Vitan.1
/ˈviːtə/, /ˈvʌɪtə/, U.S. /ˈvidə/ A proprietary term for glass which transmits most of the ultraviolet rays of sunlight. Usually as Vita-glass, Vitaglass.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > glass and glass-like materials > [noun] > glass > other types of glass
mirror glass1440
Venice glass1527
green glass1559
bubble glass1591
hard glass1597
window glass1606
bottle glass1626
looking-glass plate1665
opal glass1668
flint-glass1683
broad-glass1686
jealous glass1703
plate glass1728
Newcastle glass1734
flint1755
German sheet glass1777
Réaumur's porcelain1777
cut glass1800
Vauxhall1830
muslin glass1837
Venetian glass1845
latticinio1855
quartz glass1861
muff glass1865
thallium glass1868
St. Gobain glass1870
frost blue1873
crackle-glass1875
opaline1875
crackle-ware1881
amberina1883
opal1885
Jena1892
Holophane1893
roughcast1893
soda glass1897
opalite1899
milchglas1907
pâte de verre1907
Pyrex1915
silica glass1916
soda-lime glass1917
Vita-glass1925
peach-blow1930
borosilicate glass1933
Vitrolite1937
twin plate1939
sintered glass1940
gold-film1954
Plyglass1956
pyroceram1957
float glass1959
solar glass1977
1925 Trade Marks Jrnl. 29 July 1649 Vita... Glass. Francis Everard Lamplough, 47, Bunbury Road, King's Norton, Birmingham; chemist.
1925 Spectator 14 Nov. 869/1 A substitute for quartz... This vitaglass is what I asked for.
1939 O. Lancaster Homes Sweet Homes 60 The small tight-shut windows..will be replaced by a wide expanse of hygienic vita glass.
1954 J. Betjeman Few Late Chrysanthemums 76 And many a cultivated hour they pass In a fine school with walls of vita-glass.
1957 Oxf. Mag. 17 Oct. 18/2 The well-intended propaganda of Sir Leonard Hill and others about 1930..gave it a new lease of life by preaching that the sun was the best preventative of rickets provided that ‘vitaglass’ windows were used.
1981 Times 21 Feb. 22/3 The old Marine Spa..contained..a Vita-glass sun lounge.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
vitan.2
/ˈviːtə/, /ˈvʌɪtə/, U.S. /ˈvidə/ 1. vita nuova [Italian, = new life] . The title of a work by Dante describing his love for Beatrice, used to denote a fresh start or new direction in life, usually after some powerful emotional experience.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > [noun] > new direction in life
vita nuova1934
1934 A. J. A. Symons Quest for Corvo xii. 164 There seemed no impediment to his vita nuova.
1939 L. MacNeice Autumn Jrnl. 43 A cultured accent alone will not provide A season ticket to the Vita Nuova.
1975 P. Organ House on Cheyne Walk xviii. 163 Not a very good way to begin la vita nuova, with more lies.
2. [ < Latin vīta life.] A biography, the history of a life; spec. = curriculum vitae n. at curriculum n.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > biography > [noun] > types of biography > autobiography or memoirs
story1533
autography1661
memoirs1676
idiographya1734
self-biography1796
autobiography1797
reminiscence1797
autobiog1829
autobio1856
auto1881
curriculum vitae1902
biodata1947
vita1949
c.v.1971
1949 W. Lewis Let. 3 Sept. (1963) 505 You ought to cut out cleanly and implacably the vita material from this typescript.
1960 Encounter Mar. 82/2 Clifton Fadiman..whose credentials include..a vita which concludes as follows:..master of ceremonies on the popular radio programme Information Please, and on the television show This is Show Business.
1974 H. L. Foster Ribbin', Jivin', & Playin' Dozens i. 18 As far as children and their schools are concerned, the reports were simply another exercise for academicians to contribute, primarily, as a source for an additional listing on a vita or a source for citations for future papers, lectures, books, and speeches.
1979 Amer. Speech 54 257 All these observations..are summarized in the vitas of the informants.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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