LIMBO
Limbo is an endearing, intelligent and subtly uplifting piece of filmmaking. Despite moving the audience to some complex places, the film never loses its smile, even as it is being battered by the. Definition of limbo (Entry 2 of 2): a dance or contest that involves bending over backwards and passing under a horizontal pole lowered slightly for each successive pass First Known Use of limbo Noun (1). Summary: LIMBO, a black and white puzzle-platforming adventure, puts players in the role of a young boy traveling through an eerie and treacherous world in an attempt to discover the fate of his sister.
The Ever-Changing Chaos of Limbo was an Outer plane in the Great Wheel cosmology model that embodied the chaotic neutral alignment.106 The plane of Warrior's Rest in the World Tree cosmology was similar to Limbo in many ways but not quite as morphic.11 The batrachi formed a realm in Limbo called the Supreme Throne12 which became its own plane in the World Tree cosmology model.13 Limbo was lost. Limbo meaning: 1. An uncertain situation that you cannot control and in which there is no progress or improvement.
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lim·bo 1
(lĭm′bō)n.pl.lim·bos1. often LimboRoman Catholic Church The abode of unbaptized but innocent or righteous souls, as those of infants or virtuous individuals who lived before the coming of Christ.
2. A condition of prolonged uncertainty or neglect: Management kept her promotion in limbo for months.
[Middle English, from Medieval Latin (in) limbō, (in) Limbo, ablative of limbus, Limbo (conventionally thought to exist on the outer border of Hell), from Latin, border.]
lim·bo 2
(lĭm′bō)n.pl.lim·bos A West Indian dance in which the dancers repeatedly bend over backward and pass under a pole that is lowered slightly with each pass.
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limbo
(ˈlɪmbəʊ) n, pl-bos1. (Theology) (often capital) RC Church the supposed abode of infants dying without baptism and the just who died before Christ
2. an imaginary place for lost, forgotten, or unwanted persons or things
3. an unknown intermediate place or condition between two extremes: in limbo.
[C14: from Medieval Latin in limbo on the border (of hell)]
limbo
(ˈlɪmbəʊ) n, pl-bos (Dancing) a Caribbean dance in which dancers pass, while leaning backwards, under a bar
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lim•bo1
(ˈlɪm boʊ)n., pl. -bos.
1. (often cap.) a region on the border of hell or heaven in Roman Catholic teaching, serving as the abode after death of unbaptized infants and of the righteous who died before the coming of Christ.
2. a place or state of oblivion for persons or things cast aside, forgotten, or out of date.
3. an intermediate, transitional, or midway state or place.
4. a place or state of imprisonment or confinement.
[1300–50; Middle English < Medieval Latin in limbō on hell's border (Latin: on the edge) =in on + limbō, abl. of limbus edge, border; compare limbus]
lim•bo2
(ˈlɪm boʊ)n., pl. -bos.
a dance from the West Indies in which the dancer bends backward from the knees and moves with a shuffling step under a horizontal bar that is lowered after each successive pass.
[1955–60; compare Jamaican E limba to bend; see limber1]
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limbo
A West Indian dance in which the dancer, bending backwards, passes under a horizontally supported stick, without touching it, to rhythmic accompaniment.
Dictionary of Unfamiliar Words by Diagram Group Copyright © 2008 by Diagram Visual Information Limited
| Noun | 1. | limbo - the state of being disregarded or forgotten obscurity - an obscure and unimportant standing; not well known; 'he worked in obscurity for many years' |
| 2. | limbo - an imaginary place for lost or neglected things fictitious place, imaginary place, mythical place - a place that exists only in imagination; a place said to exist in fictional or religious writings | |
| 3. | limbo - (theology) in Roman Catholicism, the place of unbaptized but innocent or righteous souls (such as infants and virtuous individuals) fictitious place, imaginary place, mythical place - a place that exists only in imagination; a place said to exist in fictional or religious writings theology, divinity - the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth |
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limbo
nounin limboin a state of uncertainty, neglected, up in the air, in abeyance, betwixt and between, not knowing whether one is coming or going(informal)I felt as though I was in limbo.
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[ˈlɪmbəʊ]N (Rel) (alsoLimbo) → limbom; (= dance) → limbomto be in limbo [person] →
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limbo
[ˈlɪmbəʊ]nto be in limbo (= between two stages) →
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1n(fig) → Übergangs-orZwischenstadiumnt; our expansion plans are in limbo because of lack of money → unsere Erweiterungspläne sind wegen Geldmangels in der Schwebe; I’m in a sort of limbo → ich hänge in der Luft(inf)
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