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plodding
(encz) | plodding,udřený adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Plodding
(gcide) | Plodding \Plod"ding\, a.
Progressing in a slow, toilsome manner; characterized by
laborious diligence; as, a plodding peddler; a plodding
student; a man of plodding habits. --Plod"ding*ly, adv.
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Plodding
(gcide) | Plod \Plod\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Plodded; p. pr. & vb. n.
Plodding.] [Gf. Gael. plod a clod, a pool; also, to strike
or pelt with a clod or clods.]
1. To travel slowly but steadily; to trudge. --Shak.
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2. To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and
patiently. "Plodding schoolmen." --Drayton.
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plodding
(wn) | plodding
adj 1: (of movement) slow and laborious; "leaden steps" [syn:
leaden, plodding]
n 1: hard monotonous routine work [syn: drudgery, plodding,
grind, donkeywork]
2: the act of walking with a slow heavy gait; "I could recognize
his plod anywhere" [syn: plodding, plod] |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
plodding
(encz) | plodding,udřený adj: Zdeněk Brož |
ploddingly
(encz) | ploddingly,lopotně adv: Zdeněk Brožploddingly,namáhavě adv: Zdeněk Brož |
Ploddingly
(gcide) | Plodding \Plod"ding\, a.
Progressing in a slow, toilsome manner; characterized by
laborious diligence; as, a plodding peddler; a plodding
student; a man of plodding habits. --Plod"ding*ly, adv.
[1913 Webster] |
plodding
(wn) | plodding
adj 1: (of movement) slow and laborious; "leaden steps" [syn:
leaden, plodding]
n 1: hard monotonous routine work [syn: drudgery, plodding,
grind, donkeywork]
2: the act of walking with a slow heavy gait; "I could recognize
his plod anywhere" [syn: plodding, plod] |
ploddingly
(wn) | ploddingly
adv 1: in a plodding manner; "this writer ploddingly accumulates
detail after detail" |
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