slovo | definícia |
foreign (mass) | foreign
- zahraničný, cudzí |
foreign (encz) | foreign,cizí |
foreign (encz) | foreign,zahraniční |
Foreign (gcide) | Foreign \For"eign\, a. [OE. forein, F. forain, LL. foraneus, fr.
L. foras, foris, out of doors, abroad, without; akin to fores
doors, and E. door. See Door, and cf. Foreclose,
Forfeit, Forest, Forum.]
1. Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign
country; a foreign government. "Foreign worlds." --Milton.
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2. Not native or belonging to a certain country; born in or
belonging to another country, nation, sovereignty, or
locality; as, a foreign language; foreign fruits.
"Domestic and foreign writers." --Atterbury.
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Hail, foreign wonder!
Whom certain these rough shades did never breed.
--Milton.
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3. Remote; distant; strange; not belonging; not connected;
not pertaining or pertient; not appropriate; not
harmonious; not agreeable; not congenial; -- with to or
from; as, foreign to the purpose; foreign to one's nature.
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This design is not foreign from some people's
thoughts. --Swift.
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4. Held at a distance; excluded; exiled. [Obs.]
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Kept him a foreign man still; which so grieved him,
That he ran mad and died. --Shak.
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Foreign attachment (Law), a process by which the property
of a foreign or absent debtor is attached for the
satisfaction of a debt due from him to the plaintiff; an
attachment of the goods, effects, or credits of a debtor
in the hands of a third person; -- called in some States
trustee, in others factorizing, and in others garnishee
process. --Kent. --Tomlins. --Cowell.
Foreign bill, a bill drawn in one country, and payable in
another, as distinguished from an inland bill, which is
one drawn and payable in the same country. In this latter,
as well as in several other points of view, the different
States of the United States are foreign to each other. See
Exchange, n., 4. --Kent. --Story.
Foreign body (Med.), a substance occurring in any part of
the body where it does not belong, and usually introduced
from without.
Foreign office, that department of the government of Great
Britain which has charge British interests in foreign
countries.
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Syn: Outlandish; alien; exotic; remote; distant; extraneous;
extrinsic.
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foreign (wn) | foreign
adj 1: of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations
(other than your own); "foreign trade"; "a foreign
office" [ant: domestic]
2: relating to or originating in or characteristic of another
place or part of the world; "foreign nations"; "a foreign
accent"; "on business in a foreign city" [syn: foreign,
strange] [ant: native]
3: not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of
something; "an economic theory alien to the spirit of
capitalism"; "the mysticism so foreign to the French mind and
temper"; "jealousy is foreign to her nature" [syn: alien,
foreign]
4: not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced
from an outside source; "water free of extraneous matter";
"foreign particles in milk" [syn: extraneous, foreign] |
FOREIGN (bouvier) | FOREIGN. That which belongs to another country; that which is strange. 1
Peters, R. 343.
2. Every nation is foreign to all the rest, and the several states of
the American Union are foreign to each other, with respect to their
municipal laws. 2 Wash. R. 282; 4 Conn. 517; 6 Conn. 480; 2 Wend. 411 1
Dall. 458, 463 6 Binn. 321; 12 S. & R. 203; 2 Hill R. 319 1 D. Chipm. 303 7
Monroe, 585 5 Leigh, 471; 3 Pick. 293.
3. But the reciprocal relations between the national government and the
several states composing the United States are not considered as foreign,
but domestic. 9 Pet. 607; 5 Pet. 398; 6 Pet. 317; 4 Cranch, 384; 4 Gill &
John. 1, 63. Vide Attachment, for foreign attachment; Bill of exchange, for
foreign bills of exchange; Foreign Coins; Foreign Judgment; Foreign Laws;
Foreigners.
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| podobné slovo | definícia |
foreign (mass) | foreign
- zahraničný, cudzí |
foreign minister (mass) | foreign minister
- minister zahraničných vecí |
foreigner (mass) | foreigner
- cudzinec |
foreignlanguage (mass) | foreign-language
- cudzí jazyk |
foreign (encz) | foreign,cizí foreign,zahraniční |
foreign agent (encz) | foreign agent, n: |
foreign aid (encz) | foreign aid, n: |
foreign asset (encz) | foreign asset, |
foreign bill (encz) | foreign bill, n: |
foreign bond (encz) | foreign bond, |
foreign borrowing (encz) | foreign borrowing, |
foreign capital (encz) | foreign capital,cizí kapitál Zdeněk Brožforeign capital,zahraniční kapitál Zdeněk Brož |
foreign claim (encz) | foreign claim, |
foreign correspondent (encz) | foreign correspondent, n: |
foreign countries (encz) | foreign countries,cizina foreign countries,zahraničí |
foreign currency (encz) | foreign currency,devizy foreign currency,zahraniční měna [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
foreign currency account (encz) | foreign currency account,devizový účet Mgr. Dita Gálová |
foreign debt (encz) | foreign debt,zahraniční dluh Mgr. Dita Gálová |
foreign direct investment (encz) | foreign direct investment, n: |
foreign draft (encz) | foreign draft, n: |
foreign exchange (encz) | foreign exchange,cizí měna n: lukeforeign exchange,deviza Mgr. Dita Gálováforeign exchange,devizy Mgr. Dita Gálováforeign exchange,valuta n: Zdeněk Brožforeign exchange,zahraniční měna Mgr. Dita Gálováforeign exchange,zahraniční výměna (peněz) [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
foreign exchange - cash (encz) | foreign exchange - cash,valuta n: [fin.] Ivan Masár |
foreign exchange - cashless (encz) | foreign exchange - cashless,devíza n: [fin.] Ivan Masár |
foreign exchange and financial markets (encz) | Foreign Exchange and Financial Markets, |
foreign exchange assets (encz) | foreign exchange assets, |
foreign exchange auction (encz) | foreign exchange auction, |
foreign exchange dealer (encz) | foreign exchange dealer, |
foreign exchange market (encz) | foreign exchange market,deviz Mgr. Dita Gálováforeign exchange market,trh zahraničních měn Mgr. Dita Gálová |
foreign exchange n (encz) | foreign exchange n,deviza Mgr. Dita Gálováforeign exchange n,zahraniční měna Mgr. Dita Gálová |
foreign exchange policy (encz) | foreign exchange policy, |
foreign exchange position (encz) | foreign exchange position, |
foreign exchange record (encz) | foreign exchange record, |
foreign exchange reserves (encz) | foreign exchange reserves,devizové rezervy Mgr. Dita Gálová |
foreign exchange speculation (encz) | foreign exchange speculation, |
foreign exchange trading officer (encz) | foreign exchange trading officer, |
foreign exchanges (encz) | foreign exchanges,valuty n: Zdeněk Brož |
foreign investment (encz) | foreign investment,zahraniční investice |
foreign investments (encz) | foreign investments,zahraniční investice [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
foreign issue (encz) | foreign issue, |
foreign legion (encz) | foreign legion, n: |
foreign lending (encz) | foreign lending, |
foreign liabilities (encz) | foreign liabilities, |
foreign minister (encz) | foreign minister,ministr zahraničních věcí n: luke |
foreign mission (encz) | foreign mission, n: |
foreign office (encz) | foreign office, n: |
foreign official sector (encz) | foreign official sector, |
foreign policy (encz) | foreign policy, n: |
foreign tax credit (encz) | foreign tax credit, |
foreign terrorist organization (encz) | foreign terrorist organization, n: |
foreign trade (encz) | foreign trade,zahraniční obchod Zdeněk Brož |
foreign trade multiplier (encz) | foreign trade multiplier, |
foreign-born (encz) | foreign-born,narozený v cizině Zdeněk Brož |
foreign-held balances (encz) | foreign-held balances, |
foreign-language (encz) | foreign-language,cizojazyčný adj: |
foreign-owned corporation (encz) | foreign-owned corporation, |
foreigner (encz) | foreigner,cizinec foreigner,cizinka |
foreigners (encz) | foreigners,cizinci n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
foreignness (encz) | foreignness,cizost n: Zdeněk Brožforeignness,cizota |
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