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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
world
    adj 1: involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in
           scope; "global war"; "global monetary policy"; "neither
           national nor continental but planetary"; "a world
           crisis"; "of worldwide significance" [syn: global,
           planetary, world(a), worldwide, world-wide]
    n 1: everything that exists anywhere; "they study the evolution
         of the universe"; "the biggest tree in existence" [syn:
         universe, existence, creation, world, cosmos,
         macrocosm]
    2: people in general; especially a distinctive group of people
       with some shared interest; "the Western world" [syn: world,
       domain]
    3: all of your experiences that determine how things appear to
       you; "his world was shattered"; "we live in different
       worlds"; "for them demons were as much a part of reality as
       trees were" [syn: world, reality]
    4: the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on; "the
       Earth moves around the sun"; "he sailed around the world"
       [syn: Earth, earth, world, globe]
    5: people in general considered as a whole; "he is a hero in the
       eyes of the public" [syn: populace, public, world]
    6: a part of the earth that can be considered separately; "the
       outdoor world"; "the world of insects"
    7: the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and
       the afterlife; "they consider the church to be independent of
       the world" [syn: worldly concern, earthly concern,
       world, earth]
    8: all of the living human inhabitants of the earth; "all the
       world loves a lover"; "she always used `humankind' because
       `mankind' seemed to slight the women" [syn: world, human
       race, humanity, humankind, human beings, humans,
       mankind, man]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
World \World\, n. [OE. world, werld, weorld, weoreld, AS.
   weorold, worold; akin to OS. werold, D. wereld, OHG. weralt,
   worolt, werolt, werlt, G. welt, Icel. ver["o]ld, Sw. verld,
   Dan. verden; properly, the age of man, lifetime, humanity;
   AS. wer a man + a word akin to E. old; cf. AS. yld lifetime,
   age, ylde men, humanity. Cf. Werewolf, Old.]
   [1913 Webster]
   1. The earth and the surrounding heavens; the creation; the
      system of created things; existent creation; the universe.
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            The invisible things of him from the creation of the
            world are clearly seen.               --Rom. 1. 20.
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            With desire to know,
            What nearer might concern him, how this world
            Of heaven and earth conspicuous first began.
                                                  --Milton.
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   2. Any planet or heavenly body, especially when considered as
      inhabited, and as the scene of interests analogous with
      human interests; as, a plurality of worlds. "Lord of the
      worlds above." --I. Watts.
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            Amongst innumerable stars, that shone
            Star distant, but high-hand seemed other worlds.
                                                  --Milton.
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            There may be other worlds, where the inhabitants
            have never violated their allegiance to their
            almighty Sovereign.                   --W. B.
                                                  Sprague.
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   3. The earth and its inhabitants, with their concerns; the
      sum of human affairs and interests.
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            That forbidden tree, whose mortal taste
            Brought death into the world, and all our woe.
                                                  --Milton.
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   4. In a more restricted sense, that part of the earth and its
      concerns which is known to any one, or contemplated by any
      one; a division of the globe, or of its inhabitants; human
      affairs as seen from a certain position, or from a given
      point of view; also, state of existence; scene of life and
      action; as, the Old World; the New World; the religious
      world; the Catholic world; the upper world; the future
      world; the heathen world.
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            One of the greatest in the Christian world
            Shall be my surety.                   --Shak.
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            Murmuring that now they must be put to make war
            beyond the world's end -- for so they counted
            Britain.                              --Milton.
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   5. The customs, practices, and interests of men; general
      affairs of life; human society; public affairs and
      occupations; as, a knowledge of the world.
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            Happy is she that from the world retires. --Waller.
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            If knowledge of the world makes man perfidious,
            May Juba ever live in ignorance.      --Addison.
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   6. Individual experience of, or concern with, life; course of
      life; sum of the affairs which affect the individual; as,
      to begin the world with no property; to lose all, and
      begin the world anew.
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   7. The inhabitants of the earth; the human race; people in
      general; the public; mankind.
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            Since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to
            any purpose that the world can say against it.
                                                  --Shak.
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            Tell me, wench, how will the world repute me
            For undertaking so unstaid a journey? --Shak.
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   8. The earth and its affairs as distinguished from heaven;
      concerns of this life as distinguished from those of the
      life to come; the present existence and its interests;
      hence, secular affairs; engrossment or absorption in the
      affairs of this life; worldly corruption; the ungodly or
      wicked part of mankind.
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            I pray not for the world, but for them which thou
            hast given me; for they are thine.    --John xvii.
                                                  9.
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            Love not the world, neither the things that are in
            the world. If any man love the world, the love of
            the Father is not in him. For all that is in the
            world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the
            eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father,
            but is of the world.                  --1 John ii.
                                                  15, 16.
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   9. As an emblem of immensity, a great multitude or quantity;
      a large number. "A world of men." --Chapman. "A world of
      blossoms for the bee." --Bryant.
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            Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company. --Shak.
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            A world of woes dispatched in little space.
                                                  --Dryden.
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   All . . . in the world, all that exists; all that is
      possible; as, all the precaution in the world would not
      save him.

   A world to see, a wonder to see; something admirable or
      surprising to see. [Obs.]
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            O, you are novices; 't is a world to see
            How tame, when men and women are alone,
            A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew.
                                                  --Shak.
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   For all the world.
      (a) Precisely; exactly.
      (b) For any consideration.

   Seven wonders of the world. See in the Dictionary of Noted
      Names in Fiction.

   To go to the world, to be married. [Obs.] "Thus goes every
      one to the world but I . . .; I may sit in a corner and
      cry heighho for a husband!" --Shak.

   World's end, the end, or most distant part, of the world;
      the remotest regions.

   World without end, eternally; forever; everlastingly; as if
      in a state of existence having no end.
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            Throughout all ages, world without end. --Eph. iii.
                                                  21.
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3. CIA World Factbook 2002
World

   Introduction World
   ------------------
                            Background: Globally, the 20th century was
                                        marked by: (a) two devastating world
                                        wars; (b) the Great Depression of
                                        the 1930s; (c) the end of vast
                                        colonial empires; (d) rapid advances
                                        in science and technology, from the
                                        first airplane flight at Kitty Hawk,
                                        North Carolina (US) to the landing
                                        on the moon; (e) the Cold War
                                        between the Western alliance and the
                                        Warsaw Pact nations; (f) a sharp
                                        rise in living standards in North
                                        America, Europe, and Japan; (g)
                                        increased concerns about the
                                        environment, including loss of
                                        forests, shortages of energy and
                                        water, the decline in biological
                                        diversity, and air pollution; (h)
                                        the onset of the AIDS epidemic; and
                                        (i) the ultimate emergence of the US
                                        as the only world superpower. The
                                        planet's population continues to
                                        explode: from 1 billion in 1820, to
                                        2 billion in 1930, 3 billion in
                                        1960, 4 billion in 1974, 5 billion
                                        in 1988, and 6 billion in 2000. For
                                        the 21st century, the continued
                                        exponential growth in science and
                                        technology raises both hopes (e.g.,
                                        advances in medicine) and fears
                                        (e.g., development of even more
                                        lethal weapons of war).
  
   Geography World
   ---------------
                        Map references: Physical Map of the World, Political
                                        Map of the World, Standard Time
                                        Zones of the World
                                  Area: total: 510.072 million sq km
                                        land: 148.94 million sq km
                                        water: 361.132 million sq km
                                        note: 70.8% of the world's surface
                                        is water, 29.2% is land
                    Area - comparative: land area about 16 times the size of
                                        the US
                       Land boundaries: the land boundaries in the world
                                        total 250,472 km (not counting
                                        shared boundaries twice)
                             Coastline: 356,000 km
                       Maritime claims: a variety of situations exist, but
                                        in general, most countries make the
                                        following claims: contiguous zone -
                                        24 NM; continental shelf - 200-
                                        m depth or to the depth of
                                        exploitation, or 200 NM or to the
                                        edge of the continental margin;
                                        exclusive fishing zone - 200 NM;
                                        exclusive economic zone - 200 NM;
                                        territorial sea - 12 NM; boundary
                                        situations with neighboring states
                                        prevent many countries from
                                        extending their fishing or economic
                                        zones to a full 200 NM; 43 nations
                                        and other areas that are landlocked
                                        include Afghanistan, Andorra,
                                        Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan,
                                        Belarus, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana,
                                        Burkina Faso, Burundi, Central
                                        African Republic, Chad, Czech
                                        Republic, Ethiopia, Holy See
                                        (Vatican City), Hungary, Kazakhstan,
                                        Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lesotho,
                                        Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malawi,
                                        Mali, Moldova, Mongolia, Nepal,
                                        Niger, Paraguay, Rwanda, San Marino,
                                        Slovakia, Swaziland, Switzerland,
                                        Tajikistan, The Former Yugoslav
                                        Republic of Macedonia, Turkmenistan,
                                        Uganda, Uzbekistan, West Bank,
                                        Zambia, Zimbabwe; two of these,
                                        Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan, are
                                        doubly landlocked
                               Climate: two large areas of polar climates
                                        separated by two rather narrow
                                        temperate zones form a wide
                                        equatorial band of tropical to
                                        subtropical climates
                               Terrain: the greatest ocean depth is the
                                        Mariana Trench at 10,924 m in the
                                        Pacific Ocean
                    Elevation extremes: lowest point: Bentley Subglacial
                                        Trench -2,540 m
                                        note: in the oceanic realm,
                                        Challenger Deep in the Mariana
                                        Trench is the lowest point, lying -
                                        10,924 m below the surface of the
                                        Pacific Ocean
                                        highest point: Mount Everest 8,850 m
                                        (1999 est.)
                     Natural resources: the rapid depletion of nonrenewable
                                        mineral resources, the depletion of
                                        forest areas and wetlands, the
                                        extinction of animal and plant
                                        species, and the deterioration in
                                        air and water quality (especially in
                                        Eastern Europe, the former USSR, and
                                        China) pose serious long-term
                                        problems that governments and
                                        peoples are only beginning to
                                        address
                              Land use: arable land: 10.58%
                                        permanent crops: 1%
                                        other: 88.41% (1998 est.)
                        Irrigated land: 2,714,320 sq km (1998 est.)
                       Natural hazards: large areas subject to severe
                                        weather (tropical cyclones), natural
                                        disasters (earthquakes, landslides,
                                        tsunamis, volcanic eruptions)
          Environment - current issues: large areas subject to
                                        overpopulation, industrial
                                        disasters, pollution (air, water,
                                        acid rain, toxic substances), loss
                                        of vegetation (overgrazing,
                                        deforestation, desertification),
                                        loss of wildlife, soil degradation,
                                        soil depletion, erosion
                      Geography - note: the world is now thought to be about
                                        4.55 billion years old, just about
                                        one-third of the 13-billion-year age
                                        estimated for the universe
  
   People World
   ------------
                            Population: 6,233,821,945 (July 2002 est.)
                         Age structure: 0-14 years: 29.2% (male 932,581,592;
                                        female 885,688,851)
                                        15-64 years: 63.7% (male
                                        2,009,997,089; female 1,964,938,201)
  
                                        65 years and over: 7.1% (male
                                        193,549,180; female 247,067,032)
                                        (2002 est.)
                Population growth rate: 1.23% (2002 est.)
                            Birth rate: 21.16 births/1,000 population (2002
                                        est.)
                            Death rate: 8.93 deaths/1,000 population (2002
                                        est.)
                             Sex ratio: at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
                                        under 15 years: 1.05 male(s)/female
                                        15-64 years: 1.02 male(s)/female
                                        65 years and over: 0.78 male(s)/
                                        female
                                        total population: 1.01 male(s)/
                                        female (2002 est.)
                 Infant mortality rate: 51.55 deaths/1,000 live births (2002
                                        est.)
              Life expectancy at birth: total population: 63.94 years
                                        female: 65.67 years (2002 est.)
                                        male: 62.28 years
                  Total fertility rate: 2.7 children born/woman (2002 est.)
      HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: NA%
     HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/ NA
                                  AIDS:
                     HIV/AIDS - deaths: NA
                             Religions: Christians 32.88% (of which Roman
                                        Catholics 17.39%, Protestants 5.62%,
                                        Orthodox 3.54%, Anglicans 1.31%),
                                        Muslims 19.54%, Hindus 13.34%,
                                        Buddhists 5.92%, Sikhs 0.38%, Jews
                                        0.24%, other religions 12.6%, non-
                                        religious 12.63%, atheists 2.47%
                                        (2000 est.)
                             Languages: Chinese, Mandarin 14.37%, Hindi
                                        6.02%, English 5.61%, Spanish 5.59%,
                                        Bengali 3.4%, Portuguese 2.63%,
                                        Russian 2.75%, Japanese 2.06%,
                                        German, Standard 1.64%, Korean
                                        1.28%, French 1.27% (2000 est.)
                                        note: percents are for "first
                                        language" speakers only
                              Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read
                                        and write
                                        total population: 77%
                                        male: 83%
                                        female: 71% (1995 est.)
  
   Government World
   ----------------
              Administrative divisions: 268 nations, dependent areas, other,
                                        and miscellaneous entries
                          Legal system: all members of the UN plus
                                        Switzerland are parties to the
                                        statute that established the
                                        International Court of Justice (ICJ)
                                        or World Court
  
   Economy World
   -------------
                    Economy - overview: Growth in global output (gross world
                                        product, GWP) fell from 4.8% in 2000
                                        to 2.2% in 2001. The causes:
                                        slowdowns in the US economy (21% of
                                        GWP) and in the 15 EU economies (20%
                                        of GWP); continued stagnation in the
                                        Japanese economy (7.3% of GWP); and
                                        spillover effects in the less
                                        developed regions of the world.
                                        China, the second largest economy in
                                        the world (12% of GWP), proved an
                                        exception, continuing its rapid
                                        annual growth, officially announced
                                        as 7.3% but estimated by many
                                        observers as perhaps two percentage
                                        points lower. Russia (2.6% of GWP),
                                        with 5.2% growth, continued to make
                                        uneven progress, its GDP per capita
                                        still only one-third that of the
                                        leading industrial nations. The
                                        other 14 successor nations of the
                                        USSR and the other old Warsaw Pact
                                        nations again experienced widely
                                        divergent growth rates; the three
                                        Baltic nations were strong
                                        performers, in the 5% range of
                                        growth. The developing nations also
                                        varied in their growth results, with
                                        many countries facing population
                                        increases that eat up gains in
                                        output. Externally, the nation-
                                        state, as a bedrock economic-
                                        political institution, is steadily
                                        losing control over international
                                        flows of people, goods, funds, and
                                        technology. Internally, the central
                                        government often finds its control
                                        over resources slipping as
                                        separatist regional movements -
                                        typically based on ethnicity - gain
                                        momentum, e.g., in many of the
                                        successor states of the former
                                        Soviet Union, in the former
                                        Yugoslavia, in India, in Indonesia,
                                        and in Canada. In Western Europe,
                                        governments face the difficult
                                        political problem of channeling
                                        resources away from welfare programs
                                        in order to increase investment and
                                        strengthen incentives to seek
                                        employment. The addition of 80
                                        million people each year to an
                                        already overcrowded globe is
                                        exacerbating the problems of
                                        pollution, desertification,
                                        underemployment, epidemics, and
                                        famine. Because of their own
                                        internal problems and priorities,
                                        the industrialized countries devote
                                        insufficient resources to deal
                                        effectively with the poorer areas of
                                        the world, which, at least from the
                                        economic point of view, are becoming
                                        further marginalized. The
                                        introduction of the euro as the
                                        common currency of much of Western
                                        Europe in January 1999, while paving
                                        the way for an integrated economic
                                        powerhouse, poses economic risks
                                        because of varying levels of income
                                        and cultural and political
                                        differences among the participating
                                        nations. The terrorist attacks on
                                        the US on 11 September 2001
                                        accentuate a further growing risk to
                                        global prosperity, illustrated, for
                                        example, by the reallocation of
                                        resources away from investment to
                                        anti-terrorist programs. (For
                                        specific economic developments in
                                        each country of the world in 2001,
                                        see the individual country entries.)
                                   GDP: GWP (gross world product) -
                                        purchasing power parity - $47
                                        trillion (2001 est.)
                GDP - real growth rate: 2.2% (2001 est.)
                      GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $7,600
                                        (2001 est.)
           GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 4%
                                        industry: 32%
                                        services: 64% (2001 est.)
     Household income or consumption by lowest 10%: NA%
                      percentage share: highest 10%: NA%
      Inflation rate (consumer prices): developed countries 1% to 4%
                                        typically; developing countries 5%
                                        to 60% typically (2001 est.);
                                        national inflation rates vary widely
                                        in individual cases, from declining
                                        prices in Japan to hyperinflation in
                                        several Third World countries
                           Labor force: NA
           Labor force - by occupation: agriculture NA%, industry NA%,
                                        services NA%
                     Unemployment rate: 30% combined unemployment and
                                        underemployment in many non-
                                        industrialized countries; developed
                                        countries typically 4%-12%
                                        unemployment (2001 est.)
                            Industries: dominated by the onrush of
                                        technology, especially in computers,
                                        robotics, telecommunications, and
                                        medicines and medical equipment;
                                        most of these advances take place in
                                        OECD nations; only a small portion
                                        of non-OECD countries have succeeded
                                        in rapidly adjusting to these
                                        technological forces; the
                                        accelerated development of new
                                        industrial (and agricultural)
                                        technology is complicating already
                                        grim environmental problems
     Industrial production growth rate: 6% (2000 est.)
    Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: NA%
                                        hydro: NA%
                                        nuclear: NA%
                                        other: NA%
                               Exports: $6.3 trillion (f.o.b., 2001 est.)
                 Exports - commodities: the whole range of industrial and
                                        agricultural goods and services
                    Exports - partners: in value, about 75% of exports from
                                        the developed countries
                               Imports: $6.3 trillion (f.o.b., 2001 est.)
                 Imports - commodities: the whole range of industrial and
                                        agricultural goods and services
                    Imports - partners: in value, about 75% of imports into
                                        the developed countries
                       Debt - external: $2 trillion for less developed
                                        countries (2001 est.)
              Economic aid - recipient: official development assistance
                                        (ODA) $50 billion (2001 est.)
  
   Communications World
   --------------------
                  Telephones - main lines in use: NA
                    Telephones - mobile cellular: NA
                                Telephone system: general assessment: NA
                                                  domestic: NA
                                                  international: NA
                        Radio broadcast stations: AM NA, FM NA, shortwave NA
                                          Radios: NA
                   Television broadcast stations: NA
                                     Televisions: NA
               Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 10,350 (2000 est.)
                                  Internet users: 513.41 million (2001 est.)
  
   Transportation World
   --------------------
                              Railways: total: 1,201,337 km includes about
                                        190,000 to 195,000 km of electrified
                                        routes of which 147,760 km are in
                                        Europe, 24,509 km in the Far East,
                                        11,050 km in Africa, 4,223 km in
                                        South America, and 4,160 km in North
                                        America; note - fastest speed in
                                        daily service is 300 km/hr attained
                                        by France's Societe Nationale des
                                        Chemins-de-Fer Francais (SNCF) Le
                                        Train a Grande Vitesse (TGV) -
                                        Atlantique line
                                        broad gauge: 251,153 km
                                        narrow gauge: 239,430 km
                                        standard gauge: 710,754 km
                              Highways: total: NA km
                                        paved: NA km
                                        unpaved: NA km
                     Ports and harbors: Chiba, Houston, Kawasaki, Kobe,
                                        Marseille, Mina' al Ahmadi (Kuwait),
                                        New Orleans, New York, Rotterdam,
                                        Yokohama
  
   Military World
   --------------
         Military expenditures - dollar aggregate real expenditure on arms
                                figure: worldwide in 1999 remained at
                                        approximately the 1998 level, about
                                        three-quarters of a trillion dollars
                                        (1999 est.)
     Military expenditures - percent of roughly 2% of gross world product
                                   GDP: (1999 est.)
  
  
                                       



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