Crossword-Solution: POLYHEDRON
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Polyhedron | n. | A body or solid contained by many sides or planes. |
| Polyhedron | n. | A polyscope, or multiplying glass. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “POLYHEDRON”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A solid figure with many plane faces | 1 answer |
| PLATONIC solid | 1 answer |
| a body or solid contained by many sides or planes | 1 answer |
| a solid figure bounded by plane polygons or faces | 2 answers |
| Die, e.g. | 4 answers |
| SOLID figure | 6 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with POLYHEDRON (5)
Probably Plato notices this as the only remaining regular polyhedron, which from its approximation to a globe, and possibly because, as Plutarch remarks, it is composed of 12 x 30 = 360 scalene triangles (Platon.
Let the reader picture to himself a series of visages presenting successively all geometrical forms, from the triangle to the trapezium, from the cone to the polyhedron; all human expressions, from wrath to lewdness; all ages, from the wrinkles of the new-born babe to the wrinkles of the aged and dying; all religious phantasmagories, from Faun to Beelzebub; all animal profiles, from the maw to the beak, from the jowl to the muzzle.
Considering the surface of the globe as a polyhedron, formed of planes variously inclined, we may conceive by the mere inspection of the maps, that the intersection of these slopes, rising towards the north, the west, and south,* between San Fernando de Apure, Caycara, and the mouth of the Meta, must cause a considerable depression.
The human polyhedron has as many facets as a curiously-cut gem, and Vincent Farley's gift lay in the ability always to present the same side to the same person.
His attitude toward Ardea had always been a pose; but it was a pose maintained so faithfully that it had become one of the facets of the polyhedron.
Quotes with POLYHEDRON (1)
Hypocrisy — in other words, the practice of lying about lying — shields us from seeing ourselves as we are: a collocation of fragments that fit together as a biological unit but not as anything else, not as that ghost which has been called a self, a phantasm whose ecotoplasmic unreality we can never see through. By staying true to the lie of the self, the ego, we can hold onto the illusion that we will be who we are all our lives and not see our selves die a thousand times be…
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Appears in: New Yorker.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2023).