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sultan
(encz) | sultan,sultán n: Zdeněk Brož |
Sultan
(gcide) | Sultan \Sul"tan\, n. [F. sultan (cf. Sp. soldan, It. sultano,
soldano), Ar. sult[=a]n sultan, dominion. Cf. Soldan.]
A ruler, or sovereign, of a Mohammedan state; specifically,
the ruler of the Turks; the Padishah, or Grand Seignior; --
officially so called.
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Sultan flower. (Bot.) See Sweet sultan, under Sweet.
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sultan
(wn) | sultan
n 1: the ruler of a Muslim country (especially of the former
Ottoman Empire) [syn: sultan, grand Turk] |
SULTAN
(bouvier) | SULTAN. The title of the Turkish sovereign and other Mahometan princes.
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consultancy
(mass) | consultancy
- poradenstvo |
consultant
(mass) | consultant
- poradca |
consultancies
(encz) | consultancies,poradenství pl. Zdeněk Brož |
consultancy
(encz) | consultancy,konsultace [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskačconsultancy,poradenství n: Zdeněk Brož |
consultant
(encz) | consultant,konzultant [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskačconsultant,poradce n: Pavel Machek; Giza |
consultants
(encz) | consultants,konzultanti n: Zdeněk Brož |
fashion consultant
(encz) | fashion consultant, n: |
management consultant
(encz) | management consultant, n: |
media consultant
(encz) | media consultant, n: |
resultant
(encz) | resultant,výslednice n: [mat.] |
resultant role
(encz) | resultant role, n: |
resultantly
(encz) | resultantly, |
security consultant
(encz) | security consultant, n: |
sultan
(encz) | sultan,sultán n: Zdeněk Brož |
sultana
(encz) | sultana,rozinka n: [obec.] mamm |
sultanate
(encz) | sultanate,sultanát n: Zdeněk Brož |
sweet sultan
(encz) | sweet sultan, n: |
tax adviser (consultant)
(encz) | tax adviser (consultant),daňový poradce [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
sultanát
(czen) | sultanát,sultanaten: Zdeněk Brož |
consultant
(gcide) | consultant \consultant\ n.
an expert who gives advice.
Syn: adviser, advisor.
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management consultant
(gcide) | management consultant \management consultant\ n.
An adviser to business about efficient management practices.
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Resultance
(gcide) | Resultance \Re*sult"ance\, n.
The act of resulting; that which results; a result. --Donne.
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Resultant
(gcide) | Resultant \Re*sult"ant\, a. [L. resultans, p. pr. : cf. F.
r['e]sultant.]
Resulting or issuing from a combination; existing or
following as a result or consequence.
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Resultant force or Resultant motion (Mech.), a force
which is the result of two or more forces acting
conjointly, or a motion which is the result of two or more
motions combined. See Composition of forces, under
Composition.
[1913 Webster]Resultant \Re*sult"ant\, n.
That which results. Specifically:
(a) (Mech.) A reultant force or motion.
(b) (Math.) An eliminant.
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The resultant of homogeneous general functions of n
variables is that function of their coefficients
which, equaled to zero, expresses in the simplest
terms the condition of the possibility of their
existence. --Sylvester.
[1913 Webster]Eliminant \E*lim"i*nant\, n. (Math.)
The result of eliminating n variables between n homogeneous
equations of any degree; -- called also resultant.
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resultant
(gcide) | Resultant \Re*sult"ant\, a. [L. resultans, p. pr. : cf. F.
r['e]sultant.]
Resulting or issuing from a combination; existing or
following as a result or consequence.
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Resultant force or Resultant motion (Mech.), a force
which is the result of two or more forces acting
conjointly, or a motion which is the result of two or more
motions combined. See Composition of forces, under
Composition.
[1913 Webster]Resultant \Re*sult"ant\, n.
That which results. Specifically:
(a) (Mech.) A reultant force or motion.
(b) (Math.) An eliminant.
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The resultant of homogeneous general functions of n
variables is that function of their coefficients
which, equaled to zero, expresses in the simplest
terms the condition of the possibility of their
existence. --Sylvester.
[1913 Webster]Eliminant \E*lim"i*nant\, n. (Math.)
The result of eliminating n variables between n homogeneous
equations of any degree; -- called also resultant.
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Resultant force
(gcide) | Resultant \Re*sult"ant\, a. [L. resultans, p. pr. : cf. F.
r['e]sultant.]
Resulting or issuing from a combination; existing or
following as a result or consequence.
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Resultant force or Resultant motion (Mech.), a force
which is the result of two or more forces acting
conjointly, or a motion which is the result of two or more
motions combined. See Composition of forces, under
Composition.
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Resultant motion
(gcide) | Resultant \Re*sult"ant\, a. [L. resultans, p. pr. : cf. F.
r['e]sultant.]
Resulting or issuing from a combination; existing or
following as a result or consequence.
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Resultant force or Resultant motion (Mech.), a force
which is the result of two or more forces acting
conjointly, or a motion which is the result of two or more
motions combined. See Composition of forces, under
Composition.
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Sultan flower
(gcide) | Sultan \Sul"tan\, n. [F. sultan (cf. Sp. soldan, It. sultano,
soldano), Ar. sult[=a]n sultan, dominion. Cf. Soldan.]
A ruler, or sovereign, of a Mohammedan state; specifically,
the ruler of the Turks; the Padishah, or Grand Seignior; --
officially so called.
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Sultan flower. (Bot.) See Sweet sultan, under Sweet.
[1913 Webster]Sweet \Sweet\, a. [Compar. Sweeter; superl. Sweetest.] [OE.
swete, swote, sote, AS. sw[=e]te; akin to OFries. sw[=e]te,
OS. sw[=o]ti, D. zoet, G. s["u]ss, OHG. suozi, Icel. saetr,
soetr, Sw. s["o]t, Dan. s["o]d, Goth. suts, L. suavis, for
suadvis, Gr. ?, Skr. sv[=a]du sweet, svad, sv[=a]d, to
sweeten. [root]175. Cf. Assuage, Suave, Suasion.]
1. Having an agreeable taste or flavor such as that of sugar;
saccharine; -- opposed to sour and bitter; as, a sweet
beverage; sweet fruits; sweet oranges.
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2. Pleasing to the smell; fragrant; redolent; balmy; as, a
sweet rose; sweet odor; sweet incense.
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The breath of these flowers is sweet to me.
--Longfellow.
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3. Pleasing to the ear; soft; melodious; harmonious; as, the
sweet notes of a flute or an organ; sweet music; a sweet
voice; a sweet singer.
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To make his English sweet upon his tongue.
--Chaucer.
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A voice sweet, tremulous, but powerful. --Hawthorne.
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4. Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair;
as, a sweet face; a sweet color or complexion.
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Sweet interchange
Of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains.
--Milton.
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5. Fresh; not salt or brackish; as, sweet water. --Bacon.
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6. Not changed from a sound or wholesome state. Specifically:
(a) Not sour; as, sweet milk or bread.
(b) Not state; not putrescent or putrid; not rancid; as,
sweet butter; sweet meat or fish.
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7. Plaesing to the mind; mild; gentle; calm; amiable;
winning; presuasive; as, sweet manners.
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Canst thou bind the sweet influence of Pleiades?
--Job xxxviii.
31.
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Mildness and sweet reasonableness is the one
established rule of Christian working. --M. Arnold.
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Note: Sweet is often used in the formation of self-explaining
compounds; as, sweet-blossomed, sweet-featured,
sweet-smelling, sweet-tempered, sweet-toned, etc.
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Sweet alyssum. (Bot.) See Alyssum.
Sweet apple. (Bot.)
(a) Any apple of sweet flavor.
(b) See Sweet-sop.
Sweet bay. (Bot.)
(a) The laurel (Laurus nobilis).
(b) Swamp sassafras.
Sweet calabash (Bot.), a plant of the genus Passiflora
(Passiflora maliformis) growing in the West Indies, and
producing a roundish, edible fruit, the size of an apple.
Sweet cicely. (Bot.)
(a) Either of the North American plants of the
umbelliferous genus Osmorrhiza having aromatic roots
and seeds, and white flowers. --Gray.
(b) A plant of the genus Myrrhis (Myrrhis odorata)
growing in England.
Sweet calamus, or Sweet cane. (Bot.) Same as {Sweet
flag}, below.
Sweet Cistus (Bot.), an evergreen shrub (Cistus Ladanum)
from which the gum ladanum is obtained.
Sweet clover. (Bot.) See Melilot.
Sweet coltsfoot (Bot.), a kind of butterbur ({Petasites
sagittata}) found in Western North America.
Sweet corn (Bot.), a variety of the maize of a sweet taste.
See the Note under Corn.
Sweet fern (Bot.), a small North American shrub ({Comptonia
asplenifolia} syn. Myrica asplenifolia) having
sweet-scented or aromatic leaves resembling fern leaves.
Sweet flag (Bot.), an endogenous plant (Acorus Calamus)
having long flaglike leaves and a rootstock of a pungent
aromatic taste. It is found in wet places in Europe and
America. See Calamus, 2.
Sweet gale (Bot.), a shrub (Myrica Gale) having bitter
fragrant leaves; -- also called sweet willow, and {Dutch
myrtle}. See 5th Gale.
Sweet grass (Bot.), holy, or Seneca, grass.
Sweet gum (Bot.), an American tree ({Liquidambar
styraciflua}). See Liquidambar.
Sweet herbs, fragrant herbs cultivated for culinary
purposes.
Sweet John (Bot.), a variety of the sweet William.
Sweet leaf (Bot.), horse sugar. See under Horse.
Sweet marjoram. (Bot.) See Marjoram.
Sweet marten (Zool.), the pine marten.
Sweet maudlin (Bot.), a composite plant ({Achillea
Ageratum}) allied to milfoil.
Sweet oil, olive oil.
Sweet pea. (Bot.) See under Pea.
Sweet potato. (Bot.) See under Potato.
Sweet rush (Bot.), sweet flag.
Sweet spirits of niter (Med. Chem.) See {Spirit of nitrous
ether}, under Spirit.
Sweet sultan (Bot.), an annual composite plant ({Centaurea
moschata}), also, the yellow-flowered ({Centaurea
odorata}); -- called also sultan flower.
Sweet tooth, an especial fondness for sweet things or for
sweetmeats. [Colloq.]
Sweet William.
(a) (Bot.) A species of pink (Dianthus barbatus) of many
varieties.
(b) (Zool.) The willow warbler.
(c) (Zool.) The European goldfinch; -- called also {sweet
Billy}. [Prov. Eng.]
Sweet willow (Bot.), sweet gale.
Sweet wine. See Dry wine, under Dry.
To be sweet on, to have a particular fondness for, or
special interest in, as a young man for a young woman.
[Colloq.] --Thackeray.
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Syn: Sugary; saccharine; dulcet; luscious.
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sultan flower
(gcide) | Sultan \Sul"tan\, n. [F. sultan (cf. Sp. soldan, It. sultano,
soldano), Ar. sult[=a]n sultan, dominion. Cf. Soldan.]
A ruler, or sovereign, of a Mohammedan state; specifically,
the ruler of the Turks; the Padishah, or Grand Seignior; --
officially so called.
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Sultan flower. (Bot.) See Sweet sultan, under Sweet.
[1913 Webster]Sweet \Sweet\, a. [Compar. Sweeter; superl. Sweetest.] [OE.
swete, swote, sote, AS. sw[=e]te; akin to OFries. sw[=e]te,
OS. sw[=o]ti, D. zoet, G. s["u]ss, OHG. suozi, Icel. saetr,
soetr, Sw. s["o]t, Dan. s["o]d, Goth. suts, L. suavis, for
suadvis, Gr. ?, Skr. sv[=a]du sweet, svad, sv[=a]d, to
sweeten. [root]175. Cf. Assuage, Suave, Suasion.]
1. Having an agreeable taste or flavor such as that of sugar;
saccharine; -- opposed to sour and bitter; as, a sweet
beverage; sweet fruits; sweet oranges.
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2. Pleasing to the smell; fragrant; redolent; balmy; as, a
sweet rose; sweet odor; sweet incense.
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The breath of these flowers is sweet to me.
--Longfellow.
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3. Pleasing to the ear; soft; melodious; harmonious; as, the
sweet notes of a flute or an organ; sweet music; a sweet
voice; a sweet singer.
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To make his English sweet upon his tongue.
--Chaucer.
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A voice sweet, tremulous, but powerful. --Hawthorne.
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4. Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair;
as, a sweet face; a sweet color or complexion.
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Sweet interchange
Of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains.
--Milton.
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5. Fresh; not salt or brackish; as, sweet water. --Bacon.
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6. Not changed from a sound or wholesome state. Specifically:
(a) Not sour; as, sweet milk or bread.
(b) Not state; not putrescent or putrid; not rancid; as,
sweet butter; sweet meat or fish.
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7. Plaesing to the mind; mild; gentle; calm; amiable;
winning; presuasive; as, sweet manners.
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Canst thou bind the sweet influence of Pleiades?
--Job xxxviii.
31.
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Mildness and sweet reasonableness is the one
established rule of Christian working. --M. Arnold.
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Note: Sweet is often used in the formation of self-explaining
compounds; as, sweet-blossomed, sweet-featured,
sweet-smelling, sweet-tempered, sweet-toned, etc.
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Sweet alyssum. (Bot.) See Alyssum.
Sweet apple. (Bot.)
(a) Any apple of sweet flavor.
(b) See Sweet-sop.
Sweet bay. (Bot.)
(a) The laurel (Laurus nobilis).
(b) Swamp sassafras.
Sweet calabash (Bot.), a plant of the genus Passiflora
(Passiflora maliformis) growing in the West Indies, and
producing a roundish, edible fruit, the size of an apple.
Sweet cicely. (Bot.)
(a) Either of the North American plants of the
umbelliferous genus Osmorrhiza having aromatic roots
and seeds, and white flowers. --Gray.
(b) A plant of the genus Myrrhis (Myrrhis odorata)
growing in England.
Sweet calamus, or Sweet cane. (Bot.) Same as {Sweet
flag}, below.
Sweet Cistus (Bot.), an evergreen shrub (Cistus Ladanum)
from which the gum ladanum is obtained.
Sweet clover. (Bot.) See Melilot.
Sweet coltsfoot (Bot.), a kind of butterbur ({Petasites
sagittata}) found in Western North America.
Sweet corn (Bot.), a variety of the maize of a sweet taste.
See the Note under Corn.
Sweet fern (Bot.), a small North American shrub ({Comptonia
asplenifolia} syn. Myrica asplenifolia) having
sweet-scented or aromatic leaves resembling fern leaves.
Sweet flag (Bot.), an endogenous plant (Acorus Calamus)
having long flaglike leaves and a rootstock of a pungent
aromatic taste. It is found in wet places in Europe and
America. See Calamus, 2.
Sweet gale (Bot.), a shrub (Myrica Gale) having bitter
fragrant leaves; -- also called sweet willow, and {Dutch
myrtle}. See 5th Gale.
Sweet grass (Bot.), holy, or Seneca, grass.
Sweet gum (Bot.), an American tree ({Liquidambar
styraciflua}). See Liquidambar.
Sweet herbs, fragrant herbs cultivated for culinary
purposes.
Sweet John (Bot.), a variety of the sweet William.
Sweet leaf (Bot.), horse sugar. See under Horse.
Sweet marjoram. (Bot.) See Marjoram.
Sweet marten (Zool.), the pine marten.
Sweet maudlin (Bot.), a composite plant ({Achillea
Ageratum}) allied to milfoil.
Sweet oil, olive oil.
Sweet pea. (Bot.) See under Pea.
Sweet potato. (Bot.) See under Potato.
Sweet rush (Bot.), sweet flag.
Sweet spirits of niter (Med. Chem.) See {Spirit of nitrous
ether}, under Spirit.
Sweet sultan (Bot.), an annual composite plant ({Centaurea
moschata}), also, the yellow-flowered ({Centaurea
odorata}); -- called also sultan flower.
Sweet tooth, an especial fondness for sweet things or for
sweetmeats. [Colloq.]
Sweet William.
(a) (Bot.) A species of pink (Dianthus barbatus) of many
varieties.
(b) (Zool.) The willow warbler.
(c) (Zool.) The European goldfinch; -- called also {sweet
Billy}. [Prov. Eng.]
Sweet willow (Bot.), sweet gale.
Sweet wine. See Dry wine, under Dry.
To be sweet on, to have a particular fondness for, or
special interest in, as a young man for a young woman.
[Colloq.] --Thackeray.
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Syn: Sugary; saccharine; dulcet; luscious.
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Sultana
(gcide) | Sultana \Sul*ta"na\, n. [It.]
1. The wife of a sultan; a sultaness.
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2. pl. A kind of seedless raisin produced near Smyrna in
Asiatic Turkey.
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Sultana bird (Zool.), the hyacinthine, or purple,
gallinule. See Illust. under Gallinule.
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Sultana bird
(gcide) | Sultana \Sul*ta"na\, n. [It.]
1. The wife of a sultan; a sultaness.
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2. pl. A kind of seedless raisin produced near Smyrna in
Asiatic Turkey.
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Sultana bird (Zool.), the hyacinthine, or purple,
gallinule. See Illust. under Gallinule.
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Sultanate
(gcide) | Sultanate \Sul"tan*ate\, n. [Cf. F. sultanat.]
1. The rule or dominion of a sultan; sultanship.
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2. The territory ruled by a sultan.
Syn: soldanrie.
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Sultaness
(gcide) | Sultaness \Sul"tan*ess\, n.
A sultana.
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Sultanic
(gcide) | Sultanic \Sul*tan"ic\, a.
Pertaining to a sultan.
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Sultan-red
(gcide) | Sultan-red \Sul"tan-red`\, a.
Having a deep red color.
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Sultanry
(gcide) | Sultanry \Sul"tan*ry\, n.
The dominions of a sultan. --Bacon.
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Sultanship
(gcide) | Sultanship \Sul"tan*ship\, n.
The office or dignity of a sultan.
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Sultany
(gcide) | Sultany \Sul"tan*y\, n.
Sultanry. [Obs.] --Fuller.
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Sweet sultan
(gcide) | Sweet \Sweet\, a. [Compar. Sweeter; superl. Sweetest.] [OE.
swete, swote, sote, AS. sw[=e]te; akin to OFries. sw[=e]te,
OS. sw[=o]ti, D. zoet, G. s["u]ss, OHG. suozi, Icel. saetr,
soetr, Sw. s["o]t, Dan. s["o]d, Goth. suts, L. suavis, for
suadvis, Gr. ?, Skr. sv[=a]du sweet, svad, sv[=a]d, to
sweeten. [root]175. Cf. Assuage, Suave, Suasion.]
1. Having an agreeable taste or flavor such as that of sugar;
saccharine; -- opposed to sour and bitter; as, a sweet
beverage; sweet fruits; sweet oranges.
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2. Pleasing to the smell; fragrant; redolent; balmy; as, a
sweet rose; sweet odor; sweet incense.
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The breath of these flowers is sweet to me.
--Longfellow.
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3. Pleasing to the ear; soft; melodious; harmonious; as, the
sweet notes of a flute or an organ; sweet music; a sweet
voice; a sweet singer.
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To make his English sweet upon his tongue.
--Chaucer.
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A voice sweet, tremulous, but powerful. --Hawthorne.
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4. Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair;
as, a sweet face; a sweet color or complexion.
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Sweet interchange
Of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains.
--Milton.
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5. Fresh; not salt or brackish; as, sweet water. --Bacon.
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6. Not changed from a sound or wholesome state. Specifically:
(a) Not sour; as, sweet milk or bread.
(b) Not state; not putrescent or putrid; not rancid; as,
sweet butter; sweet meat or fish.
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7. Plaesing to the mind; mild; gentle; calm; amiable;
winning; presuasive; as, sweet manners.
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Canst thou bind the sweet influence of Pleiades?
--Job xxxviii.
31.
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Mildness and sweet reasonableness is the one
established rule of Christian working. --M. Arnold.
[1913 Webster]
Note: Sweet is often used in the formation of self-explaining
compounds; as, sweet-blossomed, sweet-featured,
sweet-smelling, sweet-tempered, sweet-toned, etc.
[1913 Webster]
Sweet alyssum. (Bot.) See Alyssum.
Sweet apple. (Bot.)
(a) Any apple of sweet flavor.
(b) See Sweet-sop.
Sweet bay. (Bot.)
(a) The laurel (Laurus nobilis).
(b) Swamp sassafras.
Sweet calabash (Bot.), a plant of the genus Passiflora
(Passiflora maliformis) growing in the West Indies, and
producing a roundish, edible fruit, the size of an apple.
Sweet cicely. (Bot.)
(a) Either of the North American plants of the
umbelliferous genus Osmorrhiza having aromatic roots
and seeds, and white flowers. --Gray.
(b) A plant of the genus Myrrhis (Myrrhis odorata)
growing in England.
Sweet calamus, or Sweet cane. (Bot.) Same as {Sweet
flag}, below.
Sweet Cistus (Bot.), an evergreen shrub (Cistus Ladanum)
from which the gum ladanum is obtained.
Sweet clover. (Bot.) See Melilot.
Sweet coltsfoot (Bot.), a kind of butterbur ({Petasites
sagittata}) found in Western North America.
Sweet corn (Bot.), a variety of the maize of a sweet taste.
See the Note under Corn.
Sweet fern (Bot.), a small North American shrub ({Comptonia
asplenifolia} syn. Myrica asplenifolia) having
sweet-scented or aromatic leaves resembling fern leaves.
Sweet flag (Bot.), an endogenous plant (Acorus Calamus)
having long flaglike leaves and a rootstock of a pungent
aromatic taste. It is found in wet places in Europe and
America. See Calamus, 2.
Sweet gale (Bot.), a shrub (Myrica Gale) having bitter
fragrant leaves; -- also called sweet willow, and {Dutch
myrtle}. See 5th Gale.
Sweet grass (Bot.), holy, or Seneca, grass.
Sweet gum (Bot.), an American tree ({Liquidambar
styraciflua}). See Liquidambar.
Sweet herbs, fragrant herbs cultivated for culinary
purposes.
Sweet John (Bot.), a variety of the sweet William.
Sweet leaf (Bot.), horse sugar. See under Horse.
Sweet marjoram. (Bot.) See Marjoram.
Sweet marten (Zool.), the pine marten.
Sweet maudlin (Bot.), a composite plant ({Achillea
Ageratum}) allied to milfoil.
Sweet oil, olive oil.
Sweet pea. (Bot.) See under Pea.
Sweet potato. (Bot.) See under Potato.
Sweet rush (Bot.), sweet flag.
Sweet spirits of niter (Med. Chem.) See {Spirit of nitrous
ether}, under Spirit.
Sweet sultan (Bot.), an annual composite plant ({Centaurea
moschata}), also, the yellow-flowered ({Centaurea
odorata}); -- called also sultan flower.
Sweet tooth, an especial fondness for sweet things or for
sweetmeats. [Colloq.]
Sweet William.
(a) (Bot.) A species of pink (Dianthus barbatus) of many
varieties.
(b) (Zool.) The willow warbler.
(c) (Zool.) The European goldfinch; -- called also {sweet
Billy}. [Prov. Eng.]
Sweet willow (Bot.), sweet gale.
Sweet wine. See Dry wine, under Dry.
To be sweet on, to have a particular fondness for, or
special interest in, as a young man for a young woman.
[Colloq.] --Thackeray.
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Syn: Sugary; saccharine; dulcet; luscious.
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beauty consultant
(wn) | beauty consultant
n 1: someone who gives you advice about your personal appearance |
consultancy
(wn) | consultancy
n 1: the practice of giving expert advice within a particular
field; "a business management consultancy" |
consultant
(wn) | consultant
n 1: an expert who gives advice; "an adviser helped students
select their courses"; "the United States sent military
advisors to Guatemala" [syn: adviser, advisor,
consultant] |
fashion consultant
(wn) | fashion consultant
n 1: someone who advises you about fashionable clothing [syn:
fashion consultant, fashionmonger] |
management consultant
(wn) | management consultant
n 1: adviser to business about efficient management practices |
media consultant
(wn) | media consultant
n 1: someone who advises about the use of communication media
[syn: media consultant, media guru] |
resultant
(wn) | resultant
adj 1: following or accompanying as a consequence; "an excessive
growth of bureaucracy, with attendant problems"; "snags
incidental to the changeover in management"; "attendant
circumstances"; "the period of tension and consequent
need for military preparedness"; "the ensuant response to
his appeal"; "the resultant savings were considerable"
[syn: attendant, consequent, accompanying,
concomitant, incidental, ensuant, resultant,
sequent]
n 1: the final point in a process [syn: resultant, {end
point}]
2: something that results; "he listened for the results on the
radio" [syn: result, resultant, final result,
outcome, termination]
3: a vector that is the sum of two or more other vectors [syn:
vector sum, resultant] |
resultant role
(wn) | resultant role
n 1: the semantic role of the noun phrase whose referent exists
only by virtue of the activity denoted by the verb in the
clause [syn: resultant role, result] |
security consultant
(wn) | security consultant
n 1: an adviser about alarm systems to prevent burglaries |
sultan
(wn) | sultan
n 1: the ruler of a Muslim country (especially of the former
Ottoman Empire) [syn: sultan, grand Turk] |
sultan of swat
(wn) | Sultan of Swat
n 1: United States professional baseball player famous for
hitting home runs (1895-1948) [syn: Ruth, Babe Ruth,
George Herman Ruth, Sultan of Swat] |
sultana
(wn) | sultana
n 1: pale yellow seedless grape used for raisins and wine
2: dried seedless grape [syn: seedless raisin, sultana] |
sultanate
(wn) | sultanate
n 1: country or territory ruled by a sultan |
sultanate of oman
(wn) | Sultanate of Oman
n 1: a strategically located monarchy on the southern and
eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula; the economy is
dominated by oil [syn: Oman, Sultanate of Oman, {Muscat
and Oman}] |
sweet sultan
(wn) | sweet sultan
n 1: annual of Mediterranean to Portugal having hairy stems and
minutely spiny-toothed leaves and large heads of yellow
flowers [syn: blessed thistle, sweet sultan, {Cnicus
benedictus}]
2: perennial of mountains of Iran and Iraq; cultivated for its
fragrant rose-pink flowers [syn: sweet sultan, {Centaurea
imperialis}]
3: Asian plant widely grown for its sweetly fragrant pink
flowers; sometimes placed in genus Centaurea [syn: {sweet
sultan}, Amberboa moschata, Centaurea moschata] |
consultant
(foldoc) | consultant
A person who facilitates organisational change and/or
provides subject matter expertise on technical, functional and
business topics during development or implementation. Consultants
perform business requirements analysis, recommend selection of
packaged software, develop proposals for consulting services and
manage implementation projects at client sites. They provides
expert knowledge of products such as SAP R/3, PeopleSoft,
HRMS/Financials and SmartStream.
(2004-03-09)
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SULTAN
(bouvier) | SULTAN. The title of the Turkish sovereign and other Mahometan princes.
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