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Rupert

nom proprenomadjectifcourant dans les dialogues

  • États-Unis//ˈɹupɚt//

A male given name from the Germanic languages.

nom propre

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    A male given name from the Germanic languages.

    A St Oswald's boy can pass off a name like Orlando, can make it sound like peppermint. Even Rupert sounds somehow cool when attached to a navy-blue St Oswald's blazer.

    'What about Rupert?' his mother says brightly. 'I've always loved the name Rupert and it's an old family name on my side.' 'Sounds like...a whatdyoucallit?' Ted's father says, folding up the newspaper and tossing it to the floor. 'What?' 'A...' Ted's father puts his hand to his brow '...you know...a thing that children take to bed. Um...Brideshead...um...teddy-bear! That's it. A teddy-bear.'

    “Gossip” is about a lot more than just juicy tidbits and the columnists that peddle them, presenting a multifaceted look at gossip’s role in the newspaper/media ecosystem and at Rupert Murdoch’s enterprises in particular.

  2. 2

    A city, the county seat of Minidoka County, Idaho.

  3. 3

    An unincorporated community in Ohio.

  4. 4

    A town in Vermont.

  5. 5

    A town in West Virginia.

Étymologie

A German name, brought to England by Prince Rupert of the Rhine in the seventeenth century. Doublet of Robert. The geometry sense is also a reference to Prince Rupert, who posed the question of whether a cube could be passed through a hole made in another cube of the same size.

nom

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    argotA junior army officer.

adjectif

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    Having or relating to the property of being able to pass through a copy of itself.

    A concise way to express that a polyhedron is Rupert is to find two orientations Q and Q of that polyhedron so that π(Q) fits inside π(Q) […] impact the shape of π(Q) are those lying on P, so if P is locally Rupert, Q should be as well. […]

    The authors verify that cubes and all rectangular boxes have Rupert passages in any direction not parallel to their faces. […] Huber [...et al.] succeed in showing that also the n-dimensional cube is Rupert.

    […] Rupert-shaped film holes in weakening the kidney-shaped vortex generated by the coolant was confirmed. Furthermore, the Rupert-shaped holes improve the attachment of the film to the wall surface. Further analysis indicates that the shape of the Rupert-shaped holes is […]

Formes

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Ruperts
Les pages voisinesL'ordre alphabétique suit les règles de la langue, pas la valeur des octets : un accent ne départage que deux mots par ailleurs identiques, et l'espagnol range le Ñ comme une lettre à part entière.

Contenu lexical issu du Wiktionary, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrée d'origine · Version des données 2026-08-23

Rang parmi les mots du corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — des sous-titres de films et de séries, donc de la langue parlée et non écrite (CC BY-SA 3.0).