Pan·do·ra

(păn-dôr′ə)

n. Greek Mythology

The first woman, bestowed upon humankind as a punishment for Prometheus's theft of fire. Entrusted with a box containing all the ills that could plague people, she opened it out of curiosity and thereby released all the evils of human life.

[Greek Pandōrā, having all gifts : pan-, pan- + dōron, gift; see dō- in Indo-European roots.]

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Pandora

(pænˈdɔːrə) or

Pandore

(Classical Myth & Legend) Greek myth the first woman, made out of earth as the gods' revenge on man for obtaining fire from Prometheus. Given a box (Pandora's box) that she was forbidden to open, she disobeyed out of curiosity and released from it all the ills that beset man, leaving only hope within

[from Greek, literally: all-gifted]

pandora

(pænˈdɔːrə)

1. (Animals) a handsome red sea bream, Pagellus erythrinus, of European coastal waters, caught for food in the Mediterranean

2. (Animals) a marine bivalve mollusc of the genus Pandora that lives on the surface of sandy shores and has thin equal valves

[after Pandora]

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pan•do•ra

(pænˈdɔr ə, -ˈdoʊr ə)

also pan•dore

(pænˈdɔr, -ˈdoʊr, ˈpæn dɔr, -doʊr)

n., pl. -do•ras also -dores.

bandore.

Pan•do•ra

(pænˈdɔr ə, -ˈdoʊr ə)

n.

(in Greek myth) the first woman, created by Hephaestus and endowed with every grace: out of curiosity, she opened a box and released all the evils that might plague humankind.

[< Latin < Greek Pandṓra=pan- pan- + dôr(on) gift]

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Noun

Pandora - (Greek mythology) the first woman; created by Hephaestus on orders from Zeus who presented her to Epimetheus along with a box filled with evils

Greek mythology - the mythology of the ancient Greeks

Translations

Pandora

Pandóra

Pandora

Pandora

פנדורה

Pandóra

pagello Pandora

パンドーラー

판도라

Pandora

Pandora

Pandora

Pandora

Pandora

Пандора

Pandora

Pandora

[pænˈdɔːrə] N Pandora's box → caja f de Pandora

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Pandora

[pænˈdɔːrə] n
to open Pandora's box → ouvrir la boîte de Pandore

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Begun in 2000, the Music Genome Project is an ongoing exercise in analyzing music, both old and new, according to a complex taxonomy, including up to 450 different factors.

In praise of Pandora

Indeed, despite the nextgen nature of its Music Genome Project, services like Pandora bear remarkable resemblance to the general attributes of old-school radio.

B'cast radio faces the music: AM/FM feeling the squeeze as Internet jukeboxes branch out

In the early years, while it labored to build the Music Genome Project that powers its music recommendation engine, Pandora struggled to find both a business model and funding, to the point where it had to ask employees to work without pay for almost two years.

Pandora founder pursues bigger piece of radio pie

They log about 400 different aspects of each song into their database, called the Music Genome Project. The database is a pun on the Human Genome Project, which took more than a decade to analyze the human genetic code (complete set of hereditary information).

Pop prediction: is there a secret formula to musical success?

Pandora Media, supported by the Music Genome Project. http://www.pandora.com/ (Accessed February 2009).

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