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• Sham 69 — Жанры Панк рок Oi! Годы 1975  1980 1989  настоящее время …   Википедия

• Sham — may refer to:* Sham (horse), American Thoroughbred horse born in 1970 who won multiple graded stakes races * Sham, Alpha Sagittae star * Sham (Arabic: شام), al Sham, or Bilad al Sham, a region in the Middle East partially including Syria, Lebanon …   Wikipedia

• sham — 1 / sham/ n: something that is false, deceptive, misleading, or otherwise not genuine sham 2 adj: not genuine: intended to mislead or deceive: false illusory the sale for one dollar was a sham transfer of property Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of… …   Law dictionary

• Sham 69 — es un grupo Punk de Inglaterra formado en 1976, aunque posteriormente los Skinhead la consideraron una banda de Oi!. No obstante, en su página oficial ellos se autodefinen como un grupo de la Primera ola del punk. Sham 69 Datos generales… …   Wikipedia Español

• Sham — Sham, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shammed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Shamming}.] 1. To trick; to cheat; to deceive or delude with false pretenses. [1913 Webster] Fooled and shammed into a conviction. L Estrange. [1913 Webster] 2. To obtrude by fraud or… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• sham — /sham/, n., adj., v., shammed, shamming. n. 1. something that is not what it purports to be; a spurious imitation; fraud or hoax. 2. a person who shams; shammer. 3. a cover or the like for giving a thing a different outward appearance: a pillow… …   Universalium

• Sham — (sh[a^]m), n. [Originally the same word as shame, hence, a disgrace, a trick. See {Shame}, n.] 1. That which deceives expectation; any trick, fraud, or device that deludes and disappoints; a make believe; delusion; imposture; humbug. A mere sham …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• sham — adj being a treatment or procedure that is performed as a control and that is similar to but omits a key therapeutic element of the treatment or procedure under investigation <sham surgery, in which doctors make an incision in a patient s knee …   Medical dictionary

• Sham — Sham, a. False; counterfeit; pretended; feigned; unreal; as, a sham fight. [1913 Webster] They scorned the sham independence proffered to them by the Athenians. Jowett (Thucyd) [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Sham — puede referirse a: País de Sham, una región histórico cultural de Oriente Medio. Sham, nombre de la estrella α Sagittae. Esta página de desambiguación cataloga artículos relacionados con el mismo título. Si llegaste aquí a través de …   Wikipedia Español

• sham — (n.) 1670s, a trick, a hoax, a fraud, perhaps from sham, a northern dialectal variant of SHAME (Cf. shame) (q.v.). Sense of Something meant to be mistaken for something else is from 1728. The meaning in pillow sham (1721) is from the notion of… …   Etymology dictionary