All 34 Uses of
delta
in
Brave New World
- …. how the fertilized ova went back to the incubators; where the Alphas and Betas remained until definitely bottled; while the Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons were brought out again, after only thirty-six hours, to undergo Bokanovsky's Process.†
p. 6..2
- Solved by standard Gammas, unvarying Deltas, uniform Epsilons.†
p. 7..9
- Why go to the trouble of making it psychologically impossible for Deltas to like flowers?†
p. 22..6
- Not so very long ago (a century or thereabouts), Gammas, Deltas, even Epsilons, had been conditioned to like flowers–flowers in particular and wild nature in general.†
p. 22..8
- "… all wear green," said a soft but very distinct voice, beginning in the middle of a sentence, "and Delta Children wear khaki.†
p. 27..9
- Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children.†
p. 28..0
- And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas.†
p. 28..2
- They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki.†
p. 28..3
- Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children.†
p. 28..3
- Roses and electric shocks, the khaki of Deltas and a whiff of asafœtida–wedded indissolubly before the child can speak.†
p. 28..5
- In the Ealing stadium a Delta gymnastic display and community sing was in progress.†
p. 62..5
- He opened the door of his lock-up and called to a lounging couple of Delta-Minus attendants to come and push his machine out on to the roof.†
p. 64..4
- Each time he found himself looking on the level, instead of downward, into a Delta's face, he felt humiliated.†
p. 64..9
- For Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons had been to some extent conditioned to associate corporeal mass with social superiority.†
p. 65..1
- In the basement and on the low floors were the presses and offices of the three great London newspapers–The Hourly Radio, an upper-caste sheet, the pale green Gamma Gazette, and, on khaki paper and in words exclusively of one syllable, The Delta Mirror.†
p. 66..1
- But queer that Alphas and Betas won't make any more plants grow than those nasty little Gammas and Deltas and Epsilons down there.†
p. 74..1
- Ford! to kiss, slobberingly, and smelt too horrible, obviously never had a bath, and simply reeked of that beastly stuff that was put into Delta and Epsilon bottles (no, it wasn't true about Bernard), positively stank of alcohol.†
p. 119..5
- Oh, stuff like magnesium salts, and alcohol for keeping the Deltas and Epsilons small and backward, and calcium carbonate for bones, and all that sort of thing.†
p. 130..4
- And, in effect, eighty-three almost noseless black brachycephalic Deltas were cold-pressing.†
p. 159..8
- Thirty-three Delta females, long-headed, sandy, with narrow pelvises, and all within 20 millimetres of 1 metre 69 centimetres tall, were cutting screws.†
p. 159..9
- The completed mechanisms were inspected by eighteen identical curly auburn girls in Gamma green, packed in crates by thirty-four short-legged, left-handed male Delta-Minuses, and loaded into the waiting trucks and lorries by sixty-three blue-eyed, flaxen and freckled Epsilon Semi-Morons.†
p. 160..4
- Crowds of lower-caste workers were queued up in front of the monorail station-seven or eight hundred Gamma, Delta and Epsilon men and women, with not more than a dozen faces and statures between them.†
p. 164..5
- The menial staff of the Park Lane Hospital for the Dying consisted of one hundred and sixty-two Deltas divided into two Bokanovsky Groups of eighty-four red headed female and seventy-eight dark dolychocephalic male twins, respectively.†
p. 208..1
- The Deltas muttered, jostled one another a little, and then were still.†
p. 210..6
- He pushed his way to the table; the Deltas stared at him with astonishment.†
p. 211..0
- The words "Throw it all away" pierced through the enfolding layers of incomprehension to the quick of the Delta's consciousness.†
p. 211..7
- Howling, the Deltas charged with a redoubled fury.†
p. 213..9
- In tears, the Deltas were kissing and hugging one another–half a dozen twins at a time in a comprehensive embrace.†
p. 215..4
- When the last of the Deltas had gone the policeman switched off the current.†
p. 215..7
- Expecting Deltas to know what liberty is!†
p. 220..7 *
- Half an hour later, three Delta-Minus landworkers from one of the Puttenham Bokanovsky Groups happened to be driving to Elstead and, at the top of the hill, were astonished to see a young man standing 0utside the abandoned lighthouse stripped to the waist and hitting himself with a whip of knotted cords.†
p. 248..0
- Undeterred by that cautionary bruise on their colleague's coccyx, four other reporters, representing the New York Times, the Frankfurt Four-Dimensional Continuum, The Fordian Science Monitor, and The Delta Mirror, called that afternoon at the lighthouse and met with receptions of progressively increasing violence.†
p. 250..9
Uses with a very rare meaning:
- I'm working on a wonderful Delta-Minus ovary at this moment.
p. 9..3delta = where a river divides before entering a larger body of water
- their caste was Delta
p. 20..4 *delta = named for the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet
Definitions:
- (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
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(delta as in: river delta) a typically triangular area with sand or soil where a river divides before entering a larger body of water