Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word ORACLE
ORACLE
Definitions of ORACLE
- A shrine dedicated to some prophetic deity.
- A person such as a priest through whom the deity is supposed to respond with prophecy or advice.
- A prophetic response, often enigmatic or allegorical, so given.
- A person considered to be a source of wisdom.
- A wise sentence or decision of great authority.
- One who communicates a divine command; an angel; a prophet.
- A fortune-teller.
- (figuratively, archaic) Something said that must come true or cannot be countermanded; an inexorable command or declaration.
- (Jewish antiquity) The sanctuary, or most holy place in the temple; also, the temple itself.
- (computing theory) A theoretical entity capable of answering some collection of questions.
- (cryptocurrencies) A third-party service that provides smart contracts with information from the outside world.
- (obsolete) To utter oracles or prophecies.
- (computing) A database management system (and its associated software) developed by the Oracle Corporation
Number of letters
6
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using ORACLE in a Sentence
- It was famous for its oracle of Apollo Abaeus, one of those consulted by Croesus, king of Lydia, and Mardonius, among others.
- Cumaean Sibyl or Amalthea, a priestess presiding over the Apollonian oracle at Cumae, a Greek colony near Naples, Italy.
- In complexity theory and computability theory, an oracle machine is an abstract machine used to study decision problems.
- An oracle is a person or thing considered to provide insight, wise counsel or prophetic predictions, most notably including precognition of the future, inspired by deities.
- Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology company headquartered in Austin, Texas.
- The modern village of Dodoni is located near the ancient city of same name and site of the ancient oracle of Dodona.
- According to the myths regarding the founding of the Delphic Oracle, Zeus, in his attempt to locate the center of the Earth, launched two eagles from the two ends of the world, and the eagles, starting simultaneously and flying at equal speed, crossed their paths above the area of Delphi, and so that was the place where Zeus placed the stone.
- There are no contemporaneous records of the Xia, who are not mentioned in the oldest Chinese texts, since the earliest oracle bone inscriptions date from the Late Shang period (13th century BC).
- It is also a regional retail centre, serving a large area of the Thames Valley with its shopping centres, including the Oracle, the Broad Street Mall, and the pedestrianised area around Broad Street.
- In these types of problems, one treats the oracle function f as a database, and the goal is to use the quantum query to this function as few times as possible.
- Many of the world's largest tech companies are based in its capital Amsterdam or have established their European headquarters in the city, such as IBM, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, Cisco, Uber, Netflix and Tesla.
- The Roman historian Quintus Fabius Pictor is sent to Delphi in Greece to consult the Oracle for advice about what Rome should do after its defeat in the Battle of Cannae.
- It is usually implemented as a compiled language, and many vendors provide C++ compilers, including the Free Software Foundation, LLVM, Microsoft, Intel, Embarcadero, Oracle, and IBM.
- Pericles leads the Athenian army against Delphi to restore the sanctuary of the oracle of Delphi to Phocis.
- She has a sanctuary in Laconia, where she answers people's questions about dreams, her form of oracle.
- Because of an oracle Adrastus married his daughters to the exiles Polynices and Tydeus and promised to restore them to their homelands.
- He also introduced the Thracian practice of tattooing both men and women with eye-like patterns as a magical fetish, in response to an oracle which guaranteed victory against the neighbouring Edonians tribe if so adorned.
- According to Pausanias, Cassotis (Ancient Greek: Κασσοτίς) was a nymph from Parnassus, and the eponym of a spring at the Oracle at Delphi which was dedicated to Apollo.
- According to Apollodorus, Catreus received an oracle saying that he would be killed by one of his children, and although Catreus hid the oracles, his son Althaemenes found out.
- According to the first of these, Althaemenes received an oracle saying that he was destined to kill his father.
- The Castalian Spring, in the ravine between the Phaedriades at Delphi, is where all visitors to Delphi — the contestants in the Pythian Games, and especially pilgrims who came to consult the Delphic Oracle — stopped to wash themselves and quench their thirst; it is also here that the Pythia and the priests cleansed themselves before the oracle-giving process.
- Situated in a remote region away from the main Greek poleis, it was considered second only to the Oracle of Delphi in prestige.
- Peleiades (Greek: , "doves") were the sacred women of Zeus and the Mother Goddess, Dione, at the Oracle at Dodona.
- After an oracle said he would be killed by one of his children, Catreus gave Aerope to Nauplius to be sold abroad.
- He also had several daughters, who spoke impiously of the image of Dionysus wearing a black aegis, and were driven mad by the god; as a remedy, Eleuther, in accordance with an oracle, established a cult of "Dionysus of the Black Aegis".
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