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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
Pica \Pi"ca\, n. [L. pica a pie, magpie; in sense 3 prob. named
from some resemblance to the colors of the magpie. Cf. Pie
magpie.]
1. (Zo["o]l.) The genus that includes the magpies.
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2. (Med.) A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for
food, as chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia.
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3. (R. C. Ch.) A service-book. See Pie. [Obs.]
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4. (Print.) A size of type next larger than small pica, and
smaller than English.
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Note: This line is printed in pica
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Note: Pica is twice the size of nonpareil, and is used as a
standard of measurement in casting leads, cutting
rules, etc., and also as a standard by which to
designate several larger kinds of type, as double pica,
two-line pica, four-line pica, and the like.
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Small pica (Print.), a size of type next larger than long
primer, and smaller than pica.
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Note: This line is printed in small pica
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
Pica \Pi"ca\, n. [L. pica a pie, magpie; in sense 3 prob. named
from some resemblance to the colors of the magpie. Cf. Pie
magpie.]
1. (Zo["o]l.) The genus that includes the magpies.
2. (Med.) A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for
food, as chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia.
3. (R. C. Ch.) A service-book. See Pie. [Obs.]
4. (Print.) A size of type next larger than small pica, and
smaller than English.
Note: This line is printed in pica
Note: Pica is twice the size of nonpareil, and is used as a
standard of measurement in casting leads, cutting
rules, etc., and also as a standard by which to
designate several larger kinds of type, as double pica,
two-line pica, four-line pica, and the like.
Small pica (Print.), a size of type next larger than long
primer, and smaller than pica.
Note: This line is printed in small pica
From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]
pica
n 1: a linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing [syn: em, pica
em]
2: magpies [syn: genus Pica]
3: eating earth or clay or chalk; occurs in some primitive
tribes or sometimes in cases of nutritional deficiency
[syn: geophagy, geophagia]
From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
pica
Galician n.
1 pipit
2 (lb gl card games) spade (gloss: a playing card of the suit spades,
picas)
Galician vb.
1 (inflection of gl comer 3 s pres indc)
2 (inflection of gl comer 2 s impr)
Italian n.
1 picacismo
2 magpie
Latvian n.
pizza
Old Polish n.
fodder, forage
Old Polish n.
vulva
Portuguese a.
(lb pt Southeast Brazil vulgar) awesome; amazing; cool
Portuguese n.
1 (lb pt Portugal) act of mincing
2 (lb pt historical rare) pike (gl: long spear)
3 (lb pt Brazil colloquial vulgar) dick; prick; penis
4 (lb pt Portugal childish) jab (gloss: medical injection)
5 (lb pt Portugal colloquial) energy; power
6 (lb pt Portugal colloquial) enthusiasm, will
7 (lb pt Portugal slang) joint (gl: marijuana cigarette)
Portuguese n.
(lb pt pathology) (l en pica)
Portuguese n.
(lb pt typography printing rare) (l en pica)
Portuguese n.
1 (lb pt Portugal) dace; chub (gl: fish of the genus ''Leuciscus'')
2 (lb pt Portugal) atherine (gl: fish of the genus ''Atherina'')
Portuguese n.
pika (gl: mammal of the family Ochotonidae)
Portuguese n.
(lb pt Brazil Internet slang) pic (gloss: short for picture, meaning
image)
Portuguese vb.
(pt-verb form of: picar)
Serbo-Croatian n.
(lb sh vulgar hypocoristic) cunt, pussy
Serbo-Croatian n.
pizza
Spanish n.
1 pike, lance
2 pick (gloss: digging tool)
3 (lb es card games) spade (gloss: a playing card of the suit spades,
picas)
Spanish vb.
(es-verb form of: picar)
From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
Pica
Translingual n.
(taxon genus family Corvidae the magpies)
From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
PICA
n.
1 (lb en spaceflight) (abbreviation of en phenolic impregnated carbon
ablator)
2 (lb en anatomy) (initialism of en posterior inferior cerebellar
artery)
From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]
pica
n.
(senseid en disorder) (lb en pathology) A disorder#Noun characterized
by appetite and craving#Noun for nonedible substance#Noun, such as
chalk#Noun, clay#Noun, dirt#Noun, ice#Noun, or sand#Noun.
n.
(lb en typography printing uncountable) A size of type between small
pica and English, now standardized as 12-point.
n.
(archaic form of en pika small lagomorph)
n.
A magpie.
From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]
PICA
n.
1 (lb en spaceflight) (abbreviation of en phenolic impregnated carbon
ablator)
2 (lb en anatomy) (initialism of en posterior inferior cerebellar
artery)
From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
pica
Galician n.
1 pipit
2 (lb gl card games) spade (gloss: a playing card of the suit spades,
picas)
Galician vb.
1 (inflection of gl comer 3 s pres indc)
2 (inflection of gl comer 2 s impr)
Italian n.
1 picacismo
2 magpie
Latvian n.
pizza
Old Polish n.
fodder, forage
Old Polish n.
vulva
Portuguese a.
(lb pt Southeast Brazil vulgar) awesome; amazing; cool
Portuguese n.
1 (lb pt Portugal) act of mincing
2 (lb pt historical rare) pike (gl: long spear)
3 (lb pt Brazil colloquial vulgar) dick; prick; penis
4 (lb pt Portugal childish) jab (gloss: medical injection)
5 (lb pt Portugal colloquial) energy; power
6 (lb pt Portugal colloquial) enthusiasm, will
7 (lb pt Portugal slang) joint (gl: marijuana cigarette)
Portuguese n.
(lb pt pathology) (l en pica)
Portuguese n.
(lb pt typography printing rare) (l en pica)
Portuguese n.
1 (lb pt Portugal) dace; chub (gl: fish of the genus ''Leuciscus'')
2 (lb pt Portugal) atherine (gl: fish of the genus ''Atherina'')
Portuguese n.
pika (gl: mammal of the family Ochotonidae)
Portuguese n.
(lb pt Brazil Internet slang) pic (gloss: short for picture, meaning
image)
Portuguese vb.
(pt-verb form of: picar)
Serbo-Croatian n.
(lb sh vulgar hypocoristic) cunt, pussy
Serbo-Croatian n.
pizza
Spanish n.
1 pike, lance
2 pick (gloss: digging tool)
3 (lb es card games) spade (gloss: a playing card of the suit spades,
picas)
Spanish vb.
(es-verb form of: picar)
From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
Pica
Translingual n.
(taxon genus family Corvidae the magpies)
From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
PICA
n.
1 (lb en spaceflight) (abbreviation of en phenolic impregnated carbon
ablator)
2 (lb en anatomy) (initialism of en posterior inferior cerebellar
artery)
From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
pica
Galician n.
1 pipit
2 (lb gl card games) spade (gloss: a playing card of the suit spades,
picas)
Galician vb.
1 (inflection of gl comer 3 s pres indc)
2 (inflection of gl comer 2 s impr)
Italian n.
1 picacismo
2 magpie
Latvian n.
pizza
Old Polish n.
fodder, forage
Old Polish n.
vulva
Portuguese a.
(lb pt Southeast Brazil vulgar) awesome; amazing; cool
Portuguese n.
1 (lb pt Portugal) act of mincing
2 (lb pt historical rare) pike (gl: long spear)
3 (lb pt Brazil colloquial vulgar) dick; prick; penis
4 (lb pt Portugal childish) jab (gloss: medical injection)
5 (lb pt Portugal colloquial) energy; power
6 (lb pt Portugal colloquial) enthusiasm, will
7 (lb pt Portugal slang) joint (gl: marijuana cigarette)
Portuguese n.
(lb pt pathology) (l en pica)
Portuguese n.
(lb pt typography printing rare) (l en pica)
Portuguese n.
1 (lb pt Portugal) dace; chub (gl: fish of the genus ''Leuciscus'')
2 (lb pt Portugal) atherine (gl: fish of the genus ''Atherina'')
Portuguese n.
pika (gl: mammal of the family Ochotonidae)
Portuguese n.
(lb pt Brazil Internet slang) pic (gloss: short for picture, meaning
image)
Portuguese vb.
(pt-verb form of: picar)
From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
Pica
Translingual n.
(taxon genus family Corvidae the magpies)
From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
PICA
n.
1 (lb en spaceflight) (abbreviation of en phenolic impregnated carbon
ablator)
2 (lb en anatomy) (initialism of en posterior inferior cerebellar
artery)
From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
pica
Espanja n.
1 (yhteys historia sodankäynti k=es) piikki, raskas keihäs
2 (yhteys korttipelit k=es) pata
From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
pica
Slovenska n.
(tagg kat=mat språk=sl) pizza
Spanska n.
1 (tagg kortspel språk=es) spader
2 (tagg vapen språk=es) pik
From German - English Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:deu-eng ]
Pica /pˈiːkɑː/
pica
Note: desire for strange food
Synonyms: Pica-Krankheit, Pica-Syndrom, Pikazismus
From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]
Pica /pˈiːkə/
الحرف المطبعي
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
pica /pˈiːkə/
pika
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
pica /pˈiːkə/
typografická míra
From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
pica /pˈiːkə/
Pica-Krankheit , Pica-Syndrom , Pica, Pikazismus [med.]
Note: Appetit auf nichtphysiologische Nahrung
Note: desire for strange food
From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-fin ]
pica //ˈpaɪkə//
pica-oireyhtymä
disorder
From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 : [ freedict:eng-hrv ]
pica /pˈiːkə/
pika
From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 : [ freedict:eng-tur ]
pica /pˈiːkə/
1. on iki puntoluk matbaa harfi.
From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 : [ freedict:eng-tur ]
pica /pˈiːkə/
1. (tıb.) tebeşir ve çamur gibi yenmez şeylere karşı duyulan anormal iştah.
From Lateinisch-Deutsch FreeDict-Wörterbuch ver. 1.0.3 : [ freedict:lat-deu ]
pica (picae )
Elster
From Latin-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.2 : [ freedict:lat-eng ]
pica /pˈɪka/
magpie
From Lenga d'òc - Català FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.1 : [ freedict:oci-cat ]
pica
destral
From Spanish-Portuguese FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 : [ freedict:spa-por ]
pica /pˈika/
lança
From IPA:en_US : [ IPA:en_US ]
/ˈpaɪkə/
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 : [ moby-thesaurus ]
57 Moby Thesaurus words for "pica":
analgesia, anesthesia, anxiety equivalent, ascender, back,
bastard type, beard, belly, bevel, black letter, body, cap,
capital, case, counter, depraved appetite, descender, em, en, face,
fat-faced type, feet, font, groove, italic, letter, ligature,
logotype, lower case, majuscule, minuscule, neurasthenia, nick,
paresthesia, parorexia, pi, point, print, roman, sans serif,
script, shank, shoulder, small cap, small capital,
speech abnormality, stamp, stem, type, type body, type class,
type lice, typecase, typeface, typefounders, typefoundry,
upper case
From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary : [ xdict ]
n. 十二点活字,异食癖
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