Para
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For the Brazilian state, see: Pará.
The term para- in English is an affix borrowed from Greek, directly or via Latin, where it is mostly used as a prefix. Its most common meaning is "similar to" or "near to."
In Greek παρά (para) means "beside," "with," or "alongside," such as in paragraph. In Latin, para means "against," "counter," "outside," or beyond. For example, parapluie in French means "counter-rain"–an umbrella
Site
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A site is the location of an event, structure, object, or other thing, whether actual, virtual, abandoned (eg. an archaeological site), extant, or planned.
- For a building site, see construction.
- For a site on the World Wide Web, see website.
In mathematics:
- A site is a category C together with a Grothendieck topology on C.
Other uses:
- SITE Institute, non-profit anti-terrorism organization.
- SITE Town, densely populated town in Karachi, Pakistan.
- SITE, Satellite Instructional Television Experiment.
Other valuable use :
- World Wide Web retrivial an special volnatory location site .
para-
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Greek (para), beside
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para-
- beside, near, alongside, beyond
- abnormal, incorrect
- resembling
- (chemistry) in isomeric benzene derivatives, having the two substituents in opposite positions (compare ortho- and meta-)
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via Italian parasole, from Latin parare, to shield
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para-
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site
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Noun
| Singular | Plural |
site (plural sites)
- The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position; as, the site of a city or of a house.
- A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation; as, a site for a church.
- The posture or position of a thing.
- A computer installation, particularly one associated with an intranet or internet service or telecommunications.
- A website.
Verb
| Infinitive | Third person singular | Simple past | Past participle | Present participle |
to site (third-person singular simple present sites, present participle siting, simple past sited, past participle sited)
- (architecture) To situate or place a building.
- The U.K. government is dusting off an alternative plan to site the center at a military outfit such as Porton Down.
parasite
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From Latin parasitus from Greek παράσιτος parasitos "person who eats at the table of another", from n. use of adj. meaning "feeding beside," from παρα- para- "beside" + σίτος sitos "food".
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- IPA: /ˈpærəˌsaɪt/
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parasite (plural parasites)
- (biology) A (generally undesirable) living organism that exists by stealing the resources needed by another (generally desirable) living organism. See flea, tick, mite.
- (pejorative) A useless person who always relies on other people's work and gives nothing back.
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- "parasite" in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001
Wikipedia page on Parasitism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasite
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