Babel


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Synonyms for Babel

sounds or a sound, especially when loud, confused, or disagreeable

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Synonyms for Babel

(Genesis 11:1-11) a tower built by Noah's descendants (probably in Babylon) who intended it to reach up to heaven

a confusion of voices and other sounds

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Parts Two and Three exceed expectations by providing a sustained and layered analysis of Babel as both a Jew and as a Soviet man participating in the creation of a new revolutionary culture.
However, the proposed move has broken down, with Babel earlier indicating he would prefer to join Ajax.
But while poised to complete the transfer, Babel will not put pen to paper while there is still a chance Ajax could gazump the deal.
Babel has until 4pm on Thursday to respond to the charge.
Benitez suspended Babel and fined him a fortnight's wages but he insisted yesterday: "We have had conversations with him in the last couple of days and he knows that he can be a very good player for us.
Babel has already snubbed a straight swap with Sunderland and is turning his nose up at Birmingham, but he would be keen on a dream move to the Emirates.
I should get more playing time but after the first defeat of the season I was the only one who was singled out - and I lost my place," The Sun quoted Babel, as saying.
Hilla, the capital city of Babel province, lies 100 km southwest of Baghdad.
Dutch duo Babel and Zuiverloon grew up together, played in the same Holland Under-21s side and still speak over the phone on a daily basis.
Scott Greene contemporizes the Tower of Babel by turning it into Channel Babel an effective representation of our current stock-in-trade--information--and how gathering and sending data shape our lives.
Jerome Charyn Savage Shorthand: The Life and Death of Isaac Babel. Random House, 213 pages, $24.95
At one point in her masterful introduction to an edition of Isaac Babel's Complete Works, Cynthia Ozick expresses her regret that a "formal" Babel biography does not, alas, exist.
AMERICAN BABEL: ROGUE RADIO BROADCASTERS OF THE JAZZ AGE provides an important alternative history which refutes the popular notion that the quick commercialization of the airways was a coup from mercenary corporations.
Jerome Charyn looks for himself, though he never quite comes out and says so in SAVAGE SHORTHAND: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF ISAAC BABEL (Random House, $24.95).