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Definition: Ceres

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. (Roman mythology) goddess of agriculture; counterpart of Greek Demeter.[Wordnet]
2. The largest asteroid and the first discovered.[Wordnet]
3. The daughter of Saturn and Ops or Rhea, the goddess of corn and tillage.[Websters]
4. The first discovered asteroid.[Websters].
Verb Present Tense 1. Seldom used present tense conjugation of the verb cere.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Verb Base
(cere)		 1. Wrap up in a cerecloth; "cere a corpse".[Wordnet].
2. Wrap us in a cerecloth; "cerecloth a corpse".[Wordnet].
3. To wax; to cover or close with wax.[Websters].
4. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: cering, cered, ceres, cerer, cerers, ceringly and ceredly.[Eve - graph theoretic]

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"Ceres" is a common misspelling or typo for: crees, certes, cereus, cedes, cerers.

Date "Ceres" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology:Ceres \Ce"res\, noun. [Latin expression, Ceres, also corn, grain, akin to English create.]. (references)

Specialty Definition: Ceres

Domain Definition
Administration California Environmental Resources Evaluation System. (references)
Aerospace 1: Clouds And Earth's Radiant Energy System. (references)
  2: Crop Environment Resource Synthesis. (references)
Antiquities Ceres (from the √ kr of creare). An old Italian goddess of agriculture. The Ceres who was worshipped at Rome is, however, the same as the Greek Demeter. Her cult was introduced under the Italian name at the same time as that of Dionysus and Persephoné, who in the same way received the Italian names of Liber and Libera. (See Cic. N. D. ii. 24 N. D., 2.) It was in B.C. 496, on the occasion of a drought, that the Sibylline Books ordered the introduction of the worship of the three deities. This worship was so decidedly Greek that the temple dedicated on a spur of the Aventine in B.C. 490, over the entrance to the Circus, was built in Greek style and by Greek artists; and the service of the goddess, founded on the Greek myth of Demeter and Persephoné, was performed in the Greek tongue by Italian women of Greek extraction. The worshippers of the goddess were almost exclusively plebeian. Her temple was placed under the care of the plebeian aediles, who, as overseers of the corn market, had their official residence in or near it. The fines which they imposed went to the shrine of Ceres, as did the property of persons who had offended against them or against the tribunes of the plebs. Just as the patricians entertained each other with mutual hospitalities at the Megalesian Games (April 4-10), so did the plebeians at the Cerealia, or games introduced at the founding of the Temple of Ceres. Those held in later times were given by the aediles from the 12th to the 19th of April, and another festival to Ceres, held in August, was established before the Second Punic War. This was celebrated by women in honor of the reunion of Ceres and Proserpina. After fasting for nine days, the women, clothed in white, and adorned with crowns of ripe ears of corn, offered to the goddess the first-fruits of the harvest. After B.C. 191, a fast (ieiunium Cereris) was introduced by command of the Sibylline Books. This was originally observed every four years, but in later times was kept annually on the 4th of October. The native Italian worship of Ceres was probably maintained in its purest form in the country. Here the countrymen offered Ceres a sow (porca praecidanea) before the beginning of the harvest, and dedicated to her the first cuttings of the corn (praemetium). See Demeter. (references)
Environment California Environmental Resources Evaluation System (USA State). (references)
Library Science Revista Bi-Mensal de Divulgação de Ensinamentos Teóricos e Práticos sobre Agricultura, Veterinária, Industrias Rurais. Escola Superior de Agricultura do Estado de Minas Geraes. Viçosa, B. (references)
Literature 1: Ceres (2 syl.). Corn. Ceres was the Roman name of Mother-Earth, the protectress of agriculture and of all the fruits of the earth.
2: "Dark frowning heaths grow bright with Ceres' store." Thomson: Castle of Indolence, ii. 27. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Wikipedic CERES (Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System) is an on-going NASA meteorological experiment in Earth orbit. It is designed to measure the Earth's radiation flux and provide estimates of cloud properties of the surface of the Earth. (references)

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Common Expressions: Ceres

Expressions Definition
Ceres family The Ceres asteroids are a group of asteroids with a semi-major axis of about 2.74-2.80 AU and an orbital eccentricity of approximately 0.08-0.17. The namesake is 1 Ceres, the first asteroid discovered. (references)
Ceres HellenicEnterprises Ceres HellenicEnterprises is a large traditional greek ship management company based in Piraeus. (references)
Ceres series (Portugal) The Ceres series of Portuguese postage stamps is a definitive series depicting the Roman goddess Ceres that was issued between 1912 and 1945 in Portugal and its colonies. (references)
Ceres Yap Chai Abanil Ceres Yap Chai Abanil is a Filipino Visayan writer. He is a fellow for poetry in the 1998 Iligan National Writers Workshop (INWW). (references)
HMS Ceres Three ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Ceres, after the goddess Ceres of Roman mythology. (references)
USS Ceres (1856) USS Ceres, an armed side-wheel merchant steamer, was built at Keyport, New Jersey in 1856. Ceres was purchased by the United States Navy on September 11, 1861, fitted out at the Washington Navy Yard, and commissioned the same month, Acting Master J. L. Elliott in command. (references)

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Specialty Expressions: Ceres

Expressions Domain Definition
Ceres workstation Oberon System Computing Ceres workstation Oberon System A complete Oberon compiler written in Oberon. Source to most of the complete Ceres workstation Oberon System, including the NS32032 code generator is available. Less of the low level system specific code is available. (ftp://neptune.ethz.ch/Oberon/) (1994-12-14). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing..

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Ceres

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry Source Expression Field
CERES English Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Extended Definition: Ceres

Ceres

Ceres commonly refers to either:

  • Ceres (dwarf planet), smallest of the four identified dwarf planets, originally classified as a planet, and later as the largest asteroid.
  • Ceres (mythology), the Roman goddess of agriculture.

Ceres may also refer to:

Places

United States

Other countries

  • Ceres, Santa Fe, Argentina
  • Ceres, Victoria, Australia
  • Ceres, Goiás, Brazil
  • Ceres (TO), Italy
  • Ceres, Fife, Scotland
  • Ceres, Western Cape, South Africa

Businesses

  • Ceres Brewery, a brewery in Aarhus, Denmark
  • Ceres Hellenic Shipping Enterprises, a Greek shipping company
  • Ceres (organization), a coalition of investors and environmentalists (formerly the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies)
  • Ceres Fruit Juices, the South African juice company
  • Ceres, Inc., the developer of energy crops
  • Ceres Liner, a bus company in the Philippines
  • Ceres (software), an agricultural software from Belgium
  • Ceres (truck) (세레스), a light truck produced by Kia Motors in the 1980s and 1990s.

In fiction

  • Ceres, Celestial Legend (Ayashi no Ceres), an anime/manga work. The main character Aya is descended from a celestial Goddess named Ceres.
  • CereCere, a character in the anime TV series Sailor Moon
  • Seras Victoria, a character in the anime/manga Hellsing, of which an alternate romanization is "Ceres"
  • Ceres Space Colony, from the video game Super Metroid.
  • Geoffrey Fourmyle of Ceres, one of the identities of Gulliver Foyle, in the Alfred Bester book The Stars My Destination
  • The Ceres Ocean, located between the continents of Osea and Verusea in the alternate Earth of the Ace Combat video game series.

Other uses

  • the plural of cere, a structure at the base of some bird's beaks.
  • Ceres (workstation), a computer workstation
  • Ceres series, a series of postage stamps representing the goddess Ceres
  • HMS Ceres, three ships of the British Royal Navy
  • Ceres, a West Cornwall Railway steam locomotive

Acronyms

  • CERES Community Environment Park (Centre for Education and Research in Environmental Strategies), a community environmental park in Melbourne, Australia
  • Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System, an on-going NASA meteorological experiment, part of NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) program

See also

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

Topics sorted by level of Interest Level (1=low, 600=high)     Topics sorted Alphabetically Level (1=low, 600=high)
Ceres 171     CAC Ceres 12
Ceres (dwarf planet) 96     Ceres 171
Ceres (TO) 25     Ceres (dwarf planet) 96
HMS Ceres 20     Ceres (mythology) 13
HMS Ceres (D59) 17     Ceres (organization) 6
Cruel Like Ceres 17     Ceres (TO) 25
CERES Community Environment Park 16     Ceres Brewery 9
Ceres Division 15     CERES Community Environment Park 16
Ceres (mythology) 13     Ceres Connection 3
CAC Ceres 12     Ceres Division 15
Ceres in fiction 11     Ceres Hellenic Shipping Enterprises 3
Ceres Township, Pennsylvania 11     Ceres High School, Ceres 7
Colonization of Ceres 10     Ceres in fiction 11
USS Ceres (1856) 10     Ceres Liner 7
Ceres series 9     Ceres Microregion 5
Ceres Brewery 9     Ceres series 9
Ceres High School, Ceres 7     Ceres series (Portugal) 6
Ceres Liner 7     Ceres Storm 2
Ceres (organization) 6     Ceres Township, Pennsylvania 11
Ceres series (Portugal) 6     Ceres Yap Chai Abanil 3
Ceres Microregion 5     Colonization of Ceres 10
Fife Folk Museum, Ceres 4     Cruel Like Ceres 17
Ceres Connection 3     Fife Folk Museum, Ceres 4
Ceres Yap Chai Abanil 3     HMS Ceres 20
Ceres Hellenic Shipping Enterprises 3     HMS Ceres (D59) 17
Ceres Storm 2     USS Ceres (1856) 10

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).

"Ceres" is a common misspelling or typo for: crees, certes, cereus, cedes, cerers.

Synonyms: Ceres
Position Synonyms (sorted by strength)

Noun

 wraps, waxes.

Other

 planetoid.
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Computed Synonyms: ceres

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Word

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   5.2096   ceres     waxes     polishes, rises, accrues, greases, candles   
 2   4.2093   ceres     polishes     rubs, sheens, brilliances, flushes, refines   
 3   4.2093   ceres     beeswaxes     polishes, candles, faces, dyes, pitches   
 4   2.2195   ceres     candles     snags, stubs, candlelights, zooms, bougies   
 5   2.2194   ceres     collieries     pits, repositories, countenances, attitudes, faces   
 6   2.2191   ceres     countenances     figures, images, expressions, shapes, views   
 7   2.2096   ceres     faces     figures, points, shapes, ends, mugs   
 8   2.2096   ceres     dyes     stains, paintings, manges, moths, burrs   
 9   2.2092   ceres     attitudes     positions, demeanours, attitude, stands, carriages   
 10   2.2092   ceres     appearances     views, sights, exteriors, figures, images   
 11   2.2091   ceres     repositories     depots, storages, yards, repertories, larders   
 12   2.1195   ceres     colors     stains, colourings, complexions, flushes, blushes   
 13   2.1194   ceres     chambers     halls, houses, cavities, containers, tubes   
 14   2.1191   ceres     complexions     aspects, appearances, colours, colors, looks   
 15   2.1093   ceres     pillars     piers, pedestals, struts, supports, standards   
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Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Computed Synonyms via Expressions: ceres

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Word

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   1.1087   ceres     needless to say     it goes without saying, naturally, of course   
 2   1.0192   ceres     of course     certainly, naturally, absolutely   
 3   1.0093   ceres     you bet     of course, certainly, naturally   
 4   1.0091   ceres     to be sure     indeed, certainly, to be certain   
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Translations: Ceres

Language Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Balgarski Церера (Ceres), Разбира Се (Ceres), 1 Церера (1 Ceres). Additional references: Balgarski, Bulgaria, Greece, Ceres. (volunteer & more translations)
Balgarski (transliteration) tserera (Ceres), razbira se (Ceres), 1 tserera (1 Ceres). Additional references: Balgarski, Bulgaria, Greece, Ceres. (volunteer & more translations)
Bulgarian Церера (Ceres), Разбира Се (Ceres), 1 Церера (1 Ceres). Additional references: Bulgarian, Bulgaria, Greece, Ceres. (volunteer & more translations)
Bulgarian (transliteration) tserera (Ceres), razbira se (Ceres), 1 tserera (1 Ceres). Additional references: Bulgarian, Bulgaria, Greece, Ceres. (volunteer & more translations)
Calabro-Sicilian Ceriri (1 Ceres). Additional references: Calabro-Sicilian, Italy, Ceres. (volunteer & more translations)
Cebuano Ceres Yap Chai Abanil (Ceres Yap Chai Abanil). Additional references: Cebuano, Philippines, Ceres. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Simplified 谷类的女神 (Ceres). Additional references: Chinese Simplified, China, Brunei, Ceres. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Traditional 穀類的女神 (Ceres). Additional references: Chinese Traditional, China, Brunei, Ceres. (volunteer & more translations)
Deutsch Ayashi no Ceres (Ceres). Additional references: Deutsch, Germany, Austria, Ceres. (volunteer & more translations)
Dutch Ceres (Ceres). Additional references: Dutch, Netherlands, Aruba, Ceres. (volunteer & more translations)
Français Cérès (Ceres), Ayashi no Ceres (Ceres). Additional references: Français, France, Algeria, Ceres. (volunteer & more translations)
French Cérès (Ceres), Ayashi no Ceres (Ceres). Additional references: French, France, Algeria, Ceres. (volunteer & more translations)
Gaelg Keres (Ceres). Additional references: Gaelg, United Kingdom, Ceres. (volunteer & more translations)
Gailck Keres (Ceres). Additional references: Gailck, United Kingdom, Ceres. (volunteer & more translations)
German Ayashi no Ceres (Ceres). Additional references: German, Germany, Austria, Ceres. (volunteer & more translations)
Greek Δήμητρα (Ceres, Demeter). Additional references: Greek, Greece, Albania, Ceres. (volunteer & more translations)
Greek (transliteration) dhimitra (Ceres, Demeter). Additional references: Greek, Greece, Albania, Ceres. (volunteer & more translations)
Hanguk Mal 케레스 (Ceres), 곡물의 여신 (Ceres), 【로마신화】 케레스 (Ceres), 세레스 (Ceres). Additional references: Hanguk Mal, Korea, South, Korea, Ceres. (volunteer & more translations)
Hanguohua 케레스 (Ceres), 곡물의 여신 (Ceres), 【로마신화】 케레스 (Ceres), 세레스 (Ceres). Additional references: Hanguohua, Korea, South, Korea, Ceres. (volunteer & more translations)
Hebrew קרס (Ceres, clasp, hook, rack, stud), מקבילתה של דמטר במיתולוגיה היוונית (Ceres), אלת החקלאות (Ceres). Additional references: Hebrew, Israel, Ceres. (volunteer & more translations)
High German Ayashi no Ceres (Ceres). Additional references: High German, Germany, Austria, Ceres. (volunteer & more translations)
Hochdeutsch Ayashi no Ceres (Ceres). Additional references: Hochdeutsch, Germany, Austria, Ceres. (volunteer & more translations)
Italian Cerere (Ceres). Additional references: Italian, Italy, Croatia, Ceres. (volunteer & more translations)
Ivrit קרס (Ceres, clasp, hook, rack, stud), מקבילתה של דמטר במיתולוגיה היוונית (Ceres), אלת החקלאות (Ceres). Additional references: Ivrit, Israel, Ceres. (volunteer & more translations)
Japanese ケレス (Ceres), セレス (Ceres), 妖しのセレス (Ceres). Additional references: Japanese, Japan, Taiwan, Ceres. (volunteer & more translations)
Korean 케레스 (Ceres), 곡물의 여신 (Ceres), 【로마신화】 케레스 (Ceres), 세레스 (Ceres). Additional references: Korean, Korea, South, Korea, Ceres. (volunteer & more translations)
Manx Keres (Ceres). Additional references: Manx, United Kingdom, Ceres. (volunteer & more translations)
Manx Gaelic Keres (Ceres). Additional references: Manx Gaelic, United Kingdom, Ceres. (volunteer & more translations)
Portuguese Ceres (ceres), Ayashi no Ceres (Ceres). Additional references: Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, Ceres. (volunteer & more translations)
Russian Церера (Ceres). Additional references: Russian, Russia, China, Ceres. (volunteer & more translations)
Russian (transliteration) tserera (Ceres). Additional references: Russian, Russia, China, Ceres. (volunteer & more translations)
Russki Церера (Ceres). Additional references: Russki, Russia, China, Ceres. (volunteer & more translations)
Russki (transliteration) tserera (Ceres). Additional references: Russki, Russia, China, Ceres. (volunteer & more translations)
Serbian (transliteration) ceres (Ceres). Additional references: Serbian (transliteration), Ceres. (volunteer & more translations)
Sicilian Ceriri (1 Ceres). Additional references: Sicilian, Italy, Ceres. (volunteer & more translations)
Spanish Ceres (ceres). Additional references: Spanish, Spain, Mexico, Ceres. (volunteer & more translations)
Ukrainian Керера (Ceres). Additional references: Ukrainian, Ceres. (volunteer & more translations)
Ukrainian (transliteration) kerera (Ceres). Additional references: Ukrainian, Ceres. (volunteer & more translations)
Urdu ان دیوتا (Ceres). Additional references: Urdu, Pakistan, India, Ceres. (volunteer & more translations)
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Constructed Language Translations: Ceres

Language Translations for “Ceres” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses.
Athag Cathagerathages (Ceres). Additional references: Athag, Ceres. (volunteer)
Double Dutch Cagerages (Ceres). Additional references: Double Dutch, Ceres. (volunteer)
Esperanto Cereso (Ceres). Additional references: Esperanto, Ceres. (volunteer)
Leet (&P\&$ (Ceres). Additional references: Leet, Ceres. (volunteer)
Oppish Coperopes (Ceres). Additional references: Oppish, Ceres. (volunteer)
Pig Latin Erescay (Ceres). Additional references: Pig Latin, Ceres. (volunteer)
Terran B Ceresi (Ceres). Additional references: Terran B, Ceres. (volunteer)
Ubbi Dubbi Cuberubes (Ceres). Additional references: Ubbi Dubbi, Ceres. (volunteer)
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Ancestral and Extinct Language Translations: Ceres

Language Period Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Latin 500 BCE - 1700 Ceres (Ceres), cerealis (sacred to Ceres, cereal, of grain). Additional references: Latin, Ceres. (volunteer)
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