Sekirov Dictionary

Vulcan

/ˈvʌlkən/

noun 7
adjective 2
forms 3

noun7

a member of a Star Trek alien species that lives by logic and keeps strict control of its feelings
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(slang) a person who shows too little feeling and thinks about everything so logically that others find them cold and boring, like Mr Spock of Star Trek
- It’s a personality thing more than anything else, as [Barack] Obama has a tendency to appear cold – unwilling or unable to act anything like a father figure. — 2011
a large British jet bomber with wings in the shape of a triangle, flown by the Royal Air Force during the Cold War
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a worker who shapes metal, especially a blacksmith who heats iron and beats it into shape
- Cingis-chan (as Haithon and others say, his contemporaries) was at first by profession a Vulcan or Black-smith, by condition a good honest simple man: […] — 1638
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(literary, no longer used) fire, the flames and heat that come from something burning
- [I]n the midst they make their Vulcan or fire near to a great Tree, upon the snags whereof they hang their kettles fil’d with the Venison; […] — 1674
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(no longer used) A volcano.
- Mas de los fuegos, que ay en Bolcanes de Indias, que tienen digna consideracion, dirase commodamente, quando se trate de la diuersidad de tierras, donde essos fuegos, y bolcanes se hallan. — 1604
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(no longer used) One who is lame (unable to walk properly), especially with a twisted or otherwise misshapen leg.
- And therefore so many, who are sinistrous unto Good Actions, are Ambi-dexterous unto bad, and Vulcans in virtuous Paths, Achilleses in vitious motions. — 1716

adjective2

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Of, relating to, resembling, or characteristic of the fictional Vulcans.
- She demonstrated her singing abilities on the show, often accompanying herself on the Vulcan lyre. — 2022
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(slang) Lacking emotion or overly analytical and boring.
- This car is a victim of C.I., that is, "corporate image." As a brand, Acura is so lacking in emotion it's practically Vulcan. — 2011

forms

Vulcans · more Vulcan · most Vulcan

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