slovo | definícia |
slating (encz) | slating, n: |
Slating (gcide) | Slate \Slate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Slating.]
1. To cover with slate, or with a substance resembling slate;
as, to slate a roof; to slate a globe.
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2. To register (as on a slate and subject to revision), for
an appointment. [Polit. Cant]
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Slating (gcide) | Slating \Slat"ing\, n.
1. The act of covering with slate, slates, or a substance
resembling slate; the work of a slater.
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2. Slates, collectively; also, material for slating.
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slating (wn) | slating
n 1: thin layers of rock used for roofing [syn: slate,
slating]
2: a severely critical attack; "the reviewers gave his book a
sound slating"
3: the act of laying slates for a roof |
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legislating (encz) | legislating,legislace n: Zdeněk Brožlegislating,zákonodárství n: Zdeněk Brož |
mistranslating (encz) | mistranslating, |
slating (encz) | slating, n: |
translating (encz) | translating,překládání |
translating program (encz) | translating program, n: |
Legislating (gcide) | Legislate \Leg"is*late\ (l[e^]j"[i^]s*l[=a]t), v. i. [imp. & p.
p. Legislated (-l[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n.
Legislating (-l[=a]`t[i^]ng).] [See Legislator.]
To make or enact a law or laws.
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Solon, in legislating for the Athenians, had an idea of
a more perfect constitution than he gave them. --Bp.
Watson (1805).
[1913 Webster]legislating \legislating\ n.
the act of making or enacting laws; legislation[1].
Syn: legislation, lawmaking.
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legislating (gcide) | Legislate \Leg"is*late\ (l[e^]j"[i^]s*l[=a]t), v. i. [imp. & p.
p. Legislated (-l[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n.
Legislating (-l[=a]`t[i^]ng).] [See Legislator.]
To make or enact a law or laws.
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Solon, in legislating for the Athenians, had an idea of
a more perfect constitution than he gave them. --Bp.
Watson (1805).
[1913 Webster]legislating \legislating\ n.
the act of making or enacting laws; legislation[1].
Syn: legislation, lawmaking.
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Translating (gcide) | Translate \Trans*late"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Translated; p.
pr. & vb. n. Translating.] [f. translatus, used as p. p. of
transferre to transfer, but from a different root. See
Trans-, and Tolerate, and cf. Translation.]
1. To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to
transfer; as, to translate a tree. [Archaic] --Dryden.
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In the chapel of St. Catharine of Sienna, they show
her head- the rest of her body being translated to
Rome. --Evelyn.
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2. To change to another condition, position, place, or
office; to transfer; hence, to remove as by death.
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3. To remove to heaven without a natural death.
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By faith Enoch was translated, that he should not
see death; and was not found, because God had
translatedhim. --Heb. xi. 5.
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4. (Eccl.) To remove, as a bishop, from one see to another.
"Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, when the king would have
translated him from that poor bishopric to a better, . . .
refused." --Camden.
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5. To render into another language; to express the sense of
in the words of another language; to interpret; hence, to
explain or recapitulate in other words.
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Translating into his own clear, pure, and flowing
language, what he found in books well known to the
world, but too bulky or too dry for boys and girls.
--Macaulay.
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6. To change into another form; to transform.
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Happy is your grace,
That can translatethe stubbornness of fortune
Into so quiet and so sweet a style. --Shak.
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7. (Med.) To cause to remove from one part of the body to
another; as, to translate a disease.
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8. To cause to lose senses or recollection; to entrance.
[Obs.] --J. Fletcher.
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legislating (wn) | legislating
n 1: the act of making or enacting laws [syn: legislation,
legislating, lawmaking] |
slating (wn) | slating
n 1: thin layers of rock used for roofing [syn: slate,
slating]
2: a severely critical attack; "the reviewers gave his book a
sound slating"
3: the act of laying slates for a roof |
translating program (wn) | translating program
n 1: a program that translates one programming language into
another [syn: translator, translating program] |
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