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mating
(encz) | mating,páření n: Zdeněk Brož |
Mating
(gcide) | Mate \Mate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Mating.]
1. To match; to marry.
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If she be mated with an equal husband. --Shak.
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2. To match one's self against; to oppose as equal; to
compete with.
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There is no passion in the mind of man so weak but
it mates and masters the fear of death. --Bacon.
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I, . . . in the way of loyalty and truth, . . .
Dare mate a sounder man than Surrey can be. --Shak.
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3. To breed; to bring (animals) together for the purpose of
breeding; as, she mated a doberman with a German shepherd.
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4. To join together; to fit together; to connect; to link;
as, he mated a saw blade to a broom handle to cut
inaccessible branches.
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mating
(wn) | mating
n 1: the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive
purposes; "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the
mating of some species occurs only in the spring" [syn:
coupling, mating, pairing, conjugation, union,
sexual union] |
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acclimating
(encz) | acclimating,aklimatizování |
amalgamating
(encz) | amalgamating,slučující Jaroslav Šedivý |
approximating
(encz) | approximating,přibližující adj: Zdeněk Brož |
cremating
(encz) | cremating, |
decimating
(encz) | decimating, |
disassortative mating
(encz) | disassortative mating, n: |
estimating
(encz) | estimating,odhadování n: Zdeněk Brož |
intimating
(encz) | intimating, |
legitimating
(encz) | legitimating, |
mating
(encz) | mating,páření n: Zdeněk Brož |
matings
(encz) | matings,páření n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
overestimating
(encz) | overestimating, |
reanimating
(encz) | reanimating, |
underestimating
(encz) | underestimating,podceňování n: Zdeněk Brož |
Acclimating
(gcide) | Acclimate \Ac*cli"mate\ (#; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Acclimated; p. pr. & vb. n. Acclimating.] [F. acclimater;
[`a] (l. ad) + climat climate. See Climate.]
To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize. --J. H.
Newman.
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Amalgamating
(gcide) | Amalgamate \A*mal"ga*mate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Amalgamated;
p. pr. & vb. n. Amalgamating.]
1. To compound or mix, as quicksilver, with another metal; to
unite, combine, or alloy with mercury.
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2. To mix, so as to make a uniform compound; to unite or
combine; as, to amalgamate two races; to amalgamate one
race with another.
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Ingratitude is indeed their four cardinal virtues
compacted and amalgamated into one. --Burke.
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Animating
(gcide) | Animate \An"i*mate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Animated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Animating.] [L. animatus, p. p. of animare, fr.
anima breath, soul; akin to animus soul, mind, Gr. ? wind,
Skr. an to breathe, live, Goth. us-anan to expire (us- out),
Icel. ["o]nd breath, anda to breathe, OHG. ando anger. Cf.
Animal.]
1. To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as,
the soul animates the body.
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2. To give powers to, or to heighten the powers or effect of;
as, to animate a lyre. --Dryden.
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3. To give spirit or vigor to; to stimulate or incite; to
inspirit; to rouse; to enliven.
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The more to animate the people, he stood on high . .
. and cried unto them with a loud voice. --Knolles.
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Syn: To enliven; inspirit; stimulate; exhilarate; inspire;
instigate; rouse; urge; cheer; prompt; incite; quicken;
gladden.
[1913 Webster]Animating \An"i*ma"ting\, a.
Causing animation; life-giving; inspiriting; rousing.
"Animating cries." --Pope. -- An"i*ma`ting*ly, adv.
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Animatingly
(gcide) | Animating \An"i*ma"ting\, a.
Causing animation; life-giving; inspiriting; rousing.
"Animating cries." --Pope. -- An"i*ma`ting*ly, adv.
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Approximating
(gcide) | Approximate \Ap*prox"i*mate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Approximated; p. pr. & vb. n. Approximating.]
1. To carry or advance near; to cause to approach.
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To approximate the inequality of riches to the level
of nature. --Burke.
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2. To come near to; to approach.
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The telescope approximates perfection. --J. Morse.
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Checkmating
(gcide) | Checkmate \Check"mate\ (-m[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Checkmated; p. pr. & vb. n. Checkmating.]
1. (Chess) To check (an adversary's king) in such a manner
that escape in impossible; to defeat (an adversary) by
putting his king in check from which there is no escape.
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2. To defeat completely; to terminate; to thwart.
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To checkmate and control my just demands. --Ford.
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Collimating
(gcide) | Collimate \Col"li*mate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Collimated; p. p.
& vb. n. Collimating.] [See Collimation.] (Physics &
Astron.)
To render parallel to a certain line or direction; to bring
into the same line, as the axes of telescopes, etc.; to
render parallel, as rays of light.
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Collimating eyepiece, an eyepiece with a diagonal reflector
for illumination, used to determine the error of
collimation in a transit instrument by observing the image
of a cross wire reflected from mercury, and comparing its
position in the field with that of the same wire seen
directly.
Collimating lens (Optics), a lens used for producing
parallel rays of light.
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Collimating eyepiece
(gcide) | eyepiece \eye"piece`\ eye-piece \eye"-piece`\, n. (Opt.)
The lens, or combination of lenses, at the eye end of a
microscope, telescope or other optical instrument, through
which the image formed by the mirror or object glass is
viewed.
Syn: ocular.
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Collimating eyepiece. See under Collimate.
Negative, or Huyghenian, eyepiece, an eyepiece
consisting of two plano-convex lenses with their curved
surfaces turned toward the object glass, and separated
from each other by about half the sum of their focal
distances, the image viewed by the eye being formed
between the two lenses. it was devised by Huyghens, who
applied it to the telescope. Campani applied it to the
microscope, whence it is sometimes called {Campani's
eyepiece}.
Positive eyepiece, an eyepiece consisting of two
plano-convex lenses placed with their curved surfaces
toward each other, and separated by a distance somewhat
less than the focal distance of the one nearest eye, the
image of the object viewed being beyond both lenses; --
called also, from the name of the inventor, {Ramsden's
eyepiece}.
terrestrial, or Erecting eyepiece, an eyepiece used in
telescopes for viewing terrestrial objects, consisting of
three, or usually four, lenses, so arranged as to present
the image of the object viewed in an erect position.
[1913 Webster]Collimate \Col"li*mate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Collimated; p. p.
& vb. n. Collimating.] [See Collimation.] (Physics &
Astron.)
To render parallel to a certain line or direction; to bring
into the same line, as the axes of telescopes, etc.; to
render parallel, as rays of light.
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Collimating eyepiece, an eyepiece with a diagonal reflector
for illumination, used to determine the error of
collimation in a transit instrument by observing the image
of a cross wire reflected from mercury, and comparing its
position in the field with that of the same wire seen
directly.
Collimating lens (Optics), a lens used for producing
parallel rays of light.
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Collimating lens
(gcide) | Collimate \Col"li*mate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Collimated; p. p.
& vb. n. Collimating.] [See Collimation.] (Physics &
Astron.)
To render parallel to a certain line or direction; to bring
into the same line, as the axes of telescopes, etc.; to
render parallel, as rays of light.
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Collimating eyepiece, an eyepiece with a diagonal reflector
for illumination, used to determine the error of
collimation in a transit instrument by observing the image
of a cross wire reflected from mercury, and comparing its
position in the field with that of the same wire seen
directly.
Collimating lens (Optics), a lens used for producing
parallel rays of light.
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Consummating
(gcide) | Consummate \Con"sum*mate\ (k[o^]n"s[u^]m*m[=a]t or
k[o^]n*s[u^]m"m[=a]t; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Consummated
(k[o^]n"s[u^]m*m[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Consummating
(k[o^]n"s[u^]m*m[=a]`t[i^]ng).]
To bring to completion; to raise to the highest point or
degree; to complete; to finish; to perfect; to achieve.
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To consummate this business happily. --Shak.
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Decimating
(gcide) | Decimate \Dec"i*mate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Decimated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Decimating.] [L. decimatus, p. p. of decimare to
decimate (in senses 1 & 2), fr. decimus tenth. See
Decimal.]
1. To take the tenth part of; to tithe. --Johnson.
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2. To select by lot and punish with death every tenth man of;
as, to decimate a regiment as a punishment for mutiny.
--Macaulay.
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3. To destroy a considerable part of; as, to decimate an army
in battle; to decimate a people by disease.
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Dephlegmating
(gcide) | Dephlegmate \De*phleg"mate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dephlegmated;
p. pr. & vb. n. Dephlegmating.] [See Dephlegm.] (Chem.)
To deprive of superabundant water, as by evaporation or
distillation; to clear of aqueous matter; to rectify; -- used
of spirits and acids.
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Despumating
(gcide) | Despumate \Des"pu*mate\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Despumated;
p. pr. & vb. n. Despumating.] [L. despumatus, p. p. of
despumare to despume; de- + spumare to foam, froth, spuma
froth, scum.]
To throw off impurities in spume; to work off in foam or
scum; to foam.
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Disanimating
(gcide) | Disanimate \Dis*an"i*mate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disanimated;
p. pr. & vb. n. Disanimating.]
1. To deprive of life. [R.] --Cudworth.
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2. To deprive of spirit; to dishearten. --Shak.
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Estimating
(gcide) | Estimate \Es"ti*mate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Estimated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Estimating.] [L. aestimatus, p. p. of aestimare. See
Esteem, v. t.]
1. To judge and form an opinion of the value of, from
imperfect data, -- either the extrinsic (money), or
intrinsic (moral), value; to fix the worth of roughly or
in a general way; as, to estimate the value of goods or
land; to estimate the worth or talents of a person.
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It is by the weight of silver, and not the name of
the piece, that men estimate commodities and
exchange them. --Locke.
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It is always very difficult to estimate the age in
which you are living. --J. C.
Shairp.
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2. To from an opinion of, as to amount,, number, etc., from
imperfect data, comparison, or experience; to make an
estimate of; to calculate roughly; to rate; as, to
estimate the cost of a trip, the number of feet in a piece
of land.
Syn: To appreciate; value; appraise; prize; rate; esteem;
count; calculate; number. -- To Estimate, Esteem.
Both these words imply an exercise of the judgment.
Estimate has reference especially to the external
relations of things, such as amount, magnitude,
importance, etc. It usually involves computation or
calculation; as, to estimate the loss or gain of an
enterprise. Esteem has reference to the intrinsic or
moral worth of a person or thing. Thus, we esteem a man
for his kindness, or his uniform integrity. In this
sense it implies a mingled sentiment of respect and
attachment. We esteem it an honor to live in a free
country. See Appreciate.
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Illegitimating
(gcide) | Illegitimate \Il`le*git"i*mate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Illegitimated; p. pr. & vb. n. Illegitimating.]
To render illegitimate; to declare or prove to be born out of
wedlock; to bastardize; to illegitimatize.
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The marriage should only be dissolved for the future,
without illegitimating the issue. --Bp. Burnet.
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Imposthumating
(gcide) | Imposthumate \Im*post"hu*mate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Imposthumated; p. pr. & vb. n. Imposthumating.]
To affect with an imposthume or abscess.
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Infumating
(gcide) | Infumate \In"fu*mate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Infumated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Infumating.] [L. infumatus, p. p. of infumare to
infumate; pref. in- in + fumare to smoke, fr. fumus smoke.]
To dry by exposing to smoke; to expose to smoke.
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Intimating
(gcide) | Intimate \In"ti*mate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Intimated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Intimating.] [L. intimatus, p. p. of intimare to
put, bring, drive, or press into, to announce, make known,
from intimus the inmost. See Intimate, a.]
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1. To announce; to declare; to publish; to communicate; to
make known. [Obs.]
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He, incontinent, did proclaim and intimate open war.
--E. Hall.
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So both conspiring 'gan to intimate
Each other's grief. --Spenser.
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2. To suggest obscurely or indirectly; to refer to remotely;
to give slight notice of; to hint; as, he intimated his
intention of resigning his office.
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The names of simple ideas and substances, with the
abstract ideas in the mind, intimate some real
existence, from which was derived their original
pattern. --Locke.
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Legitimating
(gcide) | Legitimate \Le*git"i*mate\ (-m[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Legitimated (-m[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Legitimating
(-m[=a]`t[i^]ng).]
To make legitimate, lawful, or valid; esp., to put in the
position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by
legal means; as, to legitimate a bastard child.
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To enact a statute of that which he dares not seem to
approve, even to legitimate vice. --Milton.
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Sublimating
(gcide) | Sublimate \Sub"li*mate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sublimated; p.
pr. & vb. n. Sublimating.] [L. sublimatus, p. p. of
sublimare to raise, elevate, fr. sublimis high: cf. F.
sublimer. See Sublime, a., and cf. Surlime, v. t.]
1. To bring by heat into the state of vapor, which, on
cooling, returns again to the solid state; as, to
sublimate sulphur or camphor.
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2. To refine and exalt; to heighten; to elevate.
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The precepts of Christianity are . . . so apt to
cleanse and sublimate the more gross and corrupt.
--Dr. H. More.
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3. (Psychology) To redirect the energy (of sexual or other
biological drives) into a more socially acceptable or
constructive form.
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Transanimating
(gcide) | Transanimate \Trans*an"i*mate\ (tr[a^]ns*[a^]n"[i^]*m[=a]t), v.
t. [imp. & p. p. Transanimated
(tr[a^]ns*[a^]n"[i^]*m[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n.
Transanimating.] [Trans- + animate.]
To animate with a soul conveyed from another body. [R.] --Bp.
J. King (1608).
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Ultimating
(gcide) | Ultimate \Ul"ti*mate\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Ultimated; p.
pr. & vb. n. Ultimating.]
1. To come or bring to an end or issue; to eventuate; to end.
[R.]
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2. To come or bring into use or practice. [R.]
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animating
(wn) | animating
adj 1: giving spirit and vivacity [syn: animating,
enlivening] |
assortative mating
(wn) | assortative mating
n 1: mating of individuals having more traits in common than
likely in random mating [ant: disassortative mating] |
disassortative mating
(wn) | disassortative mating
n 1: mating of individuals having traits more dissimilar than
likely in random mating [ant: assortative mating] |
mating
(wn) | mating
n 1: the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive
purposes; "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the
mating of some species occurs only in the spring" [syn:
coupling, mating, pairing, conjugation, union,
sexual union] |
dinosaurs mating
(foldoc) | dinosaurs mating
The activity said to occur when yet another {big
iron} merger or buy-out occurs; reflects a perception by
hackers that these signal another stage in the long, slow
dying of the mainframe industry. Also described as
"elephants mating": lots of noise and action at a high level,
with an eventual outcome in the somewhat distant future.
In its glory days of the 1960s, it was "IBM and the Seven
Dwarves": Burroughs, Control Data, General Electric,
Honeywell, NCR, RCA, and Univac. Early on, RCA sold
out to Univac and GE also sold out, and it was "IBM and the
BUNCH" (an acronym for Burroughs, Univac, NCR, Control Data,
and Honeywell) for a while. Honeywell was bought out by Bull.
Univac in turn merged with Sperry to form Sperry/Univac,
which was later merged (although the employees of Sperry
called it a hostile takeover) with Burroughs to form Unisys
in 1986 (this was when the phrase "dinosaurs mating" was
coined). In 1991 AT&T absorbed NCR, only to spit it out
again in 1996. Unisys bought Convergent Technologies in
1988 and later others.
More such earth-shaking unions of doomed giants seem
inevitable.
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dinosaurs mating
(jargon) | dinosaurs mating
n.
Said to occur when yet another big iron merger or buyout occurs;
originally reflected a perception by hackers that these signal another
stage in the long, slow dying of the mainframe industry. In the mainframe
industry's glory days of the 1960s, it was ‘IBM and the Seven Dwarfs’:
Burroughs, Control Data, General Electric, Honeywell, NCR, RCA, and Univac.
RCA and GE sold out early, and it was ‘IBM and the Bunch’ (Burroughs,
Univac, NCR, Control Data, and Honeywell) for a while. Honeywell was bought
out by Bull; Burroughs merged with Univac to form Unisys (in 1984 — this
was when the phrase dinosaurs mating was coined); and in 1991 AT&T absorbed
NCR (but spat it back out a few years later). Control Data still exists but
is no longer in the mainframe business. In similar wave of dinosaur-matings
as the PC business began to consolidate after 1995, Digital Equipment was
bought by Compaq which was bought by Hewlett-Packard. More such
earth-shaking unions of doomed giants seem inevitable.
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