| slovo | definícia |
sitter
(encz) | sitter,opatrovník n: Zdeněk Brož |
Sitter
(gcide) | Sitter \Sit"ter\, n.
1. One who sits; esp., one who sits for a portrait or a bust.
[1913 Webster]
2. A bird that sits or incubates.
[1913 Webster] |
sitter
(wn) | Sitter
n 1: Dutch astronomer who calculated the size of the universe
and suggested that it is expanding (1872-1934) [syn:
Sitter, Willem de Sitter]
2: an organism (person or animal) that sits [ant: stander]
3: a person engaged to care for children when the parents are
not home [syn: babysitter, baby-sitter, sitter]
4: a person who poses for a painter or sculptor [syn: {artist's
model}, sitter]
5: a domestic hen ready to brood [syn: brood hen, broody,
broody hen, setting hen, sitter] |
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baby-sitter
(encz) | baby-sitter,opatrovatelka n: Zdeněk Brož |
babysitter
(encz) | babysitter,opatrovnice n: Zdeněk Brož |
bed-sitter
(encz) | bed-sitter,obývací ložnice n: Pavel Cvrček |
bedsitter
(encz) | bedsitter,obývací ložnice Zdeněk Brož |
critter sitter
(encz) | critter sitter, n: |
fence sitter
(encz) | fence sitter, |
fence-sitter
(encz) | fence-sitter, n: |
fencesitter
(encz) | fencesitter,nestranný aktér n: Kalousekfencesitter,neutrální aktér n: Kalousek |
house sitter
(encz) | house sitter, n: |
house-sitter
(encz) | house-sitter, |
pet sitter
(encz) | pet sitter, n: |
baby-sitter
(gcide) | babysitter \babysitter\, baby-sitter \baby-sitter\n.
A person engaged to care for children when the parents are
not home.
Syn: sitter
[WordNet 1.5] |
babysitter
(gcide) | babysitter \babysitter\, baby-sitter \baby-sitter\n.
A person engaged to care for children when the parents are
not home.
Syn: sitter
[WordNet 1.5] |
bedsitter
(gcide) | bedsitter \bed"sit*ter\ n.
a furnished sitting room with sleeping accommodations (and
some plumbing).
Syn: bedsitting room, bedsit.
[WordNet 1.5] |
Flagpole sitter
(gcide) | Flagpole sitter \Flag"pole` sit"ter\ (fl[a^]g"p[=o]l`
s[i^]t"t[~e]r), n.
A person who sits for an extended period of time on top of a
flagpole or other high column; -- a publicity stunt performed
for various reasons.
[PJC]
He [Shipwreck Kelly] was the great flagpole sitter of
the thirties, the founding father of the whole
discipline, who provided inspiration for many and even
the pseudonym for one -- Van Nolan, who also called
himself Shipwreck. Any serious polesitter believes
himself an avatar of Shipwreck Kelly, and I was then
and am now no exception. --From: John
A. Gould,
Aerie
(Berkshire
Review, Volume
XI, Number 1,
Spring, 1975).
The two other holy men in Gregory's narrative had more
exotic origins than the pair that has just been seen.
Gregory encountered one of them when on a journey to
the north-eastern parts of the Frankish kingdom. This
was a Lombard, named Vulfolaic, who had spent some
years in the arduous exercise of being a stylite, the
Christian equivalent of a flagpole sitter; in other
words, Vulfolaic was a monk whose main austerity
consisted in living on top of a pillar. By carrying out
this feat in the rain, snow, and frost of the Moselle
valley, Vulfolaic had convinced the local population to
overthrow and abandon the idol of Diana to which they
were addicted. --Walter
Goffart,
FOREIGNERS IN
THE HISTORIES
OF GREGORY OF
TOURS
(http://www.arts.uwo.ca/florilegium/goffart.html). |
Sitter
(gcide) | Sitter \Sit"ter\, n.
1. One who sits; esp., one who sits for a portrait or a bust.
[1913 Webster]
2. A bird that sits or incubates.
[1913 Webster] |
baby-sitter
(wn) | baby-sitter
n 1: a person engaged to care for children when the parents are
not home [syn: babysitter, baby-sitter, sitter] |
babysitter
(wn) | babysitter
n 1: a person engaged to care for children when the parents are
not home [syn: babysitter, baby-sitter, sitter] |
bedsitter
(wn) | bedsitter
n 1: a furnished sitting room with sleeping accommodations (and
some plumbing) [syn: bedsitting room, bedsitter,
bedsit] |
critter sitter
(wn) | critter sitter
n 1: someone left in charge of pets while their owners are away
from home [syn: pet sitter, critter sitter] |
fence-sitter
(wn) | fence-sitter
n 1: a person who won't take sides in a controversy |
fencesitter
(wn) | fencesitter
n 1: a neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics)
[syn: mugwump, independent, fencesitter] |
house sitter
(wn) | house sitter
n 1: a custodian who lives in and cares for a house while the
regular occupant is away (usually without an exchange of
money) |
pet sitter
(wn) | pet sitter
n 1: someone left in charge of pets while their owners are away
from home [syn: pet sitter, critter sitter] |
willem de sitter
(wn) | Willem de Sitter
n 1: Dutch astronomer who calculated the size of the universe
and suggested that it is expanding (1872-1934) [syn:
Sitter, Willem de Sitter] |
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