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Noun
/ˈbabəl/,/ˈbā-/,
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babels, plural;
  1. A confused noise, typically that made by a number of voices
    • - the babel of voices on the road
  2. A scene of noisy confusion

  1. Tower of Babel: (Genesis 11:1-11) a tower built by Noah's descendants (probably in Babylon) who intended it to reach up to heaven; God foiled them by confusing their language so they could no longer understand one another
  2. a confusion of voices and other sounds
  3. Babel is a book by Patti Smith, published in 1978, and contains Smith's poems along with her prose, lyrics, pictures and drawings.
  4. Babel is a 2006 international drama film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and written by Guillermo Arriaga, starring an ensemble cast. The multi-narrative drama completes González Iñárritu's Death Trilogy, which also consists of Amores perros and 21 Grams.
  5. Babel is an Iraqi newspaper which was under the direction of Uday Hussein, the son of Saddam Hussein.
  6. "Journey to Babel" is an episode of . It is episode #39, production #44 and was first broadcast on November 17, 1967 during the second season. It was repeated on July 5, 1968. It was written by D. C. Fontana and directed by Joseph Pevney.
  7. The Babel routing protocol is a distance-vector routing protocol for Internet Protocol packet-switched networks that is designed to be robust and efficient on both wireless mesh networks and wired networks.
  8. Babel is the original soundtrack album, on the Concord label, of the 2006 Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning film Babel starring Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Adriana Barraza, Gael García Bernal, Rinko Kikuchi and Kôji Yakusho. ...
  9. Babels is an international network of volunteer interpreters and translators that was born out of the European Social Forum (ESF) process and whose main objective is to cover the interpreting needs of the various Social Forums. ...
  10. The city and tower in the land of Shinar where the confusion of languages took place, according to the Bible; Alternative spelling of babel
  11. Confounded by compounding too many things together, as the Yi-haic language.
  12. "Confusion", site of the tower of Babel where everyone was given a different language.
  13. The Hebrew name for Babylon, one of the cities founded by Nimrod.  In Gen. 11:1-9, it is the location where all the world spoke a single language and worked together to build a tower into the heavens.  It was representative of over-reaching human pride.  God confused their languages. ...
  14. Tower of. A temple dedicated to the study of the planets, which were supposed to divulge the secrets of life and guide human destiny.
  15. A group of merry-makers.
  16. A collection of tools for internationalizing Python applications. repoze.bfg does not depend on Babel to operate, but if Babel is installed, additional locale functionality becomes available to your application.