slovo | definícia |
desert (mass) | desert
- púšť, dezertovať, opustiť |
desert (encz) | desert,dezertovat [voj.] |
desert (encz) | desert,opouštět v: |
desert (encz) | desert,opustit v: |
desert (encz) | desert,poušť n: |
desert (encz) | desert,pouštní Zdeněk Brož |
desert (encz) | desert,pustina n: Zdeněk Brož |
desert (encz) | desert,zanechat v: Zdeněk Brož |
desert (encz) | desert,zběhnout v: Zdeněk Brož |
Desert (gcide) | Desert \De*sert"\ (d[-e]*z[~e]rt"), n. [OF. deserte, desserte,
merit, recompense, fr. deservir, desservir, to merit. See
Deserve.]
That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly
due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to
reward; merit.
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According to their deserts will I judge them. --Ezek.
vii. 27.
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Andronicus, surnamed Pius
For many good and great deserts to Rome. --Shak.
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His reputation falls far below his desert. --A.
Hamilton.
Syn: Merit; worth; excellence; due.
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Desert (gcide) | Desert \Des"ert\ (d[e^]z"[~e]rt), n. [F. d['e]sert, L. desertum,
from desertus solitary, desert, pp. of deserere to desert;
de- + serere to join together. See Series.]
1. A deserted or forsaken region; a barren tract incapable of
supporting population, as the vast sand plains of Asia and
Africa which are destitute of moisture and vegetation.
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A dreary desert and a gloomy waste. --Pope.
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2. A tract, which may be capable of sustaining a population,
but has been left unoccupied and uncultivated; a
wilderness; a solitary place.
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He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her
desert like the garden of the Lord. --Is. li. 3.
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Note: Also figuratively.
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Before her extended
Dreary and vast and silent, the desert of life.
--Longfellow.
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Desert (gcide) | Desert \De*sert"\ (d[-e]*z[~e]rt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Deserted; p. pr. & vb. n. Deserting.] [Cf. L. desertus,
p. p. of deserere to desert, F. d['e]serter. See 2d
Desert.]
1. To leave (especially something which one should stay by
and support); to leave in the lurch; to abandon; to
forsake; -- implying blame, except sometimes when used of
localities; as, to desert a friend, a principle, a cause,
one's country. "The deserted fortress." --Prescott.
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2. (Mil.) To abandon (the service) without leave; to forsake
in violation of duty; to abscond from; as, to desert the
army; to desert one's colors.
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Desert (gcide) | Desert \Des"ert\, a. [Cf. L. desertus, p. p. of deserere, and F.
d['e]sert. See 2d Desert.]
Of or pertaining to a desert; forsaken; without life or
cultivation; unproductive; waste; barren; wild; desolate;
solitary; as, they landed on a desert island.
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He . . . went aside privately into a desert place.
--Luke ix. 10.
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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air. --Gray.
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Desert flora (Bot.), the assemblage of plants growing
naturally in a desert, or in a dry and apparently
unproductive place.
Desert hare (Zool.), a small hare (Lepus sylvaticus, var.
Arizon[ae]) inhabiting the deserts of the Western United
States.
Desert mouse (Zool.), an American mouse ({Hesperomys
eremicus}), living in the Western deserts.
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Desert (gcide) | Desert \De*sert"\, v. i.
To abandon a service without leave; to quit military service
without permission, before the expiration of one's term; to
abscond.
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The soldiers . . . deserted in numbers. --Bancroft.
Syn: To abandon; forsake; leave; relinquish; renounce; quit;
depart from; abdicate. See Abandon.
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desert (wn) | desert
n 1: arid land with little or no vegetation
v 1: leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the
lurch; "The mother deserted her children" [syn: abandon,
forsake, desolate, desert]
2: desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to
join the opposing cause, country, or army; "If soldiers
deserted Hitler's army, they were shot" [syn: defect,
desert]
3: leave behind; "the students deserted the campus after the end
of exam period" |
| podobné slovo | definícia |
desert (mass) | desert
- púšť, dezertovať, opustiť |
desert (encz) | desert,dezertovat [voj.] desert,opouštět v: desert,opustit v: desert,poušť n: desert,pouštní Zdeněk Broždesert,pustina n: Zdeněk Broždesert,zanechat v: Zdeněk Broždesert,zběhnout v: Zdeněk Brož |
desert boot (encz) | desert boot, n: |
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