Background for paras

paras

/ˈpærəs/

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noun

A former subunit of currency in several countries in the Ottoman/Turkish and Yugoslav regions.

Examples :

""My grandfather remembers when you could buy a loaf of bread for just a few paras in Yugoslavia." "

history economy finance world

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noun

A woman who has had a certain number of pregnancies, indicated by the number prepended to this word.

Examples :

"The doctor noted that she was a para 3, having successfully carried three pregnancies to term. "

medicine family human sex biology person

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noun

Examples :

"During the military exercise, the paras jumped from the plane and landed safely in the field. "

military person

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noun

A passage in text that is about a different subject from the preceding text, marked by commencing on a new line, the first line sometimes being indented.

Examples :

"The student skipped a line and started a new paras to discuss the effects of climate change on local ecosystems. "

writing grammar language communication literature

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noun

A mark or note set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, such as a change of subject.

Examples :

"The teacher used paras in the margin of my essay to highlight the sentences that needed improvement. "

mark writing language communication literature

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noun

An offset of 16 bytes in Intel memory architectures.

Examples :

"Because the old computer's memory segmentation used a 16-bit architecture, addresses were often expressed in terms of segment and offset, with the offset being referred to as a paras. "

computing technical electronics structure architecture