Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word MANX

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Definitions of MANX

1. Relating to the Isle of Man and/or its Celto-Germanic people.
2. Relating to the Manx cat breed.
3. A member or descendant of the Celto-Germanic people of the Isle of Man; a Manxman or Manxwoman.
4. A breed of domestic cat native to the Isle of Man, principally characterized by suppression of the tail, and with a short-haired coat and rounded, cobby body.
5. A cat of the Manx breed; a Manx cat.
6. manx (colloquial or slang) tailless (referring to the Manx cat)
7. Relating to the Manx language (also known as Manx Gaelic), a Gaelic language of the Goidelic family.
8. (collective, in the plural) the Manx; Manx people.
9. (by extension) With a truncated or missing tail.
10. (uncountable) A Goidelic language spoken on the Isle of Man.
11. Manx (pertaining to the Isle of Man or to the Manx language)

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Examples of Using MANX in a Sentence

• It is recognised as one of the Celtic nations and is the homeland of the Manx people, a Celtic ethnic group.
• The history of Manx telecommunications starts in 1859, when the Isle of Man Electric Telegraph Company was formed on the Island with the intention of connecting across the Island by telegraph, and allowing messages to be sent onwards to the UK.
• Although few children native to the Isle of Man speak Manx as a first language, there has been a steady increase in the number of speakers since the death of Ned Maddrell in 1974.
• As a Goidelic language, Scottish Gaelic, as well as both Irish and Manx, developed out of Old Irish.
• Ç or ç (C-cedilla) is a Latin script letter used in the Albanian, Azerbaijani, Manx, Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Kurdish, Kazakh, and Romance alphabets.
• It is possible he is the aging King in the Manx tale Y Chadee and father of Eshyn and Ny-Eshyn oddly familiar sounding names of a Good son (Eshyn) and a Bad son (Ny-Eshyn) which parallel what is said about Nisien and Efnisien in the tale of Branwen ferch Llyr, whom the later are considered only uterine brothers of Bran Fendigaid ab Llyr.
• Bellevue, alternative name for Belle Vue Halt, an intermediate stopping place for the Manx Electric Railway near Ballure.
• Many Manx have a small stub of a tail, but Manx cats are best known as being entirely tailless; this is the most distinguishing characteristic of the breed, along with elongated hind legs and a rounded head.
• Some cat registries consider the Cymric a semi-long-haired variety of the Manx breed, rather than a separate breed.
• Other names include Swedish turnip, neep (Scots), and turnip (Scottish and Canadian English, Irish English and Manx English, as well as some dialects of English in Northern England).
• Some small species, like the Manx shearwater are cruciform in flight, with their long wings held directly out from their bodies.
• The Gospel of Matthew in the Manx language, as Yn Sushtcml scruit liorish yn Noo Mian, is the first translation of a New Testament text into that language, under the auspices of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
• Publication of the Epistles and Book of Revelation in Manx as Sceeuyn Paul yn Ostyl gys ny Romanee completes the first translation of the New Testament into that language.
• Writing throughout his teaching career, Brown developed a poetry corpus—with Fo'c's'le Yarns (1881), The Doctor (1887), The Manx Witch (1889), and Old John (1893)—of narrative poetry in Anglo-Manx, the historic dialect of English spoken on the Isle of Man that incorporates elements of Manx Gaelic.
• Manx Software Systems, of Shrewsbury, New Jersey, produced C compilers beginning in the 1980s targeted at professional developers for a variety of platforms up to and including IBM PC compatibles and Macs.
• There are also articles on these various literatures: Latin literature in Britain, Anglo-Norman, Cornish, Guernésiais, Jèrriais, Latin, Manx, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, etc.
• The Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus) is a medium-sized shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae.
• Puffinus is a Neo-Latin loanword based on the English "puffin" and its variants, that referred to the cured carcass of the fat nestling of the Manx shearwater, a former delicacy.
• However, it is also becoming used more often for the playing of jigs, reels and hornpipes from the Irish, Scottish, Manx, Welsh, and English traditions.
• Rumpless breeds of chicken include: the Araucana or Rumpless Araucana of South America, both large fowl and bantam; the Belgian Barbu de Boitsfort, Barbu de Grubbe and Barbu d'Uccle bantams; the Japanese Uzurao, a rumpless equivalent of the Tosa-Kojidori bantam, and Ingie (large fowl) from Kagoshima Prefecture; the Rumpless Game of the United Kingdom (both large fowl and bantam), sometimes called the Manx Rumpy or Persian Rumpless; and the German Ruhlaer Zwerg-Kaulhühner or Rumpless Booted Bantam.
• Associated Television, run by Lew Grade, was one of them, as was the long-established Isle of Man broadcaster Manx Radio.
• The Manx in turn also drew up for battle facing their adversaries, whom they were unable to reach because the high tide had cut St Michael's Isle off from them and so the prospect of battle dissipated.
• In cases where this is considered tricameralism, such as the Manx Tynwald, the Indonesian People's Consultative Assembly, and the Icelandic Althing (from 1874 to 1991), there is generally an explicit, routine role for the unified house, which distinguishes it from bicameral systems where a joint sitting of the two bodies is used to resolve deadlocks or for special sessions, which is true in several parliaments including Australia, Switzerland and India.
• It is generally agreed upon that the toponyms of English Douglas and Manx Doolish both come from Proto-Celtic *duboglassio-, where *dubo- (which survives today in Welsh as du and Irish as dubh) meant 'black; deep' and *glassio- (surviving in Welsh glais and Irish glais) meant 'water, river'; thus, it probably meant 'deep river'.
• The history of the town and island is illustrated in four Manx National Heritage sites in the centre of Castletown: Castle Rushen, the Nautical Museum (in the secret passage-filled home of inventor, politician, banker and probable smuggler George Quayle), the Old Grammar School (originally a church from 1200 AD) and the Old House of Keys.

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