dotto

Definitions of dotto
  1. noun
    a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines
    synonyms: cultore, intellettuale, letterato, studioso
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    Aristotele
    one of the greatest of the ancient Athenian philosophers; pupil of Plato; teacher of Alexander the Great (384-322 BC)
    Confucio
    Chinese philosopher whose ideas and sayings were collected after his death and became the basis of a philosophical doctrine known a Confucianism (circa 551-478 BC)
    Renato Cartesio
    French philosopher and mathematician; developed dualistic theory of mind and matter; introduced the use of coordinates to locate a point in two or three dimensions (1596-1650)
    Epicuro
    Greek philosopher who believed that the world is a random combination of atoms and that pleasure is the highest good (341-270 BC)
    Erasmo da Rotterdam
    Dutch humanist and theologian who was the leading Renaissance scholar of northern Europe; although his criticisms of the Roman Catholic Church led to the Reformation, he opposed violence and condemned Martin Luther (1466-1536)
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
    German philosopher whose three stage process of dialectical reasoning was adopted by Karl Marx (1770-1831)
    Immanuel Kant
    influential German idealist philosopher (1724-1804)
    Gottlieb Wilhelm Leibniz
    German philosopher and mathematician who thought of the universe as consisting of independent monads and who devised a system of the calculus independent of Newton (1646-1716)
    John Locke
    English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience (1632-1704)
    Niccolò Machiavelli
    a statesman of Florence who advocated a strong central government (1469-1527)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician and philosopher and Jansenist; invented an adding machine; contributed (with Fermat) to the theory of probability (1623-1662)
    Platone
    ancient Athenian philosopher; pupil of Socrates; teacher of Aristotle (428-347 BC)
    Pitagora
    Greek philosopher and mathematician who proved the Pythagorean theorem; considered to be the first true mathematician (circa 580-500 BC)
    Jean Jacques Rousseau
    French philosopher and writer born in Switzerland; believed that the natural goodness of man was warped by society; ideas influenced the French Revolution (1712-1778)
    Bertrand Arthur William Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician who collaborated with Whitehead (1872-1970)
    Socrate
    ancient Athenian philosopher; teacher of Plato and Xenophon (470-399 BC)
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    laureato
    a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university)
    arabista
    a scholar who specializes in Arab languages and culture
    bibliografo
    someone trained in compiling bibliographies
    bibliofilo
    someone who loves (and usually collects) books
    dottore
    a person who holds Ph.D. degree (or the equivalent) from an academic institution
    storico, storiografo
    a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it
    iniziato
    someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field
    filosofo, metafisico, pensatore
    a specialist in philosophy
    lettore
    a person who enjoys reading
    teologo
    someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology
    cronista
    someone who writes chronicles
    esistenzialista
    a philosopher who emphasizes freedom of choice and personal responsibility but who regards human existence in a hostile universe as unexplainable
    letterato
    a man devoted to literary or scholarly activities
    moralista
    a philosopher who specializes in morals and moral problems
    filologo
    a humanist specializing in classical scholarship
    stoico
    a member of the ancient Greek school of philosophy founded by Zeno
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    cultore, intellettuale, studioso
    a person who uses the mind creatively
  2. noun
    (anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure
    synonyms: canale, condotto, tromba
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    coclea
    the snail-shaped tube (in the inner ear coiled around the modiolus) where sound vibrations are converted into nerve impulses by the organ of Corti
    vena
    a tube in which a body fluid circulates
    tromba di Eustachio
    either of the paired tubes connecting the middle ears to the nasopharynx; equalizes air pressure on the two sides of the eardrum
    vaso, vaso sanguigno
    a vessel in which blood circulates
    ovidotto
    either of a pair of tubes conducting the egg from the ovary to the uterus
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    struttura anatomica
    a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing
  3. noun
    an enclosed conduit for a fluid
    synonyms: condotto
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    aerovia
    a duct that provides ventilation (as in mines)
    schnrchel
    air passage provided by a retractable device containing intake and exhaust pipes; permits a submarine to stay submerged for extended periods of time
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    canale, tubo
    a passage (a pipe or tunnel) through which water or electric wires can pass
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