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Definition: BIRT

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. A fish of the turbot kind; the brill.[Websters].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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"Birt" is a common misspelling or typo for: birth, Burt, brit, girt, birr.

Date "Birt" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1726. (references)

Etymology:Birt \Birt\ (b[~e]rt), noun. [from Old English expression byrte; compare to French bertonneau. Compare to Bret, Burt.]. (references)

Specialty Definition: BIRT

Domain Definition
Noah Webster [Noun] burt. A fish, called also turbot.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary.
Geography Birt is geographically located in Kenya. Its features include a waterhole(s) (a natural hole, hollow, or small depression that contains water, used by man and animals, especially in arid areas). Its geographic coordinates are 1.3 degrees South latitude and 41 degrees East longitude. (references)

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Common Expressions: BIRT

Expressions Definition
Birt (crater) Birt is a lunar impact crater that is located in the eastern half of the Mare Nubium. To the east of the crater is the Rupes Recta, a long, linear feature commonly called the "Straight Wall". In actually this is only a slight rise in the surface of the mare with a maximum height of about 240 meters. It has a width of about 2.5 kilometers and is 100 kilometers in length. (references)
Birt Acres Birt Acres (1854-1918), born in Richmond, Virginia, USA of English parents was a photographer and film pioneer. (references)
Charlie Birt Charles T. Birt (born May 27, 1942 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1984 to 1988, representing the riding of Fort Garry for the Progressive Conservative Party. (references)
John Birt John Birt, Baron Birt (born 10 December 1944), served as the Director-General of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) from 1992 to 2000, having previously been deputy director-general since 1987. Sir John was awarded the life peerage in 1999, and took his seat in March 2000. (references)
William Radcliffe Birt William Radcliffe Birt (1804 — 1881) was a British amateur astronomer in the 19th century. His name is used for the Birt crater, a minor crater on the Moon. Birt worked extensively with John Herschel, carrying out a great deal of meteorological research on atmospheric waves, from 1843 to 1850. Birt founded the Selenographical Society in London, in 1878. A lot of his work is held in the Scientist's Collection at the American Philosophical Society. (references)

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Extended Definition: BIRT

Birt

Birt may refer to:

People

  • Charlie Birt (born 1942), Canadian politician.
  • John Birt (born 1944), Director-General of the British Broadcasting Corporation 1992–2000.
  • Henry Norbert Birt, Benedictine historian
  • William Radcliffe Birt (1804–1881), British astronomer
  • Birt Acres (1854 - 1918), a photographer and film pioneer

Computing

  • Eclipse BIRT Project , an open source software project providing reporting and business intelligence capabilities.

Other

  • Birt, a lunar impact crater named after William Radcliffe Birt
  • Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome (BHD), a rare human genetic disorder
  • a birt is a flatfish in the family of Scophthalmidae, related to the turbot and brill

See also

  • Bert
  • Burt

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "Birt". Image Credit.
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Topics by Level of Interest: BIRT

Topics sorted by level of Interest Level (1=low, 600=high)     Topics sorted Alphabetically Level (1=low, 600=high)
Birt 39     Birt 39
John Birt, Baron Birt 20     Birt (crater) 12
Birt (crater) 12     Birt Acres 12
Jill Birt 12     BIRT Project 12
Birt Acres 12     Charlie Birt 4
BIRT Project 12     Jill Birt 12
Liz Birt 12     John Birt, Baron Birt 20
John Birt (footballer) 9     John Birt (footballer) 9
Travis Birt 7     Liz Birt 12
Charlie Birt 4     Travis Birt 7
William Radcliffe Birt 3     William Radcliffe Birt 3

Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses).