world's

Phileas Fogg bahsi kazanmıştı. Seksen günde devr-i âlem yapmıştı. - Phileas Fogg had won his wager. He had made his journey around the world in eighty days!

Ruhlar alemine inanır mısın? - Do you believe in the spirit world?

world

dünya

Dünyada en çok kullanılan işletim sistemi Windows'tur. - Windows is the most used operating system in the world.

Hiç şüphe yok ki İngilizce dünyada en çok konuşulan dildir. - It isn't a surprise that English is the world's most spoken language.

world

cihan

Yurtta sulh, cihanda sulh. - Peace at home, peace in the world.

world beater

şampiyon

world series

beyzbol oyunları serisi

World Economic Forum

Dünya Ekonumi Forumu

wonder of the world

dünya harikası

world awash with/in

ile dolu bir dünya

world cinema

dünya sineması

world class manufacturing

(Ekonomi) Dünya Klasında Üretim (WCM)

world council of optometry

dünya optometri konseyi

world guide

dünya rehberi

world heavyweight champion

Dünya ağır sıklet şampiyonu

world heavyweight championship

(Spor) Dünya ağırsiklet boks (vs.) şampiyonluğu

world heavyweight championship

(Spor) The World Heavyweight Championship iş the name given to a number of unrelated titles, meant to emphasize the top championship of boxing, professional wrestling, mixed martial arts, or other similar sports and performance arts

world heritage site

Dünya Miras Listesi

world intellectual property organization

Dünya Fikri Mülkiyet Örgütü

world of warcraft

(Bilgisayar) World of Warcraft (çoğunlukla WoW şeklinde kısaltılır), Blizzard Entertainment firması tarafından geliştirilen bir devasa çevrim içi rol yapma oyunudur (MMORPG-Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game). Warcraft serisinin devamı olarak nitelendirilebilecek olan World of Warcraft'ın hikayesi de kendisinden önceki Warcraft oyunlarının hikaye, olay ve kahramanları çevresinde gelişmektedir. Aynı şekilde orjinal World of Warcraft önceki Warcraft oyunlarının ana dünyası olan Azeroth'ta geçmektedir. Ancak daha sonra çıkartılan The Burning Crusade genişleme paketi ile Azeroth yanında Warcraft hikayesine göre Orc ve Draeneilerin anavatanı olarak nitelenen Outland'de oyun dünyasına katılmıştır

world trading center

dünya ticaret merkezi

Yaşamaktan bıkmış, dünyadan bezmiş

world-weary

hayatından bezmiş

World Area Code Basic Encyclopedia

(Askeri) Dünya Alan Kodu Temel Ansiklopedisi

World Food Programme (UN)

(Askeri) Dünya Gıda Programı

World Radiocommunication Conference

(Askeri) Düya Telsiz Muhaberesi Konferansı

World Series

şampiyonluk karşılaşmaları [beysb.]

World Vision Relief and Development, Inc.

(Askeri) Dünya Vizyon Yardım ve Geliştirme Ano.Şti

(Dilbilim) gerçek dünya bilgisi

world premiere

(Sinema) dünyada ilk gösterim

world trade organisation

(Avrupa Birliği) (WTO) Dünya Ticaret Örgütü (DTÖ)

the Third World/the third world

Üçüncü Dünya

English - English

Definition of world's in English English dictionary
world's oldest profession: Prostitution
world's end: {i} most distant part and remotest regions of the world
world's fair: A large exposition featuring exhibits, as of arts and crafts, scientific discoveries, and products of industry and agriculture, provided by countries from around the world. Specially constructed attraction showcasing the science, technology, and culture of participating countries and enterprises. World fairs have often featured outstanding architectural designs and introduced significant inventions. The first was held in England in 1756; more than 300 have been held since. The most notable include the 1851 Crystal Palace Exhibition (London), the 1876 U.S. International Centennial Exposition (Philadelphia), the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago), the 1901 Pan-American Exposition (Buffalo, N.Y.), the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, the 1910 Brussels World's Fair, the 1933-34 Century of Progress (Chicago), the 1939-40 Golden Gate Exposition (San Francisco), the 1939-40 New York World's Fair, the 1964-65 New York World's Fair, the 1967 Montreal Exposition, and the 1998 World Exposition (Lisbon)
World Ash: The cosmic tree that unites all the realms in Heathenry
World Bank: A group of five financial organizations whose purpose is economic development and the elimination of poverty
World Cup: Alternative capitalization of world cup
World Cups: plural form of World Cup
World Exposition: Generic name for various large international expositions held since the mid 19th century, often called "Expo"
World Expositions: plural form of World Exposition
World Series: The best of seven game series played annually to determine the championship of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, played between the National League and the American League
World Trade Center: A former complex of buildings in New York City destroyed in the 9/11 attacks
World Trade Organization: An international organization designed by its founders to supervise and liberalize international trade
World Turtle: The mythical giant sea turtle or tortoise that upholds the World in various cosmologies
World War I: The war from 1914 to 1918 between the Entente Powers of the British Empire, Russian Empire, France, Italy, the United States and other allied nations, against the Central Powers represented by Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria
World War II: The war from 1939 to 1945 of the Allied forces, including United Kingdom, Soviet Union, the United States, France, and China against the Axis Powers, including Germany, Italy, and Japan
World War III: A hypothetical world war following World War II
World War One: Alternative form of World War I
World War Two: Alternative spelling of World War II
World Wide Web: Internet resources that are retrieved by Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
World Wide Web: Collectively, all of the web pages on the Internet which hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of documents and media
WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project.
workers of the world, unite: Laborers are encouraged to unionize or otherwise engage in collective action in order to use the strength of their numbers to obtain better conditions
world: The earth
People are dying of starvation all over the world.
world: to consider or cause to be considered from a global perspective; to consider as a global whole, rather than making or focussing on national or other distinctions; cf to globalise
In a sense, the dictatorship was a failure of failure and, on that account, it was perhaps the exemplary system of control. Having in 1933 wagered on the worlding of the world in the regime's failure, Heidegger after the war can only rue his opportunistic hopes for an exposure of the ontological foundations of control.
world: Human collective existence; existence in general
There will always be lovers, till the world’s end.
world: An individual or group perspective or social setting
In the world of boxing, good diet is all-important.
world: The Universe
world: to make real; to make worldly
world: A planet,especially one which is inhabited or inhabitable
I think many people think of asteroids as kind of little chips of rock. But the places that Dawn is going to really are more like worlds.
world: A great amount
a world of difference.
world cup: An event or competition where competitors and/or teams from several different countries to establish a world champion
world cup: The trophy awarded to the winner of such an event
world line: A path in spacetime, especially that traversed by an elementary particle from its creation to its destruction
world music: The term world music includes traditional music (sometimes called folk music or roots music) of any culture that are created and played by indigenous musicians or that are "closely informed or guided by indigenous music of the regions of their origin," including Western music (e. g. Celtic music). Most typically, the term world music has now replaced folk music as a shorthand description for the very broad range of recordings of traditional indigenous music and song from around the world
world order: A particular structure that manages the world's stability, informed by a number of legal, political and socio-economic factors
world peace: The ideology of universal global understanding and nonviolence
world power: A nation or state so powerful that it can influence world affairs
world powers: plural form of world power
world record: Any characteristic or accomplishment that exceeds all other instances of that characteristic or accomplishment
world record: The world's best score or time for a certain event
world records: plural form of world record
world religion: A religious belief system which has become generally recognized as having independent status from any other religion, but which nonetheless may have many, sometimes mutually antagonistic, sects or denominations
Christianity is a world religion consisting of Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Protestants.
world religions: plural form of world religion
world trade center: a building that houses all the facilities associated with global commerce
world war: A war involving the major nations of the world
Armageddon, that world war with which the Second Coming is to be so closely associated. (Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow 1921, ix.).
world wars: plural form of world war
world-beater: Someone or something superior to all others of its sort
world-beating: Superior to all others of its sort
world-class: of a standard that ranks among the best in the world
world-class: of the highest order or importance
world-famous: renowned in many parts of the world (especially in the Western world)
world-renowned: Of worldwide renown; known and respected internationally
world-shaking: Momentous; of great import; of great significance, importance or consequence
world-war: Alternative spelling of world war
In this world-war nations fell to the lowest level of savagery.
world-weariness: The state or characteristic of being world-weary
Call me blasé—I do not mind, if by blasé is meant the world-weariness, intellectual, artistic, sensational, which can come to a young man of thirty. For I was thirty, and I was weary of all these things—weary and in doubt.
world-weary: Bored with life, especially material comforts
world-weary: Tired of the ways of the world; fashionably despaired
World Court: (Fizik) The Permanent Court of International Justice, often called the World Court, was an international court attached to the League of Nations. Created in 1922 (although the idea of an international court was several centuries old), the Court was initially met with a good reaction from states and academics alike, with many cases submitted to it for its first decade of operation. With the heightened international tension of the 1930s the Court was used with decreasing regularity; by a resolution by the League of Nations on 18 April 1946, the Court ceased to exist, being replaced by the International Court of Justice
world: {n} the universe, the earth, mankind, a great multitude, the public, course of life, a continent, time
World Intellectual Property Organization: The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) (French: Organisation mondiale de la propriété intellectuelle or OMPI) is one of the specialized agencies of the United Nations. WIPO was created in 1967 with the stated purpose "to encourage creative activity, [and] to promote the protection of intellectual property throughout the world"
world community: The term is used primarily in political and humanitarian contexts to describe an international aggregate of nation states of widely varying types. In most connotations, the term is used to convey meanings attached to consensus or inclusion of all people in all lands and their governments
world heritage: A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a specific site (such as a forest, mountain, lake, desert, monument, building, complex, or city) that has been nominated and confirmed for inclusion on the list maintained by the international World Heritage Programme administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, composed of 21 State Parties (countries) which are elected by the General Assembly of States Parties for a fixed term. (This is similar to the United Nations Security Council.)
world-shaking: Sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; "earthshaking proposals"; "the contest was no world-shaking affair"; "the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering"(synonym) earthshaking, world-shattering
World Bank: monetary institution that supplies credit for the investment and opening with the guarantee of the state
World Food Programme: Organization established in 1961 by the United Nations to help alleviate world hunger. The world's largest food-aid organization (providing food aid to some 75 million people annually), the WFP aims to assist the approximately 15% of the world's population that is hungry. Its Food-for-Life program aids victims of both natural and man-made disasters by collecting and transporting food to crisis areas. Contributions of commodities, cash, and services (primarily shipping) help beneficiaries to maintain balanced diets. Its Food-for-Growth programs are directed at vulnerable groups including children, pregnant and nursing women, and the elderly and its Food-for-Work program encourages self-reliance by providing food in return for labour. Its headquarters are in Rome
World Heritage site: Any of various areas or objects designated as having "outstanding universal value" under the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage. This convention, adopted by UNESCO in 1972, provides for international cooperation in preserving and protecting cultural and natural treasures throughout the world. Each site on the list is under strict legal protection by the government of the nation in which it is situated. Among the cultural sites are many of the world's most famous buildings. The ratio of cultural to natural sites on the list is roughly three to one
World Trade Center: the WTC a group of buildings in Manhattan, New York City, which included two very tall skyscrapers that were destroyed by terrorists in 2001. Thousands of people were killed when the terrorists flew two planes directly into the buildings. Complex formerly consisting of seven buildings around a central plaza, near the southern tip of Manhattan. Its huge twin towers (completed 1970-72) were designed by Minoru Yamasaki (1912-1986). At 1,368 ft (417 m) and 1,362 ft (415 m) tall, they were the world's tallest buildings until surpassed in 1973 by the Sears Tower in Chicago. The towers were notable for the relationship of their simple, light embellishment to their underlying structure. In 1993 a bomb planted by terrorists exploded in the underground garage, killing several people and injuring some 1,000. A much more massive attack occurred on Sept. 11, 2001, when first One World Trade Center and then Two World Trade Center were struck by hijacked commercial airliners deliberately flown into them. Shortly thereafter both of the heavily damaged towers, as well as adjacent buildings, collapsed into enormous piles of debris. The attacks the deadliest terrorist assault in history claimed the lives of some 2,800 victims. Thousands more were injured. See September 11 Attacks
World War III: WWIII, theoretical future world war characterized by the use of nuclear weapons and massive worldwide devastation
World Whale Police: environmental group that seeks to educate the public about issues concerning whales, WWP
World Wide Web: network on the Internet of interconnected HTML documents which are scattered on servers worldwide, W3
World Wide Web: The World Wide Web is a computer system which links documents and pictures into a database that is stored in computers in many different parts of the world and that people everywhere can use. The abbreviations WWW and the Web are often used. The complete set of documents residing on all Internet servers that use the HTTP protocol, accessible to users via a simple point-and-click system. WWW the web = the Internet. or Web Leading information-exchange service of the Internet. It was created by Tim Berners-Lee and his colleagues at CERN and introduced to the world in 1991. The Web gives users access to a vast array of documents that are connected to each other by means of hypertext or hyperlinks. A hypertext document with its corresponding text and hyperlinks is written in HTML and is assigned an on-line address, or URL. The Web operates within the Internet's basic client-server architecture. Individual HTML files with unique electronic addresses are called Web pages, and a collection of Web pages and related files (such as graphics files, scripted programs, and other resources) sharing a set of similar addresses (see domain name) is called a Web site. The main or introductory page of a Web site is usually called the site's home page. Users may access any page by typing in the appropriate address, search for pages related to a topic of interest by using a search engine, or move quickly between pages by clicking on hyperlinks incorporated into them. Though introduced in 1991, the Web did not become truly popular until the introduction of Mosaic, a browser with a graphical interface, in 1993. Subsequently, browsers produced by Netscape and Microsoft have become predominant
woman of the world: A sophisticated, worldly woman
world: a part of the earth that can be considered separately; "the outdoor world"; "the world of insects
world: {i} planet or globe; particular part of Earth; planet Earth; universe, cosmos; humankind; general public, public as a whole; material realm (as opposed to the spiritual realm); a lot, very much
world: You can use the outside world to refer to all the people who do not live in a particular place or who are not involved in a particular situation. For many, the post office is the only link with the outside world
world: The existing subjective reality of an individual, including one's thoughts and feelings and one's perceptions of the environment The world is created by how one perceives it
world: the concerns of the world as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife; "they consider the church to be independent of the world"
world: If you say that someone is a man of the world or a woman of the world, you mean that they are experienced and know about the practical or social aspects of life, and are not easily shocked by immoral or dishonest actions. Look, we are both men of the world, would anyone really mind? an elegant, clever and tough woman of the world
world: a part of the earth that can be considered separately; "the outdoor world"; "the world of insects"
world: You can use world to refer to a particular field of activity, and the people involved in it. The publishing world had certainly never seen an event quite like this
world: involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope; "global war"; "global monetary policy"; "neither national nor continental but planetary"; "a world crisis"; "of worldwide significance"
world: the dominion of Satan, "the god of this world"; often used to refer to the sum of devilish influences
world: You can use world in expressions such as the Arab world, the western world, and the ancient world to refer to a particular group of countries or a particular period in history. Athens had strong ties to the Arab world. the developing world
world: Individual experience of, or concern with, life; course of life; sum of the affairs which affect the individual; as, to begin the world with no property; to lose all, and begin the world anew
world bank: The WB is an international financial institution, owned by 181 member countries and based in Washington D C Voting power depends on financial contributions, proportional to economic size of the country So essentially, the G8: Japan, Italy, Germany, US, UK, France, Canada, Russia countries hold over 50% of the power within the World Bank
world bank: An organization created to make loans primarily to developing countries, with the stipulation that these governments must guarantee the loan Its full name is the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development Also called the IBRD BACK TO TOP
world bank: A multilateral development finance agency created by the 1944 Bretton Woods, New Hampshire negotiations It makes loans to developing countries for social overhead capital projects, which are guaranteed by the recipient country See: International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
world bank: A multilateral development finance agency created by the 1944 Bretton Woods, (New Hampshire) negotiations It makes loans to developing countries for social overhead capital projects that are guaranteed by the recipient country See: International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
world bank: a major multilateral funder The World Bank finances projects primarily through two of its branches: the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA) Both entities lend funds, provide economic advice and technical assistance, and serve as a catalyst for other investment They differ in that the IBRD borrows on world capital markets to finance its lending activity, while the IDA provides assistance to the poorest countries, largely based on resources provided by its more wealthy members and transfers from IBRD net income (profits)
world bank: The World Bank was set up in 1944 as an institution for development assistance It got started mostly by giving loans for rebuilding Western Europe after World War II, and began giving development loans to poor countries in the1960s The World Bank is now the world's largest source of development assistance, and most of the money that it lends (75%) is raised in financial markets Influence in decision-making depends on the contributions of member countries, with industrialized economies accounting for the largest share It faced a lot of criticism as a result of the structural adjustment programs it imposed as a condition for assistance in the 1980s, as well as for managing big development projects that were completely inappropriate to local conditions It has since tried to improve its performance by working more closely with developing countries and somewhat distancing itself from the positions of the International Monetary Fund The World Bank is located in Washington, D C
world bank: A bank made up of members of the IMF whose aim is to assist in the development of member states by making loans where private capital is not available
world bank: Formed to be the bank lender and technical advisor to the developing countries, utilizing funds and technical resources from the member nations
world cup preliminaries: games which determine which countries will qualify to play soccer in the world cup
world of good: much benefit, very much good
world of mystery: imaginary world where all sorts of strange things can happen
world power: A nation or other political entity having the power to influence the course of world events. a country that has a lot of power and influence in many parts of the world superpower
world record: the fastest time, longest distance, highest level etc which anyone has ever achieved anywhere in the world, especially in a sport set/break/beat a world record
world trade organization: an international organization based in Geneva that monitors and enforces rules governing global trade
world trade organization: An international organization established by the Uruguay Round trade agreement to replace the institution created by the General Agreement on Tarriffs and Trade known as the GATT The WTO provides a code of conduct for international commerce and a framework for periodic multilateral negotiations on trade liberalization and expansion The Uruguay Round trade agreement modified the code and the framework and established the World Trade Organization (WTO) on January 1, 1995
world trade organization: an international organisation that can mediate trade disputes (chapter 18)
world trade organization: The World Trade Organization (WTO) was established on January 1, 1995 as a result of the Uruguay Round negotiations (1986-94) The seat of the WTO is located in Geneva, Switzerland The Organization gathers 132 member countries (as of September 1997) and has an annual budget of $93 million (1996) It performs various functions including administering WTO trade agreement, organizing forums for trade negotiations, handling trade disputes, monitoring national trade policies, providing technical assistance and training for developing countries, and cooperate with other international organizations
world trade organization: Provisions to establish the WTO were reached in the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) The WTO is scheduled to be established no later than 1997 as an international organization of comparable stature to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund The Organization is expected to facilitate implementation of trade agreements reached in the Uruguay Round by bringing them under one institutional umbrella, requiring full participation of all countries in one new trading system, and providing a permanent forum to discuss new issues facing the international trading system The WTO system will be available only to countries which: (a) are contracting parties to the GATT, (b) agree to adhere to all of the Uruguay Round agreements, and (c) submit schedules of market access commitments for industrial goods, agricultural goods, and services
world trade organization: A multilateral agency that administers world trade agreements, fosters trade relations among nations, and solves trade disputes among member countries
world view: A person's world view is the way they see and understand the world, especially regarding issues such as politics, philosophy, and religion. Many artists express their world view in their work. someone's opinions and attitudes relating to the world and things in general
world war: A world war is a war that involves countries all over the world. Many senior citizens have been though two world wars At the end of the second world war he was working as a docker. a war involving many of the countries of the world. or First World War (1914-18) International conflict between the Central Powers Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey and the Allied Powers mainly France, Britain, Russia, Italy, Japan, and (from 1917) the U.S. After a Serbian nationalist assassinated Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria in June 1914, a chain of threats and mobilizations resulted in a general war between the antagonists by mid-August. Prepared to fight a war on two fronts, based on the Schlieffen Plan, Germany first swept through neutral Belgium and invaded France. After the First Battle of the Marne (1914), the Allied defensive lines were stabilized in France, and a war of attrition began. Fought from lines of trenches and supported by modern artillery and machine guns, infantry assaults gained little ground and were enormously costly in human life, especially at the Battles of Verdun and the Somme (1916). On the Eastern Front, Russian forces initially drove deep into East Prussia and German Poland (1914) but were stopped by German and Austrian forces at the Battle of Tannenberg and forced back into Russia (1915). After several offensives, the Russian army failed to break through the German defensive lines. Russia's poor performance and enormous losses caused widespread domestic discontent that led to the Russian Revolution of 1917. Other fronts in the war included the Dardanelles Campaign, in which British and Dominion forces were unsuccessful against Turkey; the Caucasus and Iran (Persia), where Russia fought Turkey; Mesopotamia and Egypt, where British forces fought the Turks; and northern Italy, where Italian and Austrian troops fought the costly Battles of the Isonzo. At sea, the German and British fleets fought the inconclusive Battle of Jutland, and Germany's use of the submarine against neutral shipping eventually brought the U.S. into the war in 1917. Though Russia's armistice with Germany in December 1917 released German troops to fight on the Western Front, the Allies were reinforced by U.S. troops in early 1918. Germany's unsuccessful offensive in the Second Battle of the Marne was countered by the Allies' steady advance, which recovered most of France and Belgium by October 1918 and led to the November Armistice. Total casualties were estimated at 10 million dead, 21 million wounded, and 7.7 million missing or imprisoned. See also Battles of Caporetto and Ypres; Fourteen Points; Lusitania; Paris Peace Conference; Treaties of Brest-Litovsk, Neuilly, Saint-Germain, Sèvres, Trianon, and Versailles; Edmund H.H. Allenby, Ferdinand Foch, John French, Douglas Haig, Paul von Hindenburg, Joseph-Jacques-Césaire Joffre, Erich Ludendorff, John Pershing. or Second World War (1939-45) International conflict principally between the Axis Powers Germany, Italy, and Japan and the Allied Powers France, Britain, the U.S., the Soviet Union, and China. Political and economic instability in Germany, combined with bitterness over its defeat in World War I and the harsh conditions of the Treaty of Versailles, allowed Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party to rise to power. In the mid-1930s Hitler began secretly to rearm Germany, in violation of the treaty. He signed alliances with Italy and Japan to oppose the Soviet Union and intervened in the Spanish Civil War in the name of anticommunism. Capitalizing on the reluctance of other European powers to oppose him by force, he sent troops to occupy Austria in 1938 (see Anschluss) and to annex Czechoslovakia in 1939. After signing the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, Germany invaded Poland on Sept. 1, 1939. Two days later France and Britain declared war on Germany. Poland's defeat was followed by a period of military inactivity on the Western Front (see Phony War). At sea Germany conducted a damaging submarine campaign by U-boat against merchant shipping bound for Britain. By early 1940 the Soviet Union had divided Poland with Germany, occupied the Baltic states, and subdued Finland in the Russo-Finnish War. In April 1940 Germany overwhelmed Denmark and began its conquest of Norway. In May German forces swept through The Netherlands and Belgium on their blitzkrieg invasion of France, forcing it to capitulate in June and establish the Vichy France regime. Germany then launched massive bombing raids on Britain in preparation for a cross-Channel invasion, but, after losing the Battle of Britain, Hitler postponed the invasion indefinitely. By early 1941 Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria had joined the Axis, and German troops quickly overran Yugoslavia and Greece in April. In June Hitler abandoned his pact with the Soviet Union and launched a massive surprise invasion of Russia, reaching the outskirts of Moscow before Soviet counterattacks and winter weather halted the advance. In East Asia Japan expanded its war with China and seized European colonial holdings. In December 1941 Japan attacked U.S. bases at Pearl Harbor and in the Philippines. The U.S. declared war on Japan, and the war became truly global when the other Axis Powers declared war on the U.S. Japan quickly invaded and occupied most of Southeast Asia, Burma, the Netherlands East Indies, and many Pacific islands. After the crucial U.S. naval victory at the Battle of Midway (1942), U.S. forces began to advance up the chains of islands toward Japan. In the North Africa Campaigns the British and Americans defeated Italian and German forces by 1943. The Allies then invaded Sicily and Italy, forcing the overthrow of the fascist government in July 1943, though fighting against the Germans continued in Italy until 1945. In the Soviet Union the Battle of Stalingrad (1943) marked the end of the German advance, and Soviet reinforcements in great numbers gradually pushed the German armies back. The massive Allied invasion of western Europe began with the Normandy Campaign in western France (1944), and the Allies' steady advance ended in the occupation of Germany in 1945. After Soviet troops pushed German forces out of the Soviet Union, they advanced into Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Romania and had occupied the eastern third of Germany by the time the surrender of Germany was signed on May 8, 1945. In the Pacific an Allied invasion of the Philippines (1944) was followed by the successful Battle of Leyte Gulf and the costly Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa (1945). Atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, and Japan's formal surrender on September 2 ended the war. Estimates of total military and civilian casualties varied from 35 million to 60 million killed, including about 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust. Millions more civilians were wounded and made homeless throughout Europe and East Asia. See also Anti-Comintern Pact; Atlantic Charter; Battles of El Alamein, the Atlantic, the Bulge, Guadalcanal, and the Philippine Sea; Casablanca, Potsdam, Tehran, and Yalta conferences; Dunkirk Evacuation; lend-lease; Munich agreement; Nürnberg Trials; Siege of Leningrad; Sino-Japanese Wars; Omar Bradley, Winston Churchill, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Douglas MacArthur, Bernard Law Montgomery, Benito Mussolini, George Patton, Erwin Rommel, Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, Yamamoto Isoroku, Georgy K. Zhukov
world war: war involving most of the major powers of the world (i.e. WWI, WWII)
world war ii: a war between the Allies (Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Philippines, Poland, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, USSR, Yugoslavia) and the Axis (Albania, Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Rumania, Slovakia, Thailand) from 1939 to 1945
world wide web: An interconnected set of hypertext documents located throughout the Internet The documents are kept on computers called servers, which can send the documents to your computer As of late 1996 the World Wide Web contains over 30,000,000 documents It is also refered to as the WWW and sometimes just as "The Web"
world wide web: The World Wide Web is a part of the Internet It started out as a small part, but has grown to be the largest The World Wide Web generally refers to the collection of hyperlinked web pages Like most internet definitions, this one is quite fuzzy and full of exceptions
world wide web: Loosely used, the WWW (or Web) refers to the whole constellation of resources that can be accessed using gopher, FTP, HTTP, Telnet, Usenet, WAIS, and some other tools The WWW is a hypertext-based, distributed information system originally created by researchers at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, to facilitate sharing research information The Web presents the user with documents, called web pages, full of links to other documents or information systems Selecting one of these links, the user can access more information about a particular topic Web pages include text as well as multimedia (images, video, animation, sound) Servers are connected to the Internet to allow users to traverse ("surf") the Web using a Web browser
world wide web: Also known as WWW or W3, the World Wide Web is a hypertext-based Internet service used for browsing Internet resources To the Top
world wide web: A revolutionary browsing system that allows point-and-click navigation of the Internet The Web is a spiderweb-like interconnection of millions of pieces of information located on computers around the world Web documents use hypertext, which incorporates text and graphical links to other documents and files on Internet-connected computers
world-famous: Someone or something that is world-famous is known about by people all over the world. the world-famous Hollywood Bowl. known about by people all over the world