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dictionary published list, in alphabetical order, of the words of a language. In monolingual dictionaries the words are explained and defined in the same language; in bilingual dictionaries they are translated into another language. Modern dictionaries usually also provide phonetic transcriptions,... Read more |
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John Webster
Webster, John (1580–1634) English dramatist whose reputation rests upon his two great tragedies: The White Devil (c.1612), and The Duchess of Malfi (1614). Both plays explore the theme of revenge using macabre language.... Read more |
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Prakrit
Prakrit , any of a number of languages belonging to the Indic group of the Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Indo-Iranian ). The Prakrits are usually classified as Middle Indic languages that followed the Old Indic stage of Sanskrit and Vedic but preceded the... Read more |
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Visual Basic
Visual Basic Visual Basic is one of the most widely used programming languages in the world. The major reason for its popularity is that it allows programmers to create Windows applications quickly and easily. The origins of Visual Basic are found in a programming language ... Read more |
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sign language
sign language gestural communication used as an alternative or replacement for speech. Sign languages resemble oral languages in every way other than their modality. As with oral languages, sign languages are acquired spontaneously and have highly intricate, rule-governed grammar and phonology .... Read more |
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Turkish language
Turkish language member of the Turkic subdivision of the Altaic subfamily of the Ural-Altaic family of languages (see Uralic and Altaic languages ). Turkish is the official language of Turkey and one of the official languages of Cyprus. It is spoken by about 55 million people in Turkey and... Read more |
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Otto Jespersen
Otto Jespersen , 1860-1943, Danish philologist. Professor of English language and literature at the Univ. of Copenhagen and later rector there, Jespersen first earned a reputation for brilliant work in phonetics and later wrote widely used books on the English language and linguistics in general,... Read more |
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XML (Extensible markup language)
XML (EXTENSIBLE MARKUP LANGUAGE) By the early 2000s, Extensible Markup Language (XML) was fast emerging as the lingua franca of the World Wide Web, augmenting and superseding Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), the dominant language for encoding content since the Web's inception. HTML was... Read more |
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Toleration
TOLERATION. Toleration is a policy or attitude toward something that is not approved and yet is not actively rejected. The word comes from the Latin tolerare (to bear or endure), suggesting a root meaning of putting up with something. There is no single and widely accepted definition of the term,... Read more |
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Philosophy of language
PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE What, if anything, can philosophy teach us about language? It is a feature of English that its adjectives come before its nouns, as in green table. This syntactic fact distinguishes English from French. In English there is a difference in sound between words that begin with a... Read more |
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Salem Witchcraft
...and witchcraft was diagnosed. Pressed to say who was “hurting” them, the girls first named...representation of their tormentor—presumably the Devil in the accused person's shape. Although the...Witchcraft, 1974. Richard Godbeer , The Devil's Dominion: Magic and Religion in ... |
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medieval mineralogy and figured stones
medieval mineralogy and figured stones It is true to say that during the Middle Ages no progress was made in mineralogy...fossils, and to some were attached histories of their origin; devil's toe-nails, thunderbolts, and other fanciful names were... |
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Simic, Charles
...Simic published his first collection of poems, What the Grass Says (1967). Selected Poems 1963–1983 was published in 1985...poems appear in Unending Blues (1986), The Book of Gods and Devils (1990), and Hotel Insomnia (1993). The World Doesn't... |
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Baldwin, James
...followed his father's footsteps as a preacher, and, as he says, “the rhetoric of the storefront church” has been among...and an assessment of race relations in the U.S.; and The Devil Finds Work (1976), an essay about blacks and American films... |
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El Alamein
...forces during the Western Desert campaigns.The first, and some say erroneously named, was a defensive battle fought by the British...personnel devices, were laid. The Germans called them ‘the Devil's gardens’, and they caused Montgomery's attack serious... |
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Mysterious Stranger, The
...he confounds the evil and makes the innocent crazy, since he says earthly happiness is restricted to the mad. Other “kindness...invention of movable type, comes a likable young printer's devil, called only No. 44, who is actually possessed of satanic... |
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healing
...scientific exploration of the human body. In America, they say, death is optional, and indeed plastic surgery, organ transplants...impressive miracles recorded in the ancient world, Jesus caused devils tormenting two madmen living among the tombs to inhabit a herd... |
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removing parts of the body
...surgeon John Woodall in 1639, and he advised his colleagues to say their prayers before they did it. But this attitude did not last. From the late...body image and appearance. Fay Weldon's novel, The She-Devil, is about a woman who had virtually her whole body removed and... |
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NGUGI WA THIONGO
...Kikuyu novels are Caitaani Mutharabaini (1980), translated as Devil on a Cross, and Matigari Ma Njiruungi (1986), translated as Matigari...as they have stolen our economies.’ In the same work, he says: ‘This book ... is my farewell to English as a vehicle... |
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devil
...always as devilish as he is black.’the Devil looks after his own often used to comment on...1607), has ‘You were worse than the devil else, for they say he helps his servants.’the Devil makes his Christmas pies of lawyers' tongues... |
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Koadalan
...lovely as Teresa now is, she says that there is someone even more...fair, which is met by three devils disguised as dealers. When...himself, thus thwarting the devils. Again Koadalan asks his father...the bridle, and so the three devils are able to ride him. ... |
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better
...a good deed.’better the devil you know than the devil you don't know understanding...in the shorter form better the devil you know.better to have loved...Way of the World (1700), ‘Say what you will, ‘tis better to be... |
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talk
...meaning that it is easier to say than to do something; an early...louder than words.talk of the Devil, and he is bound to appear...meaning that to speak of the Devil may be to invite his presence; often abbreviated to talk of the Devil, and used when a ... |
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evil
...objective reality. The nearest it comes to this is the mythological figure of Māra, the Buddhist ‘devil’. However, it has much to say about evil in the sense of human suffering (duḥkha), and these teachings are set out in the First... |
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unique
...of the language from an ad writer who is reckless enough to say, in a national advertisement, that a certain luxury sedan is “so unique...were in place yesterday afternoon, the day before their Blue Devils will face North Carolina.” (New York Times; Feb. 2... |
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Tevez will be a Devil, says Ferguson
...been left to find a solution to the impasse, with United anxious to push through a deal quickly. Sources close to the Red Devils are confident a compromise can be reached by the time Tevez's current commitments with Argentina at the Copa America ends... |
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Devils Says They Need To Be Better
...Sports Writer AP Online 05-15-2000 Devils Says They Need To Be Better PHILADELPHIA...be good enough for the New Jersey Devils these days. Now it's got to be...against goalie Martin Brodeur. The Devils didn't play good positional hockey... |
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We don't fear Red Devils, says Cuellar
...United in the Barclays Premier League this season. The Spanish defender's goal earned his side a 1-1 home draw with the Red Devils on Wednesday after a 1-0 win at Old Trafford earlier in the season.Now Cuellar is adamant Villa should not be overawed when... |
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Don't sell us short, Devils say
...06-2008 Don't sell us short, Devils say -- Weekes plays well in shootout...SPORTSEdtion: Passaic editionThe Devils insist there is more to their team...Lightning at Prudential Center.Devils captain Jamie Langenbrunner scored... |
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DEVILS SAY `CZECH, PLEASE' IN DRAFT
...County, NJ) 07-09-1995 DEVILS SAY `CZECH, PLEASE' IN DRAFTBy...found himself rooting for the Devils. "In Detroit they have lots...like that." Saturday the Devils jumped at the chance to draft...right shoulder. Sykora, who says he is 100 ... |
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The devil, you say? Faiths hold differing views
Maybe the devil made them do it. Verbal salvos about the...a being really exists. In Islam, the devil is a definitive creature, a fallen angel...The personal pronoun in Arabic for the devil is Iblis, with shaytan or Satan a more... |
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PLEASE REMAIN CALM, DEVILS SAY
...04-22-2001 PLEASE REMAIN CALM, DEVILS SAYBy MARK J. CZERWINSKI, Staff Writer...SundayRALEIGH, N.C. -- The last place the Devils expected to be spending their Saturday...turnaround. But it happened." And how the Devils deal with it will speak volumes about... |
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DEVILS SAY NILAN WILL BE PERFECT FIT
...Bergen County, NJ) 08-04-1995 DEVILS SAY NILAN WILL BE PERFECT FITBy MARK...EarlyChris Nilan is everything the Devils seem to look for in an assistant...main reasons Nilan was hired by the Devils on Thursday to replace Larry Robinson... |
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DEVILS SAY RULES WEREN'T BROKEN
...Bergen County, NJ) 07-22-2010 DEVILS SAY RULES WEREN'T BROKENByline: TOM...comSection: SPORTSType: NewsThe Devils believe the NHL was wrong to reject...official rejection letter to the Devils until Tuesday night, which was hours... |
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Devils' Elias says reprimand deserved
...Bergen County, NJ) 10-23-2007 Devils' Elias says reprimand deservedBy TOM GULITTI...knows he can play better.So, when Devils head coach Brent Sutter benched...it."ROCK PREVIEW: Many of the Devils got their first look at Prudential... |
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