Letter X - X-rays

Xmas = an abbreviation of the word "christmas"
**Xmas is normally used in written English.
**The bookshop sign said:"Xmas card sold here"

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X-rays /x-ray = raio x
>>>a kind of radiation (often used in the plural)
**Doctors examine the bones or organs inside your body by means of x-rays.
**An x-ray telescope is one that can measure and examine the x-rays given off by stars.
>>>to photograph,treat or examine by this radiation.
**The specialist thought that her leg should be x-rayed.
**Dentist use x-ray machine to detect any flaws in our teeth which are invisible from the outside.
**The x-rays showed that her arm was broken.

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Xylophone = xilofone
>>> a musical ,percussion instrument made of a row of wooden bars of differents lenghts on a frame.
**You play xylophone by hitting the bars with a special hammer.

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Xenophile = alguem que gosta de língua e pessoas estrangeiras.
>>>This is a noun which refers to persons who are attracted to foreign cultures,objects and people.
***I've never been in the U.S.A but I know by heart its National anthem. My friends use to say that I'm a xenophile because of that.