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Ruby Dee
Ruby Dee1924— Actress, civil rights activist, writer The actress and social activist Ruby Dee expressed her philosophy in I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America: "You just try to do everything that comes up. Get up an hour earlier, stay up an hour later, make the time. Then... Read more |
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Gruagach
Gruagach "The long-haired one," from the Gaelic gruag, a wig. The gruagach was a fairy being with protective duties in Scottish legends, apparently of either sex, but generally female. The gruagach was particularly associated with cattle, and milk was laid aside for him or her every... Read more |
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Threshold
THRESHOLD A threshold is the exposure level or dose of an agent above which toxicity or adverse health effects can occur, and below which toxicity or adverse health effects are unlikely. For example, taking aspirin is therapeutic and not dangerous up to a contain dose, but above that dose it can... Read more |
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Ducks
ducks ducks and drakes a game of throwing flat stones so that they skim along the surface of water; in figurative use, play ducks and drakes with trifle with; treat frivolously or wastefully.get one's ducks in a row get one's facts straight or have everything organized; the reference is to lining... Read more |
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fan tan
fan tan card game for three to eight players using a regular deck. All cards are dealt after each player antes (pays) one chip into a pool. Play rotates to the left and if a player cannot play a card he must ante into the pool. Sevens must be played first. These are set (or foundation) cards, and... Read more |
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Up in Mabel's Room
Up in Mabel's Room (1919), a farce by Wilson Collison and Otto Harbach...undergarment to an old flame, Mabel Essington ( Hazel Dawn), he decides he must get it back immediately. He visits Mabel in her room, but has no sooner arrived... |
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Sun‐Up
Sun‐Up (1923), a play by Lula Vollmer. [Provincetown Playhouse, 356 perf...ye.” Although Vollmer worked for the Theatre Guild, she was unable to get that company to produce the play. Minor producers finally took a chance with... |
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AFRIKAANS ENGLISH
...Some Afrikaans-derived expressions have been assimilated into South African English, such as He's lazy to get up He's too lazy to get up, The tree is capable to withstand frost The tree is capable of withstanding frost, He farms with wine grapes... |
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Annie Get Your Gun
Annie Get Your Gun (1946), a musical comedy by...swallows her pride, loses the match, and gets Frank. Notable songs: They Say It's...Arms; Moonshine Lullaby; You Can't Get a Man with a Gun; My Defenses Are Down. Berlin...shoot holes in tickets that were thrown ... |
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Batavia
...the crew sailed two small boats to Batavia (now Jakarta) to get help. In his absence, an under-merchant, Jeronimus Cornelisz...the mutiny when he eventually returned. They helped him round up the mutineers, who were put on trial, and many, including... |
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Bell, Book and Candle
...is a witch who is certain that through her black arts she can get anything she wants, including the publisher in the neighboring...witches, and they spill the beans to Shep. To keep Shep she gives up witchery. The play, which the Times described as “completely... |
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Berlin, Irving
...Broadway shows and even sang some of his own melodies in the revue Up and Down Broadway (1910). The next year he won worldwide recognition...composed the music for what proved to be his biggest hit, Annie Get Your Gun. Berlin wrote and co‐produced a musical about the... |
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Brooke, Field Marshal Sir Alan
...was there that Brooke was born and brought up and went to school. After attending Woolwich...to be wrong, it will be time for him to get rid of me.’ Later in the war Brooke believed...clarity of his thinking—he never did get on with Marshall—but they soon accepted... |
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Brunel, Isambard Kingdom
...experienced during construction and in the launching, and the ship did not get finally afloat until the end of January 1858. The Great Eastern was by far the largest ship ever built up to that time, and had both screw and paddle propulsion. Brunel did... |
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CAUSATIVE VERB
...the verbs let, make, have, and get. The first three can be followed...object plus a bare infinitive, but get needs a to-infinitive: You should...children tidy their own rooms; get them to tidy things up. Have and get can be followed by... |
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up
...their glasses. ∎ [intr.] (up with) inf. raise or pick up (something): this woman ups with a stone. PHRASES: get it up vulgar slang have a penile erection.it is all up with inf. it is the end of or there is no hope for (someone or... |
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grown-up
grown-up • adj. adult: Joe is married with two grown-up daughters. ∎ suitable for or characteristic of an adult: it seems a grown-up thing to do. • n. an adult (esp. a child's word): I don't like it when grown-ups get all serious. |
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ace
...Golf score an ace on (a hole) or with (a shot). ∎ get an A or its equivalent in (a test or exam): I aced my grammar...outdo someone in a competitive situation. PHRASES: an ace up one's sleeve (or in the hole) a plan or piece of information... |
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act
...the thieves were caught in the act. clean up one's act behave in a more acceptable manner. get one's act together inf. organize oneself...misbehave, esp. when unhappy or stressed. act up (of a thing) fail to function properly... |
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bare
...the body) not clothed or covered: he was bare from the waist up she padded in bare feet toward the door. ∎ without the appropriate...surprisingly small in number or amount: all you need to get started with this program is a bare 10K bytes of memory... |
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beg
...by acquiring food or money in this way. ∎ (of a dog) sit up with the front paws raised expectantly in the hope of a reward...necessary to acquire something greatly desired: I'm gonna get the money to buy Casey's ring, even if I have to beg, borrow... |
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bottom
...market for classic cars. from the bottom up 1. completely and thoroughly: Paul understands me from the bottom up. 2. by progressing from a lower or...began to study history from the bottom up. get to the bottom of find an explanation... |
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bretwalda
...idea of seven Roman emperors who ruled in Britain). Two questions arise. First, whence did Bede get his information? Why, for example, dig up the exceedingly obscure Ælle? Second, granted the almost infinite obscurity of early political arrangements... |
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chase
...chās/ • v. [tr.] 1. pursue in order to catch or catch up with: police chased the stolen car [intr.] the dog chased...the house. 2. try to make contact with (someone) in order to get something owed or required: chasing customers who had not paid... |
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cum(i)
cum(i) An Aramaic word of command prescribed at Mark 5: 41 and carefully translated for Mark's gentile readers ‘Get up’. |
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get-up
get-up • noun synonyms: outfit, clothes, clothing, dress, garb, apparel, garments. |
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get-up-and-go
get-up-and-go • noun synonyms: go, energy, vigor, vitality, vim, enthusiasm, eagerness, drive, push, initiative, ambition; inf. bounce. |
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accept
...accept the awardsynonyms: receive, take, take receipt of, get, gain, obtain, acquire, come by. 2. accept the decisionsynonyms...with, endorse, comply with, go along with, defer to, put up with, recognize, acknowledge, cooperate with, adopt, admit... |
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allocate
allocate • verb how funds will be allocated is dependent on which budget gets approvedsynonyms: allot, assign, distribute, apportion, share out, portion out, dispense, deal out, dole out, give out, dish out, parcel out, ration out, divide up/out; informal divvy up. |
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anger
...informal make someone's blood boil, get someone's back up, make someone see red, get someone's dander up, rattle someone's cage, make someone...someone, rile, tick off, tee off, burn up.antonyms: pacify, placate. |
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assemble
...assemble the children/books/evidencesynonyms: get together, bring/put together, gather, collect, round up, marshal, muster, summon, congregate...fabricate, construct, erect, manufacture, set up, connect, join.antonyms: disperse; demolish... |
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attain
attain • verb attempts to attain a promotionsynonyms: achieve, accomplish, reach, obtain, gain, procure, secure, get, hook, net, win, earn, acquire; realize, fulfill; informal clinch, bag, snag, wrap up.See note at get. |
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back
...back out synonyms: go back on, withdraw from, cancel, renege on, abandon, retreat from, get cold feet, recant; inf. chicken out of.back up synonyms: support, confirm.See back verb 3.antonyms: oppose; hinder; deny. |
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begin
...set about, go about, embark on, launch into, get down to, take up; initiate, set in motion, institute, inaugurate...arise, become apparent, make an appearance, spring up, crop up, turn up, come into existence, come into being... |
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bounce
...buoyancy, optimism; exuberance, ebullience; informal get-up-and-go, pep, zing. phrase: bounce back despite...bounced backsynonyms: recover, revive, rally, pick up, be on the mend; perk up, cheer up, brighten up, liven ... |
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The only way was Up; Word Up is no longer Hard Up, Fed Up or somewhere to get...
...elsewhere. And that included Word Up. Now, though, one of the...Rico's has decamped to Word Up's Back Room, where it's...and damn near everyone else) get when they head through to the hub of the club - Word Up Too,aka the Middle Room... |
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Tig straight-up wholesale bought this bitch's bag. For Fans Of: Joni...
...In reality, the two have just teamed up- along with Curb Your Enthusiasm executive...audience and do a Q&A where the audience gets to ask the questions that I didn't care...first episode, she was fortunate enough to get to sit down with the cast of Mad Men. Since the show ... |
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WHAT'S UP DOC?; BUDGET 2002 UP: Spending on the NHS by pounds 40bn UP: Cash...
...National Health Service will get an extra pounds 40billion after...billion in 2005/6. Scotland will get an extra pounds 8.2billion...Secondary head teachers will get pounds 114,000 each to spend...to bring British health care up to European standards. ... |
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Up, up and Huawei.(Up, up and Huawei)
Now gearing up in handsets China has made huge...industries. Today Toyota is held up as a model of efficient manufacturing...eighth place, and it is moving up the field--not least because...T. Customers needed time to get to know Huawei, says Edward... |
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Up, Up And Up Defying economic theory, almost every asset class is heading...
...referring to the East Asian currency crisis. "Thailand built up what we call a bubble economy between 1988 and 1997; it is characterised...destinations and divert their 'hot money' there. A lot of people will get badly hurt when that happens," he adds. Rathin Datta, Chairman... |
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Up, up and away: Gas prices are soaring; In just one month, there's been an...
...In addition, air travel is up compared to last year at this...Felmy said."You have demand up and supply down and on top of...prices adjust faster on the way up than on the way down, but they...American public has been able to get through these crises before ... |
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Going up North: when I was growing up, the term "going up north" meant great...
...something began to bite us. Everyone got up. My father began taking down the tent...next year (1950), my father saved up to get my brother and me BB guns for Christmas...basis, take things home, fix them up and sell them. He used the money to... |
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BURNS ON BIGOTRY We are all fed up talking about it, fed up listening to it,...
...your team, make good friends and get on with your lives. "It's only...hopefully the children can grow up, think for themselves and get to...quickly, because we are all fed up talking about it, fed up listening to it, fed up ... |
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FOOTBALL: STAYING UP, UP, UP, UP!; PETER SHAW'S SUNDAY BEEF.(Sport)
...rather than those glad to get off. Moreover, can I...s wait until Wright gets his 10 goals before arguing...as I want Boro to stay up, this is one match in which I hope he gets his shins well kicked...bumbling amateur way, seldom get things ... |
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Bridal make-up to make your dayYOUR wedding day will be one of the most...
...We spoke to professional make-up artist, Jennifer Ireland, who...September 30 to October 3 to get some tips for wedding make-up. "It goes without saying that...fundamentals with any bridal make-up; a flawless finish on the skin... |
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