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An indigenous people of North America who lived in present day New York State
A borough of New York City, mainly on Manhattan Island
A cocktail made from whiskey, sweet vermouth and bitters
A cocktail made from whiskey, sweet vermouth and bitters: alternative spelling of Manhattan
a bar chart representing the number of runs scored each over (supposed to resemble a skyline of skyscrapers)
{i} borough of New York City; cocktail containing a mixture of whiskey and sweet vermouth
an island and borough of New York City in New York Bay, between the Hudson River and the East River. It is the business and cultural centre of New York City. When people say that they have visited New York, they often mean that they have been to Manhattan. Borough (pop., 2000: 1,537,195) of New York City, southeastern New York, U.S. It includes all of Manhattan island and three smaller islands in the East River. Bounded by the Hudson River, Harlem River, East River, and Upper New York Bay, it is said to have been purchased by Peter Minuit in 1626 from the Manhattan Indians with trinkets valued at 60 guilders. Incorporated as New Amsterdam in 1653, it was obtained by Britain in 1664 and renamed New York City. In 1898 Manhattan was chartered as one of five boroughs making up Greater New York. It is one of the world's great commercial, financial, and cultural centres. Among its many points of interest are Central Park, the Empire State Building, the site of the former World Trade Center, the United Nations headquarters, Wall Street, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Carnegie Hall, Columbia University, the Juilliard School, and New York University
one of the five boroughs of New York City
a cocktail made with whiskey and sweet vermouth with a dash of bitters
a cocktail made with whiskey and sweet vermouth with a dash of bitters one of the five boroughs of New York City
Manhattan clam chowder
A variety of clam chowder with the addition of tomatoes
Manhattan clam chowders
plural form of Manhattan clam chowder
Manhattan distance
The distance between two points in a grid based on a strictly horizontal and/or vertical path (that is, along the grid lines), as opposed to the diagonal or "as the crow flies" distance. The Manhattan distance is the simple sum of the horizontal and vertical components, whereas the diagonal distance might be computed by applying the Pythagorean theorem
Manhattan Beach
A city of southern California, a residential and industrial suburb of Los Angeles. Population: 32,063
Manhattan Project
code name for the project to develop the first atomic bomb (during the 1940s)
Manhattan Project
the secret US scientific plan, which was started in 1942, to develop an atom bomb Los Alamos. (1942-45) U.S. government research project that produced the first atomic bomb. In 1939 U.S. scientists urged Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt to establish a program to study the potential military use of fission, and $6,000 was appropriated. By 1942 the project was code-named Manhattan, after the site of Columbia University, where much of the early research was done. Research also was carried out at the University of California and the University of Chicago. In 1943 a laboratory to construct the bomb was established at Los Alamos, N.M., and staffed by scientists headed by J. Robert Oppenheimer. Production also was carried out at Oak Ridge, Tenn., and Hanford, Wash. The first bomb was exploded in a test at Alamogordo air base in southern New Mexico. By its end the project had cost some $2 billion and had involved 125,000 people
Manhattan clam chowder
A soup made with clams, tomatoes and other vegetables, and seasonings
manhattan clam chowder
a chowder made with clams and tomatoes and other vegetables and seasonings
manhattan island
an island at the north end of New York Bay where the borough of Manhattan is located
manhattan project
code name for the secret United States project set up in 1942 to develop atomic bombs for use in World War II a former United States executive agency that was responsible for developing atomic bombs during World War II
Manhattan.
New York City
Manhattan.
city
Chase Manhattan
{i} leading American commercial bank (headquartered in New York)
Chase Manhattan Corp
Former U.S. holding company incorporated in 1969 with the Chase Manhattan Bank as its main subsidiary. The bank itself was created in 1955 by the merger of the Bank of Manhattan Co. (founded 1799) and the Chase National Bank (founded 1877). The creation of Chase Manhattan was part of a general movement in U.S. banking to establish holding companies that could bring together banks and financial institutions ordinarily excluded by law from the field of banking. In 1996 it merged with Chemical Banking Corp. (which then owned the nation's second largest bank) but kept the Chase Manhattan name. A merger with investment bank J.P. Morgan & Co. in 2000 created J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. See also David Rockefeller
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Manhattan
Manhattan'ın doğusunda kalan bölge
east side
manhattan

    Silbentrennung

    Man·hat·tan

    Türkische aussprache

    mänhätın

    Aussprache

    /manˈhatən/ /mænˈhætən/

    Etymologie

    [ man-'ha-t&n, m& ] (noun.) 1890. Manhattan, borough of New York City.

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