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strata
(msas) | strata
- damage, loss, red ink |
strata
(msasasci) | strata
- damage, loss, red ink |
strata
(encz) | strata,vrstvy |
Strata
(gcide) | Strata \Stra"ta\, n.,
pl. of Stratum.
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Strata
(gcide) | Stratum \Stra"tum\, n.; pl. E. Stratums, L. Strata. The
latter is more common. [L., from sternere, stratum, to
spread; akin to Gr. ? to spread, strew. See Strew, and cf.
Consternation, Estrade, Prostrate, Stratus,
Street.]
1. (Geol.) A bed of earth or rock of one kind, formed by
natural causes, and consisting usually of a series of
layers, which form a rock as it lies between beds of other
kinds. Also used figuratively.
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2. A bed or layer artificially made; a course.
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stratagem
(mass) | stratagem
- pasca |
strata
(msas) | strata
- damage, loss, red ink |
zisk a strata
(msas) | zisk a strata
- profit-and-loss |
strata
(msasasci) | strata
- damage, loss, red ink |
zisk a strata
(msasasci) | zisk a strata
- profit-and-loss |
social strata
(encz) | social strata,společenské vrstvy n: sg. social stratum web |
strata
(encz) | strata,vrstvy |
stratagem
(encz) | stratagem,lest n: Zdeněk Brož |
substrata
(encz) | substrata,substrát n: Zdeněk Brož |
water-bearing strata system
(encz) | water-bearing strata system,zvodněný systém [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
Balaenoptera rostrata
(gcide) | Pike \Pike\, n. [F. pique; perhaps of Celtic origin; cf. W. pig
a prick, a point, beak, Arm. pik pick. But cf. also L. picus
woodpecker (see Pie magpie), and E. spike. Cf. Pick, n. &
v., Peak, Pique.]
1. (Mil.) A foot soldier's weapon, consisting of a long
wooden shaft or staff, with a pointed steel head. It is
now superseded by the bayonet.
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2. A pointed head or spike; esp., one in the center of a
shield or target. --Beau. & Fl.
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3. A hayfork. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Tusser.
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4. A pick. [Prov. Eng.] --Wright. Raymond.
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5. A pointed or peaked hill. [R.]
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6. A large haycock. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
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7. A turnpike; a toll bar. --Dickens.
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8. (Zool.) sing. & pl. A large fresh-water fish ({Esox
lucius}), found in Europe and America, highly valued as a
food fish; -- called also pickerel, gedd, luce, and
jack.
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Note: Blue pike, grass pike, green pike, wall-eyed pike, and
yellow pike, are names, not of true pike, but of the
wall-eye. See Wall-eye.
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Gar pike. See under Gar.
Pike perch (Zool.), any fresh-water fish of the genus
Stizostedion (formerly Lucioperca). See Wall-eye,
and Sauger.
Pike pole, a long pole with a pike in one end, used in
directing floating logs.
Pike whale (Zool.), a finback whale of the North Atlantic
(Bal[ae]noptera rostrata), having an elongated snout; --
called also piked whale.
Sand pike (Zool.), the lizard fish.
Sea pike (Zool.), the garfish
(a) .
[1913 Webster]Doegling \D[oe]g"ling\, n. [Native name in Faroe Islands.]
(Zool.)
The beaked whale (Bal[ae]noptera rostrata), from which
d[oe]gling oil is obtained.
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Corylus rostrata
(gcide) | Hazel \Ha"zel\ (h[=a]"z'l), n. [OE. hasel, AS. h[ae]sel; akin to
D. hazelaar, G. hazel, OHG. hasal, hasala, Icel. hasl, Dan &
Sw. hassel, L. corylus, for cosylus.]
1. (Bot.) A shrub or small tree of the genus Corylus, as
the Corylus avellana, bearing a nut containing a kernel
of a mild, farinaceous taste; the filbert. The American
species are Corylus Americana, which produces the common
hazelnut, and Corylus rostrata. See Filbert. --Gray.
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2. A miner's name for freestone. --Raymond.
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Hazel earth, soil suitable for the hazel; a fertile loam.
Hazel grouse (Zool.), a European grouse ({Bonasa
betulina}), allied to the American ruffed grouse.
Hazel hoe, a kind of grub hoe.
Witch hazel. See Witch-hazel, and Hamamelis.
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Secondary strata
(gcide) | Secondary \Sec"ond*a*ry\, a. [Cf. F. secondaire, L. secundaire.
See Second, a.]
1. Succeeding next in order to the first; of second place,
origin, rank, etc.; not primary; subordinate; not of the
first order or rate.
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Wheresoever there is moral right on the one hand, no
secondary right can discharge it. --L'Estrange.
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Two are the radical differences; the secondary
differences are as four. --Bacon.
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2. Acting by deputation or delegated authority; as, the work
of secondary hands.
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3. (Chem.) Possessing some quality, or having been subject to
some operation (as substitution), in the second degree;
as, a secondary salt, a secondary amine, etc. Cf.
primary.
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Note: A primary amine has the general formula R.NH2; a
secondary amine has the general formula R.NH.R',
where R and R' are alkyl or aryl groups. A primary
alcohol has the general formula R.CH2.OH; a secondary
alcohol has the general formula R.CHOH.R'. Tertiary
amines and alcohols have the general formulas
R.CR'N.R' and R.CR'OH.R', respectively.
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4. (Min.) Subsequent in origin; -- said of minerals produced
by alteration or deposition subsequent to the formation of
the original rock mass; also of characters of minerals (as
secondary cleavage, etc.) developed by pressure or other
causes.
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5. (Zool.) Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a
bird.
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6. (Med.)
(a) Dependent or consequent upon another disease; as,
Bright's disease is often secondary to scarlet fever.
(b) Occurring in the second stage of a disease; as, the
secondary symptoms of syphilis.
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Secondary accent. See the Note under Accent, n., 1.
Secondary age. (Geol.) The Mesozoic age, or age before the
Tertiary. See Mesozoic, and Note under Age, n., 8.
Secondary alcohol (Chem.), any one of a series of alcohols
which contain the radical CH.OH united with two
hydrocarbon radicals. On oxidation the secondary alcohols
form ketones.
Secondary amputation (Surg.), an amputation for injury,
performed after the constitutional effects of the injury
have subsided.
Secondary axis (Opt.), any line which passes through the
optical center of a lens but not through the centers of
curvature, or, in the case of a mirror, which passes
through the center of curvature but not through the center
of the mirror.
Secondary battery. (Elec.) See under Battery, n., 4.
Secondary circle (Geom. & Astron.), a great circle that
passes through the poles of another great circle and is
therefore perpendicular to its plane.
Secondary circuit, Secondary coil (Elec.), a circuit or
coil in which a current is produced by the induction of a
current in a neighboring circuit or coil called the
primary circuit or coil.
Secondary color, a color formed by mixing any two primary
colors in equal proportions.
Secondary coverts (Zool.), the longer coverts which overlie
the basal part of the secondary quills of a bird. See
Illust. under Bird.
Secondary crystal (Min.), a crystal derived from one of the
primary forms.
Secondary current (Elec.), a momentary current induced in a
closed circuit by a current of electricity passing through
the same or a contiguous circuit at the beginning and also
at the end of the passage of the primary current.
Secondary evidence, that which is admitted upon failure to
obtain the primary or best evidence.
Secondary fever (Med.), a fever coming on in a disease
after the subsidence of the fever with which the disease
began, as the fever which attends the outbreak of the
eruption in smallpox.
Secondary hemorrhage (Med.), hemorrhage occuring from a
wounded blood vessel at some considerable time after the
original bleeding has ceased.
Secondary planet. (Astron.) See the Note under Planet.
Secondary qualities, those qualities of bodies which are
not inseparable from them as such, but are dependent for
their development and intensity on the organism of the
percipient, such as color, taste, odor, etc.
Secondary quills or Secondary remiges (Zool.), the quill
feathers arising from the forearm of a bird and forming a
row continuous with the primaries; -- called also
secondaries. See Illust. of Bird.
Secondary rocks or Secondary strata (Geol.), those lying
between the Primary, or Paleozoic, and Tertiary (see
Primary rocks, under Primary); -- later restricted to
strata of the Mesozoic age, and at present but little
used.
Secondary syphilis (Med.), the second stage of syphilis,
including the period from the first development of
constitutional symptoms to the time when the bones and the
internal organs become involved.
Secondary tint, any subdued tint, as gray.
Secondary union (Surg.), the union of wounds after
suppuration; union by the second intention.
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Syn: Second; second-rate; subordinate; inferior.
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Stratagem
(gcide) | Stratagem \Strat"a*gem\, n. [F. stratag[`e]me (cf. Sp.
estratagema, It. stratagemma), L. strategema, Gr. ?, fr. ? to
be leader of an army, fr. ? a general; ? an army (probably as
being spread out; cf. Stratum) + ? to lead. See Agent.]
An artifice or trick in war for deceiving the enemy; hence,
in general, artifice; deceptive device; secret plot; evil
machination.
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Fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. --Shak.
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Those oft are stratagems which error seem,
Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream. --Pope.
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Stratagemical
(gcide) | Stratagemical \Strat`a*gem"ic*al\, a.
Containing stratagem; as, a stratagemical epistle. [R.]
--Swift.
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Stratarithmetry
(gcide) | Stratarithmetry \Strat`a*rith"me*try\, n. [Gr. ? army + ? number
+ -metry.] (Mil.)
The art of drawing up an army, or any given number of men, in
any geometrical figure, or of estimating or expressing the
number of men in such a figure.
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Substrata
(gcide) | Substratum \Sub*stra"tum\, n.; pl. Substrata. [L. substratus,
p. p. of substernere to strew under; sub under + sternere to
strew. See Stratum.]
1. That which is laid or spread under; that which underlies
something, as a layer of earth lying under another;
specifically (Agric.), the subsoil.
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2. (Metaph.) The permanent subject of qualities or cause of
phenomena; substance.
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Superstrata
(gcide) | Superstratum \Su`per*stra"tum\, n.; pl. Superstrata. [NL.: cf.
L. supersternere, superstratum, to spread upon. See Super-,
and Stratum.]
A stratum, or layer, above another.
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Understrata
(gcide) | Understratum \Un"der*stra`tum\, n.; pl. L. Understrata, E.
Understratums.
The layer, or stratum, of earth on which the mold, or soil,
rests; subsoil.
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balaenoptera acutorostrata
(wn) | Balaenoptera acutorostrata
n 1: small finback of coastal waters of Atlantic and Pacific
[syn: lesser rorqual, piked whale, minke whale,
Balaenoptera acutorostrata] |
eucalyptus rostrata
(wn) | Eucalyptus rostrata
n 1: somewhat crooked red gum tree growing chiefly along rivers;
has durable reddish lumber used in heavy construction [syn:
river red gum, river gum, Eucalyptus camaldulensis,
Eucalyptus rostrata] |
kennedia prostrata
(wn) | Kennedia prostrata
n 1: hairy trailing or prostrate western Australian vine with
bright scarlet-pink flowers [syn: scarlet runner,
running postman, Kennedia prostrata] |
stratagem
(wn) | stratagem
n 1: a maneuver in a game or conversation [syn: ploy,
gambit, stratagem]
2: an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or
evade; "his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off
the track" [syn: contrivance, stratagem, dodge] |
viola rostrata
(wn) | Viola rostrata
n 1: violet of eastern North America having lilac-purple flowers
with a long slender spur [syn: long-spurred violet,
Viola rostrata] |
STRATAGEM
(bouvier) | STRATAGEM. A deception either by words or actions, in times of war, in order
to obtain an advantage over an enemy.
2. Such stratagems, though contrary to morality, have been justified,
unless they have been accompanied by perfidy, injurious to the rights of
humanity, as in the example given by Vattel of an English frigate, which
during a war between France and England, appeared off Calais and made
signals of distress in order to allure some vessel to come to its relief,
and seized a shallop and its crew, who had generously gone out to render it
assistance. Vattel, Droit des Gens, liv. 3, c. 9, Sec. 178.
3. Sometimes stratagems are employed in making, contracts, this is
unlawful and fraudulent, and avoids the contract. See Fraud.
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