(a.) Of or relating to one of the early races in Mexico that inhabited the great plateau of that country at the time of the Spanish conquest in 1519.
(n.) One of the Aztec race or people.
Example Sentences:
(1) UPDATE: Aztec new rave Katy Perry performs onstage.
(2) The structure of the Aztec family, their problems with the excessive ingestion of alcoholic beverages, and the punishments native authorities had implemented in order to check alcoholism up are also described.
(3) Other performers on the night included award winners Goulding, Mars, Bastille and Rudimental, as well as Katy Perry, whose set resembled an Aztec scene with fluorescent dance outfits and laser beams.
(4) "I would say that period derailed many great bands: Aztec Camera, Prefab Sprout, Scritti Politti, Orange Juice.
(5) For centuries they have produced vegetables and flowers, initially for the capital of the Aztec kingdom, then of New Spain and more recently the Mexican republic, all built in the same place.
(6) Classified vector quantization (CVQ) of the m-AZTEC output is next performed to exploit the correlation in the other AZTEC parameter, namely, the value-parameter.
(7) The chinampas were invented by the first settlers here, and subsequently enabled the Aztecs to extend their urban settlements.
(8) February 19, 2014 Updated at 8.36pm GMT 8.33pm GMT Here is that aforementioned Katy Perry’s aztec new rave look ... 8.32pm GMT James Corden is making jokes with One Direction about prison rape.
(9) The widely-held belief that Columbus's ship brought the disease from the New World to Europe rests on identification of the classic lesions in Inca, Aztec and Mississippian bones that date from 1,000 to 3,000 years before present.
(10) The track I always play to rescue a dancefloor The Aztec Mystic: Knights Of The Jaguar Facebook Twitter Pinterest This tune gets house and techno crowds alike on to the dancefloor.
(11) Designed by the artist himself, this haunting 1950s structure, inspired by Mayan and Aztec architecture, houses the artist's inspiring collection of pre-Hispanic Art.
(12) At times this game felt like one big callback, especially when the higher-seeded Aztecs coughed up a 14 point lead.
(13) The ceremony shown here is very faithful to the most lurid sources on the Aztec ritual.
(14) The chinampas , or floating market gardens, are unique, one of the few living reminders of the Aztec city of Mexico-Tenochtitlan , captured by the Spanish conquistadors in 1521.
(15) The motivation behind Benzecry's Rituales Amerindios (American Indian Rituals) is, in the Argentinian composer's words, "my wish to write something that would represent the three great pre-Columbian Latin-American cultures - the Aztec (in Mexico), the Mayan (in Southern Mexico and Central America) and Inca (mostly in Peru)."
(16) In the Aztec culture of pre-Columbian Mexico the rules for the use of alcoholic beverages were clearly defined and strictly enforced.
(17) No chemical differences were either manifested in the Mercado and Aztec types of A. hypochondriacus, nor in the Mexican type of A. cruentus.
(18) Like the Aztecs, they pursued specific material goods, obsessively combing their empire for the thorny oyster ( spondylus princep s) revered for the deep blood-red colour of its shell.
(19) The latest accolade may be lost among the prince’s hundreds of other honours, including a knighthood of Order of the Elephant (Denmark), a Collar of the Order of the Aztec Eagle (Mexico), and a Grand Commander of the Order of Maritime Merit (the San Francisco Port Authority).
(20) Author Antonio Ortuño compared Wednesday’s event to Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés – who led the fall of the Aztec empire – meeting with the Aztec emperor Montezuma.
Maya
Definition:
(n.) The name for the doctrine of the unreality of matter, called, in English, idealism; hence, nothingness; vanity; illusion.
Example Sentences:
(1) No child in the Maya village school admitted to or was known by the nurse or teachers to have asthma, whereas 2 of 39 children in the control group were known to be affected.
(2) His defence fell apart at a set piece, conceding a late goal when, courtesy of Jos Hooiveld's flick, Maya Yoshida headed James Ward-Prowse's free-kick beyond the impressive Vito Mannone.
(3) The predominantly Maya town of Santiago Atitlan is in the Guatemalan highlands in the Department of Solola.
(4) A botched job, on its own, narrow terms, AQA's list – launched in the week in which British readers and the national press has been mourning the death of Maya Angelou – is even more ludicrous and ill-conceived when placed in a wider context.
(5) Maya Wang, of Human Rights Watch, said that if Tohti had been tried and sentenced in secret it was "very, very disturbing".
(6) He'll certainly be hoping that Diaries Volume One: Prelude to Power 1994-1997 does better than his second novel, Maya.
(7) In addition, the Asian-specific deletion between the cytochrome c oxidase subunit II (COII) and tRNA(Lys) genes was also prevalent in both the Pima and the Maya.
(8) This idea is quite contrary to the traditional view that the ancient Maya were a contemplative people, who did not indulge in ritual ecstasy.
(9) Maya Yoshida and the excellent Victor Wanyama had threatened earlier and the second goal followed more quicksilver work by Mané, who escaped on the byeline before being body checked by Rochdi Achenteh.
(10) In Belize, the Maya Indians commonly feed their infants from birth until 12-18 months exclusively on breast milk.
(11) Of the album, packed with references to Sri Lankan terrorists, Diplo said: "Maya left her open for attacks.
(12) This decrease is concomitant with an increase of disintegrating tubules in lubricant- and Ural-WAF exposures, and with an increase of regenerating tubules in the Maya-WAF exposure.
(13) Solubility and swelling studies suggested the presence of more homogenous forces maintaining the granular matrix on the starch from Maya Normal in relation to the other maize cultivars.
(14) This will reach a climax on the 21st when Honduran President Porfirio Lobo will join descendants of the Maya at a ceremony to mark the end of the current cycle, before dawn meditation on the start of a new era.
(15) Iran has hanged more than a hundred so-called drug offenders this year, and the UN has responded by praising the efficiency of the Iranian drug police and lining them up a generous five-year funding deal,” said Maya Foa , strategic director of Reprieve’s death penalty team.
(16) Maya Angelou is a big inspiration – she is a speaker who always makes me feel something.
(17) Maya Konforti , a volunteer with the Auberge des Migrants, which works with refugees and migrants, warned of harsh police treatment of those in Calais.
(18) Photograph: AP Maya Foa, of anti-death penalty group Reprieve, said: “The state of Arizona had every reason to believe that this procedure would not go smoothly; the experimental execution ‘cocktail’ had only been used once before, and that execution too was terribly botched.
(19) "Some states will now be looking to change protocol for a second time; the different method [not lethal injection] is unlikely; swing states will surely consider the viability of executing … [it] doesn't make financial sense," said Maya Foa, a campaigner with London-based anti-death penalty lobby group Reprieve.
(20) Among his early influences were Jean Cocteau and the Italian neo-realists but, after arriving in New York in 1954, he joined the flourishing avant-garde scene, drawing inspiration from artists and filmmakers like Maya Deren, Marie Menken and Joseph Cornell.