motion process, Brownian movement, Brownian-Zsigmondy movement, Wiener process), Brown-Bewegung (Brownian motion, Brownian motion process, Brownian movement, Brownian-Zsigmondy movement, Wiener process), Bachelier-Prozess (Bachelier process, Brownian motion process, Wiener process). (various references) | |
Greek | λουκάνικο (hotdog, sausage). (various references) | |
Hungarian | bécsi virsli (wienerwurst). (various references) | |
Italian | teorema di Wiener-Khintchine (Wiener-Khintchine theorem), teorema di Wiener-Khinchine (Wiener-Khintchine theorem), tecnica di Wiener-Hopf (Wiener-Hopf technique), processo di Wiener-Levy (Bachelier process, Brownian motion process, Wiener process), processo di Wiener (Bachelier process, Brownian motion process, Wiener process), processo di Bachelier (Bachelier process, Brownian motion process, Wiener process), movimento molecolare (Brownian motion, Brownian motion process, Brownian movement, Brownian-Zsigmondy movement, Wiener process), movimento browniano (Brownian motion, Brownian motion process, Brownian movement, Brownian-Zsigmondy movement, Wiener process), moto browniano (Bachelier process, Brownian motion, Brownian motion process, Brownian movement, Brownian-Zsigmondy movement, Wiener process). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ウイルス病 (jacket, Vienna coffee, Vienna sausage, Viennese, Viennese waltz, viral disease, virus disease, wait, waiter, waitress, Weber, Wimbledon, winch, wind, windbreaker, windfall, windjacket, window, window display, window dressing, window shopping, Windsor char, windsurfer, windsurfing, wing, wing collar, wink, Winker, winter resort, winter sports). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ウインナ (Viennese). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ienerway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | teste biológica de Wiener (Wiener biological test), movimento de Browniano (Brownian motion, Brownian motion process, Brownian movement, Brownian-Zsigmondy movement, Wiener process), movimento browniano (Brownian motion, Brownian motion process, Brownian movement, Brownian-Zsigmondy movement, pedesis, Wiener process). (various references) | |
Russian | копченая колбаска. (various references) | |
Spanish | teorema de Wiener-Khintchine (Wiener-Khintchine theorem), técnica de Wiener-Hopf (Wiener-Hopf technique), prueba biológica de Wiener (Wiener biological test), proceso de Wiener (Bachelier process, Brownian motion process, Wiener process), proceso de movimiento browniano (Bachelier process, Brownian motion process, Wiener process), proceso de Bachelier (Bachelier process, Brownian motion process, Wiener process), movimiento browniano (Brownian motion, Brownian motion process, Brownian movement, Brownian-Zsigmondy movement, pedesis, Wiener process). (various references) | |
Swedish | korv (boloney, sausage). (various references) | |
Turkish | sosis (banger, sausage, wienie). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| German | 100 BCE-Modern | Wiener. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Wiener": wieners, wienerwurst, wienerwursts. (additional references) | |
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"Wiener" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Diener, Liener, tweener, viener, wainer, weaner, weene, weener, weenor, weier, weine, wener, Wexner, wiane, wieder, wiena, wience, wiene, wienes, wienner, Wiesner, winea, winer, winzer. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Wiener" (pronounced wē"ner or wī"ner) |
| 3 | -ē" n er | cleaner, demeanor, greener, intervenor, keener, leaner, meaner, misdemeanor, screener. |
| 4 | w ī" n er | Weiner, whiner. |
| 3 | -ī" n er | briner, decliner, designer, diner, finer, liner, miner, minor, recliner, refiner, shiner, signer. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: weiner. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-n-r-w" | |
-1 letter: newer, newie, renew, rewin. | |
-2 letters: erne, ewer, rein, ween, weer, weir, were, wine, wire, wren. | |
-3 letters: ere, ern, ewe, ire, nee, new, ree, rei, rin, wee, wen, win. | |
-4 letters: en, er, in, ne, re, we. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-n-r-w" | |
+1 letter: newsier, rewiden, weenier, weiners, wennier, wherein, widener, wieners, wiremen. | |
+2 letters: ironweed, renewing, resewing, rewidens, rewinded, rewinder, sewering, weensier, whitener, wideners, wineries, wintered, winterer. | |
+3 letters: eiderdown, greenwing, indweller, interview, interwove, ironweeds, nonviewer, rechewing, reviewing, reweaving, rewedding, rewelding, rewetting, rewidened, rewinders, rewritten, rosinweed, skewering, swineherd, underwire, unwearied, waterline, weariness, weirdness, weltering, westering, whereinto, whiteners, winemaker, winepress, winterers, winterier, winterize, wolverine. | |
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