(Greek mythology) A personification of said rock as a ravenous monster.
Used in a Sentence
scylla
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for scylla.
Editorial note
The whole history of the humankind is akin to that passage of Odysseus between Scylla and Charybdis.
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Quick take
(Greek mythology) A personification of said rock as a ravenous monster.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of scylla gathered in one view.
(Greek mythology) A princess, daughter of King Nisos of Megara, who fell in love with King Minos and betrayed her city to him.
(astronomy) The main belt asteroid 155 Scylla.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for scylla.
noun
(Greek mythology) A personification of said rock as a ravenous monster.
noun
(Greek mythology) A princess, daughter of King Nisos of Megara, who fell in love with King Minos and betrayed her city to him.
noun
(astronomy) The main belt asteroid 155 Scylla.
noun
A dangerous rock on the Italian coast opposite the whirlpool Charybdis on the coast of Sicily. The passage between Scylla and Charybdis was formerly considered perilous; hence, the saying between Scylla and Charybdis signifies a great peril on either hand.
Example sentences
The whole history of the humankind is akin to that passage of Odysseus between Scylla and Charybdis.
Would it be possible to have a future iteration that can survive the Scylla and Charybdis of washing machines?
You're probably looking for seastar, the underlying library used in products like Scylla and Redpanda.
Sure, it's a Scylla and Charybdis type choice between boosting albedo or having viable space travel, but it may come to that.
They use redis, dynamo, scylla or any number of enriched KV stores.
Having to choose between two is more like between Scylla and Charybdis (known tradeoffs) than deciding to go left or right in a maze (mystery outcome).
I agree that Facebook is slightly the lesser of two evils at the moment, but we're basically debating between Scylla and Charybdis[0] here.
I think all modern system even scylla db do commit batch no fsync on every write, you either need throughput or durability both cannot exist together.
It’s so that existing software isn’t forced to choose between the Scylla of not being able to claim conformance to the updated standard and the Charybdis of breaking backwards compatibility.
I have the theory that most networks, and most social networks, are doomed to tolerate too much or too little deviance - sailing between 4chan Scylla or reddit Charybdis.
I understand PG's priorities, but the Scylla and Charybdis of bad-submitted-titles and bad-original-titles is wasting a lot of readers' time, and biasing followup discussions in a more ignorant and acrimonious direction.
We have a Scylla vs Charybdis situation, where lack of ID leads to an internet of bots, while on the other end we get a dystopia where everything anyone has ever said about any topic is available to a not-so-liberal government.
Quote examples
If you've never heard the phrase "from charybde to scylla", now is the time to look it up.
I still own Apple hardware; but caught between the scylla of Apple's incompetence and the charybdis of Google's obliviousness (if not outright evilness), I have renounced the "cloud".
Proper noun examples
That exchange was capped-off with a paraphrase of an extract from the 'Bulfinch's Mythology' section 'Glaucus and Scylla'.
Glaucus was a river god who developed the hots for a maiden called Scylla, who scorned his every approach.
Hi I’m sharing a monetary system design I’ve been working on called Scylla.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use scylla in a sentence?
The whole history of the humankind is akin to that passage of Odysseus between Scylla and Charybdis.
What does scylla mean?
(Greek mythology) A personification of said rock as a ravenous monster.
What part of speech is scylla?
scylla is commonly used as noun.