| slovo | definícia |
scour
(encz) | scour,čištění pcernoch@imc.cas.cz |
scour
(encz) | scour,drhnout v: Zdeněk Brož |
scour
(encz) | scour,kanál pcernoch@imc.cas.cz |
scour
(encz) | scour,prát v: pcernoch@imc.cas.cz |
scour
(encz) | scour,vyčistit pcernoch@imc.cas.cz |
scour
(encz) | scour,vyleštit pcernoch@imc.cas.cz |
scour
(encz) | scour,výmol pcernoch@imc.cas.cz |
scour
(encz) | scour,vymýt pcernoch@imc.cas.cz |
scour
(encz) | scour,zahnat pcernoch@imc.cas.cz |
Scour
(gcide) | Scour \Scour\, v. i.
1. To clean anything by rubbing. --Shak.
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2. To cleanse anything.
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Warm water is softer than cold, for it scoureth
better. --Bacon.
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3. To be purged freely; to have a diarrhoea.
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4. To run swiftly; to rove or range in pursuit or search of
something; to scamper.
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So four fierce coursers, starting to the race,
Scour through the plain, and lengthen every pace.
--Dryden.
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Scour
(gcide) | Scour \Scour\ (skour), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scoured; p. pr. &
vb. n. Scouring.] [Akin to LG. sch["u]ren, D. schuren,
schueren, G. scheuern, Dan. skure; Sw. skura; all possibly
fr. LL. escurare, fr. L. ex + curare to take care. Cf.
Cure.]
1. To rub hard with something rough, as sand or Bristol
brick, especially for the purpose of cleaning; to clean by
friction; to make clean or bright; to cleanse from grease,
dirt, etc., as articles of dress.
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2. To purge; as, to scour a horse.
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3. To remove by rubbing or cleansing; to sweep along or off;
to carry away or remove, as by a current of water; --
often with off or away.
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[I will] stain my favors in a bloody mask,
Which, washed away, shall scour my shame with it.
--Shak.
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4. [Perhaps a different word; cf. OF. escorre, escourre, It.
scorrere, both fr. L. excurrere to run forth. Cf.
Excursion.] To pass swiftly over; to brush along; to
traverse or search thoroughly; as, to scour the coast.
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Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain. --Pope.
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5. To cleanse or clear, as by a current of water; to flush.
If my neighbor ought to scour a ditch. --Blackstone.
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Scouring barrel, a tumbling barrel. See under Tumbling.
Scouring cinder (Metal.), a basic slag, which attacks the
lining of a shaft furnace. --Raymond.
Scouring rush. (Bot.) See Dutch rush, under Dutch.
Scouring stock (Woolen Manuf.), a kind of fulling mill.
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Scour
(gcide) | Scour \Scour\, n.
1. Diarrhoea or dysentery among cattle.
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2. The act of scouring.
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3. A place scoured out by running water, as in the bed of a
stream below a fall.
If you catch the two sole denizens [trout] of a
particular scour, you will find another pair
installed in their place to-morrow. --Grant Allen.
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scour
(wn) | scour
n 1: a place that is scoured (especially by running water)
v 1: examine minutely; "The police scoured the country for the
fugitive"
2: clean with hard rubbing; "She scrubbed his back" [syn:
scrub, scour]
3: rub hard or scrub; "scour the counter tops" [syn: scour,
abrade]
4: rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid; "flush the wound with
antibiotics"; "purge the old gas tank" [syn: flush,
scour, purge] |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
discouraged
(mass) | discouraged
- znechutený |
discourse
(mass) | discourse
- prejav, preslov, prednáška, preslov, reč |
direct discourse
(encz) | direct discourse, n: |
discourage
(encz) | discourage,odradit v: Zdeněk Broždiscourage,odrazovat Pavel Machek; Gizadiscourage,zastrašit v: Zdeněk Brož |
discouraged
(encz) | discouraged,odrazený adj: Zdeněk Broždiscouraged,znechucený adj: Zdeněk Brož |
discouragement
(encz) | discouragement,nepodporování n: Zdeněk Broždiscouragement,zastrašování n: Zdeněk Brož |
discourages
(encz) | discourages,odrazuje v: Zdeněk Brož |
discouraging
(encz) | discouraging,odrazující adj: Zdeněk Brož |
discouragingly
(encz) | discouragingly,odradivě adv: Zdeněk Brož |
discourse
(encz) | discourse,diskurs n: xkomczaxdiscourse,diskurz n: xkomczaxdiscourse,projev n: Zdeněk Broždiscourse,proslov Zdeněk Broždiscourse,rozhovor Zdeněk Broždiscourse,rozmlouvat Zdeněk Broždiscourse,rozmluva Zdeněk Broždiscourse,rozprava Zdeněk Brož |
discourse marker
(encz) | discourse marker,popisovač rozmluvy [lingv.] Jáchym Kolář |
discoursed
(encz) | discoursed, |
discoursing
(encz) | discoursing, |
discourteous
(encz) | discourteous,nezdvořilý Jaroslav Šedivý |
discourteously
(encz) | discourteously,nezdvořile adv: Zdeněk Brož |
discourtesy
(encz) | discourtesy,nezdvořilost Jaroslav Šedivý |
indirect discourse
(encz) | indirect discourse, n: |
scour
(encz) | scour,čištění pcernoch@imc.cas.czscour,drhnout v: Zdeněk Brožscour,kanál pcernoch@imc.cas.czscour,prát v: pcernoch@imc.cas.czscour,vyčistit pcernoch@imc.cas.czscour,vyleštit pcernoch@imc.cas.czscour,výmol pcernoch@imc.cas.czscour,vymýt pcernoch@imc.cas.czscour,zahnat pcernoch@imc.cas.cz |
scoured
(encz) | scoured, adj: |
scourer
(encz) | scourer,čistič pcernoch@imc.cas.czscourer,hledač pcernoch@imc.cas.czscourer,loupací stroj pcernoch@imc.cas.cz |
scourge
(encz) | scourge,bič pcernoch@imc.cas.czscourge,metla pcernoch@imc.cas.czscourge,ostře kritizovat pcernoch@imc.cas.czscourge,pohroma pcernoch@imc.cas.czscourge,potrestat pcernoch@imc.cas.czscourge,rána pcernoch@imc.cas.czscourge,zbičovat pcernoch@imc.cas.czscourge,zdeptat pcernoch@imc.cas.czscourge,zpustošit pcernoch@imc.cas.cz |
scourged
(encz) | scourged,ostře zkritizoval Zdeněk Brožscourged,potrestal v: Zdeněk Brožscourged,zbičoval v: Zdeněk Brožscourged,zdeptal v: Zdeněk Brožscourged,zpustošil v: Zdeněk Brož |
scourger
(encz) | scourger, n: |
scourging
(encz) | scourging, |
scouring
(encz) | scouring,broušení pcernoch@imc.cas.czscouring,odmašťování pcernoch@imc.cas.czscouring,praní pcernoch@imc.cas.czscouring,vymílání (eroze) [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskačscouring,žíravý pcernoch@imc.cas.cz |
scouring pad
(encz) | scouring pad, n: |
scouring rush
(encz) | scouring rush, n: |
scours
(encz) | scours, n: |
undiscouraged
(encz) | undiscouraged,neodrazený adj: Zdeněk Brož |
universe of discourse
(encz) | universe of discourse, n: |
variegated scouring rush
(encz) | variegated scouring rush, n: |
Direct discourse
(gcide) | Direct \Di*rect"\, a. [L. directus, p. p. of dirigere to direct:
cf. F. direct. See Dress, and cf. Dirge.]
1. Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by
the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct
line; direct means.
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What is direct to, what slides by, the question.
--Locke.
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2. Straightforward; not of crooked ways, or swerving from
truth and openness; sincere; outspoken.
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Be even and direct with me. --Shak.
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3. Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
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He nowhere, that I know, says it in direct words.
--Locke.
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A direct and avowed interference with elections.
--Hallam.
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4. In the line of descent; not collateral; as, a descendant
in the direct line.
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5. (Astron.) In the direction of the general planetary
motion, or from west to east; in the order of the signs;
not retrograde; -- said of the motion of a celestial
body.
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6. (Political Science) Pertaining to, or effected immediately
by, action of the people through their votes instead of
through one or more representatives or delegates; as,
direct nomination, direct legislation.
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Direct action.
(a) (Mach.) See Direct-acting.
(b) (Trade unions) See Syndicalism, below. [Webster 1913
Suppl.]
Direct discourse (Gram.), the language of any one quoted
without change in its form; as, he said "I can not come;"
-- correlative to indirect discourse, in which there is
change of form; as, he said that he could not come. They
are often called respectively by their Latin names,
oratio directa, and oratio obliqua.
Direct evidence (Law), evidence which is positive or not
inferential; -- opposed to circumstantial evidence, or
indirect evidence. -- This distinction, however, is
merely formal, since there is no direct evidence that is
not circumstantial, or dependent on circumstances for its
credibility. --Wharton.
Direct examination (Law), the first examination of a
witness in the orderly course, upon the merits. --Abbott.
Direct fire (Mil.), fire, the direction of which is
perpendicular to the line of troops or to the parapet
aimed at.
Direct process (Metal.), one which yields metal in working
condition by a single process from the ore. --Knight.
Direct tax, a tax assessed directly on lands, etc., and
polls, distinguished from taxes on merchandise, or
customs, and from excise.
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Discourage
(gcide) | Discourage \Dis*cour"age\, n.
Lack of courage; cowardliness.
[1913 Webster]Discourage \Dis*cour"age\ (?; 48), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Discouraged; p. pr. & vb. n. Discouraging.] [Pref. dis- +
courage: cf. OF. descoragier, F. d['e]courager: pref. des-
(L. dis-) + corage, F. courage. See Courage.]
1. To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress
the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject; --
the opposite of encourage; as, he was discouraged in his
undertaking; he need not be discouraged from a like
attempt.
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Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest
they be discouraged. --Col. iii.
21.
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2. To dishearten one with respect to; to discountenance; to
seek to check by disfavoring; to deter one from; as, they
discouraged his efforts.
Syn: To dishearten; dispirit; depress; deject; dissuade;
disfavor.
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Discourageable
(gcide) | Discourageable \Dis*cour"age*a*ble\, a.
Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened. --Bp.
Hall.
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Discouraged
(gcide) | Discourage \Dis*cour"age\ (?; 48), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Discouraged; p. pr. & vb. n. Discouraging.] [Pref. dis- +
courage: cf. OF. descoragier, F. d['e]courager: pref. des-
(L. dis-) + corage, F. courage. See Courage.]
1. To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress
the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject; --
the opposite of encourage; as, he was discouraged in his
undertaking; he need not be discouraged from a like
attempt.
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Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest
they be discouraged. --Col. iii.
21.
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2. To dishearten one with respect to; to discountenance; to
seek to check by disfavoring; to deter one from; as, they
discouraged his efforts.
Syn: To dishearten; dispirit; depress; deject; dissuade;
disfavor.
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Discouragement
(gcide) | Discouragement \Dis*cour"age*ment\, n. [Cf. OF. descouragement,
F. d['e]couragement.]
1. The act of discouraging, or the state of being
discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence;
dejection.
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2. That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to
deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of
anything; a determent; as, the revolution was commenced
under every possible discouragement. "Discouragements from
vice." --Swift.
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Discourager
(gcide) | Discourager \Dis*cour"a*ger\, n.
One who discourages.
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The promoter of truth and the discourager of error.
--Sir G. C.
Lewis.
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Discouraging
(gcide) | Discourage \Dis*cour"age\ (?; 48), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Discouraged; p. pr. & vb. n. Discouraging.] [Pref. dis- +
courage: cf. OF. descoragier, F. d['e]courager: pref. des-
(L. dis-) + corage, F. courage. See Courage.]
1. To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress
the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject; --
the opposite of encourage; as, he was discouraged in his
undertaking; he need not be discouraged from a like
attempt.
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Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest
they be discouraged. --Col. iii.
21.
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2. To dishearten one with respect to; to discountenance; to
seek to check by disfavoring; to deter one from; as, they
discouraged his efforts.
Syn: To dishearten; dispirit; depress; deject; dissuade;
disfavor.
[1913 Webster]Discouraging \Dis*cour"a*ging\, a.
Causing or indicating discouragement. --
Dis*cour"a*ging*ly, adv.
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Discouragingly
(gcide) | Discouraging \Dis*cour"a*ging\, a.
Causing or indicating discouragement. --
Dis*cour"a*ging*ly, adv.
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Discoure
(gcide) | Discoure \Dis*coure"\, v. t.
To discover. [Obs.]
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That none might her discoure. --Spenser.
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Discourse
(gcide) | Discourse \Dis*course"\, n. [L. discursus a running to and fro,
discourse, fr. discurrere, discursum, to run to and fro, to
discourse; dis- + currere to run: cf. F. discours. See
Course.]
1. The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it
were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a
conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning;
range of reasoning faculty. [Obs.]
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Difficult, strange, and harsh to the discourses of
natural reason. --South.
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Sure he that made us with such large discourse,
Looking before and after, gave us not
That capability and godlike reason
To fust in us unused. --Shak.
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2. Conversation; talk.
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In their discourses after supper. --Shak.
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Filling the head with variety of thoughts, and the
mouth with copious discourse. --Locke.
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3. The art and manner of speaking and conversing.
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Of excellent breeding, admirable discourse. --Shak.
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4. Consecutive speech, either written or unwritten, on a
given line of thought; speech; treatise; dissertation;
sermon, etc.; as, the preacher gave us a long discourse on
duty.
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5. Dealing; transaction. [Obs.]
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Good Captain Bessus, tell us the discourse
Betwixt Tigranes and our king, and how
We got the victory. --Beau. & Fl.
[1913 Webster]Discourse \Dis*course"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Discoursed; p.
pr. & vb. n. Discoursing.]
1. To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and
inferring; to reason. [Obs.] "Have sense or can
discourse." --Dryden.
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2. To express one's self in oral discourse; to expose one's
views; to talk in a continuous or formal manner; to hold
forth; to speak; to converse.
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Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear. --Shak.
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3. To relate something; to tell. --Shak.
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4. To treat of something in writing and formally.
[1913 Webster]Discourse \Dis*course"\, v. t.
1. To treat of; to expose or set forth in language. [Obs.]
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The life of William Tyndale . . . is sufficiently
and at large discoursed in the book. --Foxe.
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2. To utter or give forth; to speak.
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It will discourse most eloquent music. --Shak.
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3. To talk to; to confer with. [Obs.]
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I have spoken to my brother, who is the patron, to
discourse the minister about it. --Evelyn.
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