Venezuelan master terrorist raised by a Marxist-Leninist father; trained and worked with many terrorist groups (born in 1949)
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(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Taurus
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a zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere near Orion; between Aries and Gemini
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the second sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about April 20 to May 20
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Sign \Sign\, n. [F. signe, L. signum; cf. AS. segen, segn, a sign, standard, banner, also fr. L. signum. Cf. {Ensign}, {Resign}, {Seal} a stamp, {Signal}, {Signet}.] That by which anything is made known or represented; that which furnishes evidence; a mark; a token; an indication; a proof. Specifically: (a) A remarkable event, considered by the ancients as indicating the will of some deity; a prodigy; an omen. (b) An event considered by the Jews as indicating the divine will, or as manifesting an interposition of the divine power for some special end; a miracle; a wonder.
Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God. --Rom. xv. 19.
It shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign. --Ex. iv. 8. (c) Something serving to indicate the existence, or preserve the memory, of a thing; a token; a memorial; a monument.
What time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men, and they became a sign. --Num. xxvi. 10. (d) Any symbol or emblem which prefigures, typifles, or represents, an idea; a type; hence, sometimes, a picture.
The holy symbols, or signs, are not barely significative; but what they represent is as certainly delivered to us as the symbols themselves. --Brerewood.
Saint George of Merry England, the sign of victory. --Spenser. (e) A word or a character regarded as the outward manifestation of thought; as, words are the sign of ideas. (f) A motion, an action, or a gesture by which a thought is expressed, or a command or a wish made known.
They made signs to his father, how he would have him called. --Luke i. 62. (g) Hence, one of the gestures of pantomime, or of a language of a signs such as those used by the North American Indians, or those used by the deaf and dumb.
Note: Educaters of the deaf distinguish between natural signs, which serve for communicating ideas, and methodical, or systematic, signs, adapted for the dictation, or the rendering, of written language, word by word; and thus the signs are to be distinguished from the manual alphabet, by which words are spelled on the fingers. (h) A military emblem carried on a banner or a standard. --Milton. (i) A lettered board, or other conspicuous notice, placed upon or before a building, room, shop, or office to advertise the business there transacted, or the name of the person or firm carrying it on; a publicly displayed token or notice.
The shops were, therefore, distinguished by painted signs, which gave a gay and grotesque aspect to the streets. --Macaulay. (j) (Astron.) The twelfth part of the ecliptic or zodiac.
Note: The signs are reckoned from the point of intersection of the ecliptic and equator at the vernal equinox, and are named, respectively, {Aries} ([Aries]), {Taurus} ([Taurus]), {Gemini} (II), {Cancer} ([Cancer]), {Leo} ([Leo]), {Virgo} ([Virgo]), {Libra} ([Libra]), {Scorpio} ([Scorpio]), {Sagittarius} ([Sagittarius]), {Capricornus ([Capricorn]), {Aquarius} ([Aquarius]), {Pisces} ([Pisces]). These names were originally the names of the constellations occupying severally the divisions of the zodiac, by which they are still retained; but, in consequence of the procession of the equinoxes, the signs have, in process of time, become separated about 30 degrees from these constellations, and each of the latter now lies in the sign next in advance, or to the east of the one which bears its name, as the constellation Aries in the sign Taurus, etc. (k) (Alg.) A character indicating the relation of quantities, or an operation performed upon them; as, the sign + (plus); the sign -- (minus); the sign of division /, and the like. (l) (Med.) An objective evidence of disease; that is, one appreciable by some one other than the patient.
Note: The terms symptom and and sign are often used synonymously; but they may be discriminated. A sign differs from a symptom in that the latter is perceived only by the patient himself. The term sign is often further restricted to the purely local evidences of disease afforded by direct examination of the organs involved, as distinguished from those evidence of general disturbance afforded by observation of the temperature, pulse, etc. In this sense it is often called physical sign. (m) (Mus.) Any character, as a flat, sharp, dot, etc. (n) (Theol.) That which, being external, stands for, or signifies, something internal or spiritual; -- a term used in the Church of England in speaking of an ordinance considered with reference to that which it represents.
An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace. --Bk. of Common Prayer.
Note: See the Table of {Arbitrary Signs}, p. 1924.
{Sign manual}. (a) (Eng. Law) The royal signature superscribed at the top of bills of grants and letter patent, which are then sealed with the privy signet or great seal, as the case may be, to complete their validity. (b) The signature of one's name in one's own handwriting. --Craig. Tomlins. Wharton.
Taurus \Tau"rus\ (t[add]"r[u^]s), n. [L., akin to Gr. tay^ros, and E. steer. See {Steer} a young ox.] 1. (Astron.) (a) The Bull; the second in order of the twelve signs of the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 20th of April; -- marked thus [[taurus]] in almanacs. (b) A zodiacal constellation, containing the well-known clusters called the Pleiades and the Hyades, in the latter of which is situated the remarkably bright Aldebaran.
2. (Zo["o]l.) A genus of ruminants comprising the common domestic cattle.
Those include the plants that build the midsized Mercury Sable and Ford Taurus models as well as light trucks.
Despite the Regal advertising claiming a major breakthrough in design, the car mainly represents a deviation of the aerodynamic look pioneered by Ford with its Taurus and Sable models two years ago.
There were already fears that Taurus was too ambitious and critics say he should have abandoned the system earlier.
And forevermore Ford gets to decide unilaterally which cars to call a Taurus.
Workers who assemble Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable autos at the plant learned of the layoffs Monday.
A Ford analyst said another reason for offering the incentives on Taurus and Sable is to keep sales balanced across car lines.
He said he will pick up his new car, but will probably stick to his 1987 Ford Taurus for most of his driving.
Until we do, the FT will continue to have stories such as Taurus, London Ambulance, and Wessex Health Authority to write.
One of them is the Prudential, the UK's leading life insurance and financial services company and a big investor in financial markets in the UK and abroad. 'Taurus was our number one priority for 1993 but we are now re-evaluating our priorities.
Ford was helped largely by a 30% sales increase for its Ford Tempo, a 14% increase in sales of its restyled Ford Taurus and a 16.8% increase for its popular Explorer sport-utility vehicle.
The grit on the roulette wheel is that the stock exchange has failed to get its new computerised system, Taurus, ready in time.
Since last year, Autorama also has distributed the Ford Probe, made by Mazda at Flat Rock, Mich., and the Ford-made Taurus automobile.
The "Sangam," which takes it's name from a mythical fight between gods and demons over a pot of nectar, is held every 12 years when Jupiter enters Taurus and the Sun and the Moon are in Capricorn.
There was no such overall design for Taurus; new elements were added on an apparently ad hoc basis. 'There was no operating architecture,' says one person close to the project. 'John (Watson) made no bones about it.
Ford made the right move, Ms. Jacobs says, by not radically changing the appearance of the new Taurus.
He failed to give enough attention early on to Taurus, which was begun before he arrived.
The government and Ford Motor Co. are investigating reports of brake disc corrosion in all Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable models, a problem that could cause brakes to fail.
The adjustable front-seat headrest on the 1986-1988 Ford Taurus and Sable cannot be kept in a raised position.
Designing new engines takes a lot of time, and many Ford vehicles such as the Ford Taurus won't sport new engines until the mid-1990s.
The biggest price rise came on the Taurus L and GL models, which were given V-6 engines as standard equipment.
In the fall, when the industry was offering 2.9% financing on almost every model, Ford offered limited incentives to dealers on the Taurus and Sable.
Today and tomorrow, Ford is hosting reporters in Atlanta, one of two places where the Taurus is built.
The Dollars 6bn bill is roughly double what Ford spent in the mid-1980s developing its Taurus car, arguably the most successful US car of the past decade.
The fuel-line recall affects some of Ford's biggest-selling lines: The Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable midsized cars, the compact Ford Escort, the Ford F-series and Ranger pickup trucks, and the Lincoln Continental and Town Car.
He said the Crown Victoria in particular is designed to appeal to Taurus owners who want to move up.
The automaker said it would replace heavy-duty steel wheels on the 1990-model Taurus police cars because they could break apart. The company said it has received one report of a cracked wheel and would replace all wheels, including spares.
But could Taurus cope with 'negative stock' - or would everything have to be done on a matched bargain basis?
Ford also showed a Taurus outfitted with its prototype flexible-fuel system, which can burn both unleaded gasoline and a mixture of 85 percent methanol and 15 percent gasoline.
The plants build the Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable, the Ford Thunderbird and Mercury Cougar, and medium and heavy-duty trucks.
"When I was writing my Taurus entry last month, I got a strong picture of a man standing near a jail.