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compton
(encz) | Compton,Compton n: [jmén.] příjmení Zdeněk Brož a automatický překlad |
compton
(czen) | Compton,Comptonn: [jmén.] příjmení Zdeněk Brož a automatický překlad |
compton
(wn) | Compton
n 1: United States physicist noted for research on x-rays and
gamma rays and nuclear energy; his observation that X-rays
behave like miniature bowling balls in their interactions
with electrons provided evidence for the quantal nature of
light (1892-1962) [syn: Compton, Arthur Compton,
Arthur Holly Compton] |
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compton
(encz) | Compton,Compton n: [jmén.] příjmení Zdeněk Brož a automatický překlad |
compton
(czen) | Compton,Comptonn: [jmén.] příjmení Zdeněk Brož a automatický překlad |
Comptonia asplenifolia
(gcide) | Sweet \Sweet\, a. [Compar. Sweeter; superl. Sweetest.] [OE.
swete, swote, sote, AS. sw[=e]te; akin to OFries. sw[=e]te,
OS. sw[=o]ti, D. zoet, G. s["u]ss, OHG. suozi, Icel. saetr,
soetr, Sw. s["o]t, Dan. s["o]d, Goth. suts, L. suavis, for
suadvis, Gr. ?, Skr. sv[=a]du sweet, svad, sv[=a]d, to
sweeten. [root]175. Cf. Assuage, Suave, Suasion.]
1. Having an agreeable taste or flavor such as that of sugar;
saccharine; -- opposed to sour and bitter; as, a sweet
beverage; sweet fruits; sweet oranges.
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2. Pleasing to the smell; fragrant; redolent; balmy; as, a
sweet rose; sweet odor; sweet incense.
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The breath of these flowers is sweet to me.
--Longfellow.
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3. Pleasing to the ear; soft; melodious; harmonious; as, the
sweet notes of a flute or an organ; sweet music; a sweet
voice; a sweet singer.
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To make his English sweet upon his tongue.
--Chaucer.
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A voice sweet, tremulous, but powerful. --Hawthorne.
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4. Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair;
as, a sweet face; a sweet color or complexion.
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Sweet interchange
Of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains.
--Milton.
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5. Fresh; not salt or brackish; as, sweet water. --Bacon.
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6. Not changed from a sound or wholesome state. Specifically:
(a) Not sour; as, sweet milk or bread.
(b) Not state; not putrescent or putrid; not rancid; as,
sweet butter; sweet meat or fish.
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7. Plaesing to the mind; mild; gentle; calm; amiable;
winning; presuasive; as, sweet manners.
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Canst thou bind the sweet influence of Pleiades?
--Job xxxviii.
31.
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Mildness and sweet reasonableness is the one
established rule of Christian working. --M. Arnold.
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Note: Sweet is often used in the formation of self-explaining
compounds; as, sweet-blossomed, sweet-featured,
sweet-smelling, sweet-tempered, sweet-toned, etc.
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Sweet alyssum. (Bot.) See Alyssum.
Sweet apple. (Bot.)
(a) Any apple of sweet flavor.
(b) See Sweet-sop.
Sweet bay. (Bot.)
(a) The laurel (Laurus nobilis).
(b) Swamp sassafras.
Sweet calabash (Bot.), a plant of the genus Passiflora
(Passiflora maliformis) growing in the West Indies, and
producing a roundish, edible fruit, the size of an apple.
Sweet cicely. (Bot.)
(a) Either of the North American plants of the
umbelliferous genus Osmorrhiza having aromatic roots
and seeds, and white flowers. --Gray.
(b) A plant of the genus Myrrhis (Myrrhis odorata)
growing in England.
Sweet calamus, or Sweet cane. (Bot.) Same as {Sweet
flag}, below.
Sweet Cistus (Bot.), an evergreen shrub (Cistus Ladanum)
from which the gum ladanum is obtained.
Sweet clover. (Bot.) See Melilot.
Sweet coltsfoot (Bot.), a kind of butterbur ({Petasites
sagittata}) found in Western North America.
Sweet corn (Bot.), a variety of the maize of a sweet taste.
See the Note under Corn.
Sweet fern (Bot.), a small North American shrub ({Comptonia
asplenifolia} syn. Myrica asplenifolia) having
sweet-scented or aromatic leaves resembling fern leaves.
Sweet flag (Bot.), an endogenous plant (Acorus Calamus)
having long flaglike leaves and a rootstock of a pungent
aromatic taste. It is found in wet places in Europe and
America. See Calamus, 2.
Sweet gale (Bot.), a shrub (Myrica Gale) having bitter
fragrant leaves; -- also called sweet willow, and {Dutch
myrtle}. See 5th Gale.
Sweet grass (Bot.), holy, or Seneca, grass.
Sweet gum (Bot.), an American tree ({Liquidambar
styraciflua}). See Liquidambar.
Sweet herbs, fragrant herbs cultivated for culinary
purposes.
Sweet John (Bot.), a variety of the sweet William.
Sweet leaf (Bot.), horse sugar. See under Horse.
Sweet marjoram. (Bot.) See Marjoram.
Sweet marten (Zool.), the pine marten.
Sweet maudlin (Bot.), a composite plant ({Achillea
Ageratum}) allied to milfoil.
Sweet oil, olive oil.
Sweet pea. (Bot.) See under Pea.
Sweet potato. (Bot.) See under Potato.
Sweet rush (Bot.), sweet flag.
Sweet spirits of niter (Med. Chem.) See {Spirit of nitrous
ether}, under Spirit.
Sweet sultan (Bot.), an annual composite plant ({Centaurea
moschata}), also, the yellow-flowered ({Centaurea
odorata}); -- called also sultan flower.
Sweet tooth, an especial fondness for sweet things or for
sweetmeats. [Colloq.]
Sweet William.
(a) (Bot.) A species of pink (Dianthus barbatus) of many
varieties.
(b) (Zool.) The willow warbler.
(c) (Zool.) The European goldfinch; -- called also {sweet
Billy}. [Prov. Eng.]
Sweet willow (Bot.), sweet gale.
Sweet wine. See Dry wine, under Dry.
To be sweet on, to have a particular fondness for, or
special interest in, as a young man for a young woman.
[Colloq.] --Thackeray.
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Syn: Sugary; saccharine; dulcet; luscious.
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comptonite
(gcide) | Thomsonite \Thom"son*ite\, n. [From R. D. Thomson, of Glasgow.]
(Min.)
A zeolitic mineral, occurring generally in masses of a
radiated structure. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia,
lime, and soda. Called also mesole, and comptonite.
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arthur compton
(wn) | Arthur Compton
n 1: United States physicist noted for research on x-rays and
gamma rays and nuclear energy; his observation that X-rays
behave like miniature bowling balls in their interactions
with electrons provided evidence for the quantal nature of
light (1892-1962) [syn: Compton, Arthur Compton,
Arthur Holly Compton] |
arthur holly compton
(wn) | Arthur Holly Compton
n 1: United States physicist noted for research on x-rays and
gamma rays and nuclear energy; his observation that X-rays
behave like miniature bowling balls in their interactions
with electrons provided evidence for the quantal nature of
light (1892-1962) [syn: Compton, Arthur Compton,
Arthur Holly Compton] |
compton
(wn) | Compton
n 1: United States physicist noted for research on x-rays and
gamma rays and nuclear energy; his observation that X-rays
behave like miniature bowling balls in their interactions
with electrons provided evidence for the quantal nature of
light (1892-1962) [syn: Compton, Arthur Compton,
Arthur Holly Compton] |
comptonia
(wn) | Comptonia
n 1: one species: sweet fern [syn: Comptonia, {genus
Comptonia}] |
comptonia asplenifolia
(wn) | Comptonia asplenifolia
n 1: deciduous shrub of eastern North America with sweet scented
fernlike leaves and tiny white flowers [syn: sweet fern,
Comptonia peregrina, Comptonia asplenifolia] |
comptonia peregrina
(wn) | Comptonia peregrina
n 1: deciduous shrub of eastern North America with sweet scented
fernlike leaves and tiny white flowers [syn: sweet fern,
Comptonia peregrina, Comptonia asplenifolia] |
francis henry compton crick
(wn) | Francis Henry Compton Crick
n 1: English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped
discover the helical structure of DNA (1916-2004) [syn:
Crick, Francis Crick, Francis Henry Compton Crick] |
genus comptonia
(wn) | genus Comptonia
n 1: one species: sweet fern [syn: Comptonia, {genus
Comptonia}] |
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