| slovo | definícia |
ticho
(msas) | ticho
- placidly, quiet, quietly, silently, soundlessly, tacitly, hush,
quiet, silence, still, calmly, stilly |
ticho
(msasasci) | ticho
- placidly, quiet, quietly, silently, soundlessly, tacitly, hush,
quiet, silence, still, calmly, stilly |
ticho
(czen) | ticho,calmn: Jiří Šmoldas |
ticho
(czen) | ticho,quietn: |
ticho
(czen) | ticho,quietnessn: |
ticho
(czen) | ticho,silence |
ticho
(czen) | ticho,stilln: Zdeněk Brož |
ticho
(czen) | ticho,stillnessn: Zdeněk Brož |
ticho
(czen) | ticho,tranquility Martin M. |
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tichosť
(msas) | tichosť
- meekness |
tichost
(msasasci) | tichost
- meekness |
artichoke
(encz) | artichoke,artyčok n: Zdeněk Brož |
globe artichoke
(encz) | globe artichoke,artyčok n: Zdeněk Brož |
jerusalem artichoke
(encz) | Jerusalem artichoke,druh artyčoku Zdeněk Brož |
mantichora
(encz) | mantichora, n: |
tichodrome
(encz) | tichodrome, n: |
tak ticho
(czen) | tak ticho, že je možné slyšet dopad jehly na zem,so quiet you can hear a
pin drop Milan Svoboda |
ticho!
(czen) | ticho!,hist Zdeněk Brož |
tichost
(czen) | tichost,placidityn: Zdeněk Brožtichost,quietnessn: Zdeněk Brožtichost,stealthn: Pinotichost,tacitness smrttichost,voicelessnessn: Zdeněk Brož |
tichošlápek
(czen) | tichošlápek,pussyfootn: PetrV |
Artichoke
(gcide) | Artichoke \Ar"ti*choke\, n. [It. articiocco, perh. corrupted fr.
the same word as carciofo; cf. older spellings archiciocco,
archicioffo, carciocco, and Sp. alcachofa, Pg. alcachofra;
prob. fr. Ar. al-harshaf, al-kharsh[=u]f.] (Bot.)
1. The Cynara scolymus, a plant somewhat resembling a
thistle, with a dilated, imbricated, and prickly
involucre. The head (to which the name is also applied) is
composed of numerous oval scales, inclosing the florets,
sitting on a broad receptacle, which, with the fleshy base
of the scales, is much esteemed as an article of food.
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2. See Jerusalem artichoke.
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Aspidium acrostichoides
(gcide) | Christmas \Christ"mas\, n. [Christ + mass.]
An annual church festival (December 25) and in some States a
legal holiday, in memory of the birth of Christ, often
celebrated by a particular church service, and also by
special gifts, greetings, and hospitality.
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Christmas box.
(a) A box in which presents are deposited at Christmas.
(b) A present or small gratuity given to young people and
servants at Christmas; a Christmas gift.
Christmas carol, a carol sung at, or suitable for,
Christmas.
Christmas day. Same as Christmas.
Christmas eve, the evening before Christmas.
Christmas fern (Bot.), an evergreen North American fern
(Aspidium acrostichoides), which is much used for
decoration in winter.
Christmas flower, Christmas rose, the black hellebore, a
poisonous plant of the buttercup family, which in Southern
Europe often produces beautiful roselike flowers
midwinter.
Christmas tree, a small evergreen tree, set up indoors, to
be decorated with bonbons, presents, etc., and illuminated
on Christmas eve.
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Distichous
(gcide) | Distich \Dis"tich\, Distichous \Dis"tich*ous\, a. [Gr. ?. See
Distich, n.]
Disposed in two vertical rows; two-ranked.
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Distichously
(gcide) | Distichously \Dis"tich*ous*ly\, adv.
In a distichous manner.
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Hexastichon
(gcide) | Hexastich \Hex"a*stich\, ||Hexastichon \Hex*as"ti*chon\, n. [L.
hexastichus of six rows, lines, or verses, Gr. ?; "e`x six +
sti`chos row, line, verse.]
A poem consisting of six verses or lines.
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Hordeum hexastichon
(gcide) | Bear \Bear\, Bere \Bere\(b[=e]r), n. [AS. bere. See Barley.]
(Bot.)
Barley; the six-rowed barley or the four-rowed barley,
commonly the former (Hordeum hexastichon or {Hordeum
vulgare}). [Obs. except in North of Eng. and Scot.]
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Jerusalem artichoke
(gcide) | Jerusalem \Je*ru"sa*lem\ (j[-e]*r[udd]"s[.a]*l[e^]m), n. [Gr.
'Ieroysalh`m, fr. Heb. Y[e^]r[=u]sh[=a]laim.]
The chief city of Palestine, intimately associated with the
glory of the Jewish nation, and the life and death of Jesus
Christ.
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Jerusalem artichoke [Perh. a corrupt. of It. girasole i.e.,
sunflower, or turnsole. See Gyre, Solar.] (Bot.)
(a) An American plant, a perennial species of sunflower
(Helianthus tuberosus), whose tubers are sometimes used
as food.
(b) One of the tubers themselves.
Jerusalem cherry (Bot.), the popular name of either of two
species of Solanum (Solanum Pseudo-capsicum and
Solanum capsicastrum), cultivated as ornamental house
plants. They bear bright red berries of about the size of
cherries.
Jerusalem oak (Bot.), an aromatic goosefoot ({Chenopodium
Botrys}), common about houses and along roadsides.
Jerusalem sage (Bot.), a perennial herb of the Mint family
(Phlomis tuberosa).
Jerusalem thorn (Bot.), a spiny, leguminous tree
(Parkinsonia aculeata), widely dispersed in warm
countries, and used for hedges.
The New Jerusalem, Heaven; the Celestial City.
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mantichora
(gcide) | mantichora \mantichora\, manticora \manticora\, manticore
\manticore\n.
A mythical monster having the head of man (with horns) and
the body of a lion and the tail of a scorpion.
Syn: manticore, mantichora, mantiger.
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Monostichous
(gcide) | Monostichous \Mo*nos"ti*chous\ (m[-o]*n[o^]s"t[i^]*k[u^]s), a.
[See Monostich.] (Bot.)
Arranged in a single row on one side of an axis, as the
flowers in grasses of the tribe Chloridae.
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Octostichous
(gcide) | Octostichous \Oc*tos"ti*chous\, a. [Octo- + Gr. sti`chos a row.]
(Bot.)
In eight vertical ranks, as leaves on a stem.
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Pentastichous
(gcide) | Pentastichous \Pen*tas"ti*chous\, a. [Penta- + Gr. sti`chos a
row.] (Bot.)
Having, or arranged in, five vertical ranks, as the leaves of
an apple tree or a cherry tree.
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Potichomania
(gcide) | Potichomania \Po`ti*cho*ma"ni*a\, ||Potichomanie
\Po`ti*cho*ma"nie\, n. [F. potichomanie; potiche a porcelain
vase + manie mania.]
The art or process of coating the inside of glass vessels
with engravings or paintings, so as to give them the
appearance of painted ware.
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Potichomanie
(gcide) | Potichomania \Po`ti*cho*ma"ni*a\, ||Potichomanie
\Po`ti*cho*ma"nie\, n. [F. potichomanie; potiche a porcelain
vase + manie mania.]
The art or process of coating the inside of glass vessels
with engravings or paintings, so as to give them the
appearance of painted ware.
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Rhinoceros tichorhinus
(gcide) | Woolly \Wool"ly\, a.
1. Consisting of wool; as, a woolly covering; a woolly
fleece.
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2. Resembling wool; of the nature of wool. "My fleece of
woolly hair." --Shak.
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3. Clothed with wool. "Woolly breeders." --Shak.
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4. (Bot.) Clothed with a fine, curly pubescence resembling
wool.
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Woolly bear (Zool.), the hairy larva of several species of
bombycid moths. The most common species in the United
States are the salt-marsh caterpillar (see under Salt),
the black and red woolly bear, or larva of the Isabella
moth (see Illust., under Isabella Moth), and the yellow
woolly bear, or larva of the American ermine moth
(Spilosoma Virginica).
Woolly butt (Bot.), an Australian tree ({Eucalyptus
longifolia}), so named because of its fibrous bark.
Woolly louse (Zool.), a plant louse (Schizoneura lanigera
syn Erisoma lanigera) which is often very injurious to
the apple tree. It is covered with a dense coat of white
filaments somewhat resembling fine wool or cotton. In
exists in two forms, one of which infests the roots, the
other the branches. See Illust. under Blight.
Woolly macaco (Zool.), the mongoose lemur.
Woolly maki (Zool.), a long-tailed lemur (Indris laniger)
native of Madagascar, having fur somewhat like wool; --
called also avahi, and woolly lemur.
Woolly monkey (Zool.), any South American monkey of the
genus Lagothrix, as the caparro.
Woolly rhinoceros (Paleon.), an extinct rhinoceros
(Rhinoceros tichorhinus) which inhabited the arctic
regions, and was covered with a dense coat of woolly hair.
It has been found frozen in the ice of Siberia, with the
flesh and hair well preserved.
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Stichomancy
(gcide) | Stichomancy \Stich"o*man`cy\, n. [Gr. ? a line + -mancy.]
Divination by lines, or passages of books, taken at hazard.
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Stichometrical
(gcide) | Stichometrical \Stich`o*met"ric*al\, a.
Of or pertaining to stichometry; characterized by stichs, or
lines.
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Stichometry
(gcide) | Stichometry \Stich*om"e*try\, n. [Gr. ? a line + -metry.]
1. Measurement of books by the number of lines which they
contain.
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2. Division of the text of a book into lines; especially, the
division of the text of books into lines accommodated to
the sense, -- a method of writing manuscripts used before
punctuation was adopted.
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Tichodroma muraria
(gcide) | Wall \Wall\, n. [AS. weall, from L. vallum a wall, vallus a
stake, pale, palisade; akin to Gr. ? a nail. Cf. Interval.]
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1. A work or structure of stone, brick, or other materials,
raised to some height, and intended for defense or
security, solid and permanent inclosing fence, as around a
field, a park, a town, etc., also, one of the upright
inclosing parts of a building or a room.
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The plaster of the wall of the King's palace. --Dan.
v. 5.
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2. A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the
plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense.
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The waters were a wall unto them on their right
hand, and on their left. --Ex. xiv. 22.
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In such a night,
Troilus, methinks, mounted the Troyan walls. --Shak.
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To rush undaunted to defend the walls. --Dryden.
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3. An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel; as, the walls
of a steam-engine cylinder.
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4. (Mining)
(a) The side of a level or drift.
(b) The country rock bounding a vein laterally. --Raymond.
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Note: Wall is often used adjectively, and also in the
formation of compounds, usually of obvious
signification; as in wall paper, or wall-paper; wall
fruit, or wall-fruit; wallflower, etc.
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Blank wall, Blind wall, etc. See under Blank, Blind,
etc.
To drive to the wall, to bring to extremities; to push to
extremes; to get the advantage of, or mastery over.
To go to the wall, to be hard pressed or driven; to be the
weaker party; to be pushed to extremes.
To take the wall. to take the inner side of a walk, that
is, the side next the wall; hence, to take the precedence.
"I will take the wall of any man or maid of Montague's."
--Shak.
Wall barley (Bot.), a kind of grass (Hordeum murinum)
much resembling barley; squirrel grass. See under
Squirrel.
Wall box. (Mach.) See Wall frame, below.
Wall creeper (Zool.), a small bright-colored bird
(Tichodroma muraria) native of Asia and Southern Europe.
It climbs about over old walls and cliffs in search of
insects and spiders. Its body is ash-gray above, the wing
coverts are carmine-red, the primary quills are mostly red
at the base and black distally, some of them with white
spots, and the tail is blackish. Called also {spider
catcher}.
Wall cress (Bot.), a name given to several low cruciferous
herbs, especially to the mouse-ear cress. See under
Mouse-ear.
Wall frame (Mach.), a frame set in a wall to receive a
pillow block or bearing for a shaft passing through the
wall; -- called also wall box.
Wall fruit, fruit borne by trees trained against a wall.
Wall gecko (Zool.), any one of several species of Old World
geckos which live in or about buildings and run over the
vertical surfaces of walls, to which they cling by means
of suckers on the feet.
Wall lizard (Zool.), a common European lizard ({Lacerta
muralis}) which frequents houses, and lives in the chinks
and crevices of walls; -- called also wall newt.
Wall louse, a wood louse.
Wall moss (Bot.), any species of moss growing on walls.
Wall newt (Zool.), the wall lizard. --Shak.
Wall paper, paper for covering the walls of rooms; paper
hangings.
Wall pellitory (Bot.), a European plant ({Parictaria
officinalis}) growing on old walls, and formerly esteemed
medicinal.
Wall pennywort (Bot.), a plant (Cotyledon Umbilicus)
having rounded fleshy leaves. It is found on walls in
Western Europe.
Wall pepper (Bot.), a low mosslike plant (Sedum acre)
with small fleshy leaves having a pungent taste and
bearing yellow flowers. It is common on walls and rocks in
Europe, and is sometimes seen in America.
Wall pie (Bot.), a kind of fern; wall rue.
Wall piece, a gun planted on a wall. --H. L. Scott.
Wall plate (Arch.), a piece of timber placed horizontally
upon a wall, and supporting posts, joists, and the like.
See Illust. of Roof.
Wall rock, granular limestone used in building walls. [U.
S.] --Bartlett.
Wall rue (Bot.), a species of small fern ({Asplenium
Ruta-muraria}) growing on walls, rocks, and the like.
Wall spring, a spring of water issuing from stratified
rocks.
Wall tent, a tent with upright cloth sides corresponding to
the walls of a house.
Wall wasp (Zool.), a common European solitary wasp
(Odynerus parietus) which makes its nest in the crevices
of walls.
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Tichorrhine
(gcide) | Tichorrhine \Tich"or*rhine\, n. [Gr. ? a wall + ?, ?, the nose.]
(Paleon.)
A fossil rhinoceros with a vertical bony medial septum
supporting the nose; the hairy rhinoceros.
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Tristichous
(gcide) | Tristichous \Tris"tich*ous\, a. [Gr. ? in three rows; ? (see
Tri-) + ? a row.] (Bot.)
Arranged in three vertical rows.
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anticholinergic
(wn) | anticholinergic
adj 1: inhibiting or blocking the action of acetylcholine at a
receptor site; "anticholinergic drugs" [ant:
cholinergic]
n 1: a substance that opposes or blocks the action of
acetylcholine [syn: anticholinergic, {anticholinergic
drug}] |
anticholinergic drug
(wn) | anticholinergic drug
n 1: a substance that opposes or blocks the action of
acetylcholine [syn: anticholinergic, {anticholinergic
drug}] |
anticholinesterase
(wn) | anticholinesterase
n 1: a medicine that inhibits cholinesterase by combining with
it and so has a cholinergic effect |
artichoke
(wn) | artichoke
n 1: Mediterranean thistlelike plant widely cultivated for its
large edible flower head [syn: artichoke, {globe
artichoke}, artichoke plant, Cynara scolymus]
2: a thistlelike flower head with edible fleshy leaves and heart
[syn: artichoke, globe artichoke] |
artichoke heart
(wn) | artichoke heart
n 1: the tender fleshy center of the immature artichoke flower |
artichoke plant
(wn) | artichoke plant
n 1: Mediterranean thistlelike plant widely cultivated for its
large edible flower head [syn: artichoke, {globe
artichoke}, artichoke plant, Cynara scolymus] |
buckleya distichophylla
(wn) | Buckleya distichophylla
n 1: parasitic shrub of the eastern United States having
opposite leaves and insignificant greenish flowers followed
by oily dull green olivelike fruits [syn: buckleya,
Buckleya distichophylla] |
cryptogramma acrostichoides
(wn) | Cryptogramma acrostichoides
n 1: rock-inhabiting fern of northern North America growing in
massive tufts and having fronds resembling parsley [syn:
American rock brake, American parsley fern,
Cryptogramma acrostichoides] |
deparia acrostichoides
(wn) | Deparia acrostichoides
n 1: fern with elongate silvery outgrowths enclosing the
developing spores [syn: silvery spleenwort, {Deparia
acrostichoides}, Athyrium thelypteroides] |
genus tichodroma
(wn) | genus Tichodroma
n 1: wall creepers; in some classifications placed in family
Sittidae [syn: Tichodroma, genus Tichodroma] |
globe artichoke
(wn) | globe artichoke
n 1: Mediterranean thistlelike plant widely cultivated for its
large edible flower head [syn: artichoke, {globe
artichoke}, artichoke plant, Cynara scolymus]
2: a thistlelike flower head with edible fleshy leaves and heart
[syn: artichoke, globe artichoke] |
jerusalem artichoke
(wn) | Jerusalem artichoke
n 1: edible tuber of the Jerusalem artichoke
2: tall perennial with hairy stems and leaves; widely cultivated
for its large irregular edible tubers [syn: {Jerusalem
artichoke}, girasol, Jerusalem artichoke sunflower,
Helianthus tuberosus]
3: sunflower tuber eaten raw or boiled or sliced thin and fried
as Saratoga chips [syn: Jerusalem artichoke, sunchoke] |
jerusalem artichoke sunflower
(wn) | Jerusalem artichoke sunflower
n 1: tall perennial with hairy stems and leaves; widely
cultivated for its large irregular edible tubers [syn:
Jerusalem artichoke, girasol, {Jerusalem artichoke
sunflower}, Helianthus tuberosus] |
mantichora
(wn) | mantichora
n 1: a mythical monster having the head of man (with horns) and
the body of a lion and the tail of a scorpion [syn:
manticore, mantichora, manticora, mantiger] |
polystichum acrostichoides
(wn) | Polystichum acrostichoides
n 1: North American evergreen fern having pinnate leaves and
dense clusters of lance-shaped fronds [syn: {Christmas
fern}, canker brake, dagger fern, {evergreen wood
fern}, Polystichum acrostichoides] |
tichodroma
(wn) | Tichodroma
n 1: wall creepers; in some classifications placed in family
Sittidae [syn: Tichodroma, genus Tichodroma] |
tichodroma muriaria
(wn) | Tichodroma muriaria
n 1: crimson-and-grey songbird that inhabits town walls and
mountain cliffs of southern Eurasia and northern Africa
[syn: wall creeper, tichodrome, Tichodroma muriaria] |
tichodrome
(wn) | tichodrome
n 1: crimson-and-grey songbird that inhabits town walls and
mountain cliffs of southern Eurasia and northern Africa
[syn: wall creeper, tichodrome, Tichodroma muriaria] |
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