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guest
(mass) | guest
- návštevník, hosťujúci, hosť |
guest
(encz) | guest,host |
guest
(encz) | guest,hostující adj: Zdeněk Brož |
guest
(encz) | guest,návštěvník n: pozvaný web |
Guest
(gcide) | Guest \Guest\, v. t.
To receive or entertain hospitably. [Obs.] --Sylvester.
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Guest
(gcide) | Guest \Guest\, v. i.
To be, or act the part of, a guest. [Obs.]
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And tell me, best of princes, who he was
That guested here so late. --Chapman.
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Guest
(gcide) | Guest \Guest\ (g[e^]st), n. [OE. gest, AS. g[ae]st, gest; akin
to OS., D., & G. gast, Icel. gestr, Sw. g[aum]st, Dan.
Gj[aum]st, Goth. gasts, Russ. goste, and to L. hostis enemy,
stranger; the meaning stranger is the older one, but the root
is unknown. Cf. Host an army, Hostile.]
1. A visitor; a person received and entertained in one's
house or at one's table; a visitor entertained without
pay.
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To cheer his guests, whom he had stayed that night.
--Spenser.
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True friendship's laws are by this rule exprest.
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. --Pope.
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2. A lodger or a boarder at a hotel, lodging house, or
boarding house.
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3. (Zool.)
(a) Any insect that lives in the nest of another without
compulsion and usually not as a parasite.
(b) An inquiline.
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guest
(wn) | guest
n 1: a visitor to whom hospitality is extended [syn: guest,
invitee]
2: United States journalist (born in England) noted for his
syndicated homey verse (1881-1959) [syn: Guest, {Edgar
Guest}, Edgar Albert Guest]
3: a customer of a hotel or restaurant etc.
4: (computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a
computer network [syn: node, client, guest] |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
guest
(mass) | guest
- návštevník, hosťujúci, hosť |
guesthouse
(mass) | guest-house
- penzión |
be my guest
(encz) | be my guest,posluž(te) si [fráz.] Zdeněk Brož |
guest
(encz) | guest,host guest,hostující adj: Zdeněk Brožguest,návštěvník n: pozvaný web |
guest night
(encz) | guest night, n: |
guest of honor
(encz) | guest of honor, n: |
guest worker
(encz) | guest worker, n: |
guest-house
(encz) | guest-house,penzion |
guesthouse
(encz) | guesthouse,ubytovna pro hosty Zdeněk Brož |
guestimate
(encz) | guestimate,hrubý odhad n: Jiří Drbálekguestimate,zhruba odhadnout v: Jiří Drbálek |
guestroom
(encz) | guestroom,pokoj pro hosty Pavel Cvrček |
guests
(encz) | guests,hosté Zdeněk Brož |
guestworker
(encz) | guestworker, n: |
house guest
(encz) | house guest,domácí host Rostislav Svoboda |
houseguest
(encz) | houseguest, n: |
mingle with the guests
(encz) | mingle with the guests,vmísit se mezi hosty v: Jose |
rfq (reguest for quote)
(encz) | RFQ (Reguest for Quote),požadavek, ve kterém kupující oslovuje jednoho
nebo více prodejců s žádostí o nacenění a dostupnost požadovaného
rozsahu služeb či zboží [zkr.] om |
unwelcome guest
(encz) | unwelcome guest, n: |
vaguest
(encz) | vaguest,nejnejasnější adj: Zdeněk Brož |
wedding guest
(encz) | wedding guest, n: |
barguest
(gcide) | Barghest \Bar"ghest`\, n. [Perh. G. berg mountain + geist demon,
or b[aum]r a bear + geist.]
A goblin, in the shape of a large dog, portending misfortune.
[Also written barguest.]
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Guest rope
(gcide) | Guest rope \Guest" rope"\ (Naut.)
The line by which a boat makes fast to the swinging boom.
--Ham. Nav. Encyc.
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guest-taker
(gcide) | Agister \A*gist"er\, Agistor \A*gist"or\, n. [Anglo-Norman
agistour.] (Law)
(a) Formerly, an officer of the king's forest, who had the
care of cattle agisted, and collected the money for the
same; -- hence called gisttaker, which in England is
corrupted into guest-taker.
(b) Now, one who agists or takes in cattle to pasture at a
certain rate; a pasturer. --Mozley & W.
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Guestwise
(gcide) | Guestwise \Guest"wise"\, adv.
In the manner of a guest.
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house guest
(gcide) | houseguest \houseguest\, house guest \house guest\n.
a guest entertained and staying overnight in one's house for
one or more nights.
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houseguest
(gcide) | houseguest \houseguest\, house guest \house guest\n.
a guest entertained and staying overnight in one's house for
one or more nights.
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Tonguester
(gcide) | Tonguester \Tongue"ster\, n.
One who uses his tongue; a talker; a story-teller; a gossip.
[Poetic.]
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Step by step we rose to greatness; through the
tonguesters we may fall. --Tennyson.
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Unguestlike
(gcide) | Unguestlike \Un*guest"like\, adv.
In a manner not becoming to a guest. [R.] --Milton.
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Vaguest
(gcide) | Vague \Vague\ (v[=a]g), a. [Compar. Vaguer (v[=a]g"[~e]r);
superl. Vaguest.] [F. vague, or L. vagus. See Vague, v.
i.]
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1. Wandering; vagrant; vagabond. [Archaic] "To set upon the
vague villains." --Hayward.
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She danced along with vague, regardless eyes.
--Keats.
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2. Unsettled; unfixed; undetermined; indefinite; ambiguous;
as, a vague idea; a vague proposition.
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This faith is neither a mere fantasy of future
glory, nor a vague ebullition of feeling. --I.
Taylor.
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The poet turned away, and gave himself up to a sort
of vague revery, which he called thought.
--Hawthorne.
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3. Proceeding from no known authority; unauthenticated;
uncertain; flying; as, a vague report.
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Some legend strange and vague. --Longfellow.
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Vague year. See Sothiac year, under Sothiac.
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Syn: Unsettled; indefinite; unfixed; ill-defined; ambiguous;
hazy; loose; lax; uncertain.
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Wood guest
(gcide) | Wood \Wood\, n. [OE. wode, wude, AS. wudu, wiodu; akin to OHG.
witu, Icel. vi?r, Dan. & Sw. ved wood, and probably to Ir. &
Gael. fiodh, W. gwydd trees, shrubs.]
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1. A large and thick collection of trees; a forest or grove;
-- frequently used in the plural.
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Light thickens, and the crow
Makes wing to the rooky wood. --Shak.
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2. The substance of trees and the like; the hard fibrous
substance which composes the body of a tree and its
branches, and which is covered by the bark; timber. "To
worship their own work in wood and stone for gods."
--Milton.
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3. (Bot.) The fibrous material which makes up the greater
part of the stems and branches of trees and shrubby
plants, and is found to a less extent in herbaceous stems.
It consists of elongated tubular or needle-shaped cells of
various kinds, usually interwoven with the shinning bands
called silver grain.
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Note: Wood consists chiefly of the carbohydrates cellulose
and lignin, which are isomeric with starch.
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4. Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses.
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Wood acid, Wood vinegar (Chem.), a complex acid liquid
obtained in the dry distillation of wood, and containing
large quantities of acetic acid; hence, specifically,
acetic acid. Formerly called pyroligneous acid.
Wood anemone (Bot.), a delicate flower (Anemone nemorosa)
of early spring; -- also called windflower. See Illust.
of Anemone.
Wood ant (Zool.), a large ant (Formica rufa) which lives
in woods and forests, and constructs large nests.
Wood apple (Bot.). See Elephant apple, under Elephant.
Wood baboon (Zool.), the drill.
Wood betony. (Bot.)
(a) Same as Betony.
(b) The common American lousewort ({Pedicularis
Canadensis}), a low perennial herb with yellowish or
purplish flowers.
Wood borer. (Zool.)
(a) The larva of any one of numerous species of boring
beetles, esp. elaters, longicorn beetles,
buprestidans, and certain weevils. See Apple borer,
under Apple, and Pine weevil, under Pine.
(b) The larva of any one of various species of
lepidopterous insects, especially of the clearwing
moths, as the peach-tree borer (see under Peach),
and of the goat moths.
(c) The larva of various species of hymenopterous of the
tribe Urocerata. See Tremex.
(d) Any one of several bivalve shells which bore in wood,
as the teredos, and species of Xylophaga.
(e) Any one of several species of small Crustacea, as the
Limnoria, and the boring amphipod ({Chelura
terebrans}).
Wood carpet, a kind of floor covering made of thin pieces
of wood secured to a flexible backing, as of cloth.
--Knight.
Wood cell (Bot.), a slender cylindrical or prismatic cell
usually tapering to a point at both ends. It is the
principal constituent of woody fiber.
Wood choir, the choir, or chorus, of birds in the woods.
[Poetic] --Coleridge.
Wood coal, charcoal; also, lignite, or brown coal.
Wood cricket (Zool.), a small European cricket ({Nemobius
sylvestris}).
Wood culver (Zool.), the wood pigeon.
Wood cut, an engraving on wood; also, a print from such an
engraving.
Wood dove (Zool.), the stockdove.
Wood drink, a decoction or infusion of medicinal woods.
Wood duck (Zool.)
(a) A very beautiful American duck (Aix sponsa). The
male has a large crest, and its plumage is varied with
green, purple, black, white, and red. It builds its
nest in trees, whence the name. Called also {bridal
duck}, summer duck, and wood widgeon.
(b) The hooded merganser.
(c) The Australian maned goose (Chlamydochen jubata).
Wood echo, an echo from the wood.
Wood engraver.
(a) An engraver on wood.
(b) (Zool.) Any of several species of small beetles whose
larvae bore beneath the bark of trees, and excavate
furrows in the wood often more or less resembling
coarse engravings; especially, {Xyleborus
xylographus}.
Wood engraving.
(a) The act or art engraving on wood; xylography.
(b) An engraving on wood; a wood cut; also, a print from
such an engraving.
Wood fern. (Bot.) See Shield fern, under Shield.
Wood fiber.
(a) (Bot.) Fibrovascular tissue.
(b) Wood comminuted, and reduced to a powdery or dusty
mass.
Wood fretter (Zool.), any one of numerous species of
beetles whose larvae bore in the wood, or beneath the
bark, of trees.
Wood frog (Zool.), a common North American frog ({Rana
sylvatica}) which lives chiefly in the woods, except
during the breeding season. It is drab or yellowish brown,
with a black stripe on each side of the head.
Wood germander. (Bot.) See under Germander.
Wood god, a fabled sylvan deity.
Wood grass. (Bot.) See under Grass.
Wood grouse. (Zool.)
(a) The capercailzie.
(b) The spruce partridge. See under Spruce.
Wood guest (Zool.), the ringdove. [Prov. Eng.]
Wood hen. (Zool.)
(a) Any one of several species of Old World short-winged
rails of the genus Ocydromus, including the weka and
allied species.
(b) The American woodcock.
Wood hoopoe (Zool.), any one of several species of Old
World arboreal birds belonging to Irrisor and allied
genera. They are closely allied to the common hoopoe, but
have a curved beak, and a longer tail.
Wood ibis (Zool.), any one of several species of large,
long-legged, wading birds belonging to the genus
Tantalus. The head and neck are naked or scantily
covered with feathers. The American wood ibis ({Tantalus
loculator}) is common in Florida.
Wood lark (Zool.), a small European lark ({Alauda
arborea}), which, like, the skylark, utters its notes
while on the wing. So called from its habit of perching on
trees.
Wood laurel (Bot.), a European evergreen shrub ({Daphne
Laureola}).
Wood leopard (Zool.), a European spotted moth ({Zeuzera
aesculi}) allied to the goat moth. Its large fleshy larva
bores in the wood of the apple, pear, and other fruit
trees.
Wood lily (Bot.), the lily of the valley.
Wood lock (Naut.), a piece of wood close fitted and
sheathed with copper, in the throating or score of the
pintle, to keep the rudder from rising.
Wood louse (Zool.)
(a) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial isopod
Crustacea belonging to Oniscus, Armadillo, and
related genera. See Sow bug, under Sow, and {Pill
bug}, under Pill.
(b) Any one of several species of small, wingless,
pseudoneuropterous insects of the family Psocidae,
which live in the crevices of walls and among old
books and papers. Some of the species are called also
book lice, and deathticks, or deathwatches.
Wood mite (Zool.), any one of numerous small mites of the
family Oribatidae. They are found chiefly in woods, on
tree trunks and stones.
Wood mote. (Eng. Law)
(a) Formerly, the forest court.
(b) The court of attachment.
Wood nettle. (Bot.) See under Nettle.
Wood nightshade (Bot.), woody nightshade.
Wood nut (Bot.), the filbert.
Wood nymph. (a) A nymph inhabiting the woods; a fabled
goddess of the woods; a dryad. "The wood nymphs, decked
with daisies trim." --Milton.
(b) (Zool.) Any one of several species of handsomely
colored moths belonging to the genus Eudryas. The
larvae are bright-colored, and some of the species, as
Eudryas grata, and Eudryas unio, feed on the
leaves of the grapevine.
(c) (Zool.) Any one of several species of handsomely
colored South American humming birds belonging to the
genus Thalurania. The males are bright blue, or
green and blue.
Wood offering, wood burnt on the altar.
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We cast the lots . . . for the wood offering. --Neh.
x. 34.
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Wood oil (Bot.), a resinous oil obtained from several East
Indian trees of the genus Dipterocarpus, having
properties similar to those of copaiba, and sometimes
substituted for it. It is also used for mixing paint. See
Gurjun.
Wood opal (Min.), a striped variety of coarse opal, having
some resemblance to wood.
Wood paper, paper made of wood pulp. See Wood pulp,
below.
Wood pewee (Zool.), a North American tyrant flycatcher
(Contopus virens). It closely resembles the pewee, but
is smaller.
Wood pie (Zool.), any black and white woodpecker,
especially the European great spotted woodpecker.
Wood pigeon. (Zool.)
(a) Any one of numerous species of Old World pigeons
belonging to Palumbus and allied genera of the
family Columbidae.
(b) The ringdove.
Wood puceron (Zool.), a plant louse.
Wood pulp (Technol.), vegetable fiber obtained from the
poplar and other white woods, and so softened by digestion
with a hot solution of alkali that it can be formed into
sheet paper, etc. It is now produced on an immense scale.
Wood quail (Zool.), any one of several species of East
Indian crested quails belonging to Rollulus and allied
genera, as the red-crested wood quail ({Rollulus
roulroul}), the male of which is bright green, with a long
crest of red hairlike feathers.
Wood rabbit (Zool.), the cottontail.
Wood rat (Zool.), any one of several species of American
wild rats of the genus Neotoma found in the Southern
United States; -- called also bush rat. The Florida wood
rat (Neotoma Floridana) is the best-known species.
Wood reed grass (Bot.), a tall grass (Cinna arundinacea)
growing in moist woods.
Wood reeve, the steward or overseer of a wood. [Eng.]
Wood rush (Bot.), any plant of the genus Luzula,
differing from the true rushes of the genus Juncus
chiefly in having very few seeds in each capsule.
Wood sage (Bot.), a name given to several labiate plants of
the genus Teucrium. See Germander.
Wood screw, a metal screw formed with a sharp thread, and
usually with a slotted head, for insertion in wood.
Wood sheldrake (Zool.), the hooded merganser.
Wood shock (Zool.), the fisher. See Fisher, 2.
Wood shrike (Zool.), any one of numerous species of Old
World singing birds belonging to Grallina,
Collyricincla, Prionops, and allied genera, common in
India and Australia. They are allied to the true shrikes,
but feed upon both insects and berries.
Wood snipe. (Zool.)
(a) The American woodcock.
(b) An Asiatic snipe (Gallinago nemoricola).
Wood soot, soot from burnt wood.
Wood sore. (Zool.) See Cuckoo spit, under Cuckoo.
Wood sorrel (Bot.), a plant of the genus Oxalis ({Oxalis
Acetosella}), having an acid taste. See Illust. (a) of
Shamrock.
Wood spirit. (Chem.) See Methyl alcohol, under Methyl.
Wood stamp, a carved or engraved block or stamp of wood,
for impressing figures or colors on fabrics.
Wood star (Zool.), any one of several species of small
South American humming birds belonging to the genus
Calothorax. The male has a brilliant gorget of blue,
purple, and other colors.
Wood sucker (Zool.), the yaffle.
Wood swallow (Zool.), any one of numerous species of Old
World passerine birds belonging to the genus Artamus and
allied genera of the family Artamidae. They are common
in the East Indies, Asia, and Australia. In form and
habits they resemble swallows, but in structure they
resemble shrikes. They are usually black above and white
beneath.
Wood tapper (Zool.), any woodpecker.
Wood tar. See under Tar.
Wood thrush, (Zool.)
(a) An American thrush (Turdus mustelinus) noted for the
sweetness of its song. See under Thrush.
(b) The missel thrush.
Wood tick. See in Vocabulary.
Wood tin. (Min.). See Cassiterite.
Wood titmouse (Zool.), the goldcgest.
Wood tortoise (Zool.), the sculptured tortoise. See under
Sculptured.
Wood vine (Bot.), the white bryony.
Wood vinegar. See Wood acid, above.
Wood warbler. (Zool.)
(a) Any one of numerous species of American warblers of
the genus Dendroica. See Warbler.
(b) A European warbler (Phylloscopus sibilatrix); --
called also green wren, wood wren, and {yellow
wren}.
Wood worm (Zool.), a larva that bores in wood; a wood
borer.
Wood wren. (Zool.)
(a) The wood warbler.
(b) The willow warbler.
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edgar albert guest
(wn) | Edgar Albert Guest
n 1: United States journalist (born in England) noted for his
syndicated homey verse (1881-1959) [syn: Guest, {Edgar
Guest}, Edgar Albert Guest] |
edgar guest
(wn) | Edgar Guest
n 1: United States journalist (born in England) noted for his
syndicated homey verse (1881-1959) [syn: Guest, {Edgar
Guest}, Edgar Albert Guest] |
guest
(wn) | guest
n 1: a visitor to whom hospitality is extended [syn: guest,
invitee]
2: United States journalist (born in England) noted for his
syndicated homey verse (1881-1959) [syn: Guest, {Edgar
Guest}, Edgar Albert Guest]
3: a customer of a hotel or restaurant etc.
4: (computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a
computer network [syn: node, client, guest] |
guest night
(wn) | guest night
n 1: an evening when members of a club or college can bring
their friends as guests |
guest of honor
(wn) | guest of honor
n 1: the person in whose honor a gathering is held |
guest worker
(wn) | guest worker
n 1: a person with temporary permission to work in another
country; "a Moroccan guestworker in Canada was accused of
aiding terrorists" [syn: guest worker, guestworker] |
guesthouse
(wn) | guesthouse
n 1: a house separate from the main house; for housing guests |
guestimate
(wn) | guestimate
n 1: an estimate that combines reasoning with guessing [syn:
guesstimate, guestimate] |
guestroom
(wn) | guestroom
n 1: a bedroom that is kept for the use of guests |
guestworker
(wn) | guestworker
n 1: a person with temporary permission to work in another
country; "a Moroccan guestworker in Canada was accused of
aiding terrorists" [syn: guest worker, guestworker] |
house guest
(wn) | house guest
n 1: a guest entertained in your house [syn: house guest,
houseguest] |
houseguest
(wn) | houseguest
n 1: a guest entertained in your house [syn: house guest,
houseguest] |
unwelcome guest
(wn) | unwelcome guest
n 1: someone who gets in (to a party) without an invitation or
without paying [syn: gatecrasher, crasher, {unwelcome
guest}] |
wedding guest
(wn) | wedding guest
n 1: a guest at a wedding |
guest book
(foldoc) | guest book
The electronic equivalent of the physical
notebooks found in some small hotels, in which visitors can
write their names, comments and suggestions for the benefit of
the proprietors and future visitors or purely for posterity.
The electronic version is a form on a website into which
users can enter similar details for display on the site.
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