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rumination
(encz) | rumination,dumání n: Zdeněk Brož |
rumination
(encz) | rumination,hloubání n: Zdeněk Brož |
rumination
(encz) | rumination,přemítání n: Zdeněk Brož |
Rumination
(gcide) | Rumination \Ru`mi*na"tion\, n. [L. ruminatio: cf. F.
rumination.]
1. The act or process of ruminating, or chewing the cud; the
habit of chewing the cud.
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Rumination is given to animals to enable them at
once to lay up a great store of food, and afterward
to chew it. --Arbuthnot.
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2. The state of being disposed to ruminate or ponder;
deliberate meditation or reflection.
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Retiring full of rumination sad. --Thomson.
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3. (Physiol.) The regurgitation of food from the stomach
after it has been swallowed, -- occasionally observed as a
morbid phenomenon in man.
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rumination
(wn) | rumination
n 1: a calm, lengthy, intent consideration [syn:
contemplation, reflection, reflexion, rumination,
musing, thoughtfulness]
2: (of ruminants) chewing (the cud); "ruminants have remarkable
powers of rumination"
3: regurgitation of small amounts of food; seen in some infants
after feeding |
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Ferrumination
(gcide) | Ferrumination \Fer*ru`mi*na"tion\, n. [L. ferruminatio: cf. F.
ferrumination.]
The soldering or uniting of metals. [R.] --Coleridge.
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Rumination
(gcide) | Rumination \Ru`mi*na"tion\, n. [L. ruminatio: cf. F.
rumination.]
1. The act or process of ruminating, or chewing the cud; the
habit of chewing the cud.
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Rumination is given to animals to enable them at
once to lay up a great store of food, and afterward
to chew it. --Arbuthnot.
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2. The state of being disposed to ruminate or ponder;
deliberate meditation or reflection.
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Retiring full of rumination sad. --Thomson.
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3. (Physiol.) The regurgitation of food from the stomach
after it has been swallowed, -- occasionally observed as a
morbid phenomenon in man.
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