| slovo | definícia |
newspaper
(mass) | newspaper
- noviny |
newspaper
(encz) | newspaper,novinový adj: Zdeněk Brož |
newspaper
(encz) | newspaper,noviny n: |
Newspaper
(gcide) | Newspaper \News"pa`per\, n.
A sheet of paper printed and distributed, at stated
intervals, for conveying intelligence of passing events,
advocating opinions, etc.; a public print that circulates
news, advertisements, proceedings of legislative bodies,
public announcements, etc.
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newspaper
(wn) | newspaper
n 1: a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains
news and articles and advertisements; "he read his
newspaper at breakfast" [syn: newspaper, paper]
2: a business firm that publishes newspapers; "Murdoch owns many
newspapers" [syn: newspaper, paper, {newspaper
publisher}]
3: the physical object that is the product of a newspaper
publisher; "when it began to rain he covered his head with a
newspaper" [syn: newspaper, paper]
4: cheap paper made from wood pulp and used for printing
newspapers; "they used bales of newspaper every day" [syn:
newspaper, newsprint] |
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newspaperman
(mass) | newspaperman
- novinár |
tabloid newspaper
(mass) | tabloid newspaper
- plátok |
a newspaper kiosk
(encz) | a newspaper kiosk,novinový stánek Pavel Cvrček |
newspaper ad
(encz) | newspaper ad, n: |
newspaper advertisement
(encz) | newspaper advertisement, n: |
newspaper article
(encz) | newspaper article, n: |
newspaper clipping
(encz) | newspaper clipping, n: |
newspaper column
(encz) | newspaper column, n: |
newspaper columnist
(encz) | newspaper columnist, n: |
newspaper critic
(encz) | newspaper critic, n: |
newspaper editor
(encz) | newspaper editor, n: |
newspaper headline
(encz) | newspaper headline, n: |
newspaper publisher
(encz) | newspaper publisher, n: |
newspapering
(encz) | newspapering,novinářství n: Zdeněk Brož |
newspaperman
(encz) | newspaperman,novinář newspaperman,reportér |
newspapermen
(encz) | newspapermen,novináři Martin Dvořáknewspapermen,reportéři Martin Dvořák |
newspaperwoman
(encz) | newspaperwoman,novinářka newspaperwoman,reportérka |
school newspaper
(encz) | school newspaper, n: |
tabloid newspaper
(encz) | tabloid newspaper,plátek n: |
Newspaper
(gcide) | Newspaper \News"pa`per\, n.
A sheet of paper printed and distributed, at stated
intervals, for conveying intelligence of passing events,
advocating opinions, etc.; a public print that circulates
news, advertisements, proceedings of legislative bodies,
public announcements, etc.
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To take a newspaper
(gcide) | Take \Take\, v. t. [imp. Took (t[oo^]k); p. p. Taken
(t[=a]k'n); p. pr. & vb. n. Taking.] [Icel. taka; akin to
Sw. taga, Dan. tage, Goth. t[=e]kan to touch; of uncertain
origin.]
1. In an active sense; To lay hold of; to seize with the
hands, or otherwise; to grasp; to get into one's hold or
possession; to procure; to seize and carry away; to
convey. Hence, specifically:
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(a) To obtain possession of by force or artifice; to get
the custody or control of; to reduce into subjection
to one's power or will; to capture; to seize; to make
prisoner; as, to take an army, a city, or a ship;
also, to come upon or befall; to fasten on; to attack;
to seize; -- said of a disease, misfortune, or the
like.
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This man was taken of the Jews. --Acts xxiii.
27.
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Men in their loose, unguarded hours they take;
Not that themselves are wise, but others weak.
--Pope.
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They that come abroad after these showers are
commonly taken with sickness. --Bacon.
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There he blasts the tree and takes the cattle
And makes milch kine yield blood. --Shak.
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(b) To gain or secure the interest or affection of; to
captivate; to engage; to interest; to charm.
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Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
--Prov. vi.
25.
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Cleombroutus was so taken with this prospect,
that he had no patience. --Wake.
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I know not why, but there was a something in
those half-seen features, -- a charm in the very
shadow that hung over their imagined beauty, --
which took me more than all the outshining
loveliness of her companions. --Moore.
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(c) To make selection of; to choose; also, to turn to; to
have recourse to; as, to take the road to the right.
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Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my
son. And Jonathan was taken. --1 Sam. xiv.
42.
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The violence of storming is the course which God
is forced to take for the destroying . . . of
sinners. --Hammond.
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(d) To employ; to use; to occupy; hence, to demand; to
require; as, it takes so much cloth to make a coat; it
takes five hours to get to Boston from New York by
car.
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This man always takes time . . . before he
passes his judgments. --I. Watts.
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(e) To form a likeness of; to copy; to delineate; to
picture; as, to take a picture of a person.
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Beauty alone could beauty take so right.
--Dryden.
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(f) To draw; to deduce; to derive. [R.]
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The firm belief of a future judgment is the most
forcible motive to a good life, because taken
from this consideration of the most lasting
happiness and misery. --Tillotson.
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(g) To assume; to adopt; to acquire, as shape; to permit
to one's self; to indulge or engage in; to yield to;
to have or feel; to enjoy or experience, as rest,
revenge, delight, shame; to form and adopt, as a
resolution; -- used in general senses, limited by a
following complement, in many idiomatic phrases; as,
to take a resolution; I take the liberty to say.
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(h) To lead; to conduct; as, to take a child to church.
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(i) To carry; to convey; to deliver to another; to hand
over; as, he took the book to the bindery; he took a
dictionary with him.
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He took me certain gold, I wot it well.
--Chaucer.
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(k) To remove; to withdraw; to deduct; -- with from; as,
to take the breath from one; to take two from four.
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2. In a somewhat passive sense, to receive; to bear; to
endure; to acknowledge; to accept. Specifically:
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(a) To accept, as something offered; to receive; not to
refuse or reject; to admit.
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Ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a
murderer. --Num. xxxv.
31.
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Let not a widow be taken into the number under
threescore. --1 Tim. v.
10.
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(b) To receive as something to be eaten or drunk; to
partake of; to swallow; as, to take food or wine.
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(c) Not to refuse or balk at; to undertake readily; to
clear; as, to take a hedge or fence.
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(d) To bear without ill humor or resentment; to submit to;
to tolerate; to endure; as, to take a joke; he will
take an affront from no man.
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(e) To admit, as, something presented to the mind; not to
dispute; to allow; to accept; to receive in thought;
to entertain in opinion; to understand; to interpret;
to regard or look upon; to consider; to suppose; as,
to take a thing for granted; this I take to be man's
motive; to take men for spies.
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You take me right. --Bacon.
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Charity, taken in its largest extent, is nothing
else but the science love of God and our
neighbor. --Wake.
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[He] took that for virtue and affection which
was nothing but vice in a disguise. --South.
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You'd doubt his sex, and take him for a girl.
--Tate.
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(f) To accept the word or offer of; to receive and accept;
to bear; to submit to; to enter into agreement with;
-- used in general senses; as, to take a form or
shape.
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I take thee at thy word. --Rowe.
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Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command; . . .
Not take the mold. --Dryden.
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3. To make a picture, photograph, or the like, of; as, to
take a group or a scene. [Colloq.]
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4. To give or deliver (a blow to); to strike; hit; as, he
took me in the face; he took me a blow on the head. [Obs.
exc. Slang or Dial.]
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To be taken aback, To take advantage of, To take air,
etc. See under Aback, Advantage, etc.
To take aim, to direct the eye or weapon; to aim.
To take along, to carry, lead, or convey.
To take arms, to commence war or hostilities.
To take away, to carry off; to remove; to cause deprivation
of; to do away with; as, a bill for taking away the votes
of bishops. "By your own law, I take your life away."
--Dryden.
To take breath, to stop, as from labor, in order to breathe
or rest; to recruit or refresh one's self.
To take care, to exercise care or vigilance; to be
solicitous. "Doth God take care for oxen?" --1 Cor. ix. 9.
To take care of, to have the charge or care of; to care
for; to superintend or oversee.
To take down.
(a) To reduce; to bring down, as from a high, or higher,
place; as, to take down a book; hence, to bring lower;
to depress; to abase or humble; as, to take down
pride, or the proud. "I never attempted to be impudent
yet, that I was not taken down." --Goldsmith.
(b) To swallow; as, to take down a potion.
(c) To pull down; to pull to pieces; as, to take down a
house or a scaffold.
(d) To record; to write down; as, to take down a man's
words at the time he utters them.
To take effect, To take fire. See under Effect, and
Fire.
To take ground to the right or To take ground to the left
(Mil.), to extend the line to the right or left; to move,
as troops, to the right or left.
To take heart, to gain confidence or courage; to be
encouraged.
To take heed, to be careful or cautious. "Take heed what
doom against yourself you give." --Dryden.
To take heed to, to attend with care, as, take heed to thy
ways.
To take hold of, to seize; to fix on.
To take horse, to mount and ride a horse.
To take in.
(a) To inclose; to fence.
(b) To encompass or embrace; to comprise; to comprehend.
(c) To draw into a smaller compass; to contract; to brail
or furl; as, to take in sail.
(d) To cheat; to circumvent; to gull; to deceive.
[Colloq.]
(e) To admit; to receive; as, a leaky vessel will take in
water.
(f) To win by conquest. [Obs.]
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For now Troy's broad-wayed town
He shall take in. --Chapman.
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(g) To receive into the mind or understanding. "Some
bright genius can take in a long train of
propositions." --I. Watts.
(h) To receive regularly, as a periodical work or
newspaper; to take. [Eng.]
To take in hand. See under Hand.
To take in vain, to employ or utter as in an oath. "Thou
shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain."
--Ex. xx. 7.
To take issue. See under Issue.
To take leave. See Leave, n., 2.
To take a newspaper, magazine, or the like, to receive it
regularly, as on paying the price of subscription.
To take notice, to observe, or to observe with particular
attention.
To take notice of. See under Notice.
To take oath, to swear with solemnity, or in a judicial
manner.
To take on, to assume; to take upon one's self; as, to take
on a character or responsibility.
To take one's own course, to act one's pleasure; to pursue
the measures of one's own choice.
To take order for. See under Order.
To take order with, to check; to hinder; to repress. [Obs.]
--Bacon.
To take orders.
(a) To receive directions or commands.
(b) (Eccl.) To enter some grade of the ministry. See
Order, n., 10.
To take out.
(a) To remove from within a place; to separate; to deduct.
(b) To draw out; to remove; to clear or cleanse from; as,
to take out a stain or spot from cloth.
(c) To produce for one's self; as, to take out a patent.
To take up.
(a) To lift; to raise. --Hood.
(b) To buy or borrow; as, to take up goods to a large
amount; to take up money at the bank.
(c) To begin; as, to take up a lamentation. --Ezek. xix.
1.
(d) To gather together; to bind up; to fasten or to
replace; as, to take up raveled stitches; specifically
(Surg.), to fasten with a ligature.
(e) To engross; to employ; to occupy or fill; as, to take
up the time; to take up a great deal of room.
(f) To take permanently. "Arnobius asserts that men of the
finest parts . . . took up their rest in the Christian
religion." --Addison.
(g) To seize; to catch; to arrest; as, to take up a thief;
to take up vagabonds.
(h) To admit; to believe; to receive. [Obs.]
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The ancients took up experiments upon credit.
--Bacon.
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(i) To answer by reproof; to reprimand; to berate.
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One of his relations took him up roundly.
--L'Estrange.
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(k) To begin where another left off; to keep up in
continuous succession; to take up (a topic, an
activity).
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Soon as the evening shades prevail,
The moon takes up the wondrous tale. --Addison.
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(l) To assume; to adopt as one's own; to carry on or
manage; as, to take up the quarrels of our neighbors;
to take up current opinions. "They take up our old
trade of conquering." --Dryden.
(m) To comprise; to include. "The noble poem of Palemon
and Arcite . . . takes up seven years." --Dryden.
(n) To receive, accept, or adopt for the purpose of
assisting; to espouse the cause of; to favor. --Ps.
xxvii. 10.
(o) To collect; to exact, as a tax; to levy; as, to take
up a contribution. "Take up commodities upon our
bills." --Shak.
(p) To pay and receive; as, to take up a note at the bank.
(q) (Mach.) To remove, as by an adjustment of parts; as,
to take up lost motion, as in a bearing; also, to make
tight, as by winding, or drawing; as, to take up slack
thread in sewing.
(r) To make up; to compose; to settle; as, to take up a
quarrel. [Obs.] --Shak. -- (s) To accept from someone,
as a wager or a challenge; as, J. took M. up on his
challenge.
To take up arms. Same as To take arms, above.
To take upon one's self.
(a) To assume; to undertake; as, he takes upon himself to
assert that the fact is capable of proof.
(b) To appropriate to one's self; to allow to be imputed
to, or inflicted upon, one's self; as, to take upon
one's self a punishment.
To take up the gauntlet. See under Gauntlet.
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newspaper ad
(wn) | newspaper ad
n 1: a printed advertisement that is published in a newspaper
[syn: newspaper ad, newspaper advertisement] |
newspaper advertisement
(wn) | newspaper advertisement
n 1: a printed advertisement that is published in a newspaper
[syn: newspaper ad, newspaper advertisement] |
newspaper article
(wn) | newspaper article
n 1: an article reporting news [syn: news article, {news
story}, newspaper article] |
newspaper clipping
(wn) | newspaper clipping
n 1: an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine; "he searched
through piles of letters and clippings" [syn: clipping,
newspaper clipping, press clipping, cutting, {press
cutting}] |
newspaper column
(wn) | newspaper column
n 1: an article giving opinions or perspectives [syn: column,
editorial, newspaper column] |
newspaper columnist
(wn) | newspaper columnist
n 1: a columnist who writes for newspapers |
newspaper critic
(wn) | newspaper critic
n 1: a critic who writes a column for the newspapers |
newspaper editor
(wn) | newspaper editor
n 1: the editor of a newspaper |
newspaper headline
(wn) | newspaper headline
n 1: the heading or caption of a newspaper article [syn:
headline, newspaper headline] |
newspaper publisher
(wn) | newspaper publisher
n 1: the proprietor of a newspaper [syn: publisher, {newspaper
publisher}]
2: a business firm that publishes newspapers; "Murdoch owns many
newspapers" [syn: newspaper, paper, {newspaper
publisher}] |
newspapering
(wn) | newspapering
n 1: journalism practiced for the newspapers |
newspaperman
(wn) | newspaperman
n 1: a journalist employed to provide news stories for
newspapers or broadcast media [syn: correspondent,
newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newswriter, pressman] |
newspaperwoman
(wn) | newspaperwoman
n 1: a journalist employed to provide news stories for
newspapers or broadcast media [syn: correspondent,
newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newswriter, pressman] |
school newspaper
(wn) | school newspaper
n 1: a newspaper written and published by students in a school
[syn: school newspaper, school paper] |
NEWSPAPERS
(bouvier) | NEWSPAPERS. Papers for conveying news, printed and distributed periodically.
2. To encourage their circulation the act of congress of March 3, 1825,
3 Story's L. U. S. 1994, enacts, Sec. 29. That every printer of newspapers
may rend one paper to each and every other printer of newspapers within the
United States, free of postage, under such regulations as the postmaster
general shall provide.
3.-Sec. 30. That all newspapers conveyed in the mail shall be under
cover, open at one end, and charged with the postage of one cent each, for
any distance not more than one hundred miles, and one and a half cents for
any greater distance: Provided That the postage of a single newspaper, from
any one place to another, in the same state, shall not exceed one cent, and
the postmaster general shall require those who receive newspapers by post,
to pay always the amount of one quarter's postage in advance; and should the
publisher of any newspaper, after being three mouths previously notified
that his paper is not taken out of the office, to which it is sent for
delivery, continue to forward such paper in the mail, the postmaster to
whose office such paper is sent, may dispose of the same for the postage,
unless the publisher shall pay it. If any person employed in any department
of the post office, shall improperly detain, delay, embezzle, or destroy any
newspaper, or shall permit any other person to do the like, or shall open or
permit any other to open, any mail, or packet of newspapers, not directed to
the office where he is employed, such offender shall, on conviction thereof,
forfeit a sum, not exceeding fifty dollars, for every such offence. And if
any other person shall open any mail or packet of newspapers, or shall
embezzle or destroy the same, not being directed to such person, or not
being authorized to receive or open the same, such offender shall, on the
conviction thereof, pay a sum not exceeding twenty dollars for every such
offence. And if any person shall take, or steal, any packet, bag, or mail of
newspapers, from, or out of any post office, or from any person having
custody thereof, such person shall, on conviction, be imprisoned, not
exceeding three mouths, for every, such offence, to be kept at hard labor
during the period of such imprisonment. If any person shall enclose or
conceal a letter, or other thing, or any memorandum in writing, in a
newspaper, pamphlet, or magazine, or in any package of newspapers,
pamphlets, or magazines, or make any writing or memorandum thereon, which he
shall have delivered into any post office, or to any person for that
purpose, in order that the same may be carried by post, free of letter
postage, he shall forfeit the sum of five dollars for every such offence;
and the letter, newspaper, package, memorandum, or other thing, shall not be
delivered to the person to whom it is directed, until the amount of single
letter postage is paid for each article of which the package is composed. No
newspapers shall be received by the postmasters, to be conveyed by post,
unless they are sufficiently dried and enclosed in proper wrappers, on
which, besides the direction, shall be noted the number of papers which are
enclosed for subscribers, and the number for printers: Provided, That the
number need hot be endorsed, if the publisher shall agree to furnish the
postmaster, at the close of each quarter, a certified statement of the
number of papers sent in the mail, chargeable with postage. The postmaster
general, in any contract he may enter into for the conveyance of the mail,
may authorize the person with whom such contract is to be made, to carry
newspapers, magazines, and pamphlets, other than those conveyed in the mail:
Provided, That no preference shall be given to the publisher of one
newspaper over that of another, in the same place. When the mode of
conveyance, and size of the mail, will admit of it, such magazines and
pamphlets as are published periodically, may be transported in the mail, to
subscribers, at one and a half cents a sheet, for any distance riot
exceeding one hundred miles, and two and a half cents for any greater
distance. And such magazines and pamphlets as are not published
periodically, if sent in the mail, shall be charged with a postage of four
cents on each sheet, for any distance not exceeding one hundred miles, and
six cents for any greater distance. By the act of March 3, 1851, c. 20, s.
2, it is enacted, That all newspapers not exceeding three ounces in weight
sent from the office of publication to actual and bona fide subscribers,
shall be charged with postage is follows, to wit weekly only, within the
county where published, free; for any distance not exceeding fifty miles out
of the county, five cents per quarter; exceeding fifty, and not exceeding
three hundred miles, ten cents per quarter; exceeding three hundred and not
exceeding one thousand miles, fifteen cents per quarter; exceeding one
thousand and not exceeding two thousand miles, twenty cents per quarter
exceeding two thousand and not exceeding four thousand, twenty-five cents
per quarter; exceeding four thousand miles, thirty cents per quarter;
newspapers published monthly, sent to actual and bona fide subscribers, one-
fourth the foregoing rates; published semi-monthly, one-half the foregoing
rates; semi-weekly, double those rates; tri-weekly, treble those rates; and
oftener than tri-weekly, five times those rates; Provided, That newspapers
not containing over three hundred square inches may be transmitted at one-
fourth the above rates. See, as to other newspapers, Postage.
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