Definition is a statement of the exact meaning of a word or phrase, especially when given in a dictionary.
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What is the definition of "a fierce competitor"?
I have a question about this sentence.
"I’m a fierce competitor."
I've got a rough idea of "a fierce competitor".
However, I don't understand it is used as good meaning, like "passionate competitor", or used as bad meaning, like "competitor of…
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Science(s): natural sciences only?
What do the terms "science" and "the sciences" refer to: the natural sciences (physics, biology, ...) only or also all scholarly disciplines in general (including, e.g. psychology and sociology)?
I thought these terms can refer to all disciplines…
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How to interpret "with _of_ before the thing communicated"?
I noticed that in business English, "please advise" is often used as a fixed phrase in context where it basically means "please respond". I looked at Wiktionary and found this among the definitions:
(transitive) To give information or notice to; to…
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Should I say "to another" or "to another one"?
What's the difference between these two expressions?
For example, I want to say
you can also assign a job to another
you can also assign a job to another one
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Definition of countdown
1 n-sing A countdown is the counting aloud of numbers in reverse order before something happens, especially before a spacecraft is launched.
also no det
The countdown has begun for the launch later today of the American space shuttle...
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What is it called when a star or candle changes its intensity at random?
Is there a word given to the phenomenon that occurs when the intensity of a candle or star fluctuates at random?
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Someone who constantly learns?
I'm just trying to find a word that describes someone who's always in the process of learning. I'm talking more about a way of living than about someone like an apprentice etc. though.
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How would you call this movement
When a person is trying to walk in a straight line such as a drunk person, someone walking the slack rope or someone learning to ride a bike/motorcycle they tent to loose balance and move right and left to keep it, how would you call that
She was…
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Definitions of ''up above''
I searched on Google the meaning of up above. I didn't find the answer (except in heaven, which is not the answer I was looking for). Here is the context: Somewhere up above the stars.
I wouldn't ask you this if I could find the answer. Thanks for…
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Exact meaning of "abduct'
I was reading this Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abductions_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine and noticed that the word abduct/abduction is used often in the text.
After reading its definitions in Merram-Webster and Cambridge…
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What does "much to the displeasure of" mean?
But he stayed put, and so did Biron, much to the displeasure of the crowd.
Did he and Biron stay put because of the crowd's displeasure or the crowd was displeasured by Biron and him to stay put?
After pushing into the Nashville zone early, the…
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what does it mean when a name fascinates you
I just wanted to know out of curiosity because I was wondering and I did not know what it is so can someone please explain it to me I don't know because no one has told me
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Regarding a particular definition of "commission"
Does this definition (3rd entry) of the word "commission" :
The thing to be done as agent for another.
simply mean:
The thing to be done in place of another thing .
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eyes blazing with devilment
I've noticed a dictionary defines devilment as "wild or bad behaviour that causes trouble" but gives the following example:
eyes blazing with devilment
Does the example fit the definition?
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Regarding a certain definition of the verb "lock up"
The Wiktionary defines the verb lock up in the second entry as:
to invest in something long term.
Does it mean:
to invest in something that will become apparent later.
or:
to invest in something that will stand for a long term.
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