slovodefinícia
brook
(encz)		brook,potok n: Zdeněk Brož
brook
(encz)		brook,říčka n: Zdeněk Brož
brook
(encz)		brook,snést Zdeněk Brož
brook
(encz)		brook,strpět v: Zdeněk Brož
Brook
(gcide)		Brook \Brook\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Brooked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Brooking.] [OE. broken, bruken, to use, enjoy, digest, AS.
br?can; akin to D. gebruiken to use, OHG. pr?hhan, G.
brauchen, gebrauchen, Icel. br?ka, Goth. br?kjan, and L.
frui, to enjoy. Cf. Fruit, Broker.]
1. To use; to enjoy. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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2. To bear; to endure; to put up with; to tolerate; as, young
men can not brook restraint. --Spenser.
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Shall we, who could not brook one lord,
Crouch to the wicked ten? --Macaulay.
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3. To deserve; to earn. [Obs.] --Sir J. Hawkins.
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Brook
(gcide)		Brook \Brook\, n. [OE. brok, broke, brook, AS. br[=o]c; akin to
D. broek, LG. br[=o]k, marshy ground, OHG. pruoh, G. bruch
marsh; prob. fr. the root of E. break, so as that it
signifies water breaking through the earth, a spring or
brook, as well as a marsh. See Break, v. t.]
A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek.
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The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land
of brooks of water. --Deut. viii.
7.
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Empires itself, as doth an inland brook
Into the main of waters. --Shak.
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brook
(wn)		brook
n 1: a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a
tributary of a river); "the creek dried up every summer"
[syn: brook, creek]
v 1: put up with something or somebody unpleasant; "I cannot
bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to
endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to
tolerate the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable
marriage" [syn: digest, endure, stick out, stomach,
bear, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide,
suffer, put up]
podobné slovodefinícia
brook
(encz)		brook,potok n: Zdeněk Brožbrook,říčka n: Zdeněk Brožbrook,snést Zdeněk Brožbrook,strpět v: Zdeněk Brož
brooke
(encz)		Brooke,Brooke n: [jmén.] příjmení, okres v USA, ženské křestní
jméno Zdeněk Brož a automatický překlad
brookfield
(encz)		Brookfield,Brookfield n: [jmén.] příjmení Zdeněk Brož a automatický
překlad
brooklet
(encz)		brooklet,potůček n: Zdeněk Brož
brooklyn
(encz)		Brooklyn,Brooklyn n: [jmén.] příjmení Zdeněk Brož a automatický překlad
brooks
(encz)		brooks,potoky n: pl. Zdeněk Brož
donnybrook
(encz)		donnybrook,rvačka n: Zdeněk Brož
holbrook
(encz)		Holbrook,Holbrook n: [jmén.] příjmení Zdeněk Brož a automatický překlad
seabrook
(encz)		Seabrook,Seabrook n: [jmén.] příjmení Zdeněk Brož a automatický překlad
westbrook
(encz)		Westbrook,Westbrook n: [jmén.] příjmení Zdeněk Brož a automatický
překlad
brooke
(czen)		Brooke,Brooken: [jmén.] příjmení, okres v USA, ženské křestní
jméno Zdeněk Brož a automatický překlad
brookfield
(czen)		Brookfield,Brookfieldn: [jmén.] příjmení Zdeněk Brož a automatický
překlad
brooklyn
(czen)		Brooklyn,Brooklynn: [jmén.] příjmení Zdeněk Brož a automatický překlad
holbrook
(czen)		Holbrook,Holbrookn: [jmén.] příjmení Zdeněk Brož a automatický překlad
seabrook
(czen)		Seabrook,Seabrookn: [jmén.] příjmení Zdeněk Brož a automatický překlad
westbrook
(czen)		Westbrook,Westbrookn: [jmén.] příjmení Zdeněk Brož a automatický překlad
Abrook
(gcide)		Abrook \A*brook"\, v. t. [Pref. a- + brook, v.]
To brook; to endure. [Obs.] --Shak.
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brook fish
(gcide)		Killifish \Kil"li*fish`\, n. (Zool.)
Any one of several small American cyprinodont fishes of the
genus Fundulus and allied genera. They live equally well in
fresh and brackish water, or even in the sea. They are
usually striped or barred with black. Called also minnow,
and brook fish. See Minnow.
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Brook mint
(gcide)		Brook mint \Brook" mint`\ (Bot.)
See Water mint.
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brook runner
(gcide)		Rail \Rail\, n. [F. r[^a]le, fr. r[^a]ler to have a rattling in
the throat; of German origin, and akin to E. rattle. See
Rattle, v.] (Zool.)
Any one of numerous species of limicoline birds of the family
Rallidae, especially those of the genus Rallus, and of
closely allied genera. They are prized as game birds.
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Note: The common European water rail (Rallus aquaticus) is
called also bilcock, skitty coot, and {brook
runner}. The best known American species are the
clapper rail, or salt-marsh hen (Rallus longirostris,
var. crepitans); the king, or red-breasted, rail
(Rallus elegans) (called also {fresh-water
marshhen}); the lesser clapper, or Virginia, rail
(Rallus Virginianus); and the Carolina, or sora, rail
(Porzana Carolina). See Sora.
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Land rail (Zool.), the corncrake.
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Brook silversides
(gcide)		Silversides \Sil"ver*sides`\, n. (Zool.)
Any one of several species of small fishes of the family
Atherinidae, having a silvery stripe along each side of the
body. The common species of the American coast ({Menidia
notata}) is very abundant. Called also silverside, {sand
smelt}, friar, tailor, and tinker.
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Brook silversides (Zool.), a small fresh-water North
American fish (Labadesthes sicculus) related to the
marine silversides.
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brook trout
(gcide)		Rainbow \Rain"bow`\ (r[=a]n"b[=o]`), n. [AS. regenboga, akin to
G. regenbogen. See Rain, and Bow anything bent.]
A bow or arch exhibiting, in concentric bands, the several
colors of the spectrum, and formed in the part of the
hemisphere opposite to the sun by the refraction and
reflection of the sun's rays in drops of falling rain.
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Note: Besides the ordinary bow, called also primary rainbow,
which is formed by two refractions and one reflection,
there is also another often seen exterior to it, called
the secondary rainbow, concentric with the first, and
separated from it by a small interval. It is formed by
two refractions and two reflections, is much fainter
than the primary bow, and has its colors arranged in
the reverse order from those of the latter.
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Lunar rainbow, a fainter arch or rainbow, formed by the
moon.

Marine rainbow, Sea bow, a similar bow seen in the spray
of waves at sea.

Rainbow trout (Zool.), a bright-colored trout ({Salmo
irideus}), native of the mountains of California, but now
extensively introduced into the Eastern States, Japan, and
other countries; -- called also brook trout, {mountain
trout}, and golden trout.

Rainbow wrasse. (Zool.) See under Wrasse.

Supernumerary rainbow, a smaller bow, usually of red and
green colors only, sometimes seen within the primary or
without the secondary rainbow, and in contact with them.
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Brooked
(gcide)		Brook \Brook\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Brooked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Brooking.] [OE. broken, bruken, to use, enjoy, digest, AS.
br?can; akin to D. gebruiken to use, OHG. pr?hhan, G.
brauchen, gebrauchen, Icel. br?ka, Goth. br?kjan, and L.
frui, to enjoy. Cf. Fruit, Broker.]
1. To use; to enjoy. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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2. To bear; to endure; to put up with; to tolerate; as, young
men can not brook restraint. --Spenser.
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Shall we, who could not brook one lord,
Crouch to the wicked ten? --Macaulay.
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3. To deserve; to earn. [Obs.] --Sir J. Hawkins.
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Brooking
(gcide)		Brook \Brook\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Brooked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Brooking.] [OE. broken, bruken, to use, enjoy, digest, AS.
br?can; akin to D. gebruiken to use, OHG. pr?hhan, G.
brauchen, gebrauchen, Icel. br?ka, Goth. br?kjan, and L.
frui, to enjoy. Cf. Fruit, Broker.]
1. To use; to enjoy. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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2. To bear; to endure; to put up with; to tolerate; as, young
men can not brook restraint. --Spenser.
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Shall we, who could not brook one lord,
Crouch to the wicked ten? --Macaulay.
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3. To deserve; to earn. [Obs.] --Sir J. Hawkins.
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Brookite
(gcide)		Brookite \Brook"ite\, n. [Named from the English mineralogist,
H. J. Brooke.] (Min.)
A mineral consisting of titanic oxide, and hence identical
with rutile and octahedrite in composition, but crystallizing
in the orthorhombic system.
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Brooklet
(gcide)		Brooklet \Brook"let\, n.
A small brook.
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Brooklime
(gcide)		Brooklime \Brook"lime`\, n. (Bot.)
A plant (Veronica Beccabunga), with flowers, usually blue,
in axillary racemes. The American species is {Veronica
Americana}. [Formerly written broklempe or broklympe.]
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Brookside
(gcide)		Brookside \Brook"side`\, n.
The bank of a brook.
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Brookweed
(gcide)		Brookweed \Brook"weed`\, n. (Bot.)
A small white-flowered herb (Samolus Valerandi) found
usually in wet places; water pimpernel.
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Diplodus Holbrooki
(gcide)		Pinfish \Pin"fish`\, n. [So called from their sharp dorsal
spines.] (Zool.)
(a) The sailor's choice (Diplodus rhomboides syn. {Lagodon
rhomboides}).
(b) The salt-water bream (Diplodus Holbrooki).
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Note: Both are excellent food fishes, common on the coast of
the United States south of Cape Hatteras. The name is
also applied to other allied species.
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Ice brook
(gcide)		Ice \Ice\ ([imac]s), n. [OE. is, iis, AS. [imac]s; aksin to D.
ijs, G. eis, OHG. [imac]s, Icel. [imac]ss, Sw. is, Dan. iis,
and perh. to E. iron.]
1. Water or other fluid frozen or reduced to the solid state
by cold; frozen water. It is a white or transparent
colorless substance, crystalline, brittle, and viscoidal.
Its specific gravity (0.92, that of water at 4[deg] C.
being 1.0) being less than that of water, ice floats.
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Note: Water freezes at 32[deg] F. or 0[deg] Cent., and ice
melts at the same temperature. Ice owes its cooling
properties to the large amount of heat required to melt
it.
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2. Concreted sugar. --Johnson.
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3. Water, cream, custard, etc., sweetened, flavored, and
artificially frozen.
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4. Any substance having the appearance of ice; as, camphor
ice.
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Anchor ice, ice which sometimes forms about stones and
other objects at the bottom of running or other water, and
is thus attached or anchored to the ground.

Bay ice, ice formed in bays, fiords, etc., often in
extensive fields which drift out to sea.

Ground ice, anchor ice.

Ice age (Geol.), the glacial epoch or period. See under
Glacial.

Ice anchor (Naut.), a grapnel for mooring a vessel to a
field of ice. --Kane.

Ice blink [Dan. iisblink], a streak of whiteness of the
horizon, caused by the reflection of light from ice not
yet in sight.

Ice boat.
(a) A boat fitted with skates or runners, and propelled on
ice by sails; an ice yacht.
(b) A strong steamboat for breaking a channel through ice.


Ice box or Ice chest, a box for holding ice; a box in
which things are kept cool by means of ice; a
refrigerator.

Ice brook, a brook or stream as cold as ice. [Poetic]
--Shak.

Ice cream [for iced cream], cream, milk, or custard,
sweetened, flavored, and frozen.

Ice field, an extensive sheet of ice.

Ice float, Ice floe, a sheet of floating ice similar to
an ice field, but smaller.

Ice foot, shore ice in Arctic regions; an ice belt. --Kane.

Ice house, a close-covered pit or building for storing ice.


Ice machine (Physics), a machine for making ice
artificially, as by the production of a low temperature
through the sudden expansion of a gas or vapor, or the
rapid evaporation of a volatile liquid.

Ice master. See Ice pilot (below).

Ice pack, an irregular mass of broken and drifting ice.

Ice paper, a transparent film of gelatin for copying or
reproducing; papier glac['e].

Ice petrel (Zool.), a shearwater (Puffinus gelidus) of
the Antarctic seas, abundant among floating ice.

Ice pick, a sharp instrument for breaking ice into small
pieces.

Ice pilot, a pilot who has charge of a vessel where the
course is obstructed by ice, as in polar seas; -- called
also ice master.

Ice pitcher, a pitcher adapted for ice water.

Ice plow, a large tool for grooving and cutting ice.
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Scaphiopus Holbrookii
(gcide)		Spadefoot \Spade"foot`\ (sp[=a]d"f[oo^]t`), n. (Zool.)
Any species of burrowing toads of the genus Scaphiopus,
esp. Scaphiopus Holbrookii, of the Eastern United States;
-- called also spade toad.
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1st baron beaverbrook
(wn)		1st Baron Beaverbrook
n 1: British newspaper publisher and politician (born in
Canada); confidant of Winston Churchill (1879-1964) [syn:
Beaverbrook, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, {William Maxwell
Aitken}]
american brooklime
(wn)		American brooklime
n 1: plant of western North America and northeastern Asia having
prostrate stems with dense racemes of pale violet to lilac
flowers [syn: brooklime, American brooklime, {Veronica
americana}]
beaverbrook
(wn)		Beaverbrook
n 1: British newspaper publisher and politician (born in
Canada); confidant of Winston Churchill (1879-1964) [syn:
Beaverbrook, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, {William Maxwell
Aitken}]
brook
(wn)		brook
n 1: a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a
tributary of a river); "the creek dried up every summer"
[syn: brook, creek]
v 1: put up with something or somebody unpleasant; "I cannot
bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to
endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to
tolerate the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable
marriage" [syn: digest, endure, stick out, stomach,
bear, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide,
suffer, put up]
brook thistle
(wn)		brook thistle
n 1: of central and southwestern Europe [syn: brook thistle,
Cirsium rivulare]
brook trout
(wn)		brook trout
n 1: a delicious freshwater food fish [syn: brook trout,
speckled trout]
2: North American freshwater trout; introduced in Europe [syn:
brook trout, speckled trout, Salvelinus fontinalis]
brooke
(wn)		Brooke
n 1: English lyric poet (1887-1915) [syn: Brooke, {Rupert
Brooke}]
brooklet
(wn)		brooklet
n 1: a small brook
brooklime
(wn)		brooklime
n 1: European plant having low-lying stems with blue flowers;
sparsely naturalized in North America [syn: brooklime,
European brooklime, Veronica beccabunga]
2: plant of western North America and northeastern Asia having
prostrate stems with dense racemes of pale violet to lilac
flowers [syn: brooklime, American brooklime, {Veronica
americana}]
brooklyn
(wn)		Brooklyn
n 1: a borough of New York City
brooklyn bridge
(wn)		Brooklyn Bridge
n 1: a suspension bridge across the East River in New York City;
opened in 1883
brooks
(wn)		Brooks
n 1: United States literary critic and historian (1886-1963)
[syn: Brooks, Van Wyck Brooks]
brookweed
(wn)		brookweed
n 1: American water pimpernel [syn: brookweed, {Samolus
parviflorus}, Samolus floribundus]
2: water pimpernel of Europe to China [syn: brookweed,
Samolus valerandii]
elwyn brooks white
(wn)		Elwyn Brooks White
n 1: United States writer noted for his humorous essays
(1899-1985) [syn: White, E. B. White, {Elwyn Brooks
White}]
european brooklime
(wn)		European brooklime
n 1: European plant having low-lying stems with blue flowers;
sparsely naturalized in North America [syn: brooklime,
European brooklime, Veronica beccabunga]
genus holbrookia
(wn)		genus Holbrookia
n 1: earless lizards [syn: Holbrookia, genus Holbrookia]
holbrookia
(wn)		Holbrookia
n 1: earless lizards [syn: Holbrookia, genus Holbrookia]
roger brooke taney
(wn)		Roger Brooke Taney
n 1: United States jurist who served as chief justice of the
United States Supreme Court; remembered for his ruling that
slaves and their descendants have no rights as citizens
(1777-1864) [syn: Taney, Roger Taney, {Roger Brooke
Taney}]
rupert brooke
(wn)		Rupert Brooke
n 1: English lyric poet (1887-1915) [syn: Brooke, {Rupert
Brooke}]
van wyck brooks
(wn)		Van Wyck Brooks
n 1: United States literary critic and historian (1886-1963)
[syn: Brooks, Van Wyck Brooks]