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tue
(encz) | Tue, |
Tue
(gcide) | Tue \Tu"e\, n. (Zool.)
The parson bird.
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tue
(vera) | TUE
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statue
(mass) | statue
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tuesday
(mass) | Tuesday
- utorok |
virtue
(mass) | virtue
- účinnosť, účinnosť |
battue
(encz) | battue,naháňka n: Zdeněk Brožbattue,štvanice n: Zdeněk Brož |
by virtue
(encz) | by virtue,na základě of - čeho web |
cardinal virtue
(encz) | cardinal virtue, n: |
constituencies
(encz) | constituencies,volební obvody Zdeněk Brož |
constituency
(encz) | constituency,voliči Zdeněk Brož |
constituent
(encz) | constituent,ústavodárný adj: Zdeněk Brožconstituent,ustavující adj: Zdeněk Brožconstituent,volič n: Rostislav Svoboda |
constituents
(encz) | constituents,komponenty n: pl. Zdeněk Brožconstituents,složky n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
habitue
(encz) | habitue, n: |
immediate constituent
(encz) | immediate constituent, n: |
in virtue of
(encz) | in virtue of,následkem prep: Rostislav Svobodain virtue of,z důvodu prep: Rostislav Svoboda |
natural virtue
(encz) | natural virtue, n: |
pari-mutuel
(encz) | pari-mutuel,systém sázek Zdeněk Brož |
pari-mutuel machine
(encz) | pari-mutuel machine, n: |
parimutuel
(encz) | parimutuel, |
shrove tuesday
(encz) | Shrove Tuesday,masopustní úterý Pino |
statue
(encz) | statue,socha n: |
statue maker
(encz) | statue maker, n: |
statue of liberty
(encz) | Statue of Liberty,Socha svobody |
statues
(encz) | statues,sochy pl. |
statuesque
(encz) | statuesque,vznešený adj: Zdeněk Brož |
statuesquely
(encz) | statuesquely, |
statuesqueness
(encz) | statuesqueness,nehybnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
statuette
(encz) | statuette,soška n: Zdeněk Brož |
substituent
(encz) | substituent,substituent [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
supernatural virtue
(encz) | supernatural virtue, n: |
theological virtue
(encz) | theological virtue, n: |
tue
(encz) | Tue, |
tues
(encz) | Tues, |
tuesday
(encz) | Tuesday,úterý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
tuesdays
(encz) | Tuesdays, |
virtue
(encz) | virtue,ctnost lukevirtue,cudnost Pavel Machekvirtue,přednost lukevirtue,statečnost Zdeněk Brožvirtue,účinnost Zdeněk Brož |
virtues
(encz) | virtues,přednosti n: Zdeněk Brož |
whit-tuesday
(encz) | Whit-Tuesday, |
substituent
(czen) | substituent,substituent[eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
Battue
(gcide) | Battue \Bat"tue`\, n. [F. battue, fr. battre to beat. See
Batter, v. t., and cf. Battuta.] (Hunting)
(a) The act of beating the woods, bushes, etc., for game.
(b) The game itself.
(c) The wanton slaughter of game. --Howitt.
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By virtue of
(gcide) | Virtue \Vir"tue\ (?; 135), n. [OE. vertu, F. vertu, L. virtus
strength, courage, excellence, virtue, fr. vir a man. See
Virile, and cf. Virtu.]
1. Manly strength or courage; bravery; daring; spirit; valor.
[Obs.] --Shak.
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Built too strong
For force or virtue ever to expugn. --Chapman.
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2. Active quality or power; capacity or power adequate to the
production of a given effect; energy; strength; potency;
efficacy; as, the virtue of a medicine.
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Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue
had gone out of him, turned him about. --Mark v. 30.
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A man was driven to depend for his security against
misunderstanding, upon the pure virtue of his
syntax. --De Quincey.
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The virtue of his midnight agony. --Keble.
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3. Energy or influence operating without contact of the
material or sensible substance.
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She moves the body which she doth possess,
Yet no part toucheth, but by virtue's touch. --Sir.
J. Davies.
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4. Excellence; value; merit; meritoriousness; worth.
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I made virtue of necessity. --Chaucer.
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In the Greek poets, . . . the economy of poems is
better observed than in Terence, who thought the
sole grace and virtue of their fable the sticking in
of sentences. --B. Jonson.
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5. Specifically, moral excellence; integrity of character;
purity of soul; performance of duty.
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Virtue only makes our bliss below. --Pope.
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If there's Power above us,
And that there is all nature cries aloud
Through all her works, he must delight in virtue.
--Addison.
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6. A particular moral excellence; as, the virtue of
temperance, of charity, etc. "The very virtue of
compassion." --Shak. "Remember all his virtues."
--Addison.
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7. Specifically: Chastity; purity; especially, the chastity
of women; virginity.
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H. I believe the girl has virtue.
M. And if she has, I should be the last man in the
world to attempt to corrupt it. --Goldsmith.
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8. pl. One of the orders of the celestial hierarchy.
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Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers.
--Milton.
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Cardinal virtues. See under Cardinal, a.
In virtue of, or By virtue of, through the force of; by
authority of. "He used to travel through Greece by virtue
of this fable, which procured him reception in all the
towns." --Addison. "This they shall attain, partly in
virtue of the promise made by God, and partly in virtue of
piety." --Atterbury.
Theological virtues, the three virtues, faith, hope, and
charity. See --1 Cor. xiii. 13.
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Cabus fatuellus
(gcide) | Capuchin \Cap`u*chin"\, n. [F. capucin a monk who wears a cowl,
fr. It. cappuccio hood. See Capoch.]
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1. (Eccl.) A Franciscan monk of the austere branch
established in 1526 by Matteo di Baschi, distinguished by
wearing the long pointed cowl or capoch of St. Francis.
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A bare-footed and long-bearded capuchin. --Sir W.
Scott.
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2. A garment for women, consisting of a cloak and hood,
resembling, or supposed to resemble, that of capuchin
monks.
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3. (Zool.)
(a) A long-tailed South American monkey ({Cabus
capucinus}), having the forehead naked and wrinkled,
with the hair on the crown reflexed and resembling a
monk's cowl, the rest being of a grayish white; --
called also capucine monkey, weeper, sajou,
sapajou, and sai.
(b) Other species of Cabus, as Cabus fatuellus (the
brown capucine or horned capucine.), {Cabus
albifrons} (the cararara), and Cabus apella.
(c) A variety of the domestic pigeon having a hoodlike
tuft of feathers on the head and sides of the neck.
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Capuchin nun, one of an austere order of Franciscan nuns
which came under Capuchin rule in 1538. The order had
recently been founded by Maria Longa.
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Cardinal virtues
(gcide) | Virtue \Vir"tue\ (?; 135), n. [OE. vertu, F. vertu, L. virtus
strength, courage, excellence, virtue, fr. vir a man. See
Virile, and cf. Virtu.]
1. Manly strength or courage; bravery; daring; spirit; valor.
[Obs.] --Shak.
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Built too strong
For force or virtue ever to expugn. --Chapman.
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2. Active quality or power; capacity or power adequate to the
production of a given effect; energy; strength; potency;
efficacy; as, the virtue of a medicine.
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Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue
had gone out of him, turned him about. --Mark v. 30.
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A man was driven to depend for his security against
misunderstanding, upon the pure virtue of his
syntax. --De Quincey.
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The virtue of his midnight agony. --Keble.
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3. Energy or influence operating without contact of the
material or sensible substance.
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She moves the body which she doth possess,
Yet no part toucheth, but by virtue's touch. --Sir.
J. Davies.
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4. Excellence; value; merit; meritoriousness; worth.
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I made virtue of necessity. --Chaucer.
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In the Greek poets, . . . the economy of poems is
better observed than in Terence, who thought the
sole grace and virtue of their fable the sticking in
of sentences. --B. Jonson.
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5. Specifically, moral excellence; integrity of character;
purity of soul; performance of duty.
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Virtue only makes our bliss below. --Pope.
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If there's Power above us,
And that there is all nature cries aloud
Through all her works, he must delight in virtue.
--Addison.
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6. A particular moral excellence; as, the virtue of
temperance, of charity, etc. "The very virtue of
compassion." --Shak. "Remember all his virtues."
--Addison.
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7. Specifically: Chastity; purity; especially, the chastity
of women; virginity.
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H. I believe the girl has virtue.
M. And if she has, I should be the last man in the
world to attempt to corrupt it. --Goldsmith.
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8. pl. One of the orders of the celestial hierarchy.
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Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers.
--Milton.
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Cardinal virtues. See under Cardinal, a.
In virtue of, or By virtue of, through the force of; by
authority of. "He used to travel through Greece by virtue
of this fable, which procured him reception in all the
towns." --Addison. "This they shall attain, partly in
virtue of the promise made by God, and partly in virtue of
piety." --Atterbury.
Theological virtues, the three virtues, faith, hope, and
charity. See --1 Cor. xiii. 13.
[1913 Webster]Cardinal \Car"di*nal\, a. [L. cardinalis, fr. cardo the hinge of
a door, that on which a thing turns or depends: cf. F.
cardinal.]
Of fundamental importance; pre["e]minent; superior; chief;
principal.
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The cardinal intersections of the zodiac. --Sir T.
Browne.
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Impudence is now a cardinal virtue. --Drayton.
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But cardinal sins, and hollow hearts, I fear ye.
--Shak.
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Cardinal numbers, the numbers one, two, three, etc., in
distinction from first, second, third, etc., which are
called ordinal numbers.
Cardinal points
(a) (Geol.) The four principal points of the compass, or
intersections of the horizon with the meridian and the
prime vertical circle, north, south east, and west.
(b) (Astrol.) The rising and setting of the sun, the zenith
and nadir.
Cardinal signs (Astron.) Aries, Libra, Cancer, and
Capricorn.
Cardinal teeth (Zool.), the central teeth of bivalve shell.
See Bivalve.
Cardinal veins (Anat.), the veins in vertebrate embryos,
which run each side of the vertebral column and returm the
blood to the heart. They remain through life in some
fishes.
Cardinal virtues, pre["e]minent virtues; among the
ancients, prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude.
Cardinal winds, winds which blow from the cardinal points
due north, south, east, or west.
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Constituencies
(gcide) | Constituency \Con*stit"u*en*cy\
(k[o^]n*st[i^]t"[-u]*[-e]n*s[y^]), n.; pl. Constituencies
(k[o^]n*st[i^]t"[-u]*[-e]n*s[i^]z).
A body of constituents, as the body of citizens or voters in
a representative district.
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Constituency
(gcide) | Constituency \Con*stit"u*en*cy\
(k[o^]n*st[i^]t"[-u]*[-e]n*s[y^]), n.; pl. Constituencies
(k[o^]n*st[i^]t"[-u]*[-e]n*s[i^]z).
A body of constituents, as the body of citizens or voters in
a representative district.
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Constituent
(gcide) | Constituent \Con*stit"u*ent\ (k[o^]n*st[i^]t"[-u]*[-e]nt), a.
[L. constituens, -entis, p. pr. See Constitute.]
1. Serving to form, compose, or make up; elemental;
component.
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Body, soul, and reason are the three parts
necessarily constituent of a man. --Dryden.
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2. Having the power of electing or appointing.
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A question of right arises between the constituent
and representative body. --Junius.
[1913 Webster]Constituent \Con*stit"u*ent\, n.
1. The person or thing which constitutes, determines, or
constructs.
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Their first composure and origination require a
higher and nobler constituent than chance. --Sir M.
Hale
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2. That which constitutes or composes, as a part, or an
essential part; a component; an element.
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We know how to bring these constituents together,
and to cause them to form water. --Tyndall.
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3. One for whom another acts; especially, one who is
represented by another in a legislative assembly; --
correlative to representative.
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The electors in the district of a representative in
Congress, or in the legislature of a State, are
termed his constituents. --Abbot.
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To appeal from the representatives to the
constituents. --Macaulay.
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4. (Law) A person who appoints another to act for him as
attorney in fact. --Burrill.
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Destituent
(gcide) | Destituent \De*stit"u*ent\ (?; 135), a. [L. destituens, p. pr.
of destituere.]
Deficient; wanting; as, a destituent condition. [Obs.] --Jer.
Taylor.
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Festue
(gcide) | Festue \Fes"tue\, n. [See Fescue.]
A straw; a fescue. [Obs.] --Holland.
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Habitu'e
(gcide) | Habitu'e \Ha`bi`tu`['e]"\ ([.a]`b[-e]`t[.u]`[asl]"), n. [F., p.
p. of habituer. See Habituate.]
One who habitually frequents a place; as, an habitu['e] of a
theater.
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In virtue of
(gcide) | Virtue \Vir"tue\ (?; 135), n. [OE. vertu, F. vertu, L. virtus
strength, courage, excellence, virtue, fr. vir a man. See
Virile, and cf. Virtu.]
1. Manly strength or courage; bravery; daring; spirit; valor.
[Obs.] --Shak.
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Built too strong
For force or virtue ever to expugn. --Chapman.
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2. Active quality or power; capacity or power adequate to the
production of a given effect; energy; strength; potency;
efficacy; as, the virtue of a medicine.
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Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue
had gone out of him, turned him about. --Mark v. 30.
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A man was driven to depend for his security against
misunderstanding, upon the pure virtue of his
syntax. --De Quincey.
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The virtue of his midnight agony. --Keble.
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3. Energy or influence operating without contact of the
material or sensible substance.
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She moves the body which she doth possess,
Yet no part toucheth, but by virtue's touch. --Sir.
J. Davies.
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4. Excellence; value; merit; meritoriousness; worth.
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I made virtue of necessity. --Chaucer.
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In the Greek poets, . . . the economy of poems is
better observed than in Terence, who thought the
sole grace and virtue of their fable the sticking in
of sentences. --B. Jonson.
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5. Specifically, moral excellence; integrity of character;
purity of soul; performance of duty.
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Virtue only makes our bliss below. --Pope.
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If there's Power above us,
And that there is all nature cries aloud
Through all her works, he must delight in virtue.
--Addison.
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6. A particular moral excellence; as, the virtue of
temperance, of charity, etc. "The very virtue of
compassion." --Shak. "Remember all his virtues."
--Addison.
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7. Specifically: Chastity; purity; especially, the chastity
of women; virginity.
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H. I believe the girl has virtue.
M. And if she has, I should be the last man in the
world to attempt to corrupt it. --Goldsmith.
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8. pl. One of the orders of the celestial hierarchy.
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Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers.
--Milton.
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Cardinal virtues. See under Cardinal, a.
In virtue of, or By virtue of, through the force of; by
authority of. "He used to travel through Greece by virtue
of this fable, which procured him reception in all the
towns." --Addison. "This they shall attain, partly in
virtue of the promise made by God, and partly in virtue of
piety." --Atterbury.
Theological virtues, the three virtues, faith, hope, and
charity. See --1 Cor. xiii. 13.
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parimutuel
(gcide) | parimutuel \par`i*mu"tu*el\ (p[a^]r`[i^]*m[=u]"ch[=oo]*[u^]l),
n.
A form of betting where winners share the total amount
wagered, in proporation to their bets, and less a portion for
the management; -- used commonly in betting at horse racing
track. In parimutuel betting, the payoff for a bet does not
have fixed odds, but depends on the amount bet on each
outcome.
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pari-mutuel machine totalizer totaliser totalizator totalisator
(gcide) | Computer \Com*put"er\ (k[o^]m*p[=u]t"[~e]r), n.
1. One who computes.
2. (Computers) an electronic device for performing
calculations automatically. It consists of a clock to
provide voltage pulses to synchronize the operations of
the devices within the computer, a central processing
unit, where the arithmetical and logical operations are
performed on data, a random-access memory, where the
programs and data are stored for rapid access, devices to
input data and output results, and various other
peripheral devices of widely varied function, as well as
circuitry to support the main operations.
Note: This modern sense of computer comprises the
stored-program computers, in which multiple steps in a
calculation may be stored within the computer itself as
instructions in a program, and are then executed by
the computer without further intervention of the
operator. Different types of computer are variously
called analog computer, {number cruncher,
number-cruncher}, digital computer, and {pari-mutuel
machine, totalizer, totaliser, totalizator,
totalisator}.
Syn: data processor, electronic computer, information
processing system.
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3. (Computers) same as digital computer.
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Portrait statue
(gcide) | Portrait \Por"trait\, n. [F., originally p. p. of portraire to
portray. See Portray.]
1. The likeness of a person, painted, drawn, or engraved;
commonly, a representation of the human face painted from
real life.
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In portraits, the grace, and, we may add, the
likeness, consists more in the general air than in
the exact similitude of every feature. --Sir J.
Reynolds.
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Note: The meaning of the word is sometimes extended so as to
include a photographic likeness.
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2. Hence, any graphic or vivid delineation or description of
a person; as, a portrait in words.
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Portrait bust, or Portrait statue, a bust or statue
representing the actual features or person of an
individual; -- in distinction from an ideal bust or
statue.
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Shrove Tuesday
(gcide) | Shrove \Shrove\,
imp. of Shrive.
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Shrove Sunday, Quinguagesima Sunday.
Shrove Tuesday, the Tuesday following Quinguagesima Sunday,
and preceding the first day of Lent, or Ash Wednesday.
Note: It was formerly customary in England, on this day, for
the people to confess their sins to their parish
priests, after which they dined on pancakes, or
fritters, and the occasion became one of merriment. The
bell rung on this day is popularly called Pancake Bell,
and the day itself Pancake Tuesday. --P. Cyc.
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Spirituelle
(gcide) | Spirituelle \Spi`ri`tu`elle"\, a. [F.]
Of the nature, or having the appearance, of a spirit; pure;
refined; ethereal.
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Statue
(gcide) | Statue \Stat"ue\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Statued (-[-u]d); p. pr.
& vb. n. Statuing.]
To place, as a statue; to form a statue of; to make into a
statue. "The whole man becomes as if statued into stone and
earth." --Feltham.
[1913 Webster]Statue \Stat"ue\ (st[a^]ch"[=oo]; also, st[a^]t"[-u]; 135), n.
[F., fr. L. statua (akin to stativus standing still), fr.
stare, statum, to stand. See Stand.]
1. The likeness of a living being sculptured or modeled in
some solid substance, as marble, bronze, or wax; an image;
as, a statue of Hercules, or of a lion.
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I will raise her statue in pure gold. --Shak.
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2. A portrait. [Obs.] --Massinger.
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Statued
(gcide) | Statue \Stat"ue\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Statued (-[-u]d); p. pr.
& vb. n. Statuing.]
To place, as a statue; to form a statue of; to make into a
statue. "The whole man becomes as if statued into stone and
earth." --Feltham.
[1913 Webster]Statued \Stat"ued\ (st[a^]t"[-u]d), a.
Adorned with statues. "The statued hall." --Longfellow.
"Statued niches." --G. Eliot.
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Statueless
(gcide) | Statueless \Stat"ue*less\ (st[a^]t"[-u]*l[e^]s), a.
Without a statue.
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Statuelike
(gcide) | Statuelike \Stat"ue*like`\ (st[a^]ch"[=oo]*l[imac]k` or
st[a^]t"[-u]*l[imac]k`), a.
Like a statue; motionless.
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Statuesque
(gcide) | Statuesque \Stat`u*esque"\ (st[a^]ch`[=oo]*[e^]sk" or
st[a^]t`[-u]*[e^]sk"), a.
Partaking of, or exemplifying, the characteristics of a
statue; having the symmetry, or other excellence, of a statue
artistically made; as, statuesquelimbs; a statuesque
attitude.
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Their characters are mostly statuesque even in this
respect, that they have no background. --Hare.
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Statuesquely
(gcide) | Statuesquely \Stat`u*esque"ly\, adv.
In a statuesque manner; in a way suggestive of a statue; like
a statue.
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A character statuesquely simple in its details.
--Lowell.
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Statuette
(gcide) | Statuette \Stat`u*ette"\ (st[a^]ch`[=oo]*[e^]t" or
st[a^]t`[-u]*[e^]t"), n. [F., cf. It. statuetta.]
A small statue; -- usually applied to a figure much less than
life size, especially when of marble or bronze, or of plaster
or clay as a preparation for the marble or bronze, as
distinguished from a figure in terra cotta or the like. Cf.
Figurine.
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Substituent
(gcide) | Substituent \Sub*stit"u*ent\, n. [L. substituens, p. pr. See
Substitute.] (Chem.)
Any atom, group, or radical substituted for another, or
entering a molecule in place of some other part which is
removed.
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Terminal statue
(gcide) | Terminal \Ter"mi*nal\ (-nal), a. [L. terminals: cf. F. terminal.
See Term, n.]
1. Of or pertaining to the end or extremity; forming the
extremity; as, a terminal edge.
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2. (Bot.) Growing at the end of a branch or stem;
terminating; as, a terminal bud, flower, or spike.
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3. (Railroads) Pertaining to a railroad terminal; connected
with the receipt or delivery of freight; as, terminal
charges.
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Terminal moraine. See the Note under Moraine.
Terminal statue. See Terminus, n., 2 and 3.
Terminal velocity.
(a) The velocity acquired at the end of a body's motion.
(b) The limit toward which the velocity of a body
approaches, as of a body falling through the air.
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Textuel
(gcide) | Textuel \Tex"tu*el\, a.
Textual. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Theological virtues
(gcide) | Virtue \Vir"tue\ (?; 135), n. [OE. vertu, F. vertu, L. virtus
strength, courage, excellence, virtue, fr. vir a man. See
Virile, and cf. Virtu.]
1. Manly strength or courage; bravery; daring; spirit; valor.
[Obs.] --Shak.
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Built too strong
For force or virtue ever to expugn. --Chapman.
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2. Active quality or power; capacity or power adequate to the
production of a given effect; energy; strength; potency;
efficacy; as, the virtue of a medicine.
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Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue
had gone out of him, turned him about. --Mark v. 30.
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A man was driven to depend for his security against
misunderstanding, upon the pure virtue of his
syntax. --De Quincey.
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The virtue of his midnight agony. --Keble.
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3. Energy or influence operating without contact of the
material or sensible substance.
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She moves the body which she doth possess,
Yet no part toucheth, but by virtue's touch. --Sir.
J. Davies.
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4. Excellence; value; merit; meritoriousness; worth.
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I made virtue of necessity. --Chaucer.
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In the Greek poets, . . . the economy of poems is
better observed than in Terence, who thought the
sole grace and virtue of their fable the sticking in
of sentences. --B. Jonson.
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5. Specifically, moral excellence; integrity of character;
purity of soul; performance of duty.
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Virtue only makes our bliss below. --Pope.
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If there's Power above us,
And that there is all nature cries aloud
Through all her works, he must delight in virtue.
--Addison.
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6. A particular moral excellence; as, the virtue of
temperance, of charity, etc. "The very virtue of
compassion." --Shak. "Remember all his virtues."
--Addison.
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7. Specifically: Chastity; purity; especially, the chastity
of women; virginity.
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H. I believe the girl has virtue.
M. And if she has, I should be the last man in the
world to attempt to corrupt it. --Goldsmith.
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8. pl. One of the orders of the celestial hierarchy.
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Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers.
--Milton.
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Cardinal virtues. See under Cardinal, a.
In virtue of, or By virtue of, through the force of; by
authority of. "He used to travel through Greece by virtue
of this fable, which procured him reception in all the
towns." --Addison. "This they shall attain, partly in
virtue of the promise made by God, and partly in virtue of
piety." --Atterbury.
Theological virtues, the three virtues, faith, hope, and
charity. See --1 Cor. xiii. 13.
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Tuefall
(gcide) | Tuefall \Tue"fall\, n. (Arch.)
See To-fall. [Eng.]
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Tue-iron
(gcide) | Tue-iron \Tue"-i`ron\, n.
See Tuy[`e]re.
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Tue-irons
(gcide) | Tue-irons \Tue"-i`rons\, n. pl.
A pair of blacksmith's tongs.
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Tuesday
(gcide) | Tuesday \Tues"day\ (t[=u]z"d[asl]; 48), n. [OE. Tewesday, AS.
Tiwes d[ae]g the day of Tiw the god of war; akin to OHG. Zio,
Icel. T[=y]r, L. Jupiter, Gr. Zey`s;, cf. OHG. Ziostac
Tuesday, G. Dienstag, Icel. T[=y]sdagr. [root]244. See
Deity, Day, and cf. Jovial.]
The third day of the week, following Monday and preceding
Wednesday.
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