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caliban

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for caliban.

Editorial note

To quote Caliban (The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 1) Cal.

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Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A man of beastly nature.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of caliban gathered in one view.

noun

A man of beastly nature.

noun

(astronomy) A moon of Uranus.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for caliban.

noun

A man of beastly nature.

noun

(astronomy) A moon of Uranus.

Example sentences

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To quote Caliban (The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 1) Cal.

2

Nobody has ever managed to find any evidence that there was a gay club called Caliban or The Rock in Nottingham, or that anything was named after one.

3

Ah, the book theft involving Caliban Book Shop.

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Anyhow in the caliban books the police robot could consider unethical and immoral things, and even contemplate harming humans, but it made it work really slow, almost tiring it.

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I've actually been going to the Caliban bookstore for years and was there around August 2018, and was about to buy an old record but asked an employee about how the case was going, and they told me to get out and never come back.

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> formed in Pakistan yeah mighty Pakistan, the country with a thriving economy and the mightiest tech innovation machine > winning a war and sustaining occupation the caliban simply moved from place a to place b and waited it out it’d much more beneficial to admit defeat and learn from it.

Quote examples

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In his book on Stanford educational system, he appropriately references Caliban and the need to "chain the beast" so-to-speak, but it seems that he hasn't taken his own lessons to heart.

2

Corey "Caliban's War" & "Cibola Burn" - George RR Martin "Game of Thrones" - Robin Hobb "Assassin's Apprentice"

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> the heroic stronghold planet of "Caliban" being named after a gay club located down the street from the pub where the setting's original creators would hang out This appears to be an urban myth.

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It certainly isn't, and that's especially obvious considering the origin of some of the lore figures like the "Dark Angels" led by "Lion El Johnson," or the heroic stronghold planet of "Caliban" being named after a gay club located down the street from the pub where the setting's original creators would hang out.

Proper noun examples

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Also, Shakespeare had two more native inhabitants of that island, Ariel and Sycorax (Caliban's mother, defeated by Prospero).

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Caliban is a tool that helps ML researchers launch and track their numerical experiments in an isolated, reproducible computing environment.

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I lived in Oakland for about 10 years and frequented the library and occasionally stopped at Caliban.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use caliban in a sentence?

To quote Caliban (The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 1) Cal.

What does caliban mean?

A man of beastly nature.

What part of speech is caliban?

caliban is commonly used as noun.