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- Dictionarygoad/ɡəʊd/
verb
- 1. provoke or annoy (someone) so as to stimulate an action or reaction: "he was trying to goad her into a fight"
- 2. drive (an animal) with a spiked stick: "the cowboys goaded their cattle across the meadows"
noun
- 1. a spiked stick used for driving cattle. Similar
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5 days ago · In Greek mythology, Gaia (/ ˈɡeɪə, ˈɡaɪə /; [2] Ancient Greek: Γαῖα, romanized: Gaîa, a poetic form of Γῆ (Gê), meaning 'land' or 'earth'), [3] also spelled Gaea (/ ˈdʒiːə /), [2] is the personification of Earth. [4] Gaia is the ancestral mother—sometimes parthenogenic —of all life.
3 days ago · Sri Lalita-Tripurasundari enthroned with her left foot upon the Sri Chakra, holding her traditional symbols, the sugarcane bow, flower arrows, noose and goad. The Srikula's best-known school is Srividya, "one of Shakta Tantrism's most influential and theologically sophisticated movements."
2 days ago · Numerology in Kabbalah embodies a sophisticated system depicted through the Gematria of the Hebrew alphabet, the 10 Sefirot, and the 22 Paths of the Tree of Life.
4 days ago · Details of the other hands are difficult to make out on the statue shown. In the standard configuration, Ganesha typically holds an axe or a goad in one upper arm and a pasha in the other upper arm. In rare instances, he may be depicted with a human head. [note 1]
3 days ago · Adolescence, transitional phase of growth and development between childhood and adulthood. The World Health Organization defines an adolescent as any person aged 10 to 19. In many societies, however, adolescence is often equated with puberty. Learn more about the definition, features, and stages of adolescence.
2 days ago · Snell's law, also known as the law of refraction, is a law stating the relationship between the angles of incidence and refraction, when referring to light passing from one medium to another medium such as air to water, glass to air, etc.
5 days ago · death, the total cessation of life processes that eventually occurs in all living organisms. The state of human death has always been obscured by mystery and superstition, and its precise definition remains controversial, differing according to culture and legal systems.