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chasing
(encz) | chasing,pronásledování n: Zdeněk Brož |
Chasing
(gcide) | Chase \Chase\ (ch[=a]s), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chased
(ch[=a]st); p. pr. & vb. n. Chasing.] [OF. chacier, F.
chasser, fr. (assumed) LL. captiare, fr. L. captare to strive
to seize. See Catch.]
1. To pursue for the purpose of killing or taking, as an
enemy, or game; to hunt.
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We are those which chased you from the field.
--Shak.
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Philologists, who chase
A panting syllable through time and place. --Cowper.
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2. To follow as if to catch; to pursue; to compel to move on;
to drive by following; to cause to fly; -- often with away
or off; as, to chase the hens away.
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Chased by their brother's endless malice from prince
to prince and from place to place. --Knolles.
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3. To pursue eagerly, as hunters pursue game.
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Chasing each other merrily. --Tennyson.
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Chasing
(gcide) | Chasing \Chas"ing\, n.
The art of ornamenting metal by means of chasing tools; also,
a piece of ornamental work produced in this way.
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purchasing
(mass) | purchasing
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chasing
(encz) | chasing,pronásledování n: Zdeněk Brož |
chasing rainbows
(encz) | chasing rainbows, |
excess purchasing power
(encz) | excess purchasing power, |
purchasing
(encz) | purchasing,kupní adj: Zdeněk Brožpurchasing,nákup n: Nijelpurchasing,nakupování n: Zdeněk Brožpurchasing,nákupy n: RNDr. Pavel Piskačpurchasing,pořizování n: Zdeněk Brož |
purchasing agent
(encz) | purchasing agent,nákupčí Nijel |
purchasing department
(encz) | purchasing department,nákupní oddělení Milan Svoboda |
purchasing power
(encz) | purchasing power,kupní síla [fin.] Nijel |
purchasing power of a currency
(encz) | purchasing power of a currency,kupní síla měny [fin.] Mgr. Dita Gálová |
purchasing power parity
(encz) | purchasing power parity,parita kupní síly [fin.] Mgr. Dita Gálová |
purchasing power parity theory
(encz) | purchasing power parity theory,teorie parity kupní síly [fin.] RNDr.
Pavel Piskač |
steeplechasing
(encz) | steeplechasing, |
Enchasing
(gcide) | Enchase \En*chase"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enchased; p. pr. &
vb. n. Enchasing.] [F. ench[^a]sser; pref. en- (L. in) +
ch[^a]sse box containing relics, frame, case, the same word
as caisse case. See 1st Case, and cf. Chase, Encase,
Incase.]
1. To incase or inclose in a border or rim; to surround with
an ornamental casing, as a gem with gold; to encircle; to
inclose; to adorn.
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Enchased with a wanton ivy twine. --Spenser.
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An precious stones, in studs of gold enchased,
The shaggy velvet of his buskins graced. --Mickle.
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2. To chase; to ornament by embossing or engraving; as, to
enchase a watch case.
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With golden letters . . . well enchased. --Spenser.
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3. To delineate or describe, as by writing. [Obs.]
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All which . . . for to enchase,
Him needeth sure a golden pen, I ween. --Spenser.
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Flat chasing
(gcide) | Flat \Flat\ (fl[a^]t), a. [Compar. Flatter (fl[a^]t"r[~e]r);
superl. Flattest (fl[a^]t"t[e^]st).] [Akin to Icel. flatr,
Sw. flat, Dan. flad, OHG. flaz, and AS. flet floor, G.
fl["o]tz stratum, layer.]
1. Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so,
without prominences or depressions; level without
inclination; plane.
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Though sun and moon
Were in the flat sea sunk. --Milton.
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2. Lying at full length, or spread out, upon the ground;
level with the ground or earth; prostrate; as, to lie flat
on the ground; hence, fallen; laid low; ruined; destroyed.
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What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat! --Milton.
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I feel . . . my hopes all flat. --Milton.
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3. (Fine Arts) Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without
points of prominence and striking interest.
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A large part of the work is, to me, very flat.
--Coleridge.
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4. Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink
flat to the taste.
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5. Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit;
monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition.
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How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable
Seem to me all the uses of this world. --Shak.
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6. Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings;
depressed; dull; as, the market is flat.
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7. Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive;
downright.
Syn: flat-out.
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Flat burglary as ever was committed. --Shak.
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A great tobacco taker too, -- that's flat.
--Marston.
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8. (Mus.)
(a) Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals,
minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A
flat.
(b) Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound.
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9. (Phonetics) Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the
sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a
nonsonant (or sharp) consonant.
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10. (Golf) Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft;
-- said of a club.
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11. (Gram.) Not having an inflectional ending or sign, as a
noun used as an adjective, or an adjective as an adverb,
without the addition of a formative suffix, or an
infinitive without the sign to. Many flat adverbs, as in
run fast, buy cheap, are from AS. adverbs in -["e], the
loss of this ending having made them like the adjectives.
Some having forms in ly, such as exceeding, wonderful,
true, are now archaic.
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12. (Hort.) Flattening at the ends; -- said of certain
fruits.
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Flat arch. (Arch.) See under Arch, n., 2. (b).
Flat cap, cap paper, not folded. See under Paper.
Flat chasing, in fine art metal working, a mode of
ornamenting silverware, etc., producing figures by dots
and lines made with a punching tool. --Knight.
Flat chisel, a sculptor's chisel for smoothing.
Flat file, a file wider than its thickness, and of
rectangular section. See File.
Flat nail, a small, sharp-pointed, wrought nail, with a
flat, thin head, larger than a tack. --Knight.
Flat paper, paper which has not been folded.
Flat rail, a railroad rail consisting of a simple flat bar
spiked to a longitudinal sleeper.
Flat rods (Mining), horizontal or inclined connecting rods,
for transmitting motion to pump rods at a distance.
--Raymond.
Flat rope, a rope made by plaiting instead of twisting;
gasket; sennit.
Note: Some flat hoisting ropes, as for mining shafts, are
made by sewing together a number of ropes, making a
wide, flat band. --Knight.
Flat space. (Geom.) See Euclidian space.
Flat stitch, the process of wood engraving. [Obs.] -- {Flat
tint} (Painting), a coat of water color of one uniform shade.
To fall flat (Fig.), to produce no effect; to fail in the
intended effect; as, his speech fell flat.
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Of all who fell by saber or by shot,
Not one fell half so flat as Walter Scott. --Lord
Erskine.
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Purchasing
(gcide) | Purchase \Pur"chase\ (?; 48), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Purchased;
p. pr. & vb. n. Purchasing.] [OE. purchasen, porchacen, OF.
porchacier, purchacier, to pursue, to seek eagerly, F.
pourchasser; OF. pour, por, pur, for (L. pro) + chacier to
pursue, to chase. See Chase.]
1. To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain,
obtain, or acquire. --Chaucer.
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That loves the thing he can not purchase. --Spenser.
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Your accent is Something finer than you could
purchase in so removed a dwelling. --Shak.
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His faults . . . hereditary
Rather than purchased. --Shak.
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2. To obtain by paying money or its equivalent; to buy for a
price; as, to purchase land, or a house.
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The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of
Heth. --Gen. xxv.
10.
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3. To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or
sacrifice, etc.; as, to purchase favor with flattery.
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One poor retiring minute . . .
Would purchase thee a thousand thousand friends.
--Shak.
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A world who would not purchase with a bruise?
--Milton.
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4. To expiate by a fine or forfeit. [Obs.]
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Not tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses.
--Shak.
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5. (Law)
(a) To acquire by any means except descent or inheritance.
--Blackstone.
(b) To buy for a price.
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6. To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical
advantage; to get a purchase upon, or apply a purchase to;
as, to purchase a cannon.
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Steeplechasing
(gcide) | Steeplechasing \Stee"ple*chas`ing\ (-ch[=a]s`[i^]ng), n.
The act of riding steeple chases.
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purchasing
(wn) | purchasing
n 1: the act of buying; "buying and selling fill their days";
"shrewd purchasing requires considerable knowledge" [syn:
buying, purchasing] |
purchasing agent
(wn) | purchasing agent
n 1: an agent who purchases goods or services for another |
purchasing department
(wn) | purchasing department
n 1: the division of a business that is responsible for
purchases |
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