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• keeper */ — UK [ˈkiːpə(r)] / US [ˈkɪpər] noun [countable] Word forms keeper : singular keeper plural keepers 1) someone who is responsible for looking after something a park keeper a lighthouse keeper a) someone who looks after a group of animals in a zoo… …   English dictionary

• keeper — keep|er [ kipər ] noun count * 1. ) someone who is responsible for taking care of something: a park keeper a lighthouse keeper a ) someone who is an expert in and responsible for a particular group of objects in a museum: She is the keeper of the …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• Elephant Flyovers — Elevated crossings designed to protect Indian elephants from road and rail accidents. The Times of India reported on India’s novel pachyderm road safety project: Call it a grand trunk road. The National Highways Authority of India says it will… …   Dictionary of unconsidered lexicographical trifles

• elephant — (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. pachyderm, herbivore, quadruped, mammal. A mouse built to government specifications. Robert Heinlein. WORD FIND • call: trumpet, bellow • driver/keeper: mahout • extinct: mammoth, mastadon • female: cow • male: bull… …   English dictionary for students

• The Great Elephant Chase — is a 1992 children s novel by Gillian Cross It won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize and the Whitbread Children s Book Award. It takes place around the end of the nineteenth century, although a specific year is never stated. It follows the… …   Wikipedia

• Fish and Elephant — Infobox Chinese Film name = Fish and Elephant image size = caption = director = Li Yu producer = Cheng Yong writer = Li Yu starring = Shitou Pan Yi music = He Wen cinematography = Fei Xiaoping editing = Li Yu distributor = Ariztical Entertainment …   Wikipedia

• Ziggy (elephant) — Ziggy (ca. 1917 ndash;October 27, 1975) [cite web|url=http://www.elephanttag.org/Professional/AsianElephantStudbook.pdf|title=Asian Elephant North American Regional Studbook|date=2005|accessdate=August 2|accessyear=2008] was a male Indian… …   Wikipedia

• Execution by elephant — A condemned prisoner being dismembered by an elephant in Ceylon. Drawing from An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon by Robert Knox (1681). Execution by elephant was a common method of capital punishment in South and Southeast Asia, and… …   Wikipedia

• Benjamin the Elephant — (original German name: Benjamin Blümchen ) is an animated children s television show produced by Kiddinx Studios in Berlin. The show is based on audio stories by Elfie Donnelly.[1] On the show, the eponymous main character resides at the Newtown… …   Wikipedia

• Dunk (elephant) — Dunk with a keeper. Dunk (c. 1861 – March 30, 1917),[1] a tuskless, male Asian Elephant possibly from Ceylon, was the first elephant to reside at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. He was gifted to the National Zoo on April 30, 1891 by James E …   Wikipedia

• Execution par elephant — Exécution par éléphant Relation ou Voyage de l Isle de Ceylan, dans les Indes Orientales, Robert Knox, 1693 L exécution par éléphant consiste à faire tuer une personne par écrasement sous une patte d éléphant. Depuis des centaines d’années,… …   Wikipédia en Français