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yeti

  (yĕt'ē) pronunciation
n., pl. -tis.

See abominable snowman.

[Alteration of Tibetan miti : mi, person + ti, a kind of animal.]


 
 
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IN BRIEF: n. - A large hairy humanoid creature said to live in the Himalayas.

Tutor's tip: This word was used in the 2006 Scripps National Spelling Bee finals.

 
Wikipedia: Yeti (Doctor Who)
Doctor Who race
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Yeti
Type Robots
Affiliated with The Great Intelligence
Home planet Earth
First appearance The Abominable Snowmen

The Yeti of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, although resembling the cryptozoological creatures also called the Yeti, are in actuality alien robots. Their external appearance, that of a huge hairy biped, disguises a small spherical mechanism that provides its motive power. The Yeti serve the Great Intelligence, a disembodied entity from another planet, which tried to form a physical body in order to conquer the Earth. The Yeti are initially a ruse to scare off curiosity seekers, and later form an army serving the Great Intelligence.

The Great Intelligence and its Yeti minions were thwarted twice by the Doctor's second incarnation, played by Patrick Troughton, in the serials The Abominable Snowmen and The Web of Fear. A Yeti was also one of the creatures in the Death Zone featured in The Five Doctors.

The sound effect of a Yeti's roar is created by slowing down the sound of a flushing toilet.

Other appearances

Yeti also feature in the spin-off video Downtime, which was also novelised as part of Virgin's Missing Adventures range. The Yeti also appear in the Missing Adventure Millennial Rites by Craig Hinton. Rites follows the New Adventure All-Consuming Fire by Andy Lane in identifying the Great Intelligence with H.P. Lovecraft's Yog-Sothoth, a being from the universe before this one. The Great Intelligence also appeared in a Doctor Who back-up comic strip in Doctor Who Weekly #31–#34. The canonicity of these spin-offs is unclear.


 
Translations: Translations for: Yeti

Dansk (Danish)
n. - yeti

Nederlands (Dutch)
yeti (legendarisch monster in de Himalaya)

Français (French)
n. - yéti

Deutsch (German)
n. - Yeti, Schneemensch

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - γιέτι, χιονάνθρωπος των Ιμαλαϊων

Italiano (Italian)
yeti

Português (Portuguese)
n. - abominável homem das neves

Русский (Russian)
снежный человек

Español (Spanish)
n. - abominable hombre de las nieves

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - snömannen i Himalaya

中文(简体) (Chinese (Simplified))
雪人

中文(繁體) (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 雪人

한국어 (Korean)
n. - (티베트의) 설인

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 雪男

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) اسم يطلق على حيوان غير معروف يقال انه يقطن اعالي جبال الهملايا‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮יטי - איש השלג הנתעב (יצור אגדי מטיבט)‬


 
 

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