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turgid
(encz) | turgid,nabubřelý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
turgid
(encz) | turgid,opuchlý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
turgid
(encz) | turgid,oteklý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
turgid
(encz) | turgid,pompézní adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Turgid
(gcide) | Turgid \Tur"gid\ (t[^u]r"j[i^]d), a. [L. turgidus, from turgere
to swell.]
1. Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent
or expansive force; swelled; swollen; bloated; inflated;
tumid; -- especially applied to an enlarged part of the
body; as, a turgid limb; turgid fruit.
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A bladder . . . held near the fire grew turgid.
--Boyle.
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2. Swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious;
bombastic; pompous; as, a turgid style of speaking.
[1913 Webster] -- Tur"gid*ly, adv. -- Tur"gid*ness, n.
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turgid
(wn) | turgid
adj 1: ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large
talk"; "tumid political prose" [syn: bombastic,
declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid]
2: abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; "hungry
children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly distended
stomach"; "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids"; "swollen
hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy tumid flesh" [syn:
puffy, intumescent, tumescent, tumid, turgid] |
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turgidity
(encz) | turgidity,bombastičnost n: Zdeněk Brožturgidity,nafoukanost n: Zdeněk Brožturgidity,nafouklost n: Zdeněk Brožturgidity,napuchlost n: Zdeněk Brožturgidity,nateklost n: Zdeněk Brožturgidity,zduřelost n: Zdeněk Brož |
turgidly
(encz) | turgidly,nafoukaně adv: Zdeněk Brož |
turgidness
(encz) | turgidness, n: |
Tetrodon turgidus
(gcide) | Blower \Blow"er\, n.
1. One who, or that which, blows.
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2. (Mech.) A device for producing a current of air; as:
(a) A metal plate temporarily placed before the upper part
of a grate or open fire.
(b) A machine for producing an artificial blast or current
of air by pressure, as for increasing the draft of a
furnace, ventilating a building or shaft, cleansing
gram, etc.
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3. A blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or
fissure in a mine.
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4. The whale; -- so called by seamen, from the circumstance
of its spouting up a column of water.
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5. (Zool.) A small fish of the Atlantic coast ({Tetrodon
turgidus}); the puffer.
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6. A braggart, or loud talker. [Slang] --Bartlett.
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Triticum turgidum
(gcide) | maccaroni wheat \maccaroni wheat\ n.
A type of wheat (Triticum durum) with hard dark-colored
kernels high in gluten and used for bread and pasta; grown
especially in South Russia, North Africa, and North central
North America.
Syn: durum, durum wheat, hard wheat, Triticum durum,
Triticum turgidum.
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Turgid
(gcide) | Turgid \Tur"gid\ (t[^u]r"j[i^]d), a. [L. turgidus, from turgere
to swell.]
1. Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent
or expansive force; swelled; swollen; bloated; inflated;
tumid; -- especially applied to an enlarged part of the
body; as, a turgid limb; turgid fruit.
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A bladder . . . held near the fire grew turgid.
--Boyle.
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2. Swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious;
bombastic; pompous; as, a turgid style of speaking.
[1913 Webster] -- Tur"gid*ly, adv. -- Tur"gid*ness, n.
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Turgidity
(gcide) | Turgidity \Tur*gid"i*ty\, n.
The quality or state of being turgid.
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Turgidly
(gcide) | Turgid \Tur"gid\ (t[^u]r"j[i^]d), a. [L. turgidus, from turgere
to swell.]
1. Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent
or expansive force; swelled; swollen; bloated; inflated;
tumid; -- especially applied to an enlarged part of the
body; as, a turgid limb; turgid fruit.
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A bladder . . . held near the fire grew turgid.
--Boyle.
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2. Swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious;
bombastic; pompous; as, a turgid style of speaking.
[1913 Webster] -- Tur"gid*ly, adv. -- Tur"gid*ness, n.
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Turgidness
(gcide) | Turgid \Tur"gid\ (t[^u]r"j[i^]d), a. [L. turgidus, from turgere
to swell.]
1. Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent
or expansive force; swelled; swollen; bloated; inflated;
tumid; -- especially applied to an enlarged part of the
body; as, a turgid limb; turgid fruit.
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A bladder . . . held near the fire grew turgid.
--Boyle.
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2. Swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious;
bombastic; pompous; as, a turgid style of speaking.
[1913 Webster] -- Tur"gid*ly, adv. -- Tur"gid*ness, n.
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Turgidous
(gcide) | Turgidous \Tur"gid*ous\ (t[^u]r"j[i^]d*[u^]s), a.
Turgid. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
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triticum turgidum
(wn) | Triticum turgidum
n 1: wheat with hard dark-colored kernels high in gluten and
used for bread and pasta; grown especially in southern
Russia, North Africa, and northern central North America
[syn: durum, durum wheat, hard wheat, {Triticum
durum}, Triticum turgidum, macaroni wheat] |
turgidity
(wn) | turgidity
n 1: pompously embellished language [syn: turgidity,
turgidness, flatulence] |
turgidly
(wn) | turgidly
adv 1: in a turgid manner; "he lectured bombastically about his
theories" [syn: turgidly, bombastically] |
turgidness
(wn) | turgidness
n 1: pompously embellished language [syn: turgidity,
turgidness, flatulence] |
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