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discourse
(mass) | discourse
- prejav, preslov, prednáška, preslov, reč |
discourse
(encz) | discourse,diskurs n: xkomczax |
discourse
(encz) | discourse,diskurz n: xkomczax |
discourse
(encz) | discourse,projev n: Zdeněk Brož |
discourse
(encz) | discourse,proslov Zdeněk Brož |
discourse
(encz) | discourse,rozhovor Zdeněk Brož |
discourse
(encz) | discourse,rozmlouvat Zdeněk Brož |
discourse
(encz) | discourse,rozmluva Zdeněk Brož |
discourse
(encz) | discourse,rozprava Zdeněk Brož |
Discourse
(gcide) | Discourse \Dis*course"\, n. [L. discursus a running to and fro,
discourse, fr. discurrere, discursum, to run to and fro, to
discourse; dis- + currere to run: cf. F. discours. See
Course.]
1. The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it
were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a
conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning;
range of reasoning faculty. [Obs.]
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Difficult, strange, and harsh to the discourses of
natural reason. --South.
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Sure he that made us with such large discourse,
Looking before and after, gave us not
That capability and godlike reason
To fust in us unused. --Shak.
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2. Conversation; talk.
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In their discourses after supper. --Shak.
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Filling the head with variety of thoughts, and the
mouth with copious discourse. --Locke.
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3. The art and manner of speaking and conversing.
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Of excellent breeding, admirable discourse. --Shak.
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4. Consecutive speech, either written or unwritten, on a
given line of thought; speech; treatise; dissertation;
sermon, etc.; as, the preacher gave us a long discourse on
duty.
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5. Dealing; transaction. [Obs.]
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Good Captain Bessus, tell us the discourse
Betwixt Tigranes and our king, and how
We got the victory. --Beau. & Fl.
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Discourse
(gcide) | Discourse \Dis*course"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Discoursed; p.
pr. & vb. n. Discoursing.]
1. To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and
inferring; to reason. [Obs.] "Have sense or can
discourse." --Dryden.
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2. To express one's self in oral discourse; to expose one's
views; to talk in a continuous or formal manner; to hold
forth; to speak; to converse.
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Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear. --Shak.
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3. To relate something; to tell. --Shak.
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4. To treat of something in writing and formally.
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Discourse
(gcide) | Discourse \Dis*course"\, v. t.
1. To treat of; to expose or set forth in language. [Obs.]
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The life of William Tyndale . . . is sufficiently
and at large discoursed in the book. --Foxe.
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2. To utter or give forth; to speak.
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It will discourse most eloquent music. --Shak.
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3. To talk to; to confer with. [Obs.]
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I have spoken to my brother, who is the patron, to
discourse the minister about it. --Evelyn.
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discourse
(wn) | discourse
n 1: extended verbal expression in speech or writing
2: an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a
church service) [syn: sermon, discourse, preaching]
3: an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with
some particular topic; "the book contains an excellent
discussion of modal logic"; "his treatment of the race
question is badly biased" [syn: discussion, treatment,
discourse]
v 1: to consider or examine in speech or writing; "The author
talks about the different aspects of this question"; "The
class discussed Dante's `Inferno'" [syn: discourse, {talk
about}, discuss]
2: carry on a conversation [syn: converse, discourse]
3: talk at length and formally about a topic; "The speaker
dissertated about the social politics in 18th century
England" [syn: hold forth, discourse, dissertate] |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
direct discourse
(encz) | direct discourse, n: |
discourse marker
(encz) | discourse marker,popisovač rozmluvy [lingv.] Jáchym Kolář |
discoursed
(encz) | discoursed, |
indirect discourse
(encz) | indirect discourse, n: |
universe of discourse
(encz) | universe of discourse, n: |
Direct discourse
(gcide) | Direct \Di*rect"\, a. [L. directus, p. p. of dirigere to direct:
cf. F. direct. See Dress, and cf. Dirge.]
1. Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by
the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct
line; direct means.
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What is direct to, what slides by, the question.
--Locke.
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2. Straightforward; not of crooked ways, or swerving from
truth and openness; sincere; outspoken.
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Be even and direct with me. --Shak.
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3. Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
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He nowhere, that I know, says it in direct words.
--Locke.
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A direct and avowed interference with elections.
--Hallam.
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4. In the line of descent; not collateral; as, a descendant
in the direct line.
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5. (Astron.) In the direction of the general planetary
motion, or from west to east; in the order of the signs;
not retrograde; -- said of the motion of a celestial
body.
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6. (Political Science) Pertaining to, or effected immediately
by, action of the people through their votes instead of
through one or more representatives or delegates; as,
direct nomination, direct legislation.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Direct action.
(a) (Mach.) See Direct-acting.
(b) (Trade unions) See Syndicalism, below. [Webster 1913
Suppl.]
Direct discourse (Gram.), the language of any one quoted
without change in its form; as, he said "I can not come;"
-- correlative to indirect discourse, in which there is
change of form; as, he said that he could not come. They
are often called respectively by their Latin names,
oratio directa, and oratio obliqua.
Direct evidence (Law), evidence which is positive or not
inferential; -- opposed to circumstantial evidence, or
indirect evidence. -- This distinction, however, is
merely formal, since there is no direct evidence that is
not circumstantial, or dependent on circumstances for its
credibility. --Wharton.
Direct examination (Law), the first examination of a
witness in the orderly course, upon the merits. --Abbott.
Direct fire (Mil.), fire, the direction of which is
perpendicular to the line of troops or to the parapet
aimed at.
Direct process (Metal.), one which yields metal in working
condition by a single process from the ore. --Knight.
Direct tax, a tax assessed directly on lands, etc., and
polls, distinguished from taxes on merchandise, or
customs, and from excise.
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Discourse
(gcide) | Discourse \Dis*course"\, n. [L. discursus a running to and fro,
discourse, fr. discurrere, discursum, to run to and fro, to
discourse; dis- + currere to run: cf. F. discours. See
Course.]
1. The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it
were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a
conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning;
range of reasoning faculty. [Obs.]
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Difficult, strange, and harsh to the discourses of
natural reason. --South.
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Sure he that made us with such large discourse,
Looking before and after, gave us not
That capability and godlike reason
To fust in us unused. --Shak.
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2. Conversation; talk.
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In their discourses after supper. --Shak.
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Filling the head with variety of thoughts, and the
mouth with copious discourse. --Locke.
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3. The art and manner of speaking and conversing.
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Of excellent breeding, admirable discourse. --Shak.
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4. Consecutive speech, either written or unwritten, on a
given line of thought; speech; treatise; dissertation;
sermon, etc.; as, the preacher gave us a long discourse on
duty.
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5. Dealing; transaction. [Obs.]
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Good Captain Bessus, tell us the discourse
Betwixt Tigranes and our king, and how
We got the victory. --Beau. & Fl.
[1913 Webster]Discourse \Dis*course"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Discoursed; p.
pr. & vb. n. Discoursing.]
1. To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and
inferring; to reason. [Obs.] "Have sense or can
discourse." --Dryden.
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2. To express one's self in oral discourse; to expose one's
views; to talk in a continuous or formal manner; to hold
forth; to speak; to converse.
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Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear. --Shak.
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3. To relate something; to tell. --Shak.
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4. To treat of something in writing and formally.
[1913 Webster]Discourse \Dis*course"\, v. t.
1. To treat of; to expose or set forth in language. [Obs.]
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The life of William Tyndale . . . is sufficiently
and at large discoursed in the book. --Foxe.
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2. To utter or give forth; to speak.
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It will discourse most eloquent music. --Shak.
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3. To talk to; to confer with. [Obs.]
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I have spoken to my brother, who is the patron, to
discourse the minister about it. --Evelyn.
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Discoursed
(gcide) | Discourse \Dis*course"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Discoursed; p.
pr. & vb. n. Discoursing.]
1. To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and
inferring; to reason. [Obs.] "Have sense or can
discourse." --Dryden.
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2. To express one's self in oral discourse; to expose one's
views; to talk in a continuous or formal manner; to hold
forth; to speak; to converse.
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Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear. --Shak.
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3. To relate something; to tell. --Shak.
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4. To treat of something in writing and formally.
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Discourser
(gcide) | Discourser \Dis*cours"er\, n.
1. One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer.
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In his conversation he was the most clear
discourser. --Milward.
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2. The writer of a treatise or dissertation.
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Philologers and critical discoursers. --Sir T.
Browne.
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Indirect discourse
(gcide) | Indirect \In`di*rect"\, a. [Pref. in- not + direct: cf. F.
indirect.]
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1. Not direct; not straight or rectilinear; deviating from a
direct line or course; circuitous; as, an indirect road.
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2. Not tending to an aim, purpose, or result by the plainest
course, or by obvious means, but obliquely or
consequentially; by remote means; as, an indirect
accusation, attack, answer, or proposal.
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By what bypaths and indirect, crooked ways
I met this crown. --Shak.
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3. Not straightforward or upright; unfair; dishonest; tending
to mislead or deceive.
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Indirect dealing will be discovered one time or
other. --Tillotson.
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4. Not resulting directly from an act or cause, but more or
less remotely connected with or growing out of it; as,
indirect results, damages, or claims.
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5. (Logic & Math.) Not reaching the end aimed at by the most
plain and direct method; as, an indirect proof,
demonstration, etc.
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Indirect claims, claims for remote or consequential damage.
Such claims were presented to and thrown out by the
commissioners who arbitrated the damage inflicted on the
United States by the Confederate States cruisers built and
supplied by Great Britain.
Indirect demonstration, a mode of demonstration in which
proof is given by showing that any other supposition
involves an absurdity (reductio ad absurdum), or an
impossibility; thus, one quantity may be proved equal to
another by showing that it can be neither greater nor
less.
Indirect discourse. (Gram.) See Direct discourse, under
Direct.
Indirect evidence, evidence or testimony which is
circumstantial or inferential, but without witness; --
opposed to direct evidence.
Indirect tax, a tax, such as customs, excises, etc.,
exacted directly from the merchant, but paid indirectly by
the consumer in the higher price demanded for the articles
of merchandise.
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Undiscoursed
(gcide) | Undiscoursed \Undiscoursed\
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Universe of discourse
(gcide) | Universe of discourse \U"ni*verse of dis"course\, n.
everything which may be considered, explicitly or implicitly,
in a particular theory or discussion.
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direct discourse
(wn) | direct discourse
n 1: a report of the exact words used in a discourse (e.g., "he
said `I am a fool'") [syn: direct discourse, {direct
quotation}] [ant: indirect discourse] |
indirect discourse
(wn) | indirect discourse
n 1: a report of a discourse in which deictic terms are modified
appropriately (e.g., "he said `I am a fool' would be
modified to `he said he is a fool'") [ant: {direct
discourse}, direct quotation] |
universe of discourse
(wn) | universe of discourse
n 1: everything stated or assumed in a given discussion [syn:
universe, universe of discourse] |
universe of discourse
(foldoc) | universe of discourse
In ontology, the set of all entities
that can be represented in some declarative language or other
formal system.
Each entity is represented by a name and may have some
human-readable description of its meaning. Formal axioms
constrain the interpretation and well-formed use of these
names.
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