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provocative
(encz) | provocative,dráždivý adj: |
provocative
(encz) | provocative,provokativní adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Provocative
(gcide) | Provocative \Pro*vo"ca*tive\, a. [L. provocativus: cf. OF.
provocatif.]
Serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate;
exciting.
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Provocative
(gcide) | Provocative \Pro*vo"ca*tive\, n.
Anything that is provocative; a stimulant; as, a provocative
of appetite.
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provocative
(wn) | provocative
adj 1: serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate;
stimulating discussion or exciting controversy; "a
provocative remark"; "a provocative smile"; "provocative
Irish tunes which...compel the hearers to dance"- Anthony
Trollope [ant: unprovocative, unprovoking]
2: exciting sexual desire; "her gestures and postures became
more wanton and provocative" |
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more provocatively
(encz) | more provocatively,dráždivěji |
provocative
(encz) | provocative,dráždivý adj: provocative,provokativní adj: Zdeněk Brož |
provocative affection
(encz) | provocative affection,provokační prostředí [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
provocatively
(encz) | provocatively,provokativně adv: Zdeněk Brož |
provocativeness
(encz) | provocativeness,dráždivost n: provocativeness,provokativnost n: |
unprovocative
(encz) | unprovocative, adj: |
Provocativeness
(gcide) | Provocativeness \Pro*vo"ca*tive*ness\, n.
Quality of being provocative.
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provocative
(wn) | provocative
adj 1: serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate;
stimulating discussion or exciting controversy; "a
provocative remark"; "a provocative smile"; "provocative
Irish tunes which...compel the hearers to dance"- Anthony
Trollope [ant: unprovocative, unprovoking]
2: exciting sexual desire; "her gestures and postures became
more wanton and provocative" |
provocatively
(wn) | provocatively
adv 1: in a provocative manner; "`Try it,' he said
provocatively" [syn: provocatively, provokingly] |
unprovocative
(wn) | unprovocative
adj 1: not provocative [syn: unprovocative, unprovoking]
[ant: provocative] |
provocative maintenance
(foldoc) | provocative maintenance
[Common ironic mutation of "preventive maintenance"] Actions
performed upon a machine at regularly scheduled intervals to
ensure that the system remains in a usable state. So called
because it is all too often performed by a field servoid who
doesn't know what he is doing; such "maintenance" often
*induces* problems, or otherwise results in the machine's
remaining in an *un*usable state for an indeterminate amount
of time. See also scratch monkey.
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provocative maintenance
(jargon) | provocative maintenance
n.
[common ironic mutation of preventive maintenance] Actions performed upon a
machine at regularly scheduled intervals to ensure that the system remains
in a usable state. So called because it is all too often performed by a {
field servoid} who doesn't know what he is doing; such ‘maintenance’ often
induces problems, or otherwise results in the machine's remaining in an un
usable state for an indeterminate amount of time. See also {scratch monkey
}.
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