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maryl
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I have defeated giants in the earliest years of war;
Built castles, and buried the poor.
Crossed above waves from the tinyest shore
To sink in a bed at the ocean's floor.
What am I?
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Re: Defeated
« Reply #1 on: May 4th, 2003, 2:54pm » |
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Icarus
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Re: Defeated
« Reply #2 on: May 4th, 2003, 7:30pm » |
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Time doesn't fit the last two stanzas. How about silt?
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Re: Defeated
« Reply #3 on: May 5th, 2003, 4:03am » |
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on May 4th, 2003, 7:30pm, Icarus wrote:
Doesn't fit the first two lines well, I think.
How about stone?
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jon_G
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Re: Defeated
« Reply #4 on: May 5th, 2003, 1:36pm » |
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Either wowbagger's guess or sand.
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Re: Defeated
« Reply #5 on: May 10th, 2003, 1:02pm » |
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wowbagger had it I think. Think about a certain biblical story with a sling and the first line gives it all away.
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dude it's a rock (or stone, whatever). i havent heard of goliath slain by sand, or buildings built with silt
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Icarus
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Re: Defeated
« Reply #7 on: Jun 13th, 2003, 8:02pm » |
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Let's see - Aero guy - who mentions the Goliath connection, said that Wowbagger had it.
What was Wowbagger's answer? Stone, not sand or silt.
So what was the point of your post?
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Re: Defeated
« Reply #8 on: Jun 30th, 2003, 6:47pm » |
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technically sand is rock/stone
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wowbagger
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Re: Defeated
« Reply #9 on: Jul 1st, 2003, 2:07am » |
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on Jun 30th, 2003, 6:47pm, zero wrote:| technically sand is rock/stone |
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Do you mean chemically? Physically, it obviously isn't.
OALD:
rock: 1 [U, C] the hard solid material that forms part of the surface of the earth and some other planets
sand: 1 [U] a substance that consists of very small fine grains of rock
M-W:
rock: 1 : a large mass of stone forming a cliff, promontory, or peak; 2 : a concreted mass of stony material; also : broken pieces of such masses; 3 : consolidated or unconsolidated solid mineral matter; also : a particular mass of it; 4 a : something like a rock in firmness
sand: 1 a : a loose granular material that results from the disintegration of rocks, consists of particles smaller than gravel but coarser than silt
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Re: Defeated
« Reply #10 on: Jul 15th, 2003, 4:55pm » |
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Wow that's why you're the uberpuzzler...... and by the way I think he ment chemically
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Re: Defeated
« Reply #11 on: Jul 15th, 2003, 6:44pm » |
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on Jul 1st, 2003, 2:07am, wowbagger wrote:
OALD:
sand: 1 [U] a substance that consists of very small fine grains of rock
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How is sand NOT rock physically?
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Re: Defeated
« Reply #12 on: Jul 16th, 2003, 3:56am » |
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on Jul 15th, 2003, 6:44pm, Icarus wrote:| How is sand NOT rock physically? |
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I was aiming at the fact that both sand and rock may be built up of the same (chemical) material, but they have very different physical properties, due to the size of the grains of sand. Actually, there is a scientific discipline dealing with properties of granular matter, both on its own and in combination with fluids.
Links:
Introduction,
Experiments (some with MPEG movies),
Nice pictures (follow the links).
For a lot of microscope pictures of different sands, click here or here (with text).
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Re: Defeated
« Reply #13 on: Jul 16th, 2003, 3:59pm » |
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I would say (and OALD agrees) that sand consists of small grains of rock. Thus sand is a form of rock. "Chemically the same" refers to equivalence on a smaller level yet. But all of this is just splitting hairs, so it doesn't bother me whether or not you agree. 
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Re: Defeated
« Reply #14 on: Jul 17th, 2003, 3:34am » |
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on Jul 16th, 2003, 3:59pm, Icarus wrote:| Thus sand is a form of rock. |
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Rock can be a form of sand, too: sandstone. 
Quote:| But all of this is just splitting hairs, so it doesn't bother me whether or not you agree. |
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Re: Defeated
« Reply #15 on: Jul 19th, 2003, 3:30pm » |
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I always thought that sand was eroded rock particuls. 
So i thought sand=small rocks but isn't that true though ?
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Brian
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None of that is important. What we should all rejoice is the fact that someone managed to try to answer yet another riddle with "Time"
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maryl
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Ya, ha, they say Time heals all wounds; I guess they figure it solves all problems too.
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