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slovo definícia To give on (gcide) Give \Give\, v. i. 1. To give a gift or gifts. [1913 Webster] 2. To yield to force or pressure; to relax; to become less rigid; as, the earth gives under the feet. [1913 Webster] 3. To become soft or moist. [Obs.] --Bacon . [1913 Webster] 4. To move; to recede. [1913 Webster] Now back he gives, then rushes on amain. --Daniel. [1913 Webster] 5. To shed tears; to weep. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Whose eyes do never give But through lust and laughter. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 6. To have a misgiving. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] My mind gives ye're reserved To rob poor market women. --J. Webster. [1913 Webster] 7. To open; to lead. [A Gallicism] [1913 Webster] This, yielding, gave into a grassy walk. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] To give back, to recede; to retire; to retreat. [1913 Webster] They gave back and came no farther. --Bunyan. To give in, to yield; to succumb; to acknowledge one's self beaten; to cease opposition. [1913 Webster] The Scots battalion was enforced to give in. --Hayward. [1913 Webster] This consideration may induce a translator to give in to those general phrases. --Pope. To give off, to cease; to forbear. [Obs.] --Locke. To give on or To give upon. (a) To rush; to fall upon. [Obs.] (b) To have a view of; to be in sight of; to overlook; to look toward; to open upon; to front; to face. [A Gallicism: cf. Fr. donner sur.] [1913 Webster] Rooms which gave upon a pillared porch. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] The gloomy staircase on which the grating gave. --Dickens. To give out. (a) To expend all one's strength. Hence: (b) To cease from exertion; to fail; to be exhausted; as, my feet being to give out; the flour has given out. To give over, to cease; to discontinue; to desist. [1913 Webster] It would be well for all authors, if they knew when to give over, and to desist from any further pursuits after fame. --Addison. To give up, to cease from effort; to yield; to despair; as, he would never give up. [1913 Webster]

podobné slovo definícia To give one rope (gcide) Rope \Rope\, n. [AS. r[=a]p; akin to D. reep, G. reif ring hoop, Icel. reip rope, Sw. rep, Dan. reb, reeb Goth. skaudaraip latchet.] 1. A large, stout cord, usually one not less than an inch in circumference, made of strands twisted or braided together. It differs from cord, line, and string, only in its size. See Cordage. [1913 Webster] 2. A row or string consisting of a number of things united, as by braiding, twining, etc.; as, a rope of onions. [1913 Webster] 3. pl. The small intestines; as, the ropes of birds. [1913 Webster] Rope ladder, a ladder made of ropes. Rope mat., a mat made of cordage, or strands of old rope. Rope of sand, something of no cohession or fiber; a feeble union or tie; something not to be relied upon. Rope pump, a pump in which a rapidly running endless rope raises water by the momentum communicated to the water by its adhesion to the rope. Rope transmission (Mach.), a method of transmitting power, as between distant places, by means of endless ropes running over grooved pulleys. Rope's end, a piece of rope; especially, one used as a lash in inflicting punishment. To give one rope, to give one liberty or license; to let one go at will uncheked. [1913 Webster] To give one the bag (gcide) Bag \Bag\ (b[a^]g), n. [OE. bagge; cf. Icel. baggi, and also OF. bague, bundle, LL. baga.] 1. A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal or of money. [1913 Webster] 2. A sac, or dependent gland, in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance; as, the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents; the bag of a cow. [1913 Webster] 3. A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] 4. The quantity of game bagged. [1913 Webster] 5. (Com.) A certain quantity of a commodity, such as it is customary to carry to market in a sack; as, a bag of pepper or hops; a bag of coffee. [1913 Webster] Bag and baggage, all that belongs to one. To give one the bag, to disappoint him. [Obs.] --Bunyan. [1913 Webster] To give one the cold shoulder (gcide) Cold \Cold\ (k[=o]ld), a. [Compar. Colder (-[~e]r); superl. Coldest.] [OE. cold, cald, AS. cald, ceald; akin to OS. kald, D. koud, G. kalt, Icel. kaldr, Dan. kold, Sw. kall, Goth. kalds, L. gelu frost, gelare to freeze. Orig. p. p. of AS. calan to be cold, Icel. kala to freeze. Cf. Cool, a., Chill, n.] 1. Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid. "The snowy top of cold Olympis." --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. Lacking the sensation of warmth; suffering from the absence of heat; chilly; shivering; as, to be cold. [1913 Webster] 3. Not pungent or acrid. "Cold plants." --Bacon [1913 Webster] 4. Wanting in ardor, intensity, warmth, zeal, or passion; spiritless; unconcerned; reserved. [1913 Webster] A cold and unconcerned spectator. --T. Burnet. [1913 Webster] No cold relation is a zealous citizen. --Burke. [1913 Webster] 5. Unwelcome; disagreeable; unsatisfactory. "Cold news for me." "Cold comfort." --Shak. [1913 Webster] 6. Wanting in power to excite; dull; uninteresting. [1913 Webster] What a deal of cold business doth a man misspend the better part of life in! --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster] The jest grows cold . . . when in comes on in a second scene. --Addison. [1913 Webster] 7. Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) but feebly; having lost its odor; as, a cold scent. [1913 Webster] 8. Not sensitive; not acute. [1913 Webster] Smell this business with a sense as cold As is a dead man's nose. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 9. Distant; -- said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. [1913 Webster] 10. (Paint.) Having a bluish effect. Cf. Warm, 8. [1913 Webster] Cold abscess. See under Abscess. Cold blast See under Blast, n., 2. Cold blood. See under Blood, n., 8. Cold chill, an ague fit. --Wright. Cold chisel, a chisel of peculiar strength and hardness, for cutting cold metal. --Weale. Cold cream. See under Cream. Cold slaw. See Cole slaw. In cold blood, without excitement or passion; deliberately. [1913 Webster] He was slain in cold blood after the fight was over. --Sir W. Scott. To give one the cold shoulder, to treat one with neglect. Syn: Gelid; bleak; frigid; chill; indifferent; unconcerned; passionless; reserved; unfeeling; stoical. [1913 Webster] To give one the dor (gcide) Dor \Dor\, n. [Cf. Dor a beetle, and Hum, Humbug.] A trick, joke, or deception. --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster] To give one the dor, to make a fool of him. [Archaic] --P. Fletcher. [1913 Webster] To give one the head (gcide) Head \Head\ (h[e^]d), n. [OE. hed, heved, heaved, AS. he['a]fod; akin to D. hoofd, OHG. houbit, G. haupt, Icel. h["o]fu[eth], Sw. hufvud, Dan. hoved, Goth. haubi[thorn]. The word does not correspond regularly to L. caput head (cf. E. Chief, Cadet, Capital), and its origin is unknown.] 1. The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the chief sensory organs; poll; cephalon. [1913 Webster] 2. The uppermost, foremost, or most important part of an inanimate object; such a part as may be considered to resemble the head of an animal; often, also, the larger, thicker, or heavier part or extremity, in distinction from the smaller or thinner part, or from the point or edge; as, the head of a cane, a nail, a spear, an ax, a mast, a sail, a ship; that which covers and closes the top or the end of a hollow vessel; as, the head of a cask or a steam boiler. [1913 Webster] 3. The place where the head should go; as, the head of a bed, of a grave, etc.; the head of a carriage, that is, the hood which covers the head. [1913 Webster] 4. The most prominent or important member of any organized body; the chief; the leader; as, the head of a college, a school, a church, a state, and the like. "Their princes and heads." --Robynson (More's Utopia). [1913 Webster] The heads of the chief sects of philosophy. --Tillotson. [1913 Webster] Your head I him appoint. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 5. The place or honor, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front; as, the head of the table; the head of a column of soldiers. [1913 Webster] An army of fourscore thousand troops, with the duke of Marlborough at the head of them. --Addison. [1913 Webster] 6. Each one among many; an individual; -- often used in a plural sense; as, a thousand head of cattle. [1913 Webster] It there be six millions of people, there are about four acres for every head. --Graunt. [1913 Webster] 7. The seat of the intellect; the brain; the understanding; the mental faculties; as, a good head, that is, a good mind; it never entered his head, it did not occur to him; of his own head, of his own thought or will. [1913 Webster] Men who had lost both head and heart. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] 8. The source, fountain, spring, or beginning, as of a stream or river; as, the head of the Nile; hence, the altitude of the source, or the height of the surface, as of water, above a given place, as above an orifice at which it issues, and the pressure resulting from the height or from motion; sometimes also, the quantity in reserve; as, a mill or reservoir has a good head of water, or ten feet head; also, that part of a gulf or bay most remote from the outlet or the sea. [1913 Webster] 9. A headland; a promontory; as, Gay Head. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 10. A separate part, or topic, of a discourse; a theme to be expanded; a subdivision; as, the heads of a sermon. [1913 Webster] 11. Culminating point or crisis; hence, strength; force; height. [1913 Webster] Ere foul sin, gathering head, shall break into corruption. --Shak. [1913 Webster] The indisposition which has long hung upon me, is at last grown to such a head, that it must quickly make an end of me or of itself. --Addison. [1913 Webster] 12. Power; armed force. [1913 Webster] My lord, my lord, the French have gathered head. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 13. A headdress; a covering of the head; as, a laced head; a head of hair. --Swift. [1913 Webster] 14. An ear of wheat, barley, or of one of the other small cereals. [1913 Webster] 15. (Bot.) (a) A dense cluster of flowers, as in clover, daisies, thistles; a capitulum. (b) A dense, compact mass of leaves, as in a cabbage or a lettuce plant. [1913 Webster] 16. The antlers of a deer. [1913 Webster] 17. A rounded mass of foam which rises on a pot of beer or other effervescing liquor. --Mortimer. [1913 Webster] 18. pl. Tiles laid at the eaves of a house. --Knight. [1913 Webster] Note: Head is often used adjectively or in self-explaining combinations; as, head gear or headgear, head rest. Cf. Head, a. [1913 Webster] A buck of the first head, a male fallow deer in its fifth year, when it attains its complete set of antlers. --Shak. By the head. (Naut.) See under By. Elevator head, Feed head, etc. See under Elevator, Feed, etc. From head to foot, through the whole length of a man; completely; throughout. "Arm me, audacity, from head to foot." --Shak. Head and ears, with the whole person; deeply; completely; as, he was head and ears in debt or in trouble. [Colloq.] Head fast. (Naut.) See 5th Fast. Head kidney (Anat.), the most anterior of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in most vertebrates; the pronephros. Head money, a capitation tax; a poll tax. --Milton. Head pence, a poll tax. [Obs.] Head sea, a sea that meets the head of a vessel or rolls against her course. Head and shoulders. (a) By force; violently; as, to drag one, head and shoulders. "They bring in every figure of speech, head and shoulders." --Felton. (b) By the height of the head and shoulders; hence, by a great degree or space; by far; much; as, he is head and shoulders above them. Heads or tails or Head or tail, this side or that side; this thing or that; -- a phrase used in throwing a coin to decide a choice, question, or stake, head being the side of the coin bearing the effigy or principal figure (or, in case there is no head or face on either side, that side which has the date on it), and tail the other side. Neither head nor tail, neither beginning nor end; neither this thing nor that; nothing distinct or definite; -- a phrase used in speaking of what is indefinite or confused; as, they made neither head nor tail of the matter. [Colloq.] Head wind, a wind that blows in a direction opposite the vessel's course. off the top of my head, from quick recollection, or as an approximation; without research or calculation; -- a phrase used when giving quick and approximate answers to questions, to indicate that a response is not necessarily accurate. Out of one's own head, according to one's own idea; without advice or co["o]peration of another. Over the head of, beyond the comprehension of. --M. Arnold. to go over the head of (a person), to appeal to a person superior to (a person) in line of command. To be out of one's head, to be temporarily insane. To come or draw to a head. See under Come, Draw. To give (one) the head, or To give head, to let go, or to give up, control; to free from restraint; to give license. "He gave his able horse the head." --Shak. "He has so long given his unruly passions their head." --South. To his head, before his face. "An uncivil answer from a son to a father, from an obliged person to a benefactor, is a greater indecency than if an enemy should storm his house or revile him to his head." --Jer. Taylor. To lay heads together, to consult; to conspire. To lose one's head, to lose presence of mind. To make head, or To make head against, to resist with success; to advance. To show one's head, to appear. --Shak. To turn head, to turn the face or front. "The ravishers turn head, the fight renews." --Dryden. [1913 Webster] To give one the lie in his throat (gcide) Throat \Throat\ (thr[=o]t), n. [OE. throte, AS. [thorn]rote, [thorn]rotu; akin to OHG. drozza, G. drossel; cf. OFries. & D. stort. Cf. Throttle.] 1. (Anat.) (a) The part of the neck in front of, or ventral to, the vertebral column. (b) Hence, the passage through it to the stomach and lungs; the pharynx; -- sometimes restricted to the fauces. [1913 Webster] I can vent clamor from my throat. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. A contracted portion of a vessel, or of a passage way; as, the throat of a pitcher or vase. [1913 Webster] 3. (Arch.) The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue. --Gwilt. [1913 Webster] 4. (Naut.) (a) The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail. (b) That end of a gaff which is next the mast. (c) The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank. --Totten. [1913 Webster] 5. (Shipbuilding) The inside of a timber knee. [1913 Webster] 6. (Bot.) The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces. [1913 Webster] Throat brails (Naut.), brails attached to the gaff close to the mast. Throat halyards (Naut.), halyards that raise the throat of the gaff. Throat pipe (Anat.), the windpipe, or trachea. To give one the lie in his throat, to accuse one pointedly of lying abominably. To lie in one's throat, to lie flatly or abominably. [1913 Webster] To give one the slip (gcide) Slip \Slip\, n. [AS. slipe, slip.] 1. The act of slipping; as, a slip on the ice. [1913 Webster] 2. An unintentional error or fault; a false step. [1913 Webster] This good man's slip mended his pace to martyrdom. --Fuller. [1913 Webster] 3. A twig separated from the main stock; a cutting; a scion; hence, a descendant; as, a slip from a vine. [1913 Webster] A native slip to us from foreign seeds. --Shak. [1913 Webster] The girlish slip of a Sicilian bride. --R. Browning. [1913 Webster] 4. A slender piece; a strip; as, a slip of paper. [1913 Webster] Moonlit slips of silver cloud. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] A thin slip of a girl, like a new moon Sure to be rounded into beauty soon. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster] 5. A leash or string by which a dog is held; -- so called from its being made in such a manner as to slip, or become loose, by relaxation of the hand. [1913 Webster] We stalked over the extensive plains with Killbuck and Lena in the slips, in search of deer. --Sir S. Baker. [1913 Webster] 6. An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion; as, to give one the slip. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 7. (Print.) A portion of the columns of a newspaper or other work struck off by itself; a proof from a column of type when set up and in the galley. [1913 Webster] 8. Any covering easily slipped on. Specifically: (a) A loose garment worn by a woman. (b) A child's pinafore. (c) An outside covering or case; as, a pillow slip. (d) The slip or sheath of a sword, and the like. [R.] [1913 Webster] 9. A counterfeit piece of money, being brass covered with silver. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster] 10. Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools. [Prov. Eng.] --Sir W. Petty. [1913 Webster] 11. Potter's clay in a very liquid state, used for the decoration of ceramic ware, and also as a cement for handles and other applied parts. [1913 Webster] 12. A particular quantity of yarn. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster] 13. An inclined plane on which a vessel is built, or upon which it is hauled for repair. [1913 Webster] 14. An opening or space for vessels to lie in, between wharves or in a dock; as, Peck slip. [U. S.] [1913 Webster] 15. A narrow passage between buildings. [Eng.] [1913 Webster] 16. A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door. [U. S.] [1913 Webster] 17. (Mining.) A dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity. --Knight. [1913 Webster] 18. (Engin.) The motion of the center of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horozontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed which she would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller. [1913 Webster] 19. (Zool.) A fish, the sole. [1913 Webster] 20. (Cricket) A fielder stationed on the off side and to the rear of the batsman. There are usually two of them, called respectively short slip, and long slip. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster] 22. (Mach.) (a) The retrograde movement on a pulley of a belt as it slips. (b) In a link motion, the undesirable sliding movement of the link relatively to the link block, due to swinging of the link. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 23. (Elec.) The difference between the actual and synchronous speed of an induction motor. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 23. (Marine Insurance) A memorandum of the particulars of a risk for which a policy is to be executed. It usually bears the broker's name and is initiated by the underwrites. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] To give one the slip, to slip away from one; to elude one. Slip dock. See under Dock. Slip link (Mach.), a connecting link so arranged as to allow some play of the parts, to avoid concussion. Slip rope (Naut.), a rope by which a cable is secured preparatory to slipping. --Totten. Slip stopper (Naut.), an arrangement for letting go the anchor suddenly. [1913 Webster] To give one to understand (gcide) Understand \Un`der*stand"\ ([u^]n`d[~e]r*st[a^]nd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Understood ([u^]n`d[~e]r*st[oo^]d"), and Archaic Understanded; p. pr. & vb. n. Understanding.] [OE. understanden, AS. understandan, literally, to stand under; cf. AS. forstandan to understand, G. verstehen. The development of sense is not clear. See Under, and Stand.] 1. To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a problem in Euclid; to understand a proposition or a declaration; the court understands the advocate or his argument; to understand the sacred oracles; to understand a nod or a wink. [1913 Webster] Speaketh [i. e., speak thou] so plain at this time, I you pray, That we may understande what ye say. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] I understand not what you mean by this. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Understood not all was but a show. --Milton. [1913 Webster] A tongue not understanded of the people. --Bk. of Com. Prayer. [1913 Webster] 2. To be apprised, or have information, of; to learn; to be informed of; to hear; as, I understand that Congress has passed the bill. [1913 Webster] 3. To recognize or hold as being or signifying; to suppose to mean; to interpret; to explain. [1913 Webster] The most learned interpreters understood the words of sin, and not of Abel. --Locke. [1913 Webster] 4. To mean without expressing; to imply tacitly; to take for granted; to assume. [1913 Webster] War, then, war, Open or understood, must be resolved. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 5. To stand under; to support. [Jocose & R.] --Shak. [1913 Webster] To give one to understand, to cause one to know. To make one's self understood, to make one's meaning clear. [1913 Webster]