york

Definition of york in English English dictionary: The House of York, a dynasty of English kings and one of the opposing factions involved in the 15th century Wars of the Roses. The name comes from the fact that its members were descended from Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York; their symbol was a white rose; Former name (before 1834) of Toronto; A city in North Yorkshire, England; A habitational surname from the city or the county; See also Yorke; to bowl a yorker at a batsman, especially to get a batsman out in this way; {i} city in England; royal English dynasty; member of the royal house of England that reigned from 1461 to 1485; name of several towns and cities in the USA; county in New Brunswick (Canada); family name; American World War I hero famed for his single-handed attack on a German post. an ancient city in North Yorkshire in northern England. York was originally a Roman city, and it is a popular place for tourists to visit because of its old city wall and its large cathedral, York Minster. City (pop., 2001: 150,255), southeastern Ontario, Canada. With the cities of Toronto, Etobicoke, Scarborough, and North York and the borough of East York, it forms part of the municipality of Metropolitan Toronto. Occupying an area of 9 sq mi (23 sq km), York was established in 1967 through the amalgamation of the former township of York and the town of Weston. The original York township was formed in 1793. ancient Eboracum City and unitary authority (pop., 2001: 181,131), geographic county of North Yorkshire, historic county of Yorkshire, England. Located at the confluence of the Ouse and Foss rivers, it is the cathedral city of the archbishop of York and was historically the ecclesiastical capital of northern England. It was also the seat of the historic county of Yorkshire. York was a Celtic and then a Roman settlement. Constantine I was proclaimed Roman emperor in York in AD 306. It was conquered by the Danes in 867. York suffered severely in the Norman conquest of northern England in the 11th century. During the Middle Ages it was a prosperous wool-trading town and the performance site of the York plays. It has a manufacturing economy and a tourist industry fostered by its medieval sites. New York Zoological Park East York New York Central Railroad New York City New York City Ballet New York Daily News New York Public Library New York school New York Stock Exchange New York Times The New York State University of New York North York Wilfrid of York York plays York University York Alvin Cullum York Cape York house of; the English royal house (a branch of the Plantagenet line) that reigned from 1461 to 1485; its emblem was a white rose; An English habitational surname from the city or the county; See also Yorke
York Chocolate Cat: An American breed of longhaired domestic cat
York River: An estuary, about 64 km (40 mi) long, of eastern Virginia flowing southeast into Chesapeake Bay
York University: large university located in Toronto (Canada)
York University: Privately endowed university in North York, Ont. , Can., founded in 1959. It has faculties of administrative studies, arts, education, environmental studies, fine arts, and graduate studies as well as schools of law, business, and of pure and applied science. Among its research units are centres for the study of refugees, atmospheric chemistry, law and public policy, and computers in education
York plays: Cycle of 48 plays performed in the Middle Ages by craft guilds in York, Eng. The York cycle, which dates from the 14th century, is of unknown authorship; it covers the story of the Fall of Man and his redemption, from the creation of the angels to the Final Judgment. The plays, performed on the summer feast day of Corpus Christi, were given in chronological order, on pageant wagons proceeding from one selected place to another. See also mystery play
York-Benimaru Co., Ltd.: {i} Japanese supermarket chain in Tohoku region in Japan
york rite: The rite or ceremonial observed by one of the Masonic systems, deriving its name from the city of York, in England; also, the system itself, which, in England, confers only the first three degrees
york use: See Use, n
york use: The one of the three printed uses of England which was followed in the north
york use: It was based on the Sarum use
Muddy York: An historical nickname for Toronto, Canada
New York: A state of the United States of America and former colony
The capital of New York is Albany, not New York City.
New York: Of a style, particularly of food, originating in New York
Alcoholism is a disease and an illnes. Its insanity has revented me from finding my Higher Power, good coffee, intoxicating chocolate, and a New York delicatessen here in Utopia.
New York: The largest city in New York State, a metropolis extending into neighboring New Jersey state
New York is a former capital of the USA.
New York City: New York, New York, the largest city in the United States of America. It consists of five boroughs: Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island. Situated at the mouth of the Hudson River in New York State
New York City: Manhattan
New York State: The State of New York
New York breakfast: A meal at the start of the day, consisting of coffee and cigarettes (smoked, not eaten.)
New York minute: An instant; a very short time
New York minutes: plural form of New York minute
New York reload: The act of drawing a second handgun when the first jams or runs out of bullets, rather than reloading the first, in order to gain a speed advantage
First, they may be the fastest reload for an empty primary gun—the so-called New York reload..
New York reloads: plural form of New York reload
Richard of York gave battle in vain: A mnemonic phrase to help remember the order of the seven colours of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet
new-york: {n} one of the United States and its metropolis
Alvin C York: born Dec. 13, 1887, Pall Mall, Tenn., U.S. died Sept. 2, 1964, Nashville, Tenn. U.S. World War I hero. He worked as a blacksmith and was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1917 after being denied conscientious-objector status. In the Meuse-Argonne offensive (October 1918), his patrol of 17 men was ordered to attack a German machine-gun nest. Pinned down behind enemy lines, he advanced alone to attack the enemy gunners, killing 25 and forcing the others to surrender. As he marched them back to U.S. lines, he captured more German soldiers for a total of 132 prisoners. He received the Congressional Medal of Honor, and his autobiography (1928) was the basis of the movie Sergeant York (1941)
Alvin Cullum York: born Dec. 13, 1887, Pall Mall, Tenn., U.S. died Sept. 2, 1964, Nashville, Tenn. U.S. World War I hero. He worked as a blacksmith and was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1917 after being denied conscientious-objector status. In the Meuse-Argonne offensive (October 1918), his patrol of 17 men was ordered to attack a German machine-gun nest. Pinned down behind enemy lines, he advanced alone to attack the enemy gunners, killing 25 and forcing the others to surrender. As he marched them back to U.S. lines, he captured more German soldiers for a total of 132 prisoners. He received the Congressional Medal of Honor, and his autobiography (1928) was the basis of the movie Sergeant York (1941)
Archbishop of York: an important priest in the Church of England, who has the next highest rank to the Archbishop of Canterbury
Cape York: Northern point of Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia. Australia's northernmost point, it is about 15 mi (25 km) long and 12 mi (19 km) wide; it juts into the Torres Strait. Cape York was named in 1770 by Capt. James Cook for the duke of York, brother of King George III
Cape York Peninsula: A peninsula of northeast Australia between the Gulf of Carpentaria and the Coral Sea
City University of New York: CUNY, system of public universities located throughout New York City (USA)
Duchess of York: until they separated in 1992. Her name is Sarah Ferguson, and she is often called "Fergie" in newspapers (1959- ) the wife of Queen Elizabeth's second son Prince Andrew (who is called the Duke of York)
Duke of York: Andrew, Prince. AnDrew, Prince
East York: Borough (pop., 2001: 115,185), southeastern Ontario, Canada. With the cities of North York, Toronto, Scarborough, York, and Etobicoke, it forms the municipality of Metropolitan Toronto. A planned industrial and residential urban complex, it was established in 1967 through the amalgamation of the former East York township (created in 1924) and the former town of Leaside (settled 1819)
Grand Old Duke of York: a character in a British nursery rhyme (=an old song or poem for children) The rhyme goes: Oh the Grand Old Duke of York/ He had ten thousand men,/ He marched them up to the top of the hill/ And he marched them down again
New York: New York City New York State. State (pop., 2000: 18,976,457), eastern U.S. It is bordered by Canada and the U.S. states of Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania; Lake Erie and Lake Ontario are to the west and the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast. New York covers 53,013 sq mi (137,304 sq km); its capital is Albany. The Hudson, St. Lawrence, Delaware, and Niagara rivers all form parts of its boundaries. The Adirondack Mountains are in the northeast; the Catskills are in the east. Before European colonization, Algonquins (see Algonquian languages) and Iroquois inhabited the area. In 1524 Giovanni Verrazzano visited New York Bay. The 1609 explorations of Henry Hudson and Samuel de Champlain led to settlement. In 1664 the Dutch colony, New Netherland, led by Peter Stuyvesant, surrendered to the British and was renamed New York. The French and Indian War resulted in skirmishes in northern and central New York; its conclusion confirmed English dominance in the region. In the American Revolution, it was the scene of many battles, including those of Ticonderoga and Saratoga, and of Benedict Arnold's treason at West Point. New York adopted the first state constitution (1777). The capital moved from New York City to Albany in 1797. The opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 spurred development of the western part of the state. In the 19th century the growing influence in New York City of Tammany Hall caused tension between the city and the state. The economy was once based largely on manufacturing in cities, including Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse. It is now dominated by service industries, concentrated in New York City
New York: {i} state in the northeastern United States; major city and port in southeastern N.Y. state
New York Bay: An arm of the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the Hudson River between western Long Island and northeast New Jersey. It is divided into Upper New York Bay and Lower New York Bay by the Narrows
New York Central Railroad: Major U.S. railroad. It was founded in 1853 to consolidate 10 railroads that paralleled the Erie Canal between Albany and Buffalo, the oldest being the Mohawk and Hudson, New York state's first railway (established 1831). Cornelius Vanderbilt won control of the New York Central in 1867 and combined it with his New York and Hudson railroads running from Manhattan to Albany. The system grew until it had 10,000 mi (16,000 km) of track linking New York with Boston, Montreal, Chicago, and St. Louis. The New York Central began to decline after World War II, and in 1968 it merged with its chief competitor, the Pennsylvania Railroad Co., to form the Penn Central Transportation Co. The merger failed, and the railroad was forced into bankruptcy in 1970. Its passenger services were taken over by Amtrak in 1971, and its other railroad assets were transferred to Conrail in 1976
New York City: {i} largest and major city and port in southeastern New York state (USA)
New York City: a large city and port in the northeastern US, on the southeast coast of New York State and east of the Hudson River. New York City is the largest city in the US and its main business centre, but it is not the capital city of the US, which is Washington, D.C. The city is divided into five boroughs : Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Richmond. City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. and an important seaport, it consists of five boroughs: the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island. The site of a Dutch trading post on Manhattan Island, it was colonized as New Amsterdam by Dutch director general Peter Minuit, who bought it from the Indians in 1626. The colony surrendered to the British in 1664 and was renamed New York. It was the capital of the state (1784-97) and of the U.S. (1789-90). The economy grew after the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, and the city expanded rapidly after the American Civil War, developing transportation and communications systems. In 1898 the five boroughs were merged into a single city. Long a magnet for immigrants to the U.S., it is a centre of world trade and finance, media, art, entertainment, and fashion. Because of its prominence and its central role in world commerce, the city was a target for acts of terrorism. In September 2001, hijackers intentionally flew airliners into the twin towers of the World Trade Center, destroying them and destroying or damaging several adjacent buildings; the attacks killed some 2,800 people. See September 11 attacks
New York City Ballet: Preeminent U.S. ballet company. The company is descended from the American Ballet, which was founded by George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein in 1935 and revived as the Ballet Society in 1946; it assumed its current name in 1948. Under Balanchine's artistic direction, the company became the leading U.S. ballet troupe, combining European classical ballet with American characterization and innovation and exerting enormous influence on American dance. It moved to its permanent home, the New York State Theater at Lincoln Center, in 1964. Later artistic directors Jerome Robbins and Peter Martins contributed numerous works to its repertoire. Its leading dancers have included Maria Tallchief, Edward Villella, Jacques d'Amboise, and Suzanne Farrell
New York Daily News: Morning daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City. It was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson and his cousin Robert McCormick as a subsidiary of the Tribune Co. of Chicago. The first successful tabloid-format newspaper in the U.S., it quickly attracted a large readership with sensational coverage of crime, scandal, and violence; it also included lurid photographs, cartoons, and entertainment features. It was an early user of wirephotos and developed a large staff of photographers. In 1993 it was bought by Mortimer B. Zuckerman
New York Daily News: daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City (USA)
New York Dolls: hard rock/punk band from the 1970s
New York Drama Critics Circle Award: a special prize for excellent work in the theatre, given each year by a group of US theatre critics (=writers who give their judgement on the good or bad qualities of plays, actors etc)
New York Giants: leading American professional baseball team
New York Knicks: NBA basketball team from New York
New York Philharmonic: an orchestra (=a large group of musicians) based in New York City, which is the oldest orchestra in the US
New York Philharmonic Orchestra: renowned orchestra based in New York City
New York Police Department: police force responsible for law enforcement in New York City (USA)
New York Post: a US daily newspaper produced in New York City, which includes a lot of gossip (=information about famous people's private lives) and reports events in ways that make them seem as strange, exciting, or shocking as possible
New York Post: daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City (USA)
New York Public Library: Largest city public library in the U.S. and one of the great libraries of the world. It was established in 1895, and its central building opened in 1911. Its holdings include more than 10 million books and more than 10 million manuscripts, as well as large collections of pictures, maps, books for the blind, films, and microfilms
New York Review of Books: a US magazine with long serious articles on new books, novels, poetry, writers etc
New York State: NY a state in the northeastern US. Its capital is Albany and its largest city is New York City. It is famous for its beautiful countryside, especially its mountains and rivers, and it was one of the 13 original states of the US. The area in the centre and north of the state is often called upstate New York
New York State Barge Canal: A system of inland waterways, about 845 km (525 mi) long, traversing New York State and connecting the Great Lakes with the Hudson River and Lake Champlain. Authorized in 1903 as a modification and expansion of the Erie Canal, it was begun in 1905 and completed in 1918
New York Stock Exchange: Dow Jones Average. World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. It was formally constituted as the New York Stock and Exchange Board in 1817, and its present name was adopted in 1863. Since 1868 membership has been obtained by purchasing a seat from an existing member; membership has been limited to 1,366 since 1953. The exchange provided capital for the industrialization of the U.S. in the 19th century. After the Panic of 1837 it began to demand that companies disclose information about their finances to the public as a condition of offering stock. The stock-market crash of 1929 led to regulation by the Securities and Exchange Commission. To be listed on the NYSE, a company must earn $2.5 million before taxes, have more than one million shares of stock outstanding, give common stockholders voting rights, and publish periodic financial statements. See also American Stock Exchange; NASDAQ
New York Stock Exchange: stock exchange that lists over 3000 publicly-traded companies, largest stock exchange in the United States (located on Wall Street in New York City), NYSE
New York Times: {i} major daily newspaper published in New York City (read throughout the United States, considered one of the leading newspapers in the United States)
New York Times: a serious daily newspaper which is produced in New York City. It is sold everywhere in the US and in many other countries, and people in the US often just call it 'the Times'
New York University: NYU, large private university located in New York City (USA)
New York Yankees: American professional baseball team
New York aster: A wild aster (Aster novi-belgi) of eastern North America, with pointed leaves and bluish-violet flowers
New York minute: An extremely short period of time: "If we could find that would work as well, we'd do it in a New York minute" (Jonathan Golden)
New York school: Painters who participated in the development of contemporary art, particularly Abstract Expressionism, in or around New York City in the 1940s and '50s. During and after World War II, leadership in avant-garde art shifted from war-torn Europe to New York, and the New York school maintained a dominant position in world art into the 1980s. Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, Pop art, and the new realist styles of the late 1960s, among others, all had their beginnings in New York. See also action painting
North York: City (pop., 2001: 608,288), southeastern Ontario, Canada. With the cities of Etobicoke, Scarborough, Toronto, and York and the borough of East York, it forms the municipality of Metropolitan Toronto. North York became a borough in 1967 and a city in 1979. Planned industrial and residential development protects more than 4,000 acres (1,620 hectares) of parks and open space. York University and the Black Creek Pioneer Village are among its attractions
North York Moors: the North York Moors an area of high, open land, a National Park, in northeast England
State University of New York: SUNY, system of public universities located throughout the state of New York (USA)
State University of New York: Largest university system in the U.S. Founded in 1948, it consists of university centres in Albany, Binghamton, Buffalo, and Stony Brook; colleges of arts and sciences in Brockport, Buffalo, Cortland, Fredonia, Geneseo, New Paltz, Old Westbury, Oneonta, Oswego, Plattsburgh, Potsdam, and Purchase; three medical centres (two in New York City and one in Syracuse); several two-year agricultural and technical colleges; a nonresidential continuing-education program (Empire State College); over 30 community colleges; and various other specialized units
The New York Sun: {i} daily newspaper published in New York City (USA)
The New York Times: Morning daily newspaper, long the U.S. newspaper of record. From its establishment in 1851 it has aimed to avoid sensationalism and to appeal to cultured, intellectual readers. In 1896 it was bought by Adolph Ochs, who built it into an internationally respected daily. Its prestige was notably enhanced by its coverage of the sinking of the Titanic and of the two world wars. In the 1970s it became involved in controversy with its publication of the Pentagon Papers. Later in the decade, under the direction of Ochs's grandson, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, its organization and staff underwent sweeping changes, including the introduction of a national edition printed at regional sites. Today it is perhaps the most respected and influential newspaper in the world. It is the flagship of The New York Times Co., whose interests include other newspapers (including the Boston Globe), magazines, and broadcast and electronic media
cape york: the northern tip of Cape York Peninsula at the Torres Strait; the northernmost point of the Australian mainland
cape york peninsula: a peninsula in Queensland in northeastern Australia between the Gulf of Carpenteria and the Coral Sea
house of York: Younger branch of the Plantagenet dynasty, descended from Edward III's fifth son, Edmund of Langley (1341-1402), 1st duke of York. In the 15th century the Yorkists took the throne from the house of Lancaster; the Yorkist kings were Edward IV, Edward V, and Richard III. The Wars of the Roses between the two houses continued until Richard's death at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1453. The marriage of Henry VII, the first Tudor king, to the daughter of Edward IV, merged the house of York with the house of Tudor
in a New York minute: right away, immediately
new york: a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies one of the British colonies that formed the United States the largest city in New York State and in the United States; located in southeastern New York at the mouth of the Hudson river; a major financial and cultural center
new york: the largest city in New York State and in the United States; located in southeastern New York at the mouth of the Hudson river; a major financial and cultural center
new york: a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies
new york: one of the British colonies that formed the United States
new york bay: a bay of the North Atlantic; fed by the Hudson River
new york city: the largest city in New York State and in the United States; located in southeastern New York at the mouth of the Hudson river; a major financial and cultural center
new york fern: slender shield fern of moist woods of eastern North America; sometimes placed in genus Dryopteris
new york state barge canal: a system of canals crossing New York State and connecting the Great Lakes with the Hudson River and Lake Champlain
new york stock exchange: a stock exchange in New York
new york strip: strip steak: steak from upper part of the short loin