Skip to main content

mensa

/men-suh/US // ˈmɛn sə //UK // (ˈmɛnsə) //

门萨,门沙,门诊部,门撒

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural men·sas, men·sae [men-see] /ˈmɛn si/ for 1, genitive men·sae for 2.

    • : Also called altar slab, altar stone. the flat stone forming the top of the altar in a Roman Catholic church.
    • : Astronomy. the Table, a southern constellation near Octans.

Examples

  • Match.com and Mensa have joined up, making it easier than ever to find fellow geniuses to date.

  • This track is so confusing and multi-layered, it would take a team of Mensa members with Ph.D.s in Ebonics to decode.

  • Curtis put up on his MySpace page a fake certificate proclaiming himself a member of Mensa, leaving Dutschke outraged.

  • Sometimes the recess is rectangular instead of arched, and is then called by De Rossi sepolcro a mensa, or table tomb.

  • At the end opposite the entrance is a large sepolcro a mensa, in front of which is a dais elevated two steps.

  • Would not the discomfort of meals eaten with a companion who could swallow nothing justify a divorce a mensa?

  • Pone omnibus scitule appositis, ac mensa largiter instructa edere ceperunt, omniaque ingurgitauerunt.

  • In the Tripartite (Stokes, p. 251), menister seems to mean the paten, and mias (quasi mensa) the altar-table.