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300 | 626 | 1,802,193 | Potato | 2026-05-11T20:46:54Z | A **potato** is a vegetable, the *Solanum tuberosum*. It is a small plant with big leaves. The part of the potato that people eat is a tuber that grows under the ground.
Potatoes have a lot of starch and other carbohydrates. Potatoes usually have light-brown or yellowish skins and are white or yellow inside. If the po... | [] |
301 | 628 | 693,482 | Plant | 2026-07-26T15:32:20Z | **Plants** are one of six big groups (kingdoms) of living things. They are autotrophic eukaryotes, this means they have complex cells, and make their own food. Usually, they cannot move (not counting growth). Plants need sunlight, soil and water whereas seeds need warmth.
Plants include familiar types such as trees, h... | [] |
302 | 630 | 1,161,309 | Prediction | 2025-07-12T01:05:48Z | A **prediction** is a statement that someone makes about what they think is going to happen. It is often very helpful to know what is going to happen to help prepare for these future events. Predictions are based on the idea that two beginning positions that are like each other will have similar results. By watching so... | [] |
303 | 631 | 373,511 | Probability | 2022-06-23T00:22:58Z | **Probability** is a part of applied mathematics. It has to do with chance, the study of things that might happen or might not happen.
For example, using probability, one can show that by throwing a coin up in the air and letting it land, half of the time it will land with one side facing up, and half of the time with... | [] |
304 | 632 | 2,133 | Probability experiment | 2021-01-08T23:58:19Z | A **probability experiment** is a situation where chance affects the result of an experiment. If the experiment can only have two outcomes, it is named Bernoulli trial. A coin flip is a probability experiment because chance affects whether a coin will land heads or tails when it is flipped.
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305 | 636 | 1,815,875 | Protein | 2026-06-03T20:42:14Z | **Proteins** are long-chain molecules built from small units known as amino acids, which are joined in a sequence by peptide bonds. Every sequence of amino acids becomes a specific final shape, allowing living things to use proteins as tiny machines to do work.
They are biochemical compounds.They have one or more poly... | [] |
306 | 637 | 532,461 | Periodic table | 2026-07-23T20:19:21Z | The **periodic table** is a table that puts all known chemical elements in a specific order. Elements that have similar characteristics are often put near each other. In the table, the elements are placed in the order of their atomic numbers starting with the lowest number of one, hydrogen. The atomic number of an ele... | [] |
307 | 638 | 532,461 | Physiology | 2024-09-21T05:57:59Z | **Physiology** is the study of how living things work. Physiologists can study how organs of an organism work together to make things happen. In human beings, for example, the digestion of food hormones and other chemicals are made by the stomach, liver, and pancreas. Muscle contraction happens because of chemical mess... | [] |
308 | 639 | 1,857,397 | Planet | 2026-08-28T01:49:55Z | <template data-op="mediawiki:transclude" data-name="Multiple image"><div data-arg data-name="direction">vertical</div><div data-arg data-name="align">right</div><div data-arg data-name="image1">Terrestrial planet size comparisons.jpg</div><div data-arg data-name="image2">Gas giants and the Sun (1 px = 1000 km).jpg</div... | [] |
309 | 641 | 693,482 | Political problems of China | 2026-07-26T15:59:47Z | The People's Republic of China claims that the island of Taiwan is part of its territory, but the Republic of China, which was the government that controlled all of China from 1911 to 1949, still claims the land and controls Taiwan.
The government stops people from having freedom of speech, freedom of religion and oth... | [] |
310 | 642 | 863,768 | Police | 2026-06-29T21:20:00Z | **Police** are a group of people whose job is to enforce laws, help with emergencies, solve crimes and protect property. A person who carries out this duty is known as a **police officer**.
They work out of a police station. Police are trained in first aid and rescue, because police officers are often one of the first... | [] |
311 | 643 | 1,850,036 | Pi | 2026-08-05T10:25:14Z | **Pi** (**{{pi}}**) (IPAC: paɪ) is a mathematical constant that is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter This produces a number, and that number is always the same. However, the number is rather strange. The number starts as 39793... and continues without end. Numbers like this are called irrational nu... | [] |
312 | 644 | 22,027 | Proper noun | 2024-09-27T06:47:35Z | A **proper noun** or **proper name** is a noun representing a unique thing (like *London*, *Jupiter*, *John Hunter*, or *Toyota*), unlike a **common noun**, which represents a type of thing (like *city*, *planet*, *person* or *corporation*). Proper nouns are the only nouns in English which always have the first letter ... | [] |
313 | 646 | 103,847 | Plastic | 2026-05-14T21:49:41Z | A **plastic** is a synthetic material that can change its shape easily. Many things are made of plastics, usually because making them to the right shape is easy.
Some plastics have other materials added to them, like glass, because they make the plastic stronger and stiffer.
Plastics are used to make many produc... | [] |
314 | 647 | 640,235 | Product stewardship | 2024-01-09T20:08:00Z | **Product stewardship** is a way of managing the environmental impacts of different products and materials. People involved in producing, selling, using and disposing of products have a shared responsibility to manage them in a way that reduces their impact, throughout their lifecycle, on the environment and on human h... | [] |
315 | 648 | 1,161,309 | Peace | 2025-05-16T04:16:52Z | **Peace** is a time without any fights or wars. In a larger sense, peace (or **peacefulness**) can mean a state of harmony, quiet or calm that is not disturbed by anything at all, like a still pond with no ripples.
Many people and organizations want peace. One organization that was set up to bring peace among the nati... | [] |
316 | 649 | 1,829,628 | Quebec | 2026-06-29T00:51:18Z | **Quebec** (IPAC: kəˈbɛk or IPAC: kwᵻˈbɛk; **Québec** <template data-op="mediawiki:transclude" data-name="IPA-fr"><div data-arg>kebɛk</div><div data-arg></div><div data-arg>FR-Québec.ogg</div></template>) is a province in the eastern part of Canada located between the Hudson Bay and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. It is th... | [] |
317 | 652 | 1,508,758 | Reading | 2026-06-09T22:43:54Z | **Reading** is understanding writing in a language. Fundamentally, reading is the way people look at certain marks and know what they mean.
Once it was possible to go through life without reading. Writing goes back in human history only a few thousand years, and 200 years ago *most men could not read or write*. We kn... | [] |
318 | 653 | 1,765,936 | Religion | 2026-07-09T06:51:11Z | **Religion** is a set of beliefs and social-cultural systems, including certain practices, morals, beliefs and worldviews, that relate humanity to supernatural or spiritual elements—though there is no current fully agreed definition on what a religion exactly is. Different religions may or may not have different parts ... | [] |
319 | 657 | 314,522 | Rudyard Kipling | 2025-06-17T21:30:18Z | **Joseph Rudyard Kipling** (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English writer and poet.
## Life
Kipling was born in Bombay, India. He wrote children's fiction, like *Kim*, *The Jungle Book* and *Puck of Pook's Hill*. He also wrote the well-known poems, *If —* and *Gunga Din*, and many short stories set in Ind... | [] |
320 | 658 | 1,734,355 | Recreation | 2026-07-22T10:06:08Z | **Recreation** or **fun** is a person's time of refreshing his or her body and mind.
There are many different forms of recreation which are shaped by individual interests and by environment; a few examples being reading, playing or listening to music, watching movies or TV, gardening, hunting, hobbies, sports, studies... | [] |
321 | 660 | 1,854,938 | Red | 2026-08-14T01:30:57Z | red\|FF0000
**Red** is the color that is on the edge of the rainbow. It is one of the primary colors (colors that can be mixed with other colors) of light. The others are blue and yellow. Red light has a wavelength between 630 and 740 nanometers.
Red paint can be made by mixing yellow paint and magenta paint.
Red ... | [] |
322 | 661 | 1,386,969 | Raw food | 2025-03-08T22:31:39Z | - *For the WWE brand/TV Show, see WWE Raw.*
Foods are **raw** when they are not cooked.
Most things are safe to eat raw, but some of them can be poisonous.
## Health
There's currently no solid evidence to suggest that raw food is more healthy than cooked food.
### Germs
Raw food can sometimes make people sick bec... | [] |
323 | 664 | 532,461 | Roman Empire | 2026-06-26T02:52:06Z | The **Roman Empire** ruled the Mediterranean and much of Europe, Western Asia and North Africa. The Romans conquered most of this during the Republic, and it was ruled by emperors following Octavian's assumption of effective sole rule in 27 BC. The western empire collapsed in 476 AD, but the eastern empire, the Byzanti... | [] |
324 | 666 | 293,183 | Regime | 2013-04-08T00:29:57Z | A **regime** is the leader and other people who run a government of a sovereign state.
There are many kinds of regimes. They can achieve power in many ways. Depending on the time and place and local civics like the electoral system, they can lose power in many ways too. The most common way for a regime to lose powe... | [] |
325 | 673 | 1,452,189 | River | 2025-11-24T14:18:06Z | A **river** is a stream of water that flows through a channel on the surface of the ground. The passage where the river flows is called the riverbed and the earth on each side is called a riverbank. A river begins on high ground or in hills or mountains and flows down from the high ground to the lower ground, because o... | [] |
326 | 676 | 103,847 | Right angle | 2026-08-04T23:55:03Z | A **right angle** is an angle with a measurement of 90 degrees or π/2 radians. While most angles are represented by a small sliver of a circle in their angle, right angles have a small square instead. This is why something that is 90 degrees is often referred to as "square" in woodworking. When two lines cross each oth... | [] |
327 | 677 | 1,688,225 | Reward | 2025-11-06T19:31:58Z | A **reward** is getting something good for doing a given task. It needs someone who has the power to give the good thing. It is part of reinforcement that primarily deals with rewards and reliefs.
Ideas like reinforcement unlike punishment that is based on cost and losses function based on the idea that people increas... | [] |
328 | 679 | 8,972,048 | Ranch | 2023-07-31T03:20:32Z | A **ranch** is a farm for raising cows, horses, sheep or other livestock. Most ranches are large, but they can be any size. The word *ranch* is from the Spanish word "rancho". It is used in American and Canadian English. People who use a ranch are called **ranchers**.
A ranch may be on private or public land. The dese... | [] |
329 | 680 | 1,566,408 | SUV | 2025-07-31T19:54:22Z | A **sports utility vehicle**, also known as a **sport utility van** or simply an **SUV** or a **sport utility car**, is a type of vehicle which combines the load-hauling and versatility of a pickup truck with the passenger-carrying space of a minivan, hatchback, station wagon, or large sedan. It is built as a rugged ve... | [] |
330 | 682 | 1,801,753 | Substance | 2026-05-11T02:28:36Z | **Substance** is the material, or matter, of which something is made. Substances are physical things that can be seen, touched, or measured. They are made up of one or more elemental parts. Iron and aluminium, which are pure, water and air, which are mixtures; are all examples of substances.
## Problems of definition
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331 | 683 | 10,500,263 | Symbol | 2025-09-06T20:53:15Z | A **symbol** is a drawing, shape, or an object that represents an idea, object, or amount of something.
## Overview
The most common symbols are letters, which are symbols of words and sounds. A symbol can be an actual object (such as the cross, a symbol of Christianity or a scepter, a symbol of royalty and power), or... | [] |
332 | 684 | 1,806,169 | September | 2026-05-18T12:49:42Z | **September** (Sep.) is the ninth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar, coming between August and October. It has 30 days. Its name comes from the Latin word *sept* for "seven" (it was the seventh month of the year, before January and February were added to the beginning of the year.)
September always begins on... | [] |
333 | 686 | 1,734,355 | Sound | 2026-07-15T09:12:27Z | > *Sound can also mean a body of water, like a bay or channel.*
**Sound** is caused by waves of pressure called sound waves. It can be heard when it goes through a medium to the ear. All sounds are made by vibrations of molecules. For example, when a person hits a drum or a cymbal the object vibrates. These vibrations... | [] |
334 | 689 | 974 | Society | 2026-07-20T10:56:48Z | **Society** is the term to describe human beings together as a collective entity – the sum of their social networks and social interactions.
## Origin
The term comes from the Latin idea of *societas*, or the connection between friends or allies – friend or ally being *socius*. It can also mean a specific group of pe... | [] |
335 | 690 | 1,011,873 | Suggestion | 2024-05-06T18:02:13Z | A **suggestion** is an idea that one suggests, or says is good for another (or others) to follow. Some people may agree to it, and some may disagree. If they disagree or have a different suggestion, the person who first suggested the idea will usually discuss with the other people and find a good conclusion that satisf... | [] |
336 | 695 | 640,235 | Spache Readability Formula | 2023-04-28T11:01:00Z | **Spache Readability Formula** is one method of finding out how hard a piece of writing is (its textual difficulty).
The method compares words in a text to a list of words which are familiar in everyday writing. The words that are not on the list are called *unfamiliar*. The number of words per sentence are counted. T... | [] |
337 | 699 | 1,262,502 | Sport | 2026-05-14T16:49:31Z | **Sport** usually means athletic games that involve a degree of competition, such as football, basketball or cross-country Olympic skiing. Some games and many kinds of racing are called sports. A professional at a sport is called an athlete. Many people do sports with their friends. They need coaches to teach or train ... | [] |
338 | 700 | 693,482 | Science | 2026-07-26T15:44:24Z | **Science** is what we do to find out about the natural world. There are different kinds of science. Natural sciences study nature and the physical world. They include biology, chemistry, geology, astronomy, and physics. Social sciences study people and how societies work. They include, psychology, sociology, and econo... | [] |
339 | 702 | 1,811,683 | Saint Lawrence River | 2026-05-27T20:08:19Z | The **Saint Lawrence River** (fleuve Saint-Laurent; Tuscarora: *Kahnawáʼkye*; Mohawk: *Kaniatarowanenneh*, meaning "big waterway") is a big river in eastern North America. It flows between the Canadian province of Quebec & Ontario and the American state of New York, and through the major Canadian city of Montreal. It i... | [] |
340 | 703 | 2,133 | Seville | 2026-01-19T12:33:53Z | **Seville** (Sevilla) is a city in the southern parts of Spain. A river called the Guadalquivir River goes through Seville. The city of Seville is the capital of the Spanish autonomous community Andalusia and of the province of Sevilla. People from Seville are called *Sevillanos*. With 686.000 people in the city and ab... | [] |
341 | 708 | 1,674,404 | Salami | 2026-08-18T18:50:38Z | **Salami** is a any of a type of cured meat sausages that were first created in Italy. To be a salami, three key processes must exist: *fermentation*, *air-drying*, and *seasoning with salt*. There are many different kinds of salami. The word salami comes from the Italian word *salare*, meaning "to make something salty... | [] |
342 | 709 | 1,670,411 | Special English | 2025-10-02T16:21:34Z | **Special English** is a simple form of the English language. It is used by a public radio station called Voice of America, run by the United States government in Special English programs every day. Its news and feature programs are read more slowly than usual, using fewer English words and simple grammar.
The conten... | [] |
343 | 710 | 1,821,308 | Sausage | 2026-06-13T16:59:23Z | **Sausage** is a food made of ground-up or chopped-up meat or meat with other ingredients. It often has spices in it and is covered in a casing. Traditionally, a sausage casing is made of animal intestine, but can sometimes be made of plastic. There are many forms of sausages, including hot dog, pepperoni, bologna, and... | [] |
344 | 717 | 46,605 | Slang | 2025-08-16T19:12:04Z | **Slang** are words that are informal. Usually each generation or social group has its own slang - for example, older people can have trouble understanding the slang of younger people. On the other hand, younger people often understand, but find silly or old-fashioned, the slang of older people.
Over time, language... | [] |
345 | 725 | 1,161,309 | Social contract | 2026-07-24T17:51:40Z | A **social contract or political contract** is a perceived agreement among the people of a state about the rules that will define their government. These rules are usually called laws. Laws help to make sure people have rights and that their rights are protected. One kind of social contract is a constitution. A constit... | [] |
346 | 726 | 693,482 | Social capital | 2026-08-05T02:44:00Z | **Social capital** is made when people spend time with others and build good relationships. It is the help and worth that a person can get from their ties with other people. Social capital is like real capital. When a person or a group has more capital, it is easier to do things, and life is better. When there is less ... | [] |
347 | 733 | 1,368,380 | Subtraction | 2025-01-13T07:07:38Z | **Subtraction** is the arithmetic operation for finding the difference between two numbers, though it can also be generalized to other mathematical objects such as vectors and matrices. The names of the numbers in a subtraction expression are: \(\textrm{minuend}-\textrm{subtrahend}=\textrm{difference}\). For example, t... | [] |
348 | 744 | 1,648,330 | String theory | 2025-08-07T03:15:38Z | {{String theory}}
**String theory** tries to use math to explain the four known fundamental forces—gravitation, electromagnetism, strong nuclear force, weak nuclear force—together in one theory. This tries to solve the problems of having both classical physics and quantum physics.
Einstein wanted a unified field the... | [] |
349 | 748 | 966,595 | Scientist | 2025-03-23T08:09:56Z | A **scientist** is a person who studies or has mastered the field in science. A scientist tries to understand how our world, or other things, work. Scientists make observations, ask questions and do extensive research work in finding the answers to many questions.
Scientists may work in laboratories for governments, c... | [] |
350 | 750 | 1,740,067 | Soapbox | 2026-07-27T15:21:52Z | A **soapbox** is a temporary platform used to give a speech. During the 19th century, soap was transported in wooden boxes. When a person had new or unusual ideas, and wanted to talk to a crowd about them, sometimes he or she would stand on an empty soapbox so that everyone could see and hear the talk well.
People so... | [] |
351 | 752 | 1,475,106 | Supernatural | 2026-08-17T17:11:45Z | The word **supernatural** (from supernātūrālis) is used for things that people believe are real, but that cannot be explained by the scientific laws of nature. Because we cannot prove whether these things are real, people disagree about these things.
Some examples of supernatural things are:
- Witchcraft and sorcery
... | [] |
352 | 753 | 1,475,106 | Spirit | 2026-01-20T05:58:39Z | A **spirit**, otherwise referred to as a **phantom**, is considered to be the part of a being that is not the body. Other words with the same meanings are soul and ghost. When a body is alive, it has a spirit in it. Death is when the spirit separates from the body.
Christians believe that spirits exist in Heaven or H... | [] |
353 | 765 | 1,322,249 | Seed | 2023-06-12T04:08:24Z | A **seed** is the part of a seed plant which can grow into a new plant. It is a reproductive structure which disperses, and can survive for some time. A typical seed includes three basic parts: (1) an embryo, (2) a supply of nutrients for the embryo, and (3) a seed coat.
There are many different kinds of seeds. Some p... | [] |
354 | 766 | 1,269,178 | Sail | 2023-01-14T12:24:58Z | A **sail** is a large piece of cloth on the top of some boats. The wind goes around the sail and makes the boat move through the water. The piece that the sail is attached to is called a mast. Some boats have many sails, and some have only one. Usually, small boats have only one sail, and bigger boats have more. Boats ... | [] |
355 | 772 | 1,828,895 | Skin | 2026-06-27T15:06:18Z | The **skin** is the outer covering of mammals and some other animals. It has many important jobs. First, it helps protect the body by stopping pathogens such as bacteria and parasites from getting inside. Second, it helps control the body's temperature. It does this by allowing evaporation from the skin and by making c... | [] |
356 | 774 | 1,692,689 | Search engine | 2026-01-27T13:07:07Z | A **search engine** is a website that allows users to look up information on the World Wide Web (WWW), part of the Internet. The search engine will achieve this by looking at many web pages to find matches to the user's search inputs. It will return results ranked by relevancy and popularity by the search engine. The m... | [] |
357 | 780 | 1,734,355 | Sabbath in Christianity | 2026-06-03T08:44:49Z | **Sabbath** in Christianity is the day of rest and service to God. The idea of the Sabbath in Christianity comes directly from the idea of the Shabbat in Judaism. The word Sabbath comes from the Hebrew word *Shabbat.* Like the Shabbat, the Sabbath in Christianity comes from the Genesis story of Creation. But unlik... | [] |
358 | 789 | 1,604,578 | Statistics | 2025-09-30T17:30:44Z | **Statistics** is a branch of applied mathematics that deals with collecting, organizing, analyzing, reading and presenting data. Descriptive statistics make summaries of data. Inferential statistics makes predictions. Statistics helps in the study of many other fields, such as science, medicine, economics, psychology,... | [] |
359 | 791 | 693,482 | Speed | 2026-08-07T16:48:21Z | **Speed** is a measure.
It is velocity but without the direction.
## Finding speed
Speed is the distance an object moves in a given amount of time.
The distance is never negative.
If a train takes 1 hour to travel 100 kilometers, it has a speed of 100 kph.
In fact this is the *average speed*.
During this one hour, th... | [] |
360 | 794 | 1,641,991 | Server | 2026-01-21T01:42:00Z | A **server** is a computer that serves many kinds of information to a user or client machine. Usually a server will only do a few things for many clients. Every type of thing a server does is called a service. Services are used by other computers that are called clients. The relationship between client and server is ca... | [] |
361 | 795 | 532,461 | Simile | 2026-05-09T17:33:07Z | A **simile** is a figure of speech that compares two different things, usually by using the words 'like' or 'as'. It is used to make a *direct and clear comparison between two things .Similes* may be confused with metaphors, which do the same kind of thing. Similes use comparisons, with the words 'like' or 'as'. Metaph... | [] |
362 | 798 | 1,391,867 | State | 2025-07-06T02:06:39Z | In politics, a **state** is the government of a country which has control over a geographic area or territory. States have three main features:
- Control over a geographic area, or territory
- A people, the population of the state.
- Institutions which have the power to make laws.
There are different forms of governm... | [] |
363 | 799 | 22,027 | Stream | 2024-08-22T02:37:46Z | A **stream** is a natural flow of water moving across land between banks. It is smaller than a river.
The primary meaning of **stream** is a body of water, confined within a bed and banks, and detectably flowing. Synonym`<nowiki/>`{=html}s or related words include river, creek, tributary, run, branch, brook, bourne... | [] |
364 | 800 | 693,482 | Solar System | 2026-08-27T14:26:51Z | The **Solar System** is a group of space objects that are held together by gravity, with the Sun in the center. The Sun is a huge ball of hot glowing gas that gives off light and heat. Everything else in the Solar System moves around the Sun. The Solar System formed about 4.6 billion years ago when a giant cloud of gas... | [] |
365 | 802 | 1,854,486 | Saturn | 2026-08-13T06:09:42Z | **Saturn** is the sixth planet from the Sun in our solar system. On average, Saturn is about 9.57 AU away from the Sun.
Saturn takes about 29.5 Earth years to complete one orbit around the Sun. A day on Saturn is much shorter than a day on Earth, lasting only about 10.7 hours. This means that Saturn spins much faster ... | [] |
366 | 803 | 693,482 | Slavery | 2026-07-26T09:19:40Z | **Slavery** is when a person is treated as the property of another person. This person is usually called a slave, and the owner is called a slavemaster. It often means that slaves are forced to work, or else they will be punished by the law (if slavery is legal in that place) or by their master. There is evidence that ... | [] |
367 | 805 | 1,542,410 | Soul | 2024-11-16T23:13:39Z | Many philosophies and religions say that a **soul** is a supernatural essence of a living human being that lives after death. It is usually said to be immortal. It cannot be discovered by science, because it cannot be tested in any controlled way. Many different opinions exist as to what happens to personal experience ... | [] |
368 | 807 | 532,461 | Soap | 2026-07-26T03:19:13Z | **Soap** is a chemical compound resulting from the reaction of an alkali (commonly sodium or potassium hydroxide) with a fatty acid. Soaps are the metallic salts of long chain fatty acids. When mixed with water during bathing, cleansing, or washing, they help people and clothes get clean by lowering the chance of dirt ... | [] |
369 | 811 | 966,595 | Summary | 2022-03-13T07:36:47Z | A **summary** is a condensed explanation of an event, story, document, etc.. i.e. "summing up the facts." They are not constrained to any medium or topics. Not to be confused with abstract, which is a summary of a document. There are many different levels of summarization that can be done. The summarizer may choose any... | [] |
370 | 813 | 532,461 | Service economy | 2026-02-05T15:34:16Z | A **service** is a job or work done for someone else. All the service trades form a **service economy**.
Good examples are:
- Government is perhaps the largest example.
- Hospitals and the health services generally.
- Banks and financial services.
- Motor trade services. All services except actual products such as p... | [] |
371 | 815 | 17,988 | Synagogue | 2025-10-26T06:48:54Z | A **synagogue** is a place where Jews meet to worship and pray to God.
In Hebrew, a synagogue is called *beit knesset*, which means, a "house of gathering". The word "synagogue" comes from *sunagoge*, which is a Greek word. In a synagogue, Jews carry out the Jewish services, which consist of prayers, sometimes with sp... | [] |
372 | 816 | 1,351,064 | Scarcity | 2023-09-07T02:11:41Z | **Scarcity** in economics is the lack of various forms of capital. Scarcity can be used to describe an economic situation in economics, or it can be used to describe more general situations.
In economics, scarcity is the result of people having "Unlimited Wants and Needs," or always wanting something new, and having "... | [] |
373 | 818 | 532,461 | Readability | 2026-07-24T08:13:26Z | **Readability**, or **textual difficulty**, means how easy or hard a text is to read. Research has shown that two main factors affect the ease with which texts are read.
1. How difficult the words are: this is *lexical* difficulty. Rare words are less well known than common words. Rare, difficult words are often longe... | [] |
374 | 819 | 1,734,355 | Theatre | 2026-04-27T04:54:37Z | **Theatre** (British English and also American English), or **Theater** (mostly American English), has several meanings.
The word comes originally from the Greek *Theatron*, meaning roughly, 'a place for viewing'. In American English, the word 'theater' can mean either a place where films are shown (this is also calle... | [] |
375 | 823 | 62,523 | Test | 2026-08-29T07:41:12Z | A **test** is a structured procedure designed to evaluate whether a subject, claim, or system meets specified criteria. The *Concise Oxford English Dictionary* defines a test as: "a procedure intended to establish the quality, performance, or reliability of something".
Tests can serve multiple purposes. For example, t... | [] |
376 | 827 | 844,779 | Time horizon | 2019-12-08T03:16:33Z | A **time horizon** is a future point in time when something must be "done" (a "deadline") or will be "over" (a "time limit"). Either way, the matter will be closed when the time horizon is reached.
Common time horizons people use are:
- *end of day*, usually meaning the working day;
- *the weekend*;
- *end of month*... | [] |
377 | 828 | 1,064,256 | Time limit | 2021-08-16T22:47:34Z | A **time limit** is a time horizon that is imposed on everyone at once.
It may be used to try to achieve fairness in some system of ethics. For instance, if poor people and rich people are debating something, a time limit may be imposed so that the rich people cannot keep debating until the poor people have to go to... | [] |
378 | 833 | 863,768 | Taiwan | 2026-07-30T23:36:21Z | The **Republic of China** (**ROC**; Chinese: 中華民國; pinyin: Zhōnghuá Mínguó), commonly known as **Taiwan**, is a self-governing country in East Asia. The Republic of China once governed all of China (from 1911 to 1949) but moved to the island of Taiwan after their defeat in a Chinese civil war.
Though ROC still de jure... | [] |
379 | 838 | 1,734,355 | Trademark | 2026-05-18T14:56:10Z | A **trademark** (or **trade mark**) is a way for a business to help people identify the products that the business makes from the products made by another business. A trademark can be a name, word, phrase, symbol, logo, design, or picture. It can only be used on things made by the business that owns the trademark.
Fo... | [] |
380 | 845 | 532,461 | Ten Commandments | 2026-03-26T02:27:56Z | The **Ten Commandments** are a set of rules or laws. The Bible says that God gave them to the people of Israel. The commandments exist in different versions. One version can be found in the Book of Exodus of the Bible. Another version can be found in the Book of Deuteronomy. In the Book of Exodus, the mountain where th... | [] |
381 | 847 | 1,475,106 | Tree | 2026-07-08T05:53:16Z | A **tree** is a tall plant with a trunk and branches made of wood.
Trees can live for many years. The oldest living tree found is about 5,000 years old. The oldest tree from the UK is about 1,000 years old.
The four main parts of a tree are the roots, the trunk, the branches, and the leaves. Trees are a wide variet... | [] |
382 | 848 | 103,847 | Tragedy (Greek theatre) | 2023-02-11T17:32:20Z | In theatre, a **tragedy** as defined by Aristotle is a play that ends badly for the hero or heroine or others. A tragedy is usually about a person who has many good qualities, but also has one poor quality (called a "tragic flaw") that causes trouble for him, and maybe his family or friends.
Often in a tragedy, there ... | [] |
383 | 849 | 1,858,161 | Taxonomy | 2026-08-19T19:09:22Z | Taxonomy is a branch of biology. It is about the scientific law`<nowiki/>`{=html}s and principles of classifying living things. From one type of taxonomy, many classifications might be produced.
## Classification
The best-known kind of taxonomy is used for the classification of lifeform`<nowiki/>`{=html}s (living and... | [] |
384 | 852 | 863,768 | Temple | 2024-09-09T21:51:47Z | A **temple** is a building where people go to practice their religion. In a temple people may perform religious rituals, ceremonies, and pray. Thus, a temple is a general term for a house of worship. Christians usually call their religious buildings churches.
Some examples of temples from different religions:
- Hindu... | [] |
385 | 853 | 1,618,275 | Theft | 2025-06-11T13:06:37Z | **Theft** is when one person or group takes from another person, business, or state any object, money, or information without permission and does not intend to return it. A person who has been convicted of theft may be called a **thief**. However, the practice of engaging in theft is also called **stealing**. There are... | [] |
386 | 856 | 314,522 | United Kingdom | 2026-08-25T21:43:46Z | The **United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland**, often shortened to the **United Kingdom** (**UK**), or just **Britain**, is a sovereign country in Northwestern Europe. It is a constitutional monarchy of four countries: England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Although these are called "countries", n... | [] |
387 | 858 | 1,823,278 | Universe | 2026-08-13T08:10:14Z | The **universe** is space and everything in it. It is made of billions of stars, planets, and enormous clouds of gas separated by huge voids of space. It is believed that an event called the Big Bang started the expansion of the universe.
Astronomers use telescopes to look at distant galaxies. This is how they see th... | [] |
388 | 872 | 16,695 | Unit of measurement | 2026-03-26T06:49:14Z | **Units of measurement** give *standards* so that the numbers from our measurements refer to the same thing. Measurement is a process that uses numbers to describe a physical quantity. We can measure how big things are, how warm they are, how heavy they are, and many other features.
For example, the metre is a standar... | [] |
389 | 876 | 114,869 | United States customary units | 2025-12-23T18:34:49Z | **U.S. customary units** are the main defacto official system of units of measurement used to measure things in the United States and U.S. territories (except in Puerto Rico and Guam, where the metric system is also officially used and is dominant). The system of Imperial units, on which the U.S. customary units are b... | [] |
390 | 882 | 532,461 | Uranus | 2026-06-23T23:50:24Z | **Uranus** is the seventh planet from the Sun in our Solar System. Like Neptune, it is an ice giant. It is the third largest planet in the solar system.
The planet is made of ice, gases and liquid metal. Its atmosphere has hydrogen, helium and methane. The temperature on Uranus is −197 °C near the top of its atmospher... | [] |
391 | 884 | 693,482 | University | 2026-07-26T16:01:26Z | A **university** is a higher learning institution. The word *university* comes from the Latin *universitas magistrorum et scholarium*, roughly meaning "community of teachers and scholars". Students can go to university to get an academic degree. Unlike the schooling they have done before, the courses at university are... | [] |
392 | 886 | 8,676,552 | Value | 2023-02-08T08:49:23Z | **Value** is how much something is worth. Often the best way to find the value of something is to use the price that it can be sold for. However Oscar Wilde wrote that 'people know the price of everything but the value of nothing'- in other words true value does not depend on money alone.
In math, a value is a number ... | [] |
393 | 887 | 532,461 | Volapük | 2025-10-30T05:05:56Z | **Volapük** (pronounced {{#IPA-all}}ˈvɒləˌpʊk{{/IPA-all}} in English, {{#IPA-all}}volaˈpyk{{/IPA-all}} in Volapük) is a constructed language created in 1880 by Johann Martin Schleyer. Schleyer was a Catholic priest from Germany. He felt that God had told him in a dream to make an international language. The name "Volap... | [] |
394 | 889 | 1,654,337 | Vocabulary | 2026-06-28T06:13:58Z | The **vocabulary** a person uses is all the words that person knows and uses. In general, a person who is five years old knows about 4,000 to 5,000 words. Adults who have gone to college may know 20,000 words.
## Overview
The number of words in a language is more than the words listed in one dictionary. One dictionar... | [] |
395 | 892 | 879,931 | Vegetable oil | 2025-09-10T13:14:55Z | **Vegetable oils** are triglyceride oils made from plants. They are used in food and for cooking. In past centuries they were much used as fuel in oil lamps. Some kinds of plant oils that people use are palm oil, maize, olive, peanut, rapeseed, soy, and sunflower.
Margarine is an artificial butter made from vegetable ... | [] |
396 | 893 | 863,768 | Verb | 2026-05-07T22:19:58Z | <template data-op="mediawiki:transclude" data-name="ExamplesSidebar"><div data-arg>35%</div><div data-arg>* I <strong>'play</strong>' up and down.
* That <strong>is</strong> John.
* I <strong>beat </strong> my friend.
* They <strong>are running</strong> .
* <strong>Go</strong> there on Monday.
* He <strong>said</strong... | [] |
397 | 895 | 1,161,309 | Volume | 2026-05-26T17:14:36Z | > *This article is about physical object; for meaning from audio field, see loudness.*
The **volume** of an object is a measure of the amount of space occupied by that object, and is not to be confused with mass. The volume of a mountain is much larger than the volume of a rock, for instance.
By convention, the word ... | [] |
398 | 896 | 1,855,192 | Venus | 2026-08-14T12:52:22Z | **Venus** is the second planet from the Sun. Venus is the only planet in the Solar System that has a day longer than a year. The year length of Venus is 225 Earth days. The day length of Venus is 243 Earth days.
## Overview
Venus is a *terrestrial planet* because it has a solid, rocky surface like other planets in th... | [] |
399 | 897 | 693,482 | Vatican City | 2026-07-26T09:55:00Z | **Vatican City** (IPAC: ˈvætkən\_ˈsɪti; officially **Vatican City State**, Stato della Città del Vaticano) (also sometimes referred to as **the Vatican**) is the smallest country in the world by size, at 44 ha, and the smallest by population. It is also one of the world's three city-states.
Its territory is completely... | [] |
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