| slovo | definícia |
within
(mass) | within
- v, vo vnútri, v rámci, behom, v priebehu |
within
(encz) | within,během n: Zdeněk Brož |
within
(encz) | within,uvnitř |
within
(encz) | within,v Zdeněk Brož |
within
(encz) | within,v mezích Zdeněk Brož |
within
(encz) | within,v průběhu Zdeněk Brož |
Within
(gcide) | Within \With*in"\, prep. [OE. withinne, withinnen, AS.
wi[eth]innan; wi[eth] with, against, toward + innan in,
inwardly, within, from in in. See With, prep., In, prep.]
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1. In the inner or interior part of; inside of; not without;
as, within doors.
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O, unhappy youth!
Come not within these doors; within this roof
The enemy of all your graces lives. --Shak.
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Till this be cured by religion, it is as impossible
for a man to be happy -- that is, pleased and
contented within himself -- as it is for a sick man
to be at ease. --Tillotson.
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2. In the limits or compass of; not further in length than;
as, within five miles; not longer in time than; as, within
an hour; not exceeding in quantity; as, expenses kept
within one's income. "That he repair should again within a
little while." --Chaucer.
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Within these five hours lived Lord Hastings,
Untainted, unexamined, free, at liberty. --Shak.
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3. Hence, inside the limits, reach, or influence of; not
going outside of; not beyond, overstepping, exceeding, or
the like.
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Both he and she are still within my power. --Dryden.
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Within himself
The danger lies, yet lies within his power.
--Milton.
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Were every action concluded within itself, and drew
no consequence after it, we should, undoubtedly,
never err in our choice of good. --Locke.
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Within
(gcide) | Within \With*in"\, adv.
1. In the inner part; inwardly; internally. "The wound
festers within." --Carew.
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Ills from within thy reason must prevent. --Dryden.
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2. In the house; in doors; as, the master is within.
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within
(wn) | within
adv 1: on the inside; "inside, the car is a mess" [syn:
inside, within] [ant: outside] |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
within earshot
(encz) | within earshot,na doslech adv: Zdeněk Brož |
within matter of
(encz) | within matter of,během několika let, hodin... web |
within reach
(encz) | within reach,nadosah bta |
within reason
(encz) | within reason, adv: |
within the framework of sth
(encz) | within the framework of sth,v rámci čeho Mgr. Dita Gálová |
within the meaning of
(encz) | within the meaning of,ve smyslu [fráz.] zákona ap. Pino |
within visual range
(czen) | Within Visual Range,WVRn: [zkr.] [voj.] Zdeněk Brož a automatický
překlad |
A wheel within a wheel
(gcide) | Wheel \Wheel\ (hw[=e]l), n. [OE. wheel, hweol, AS. hwe['o]l,
hweogul, hweowol; akin to D. wiel, Icel. hv[=e]l, Gr.
ky`klos, Skr. cakra; cf. Icel. hj[=o]l, Dan. hiul, Sw. hjul.
[root]218. Cf. Cycle, Cyclopedia.]
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1. A circular frame turning about an axis; a rotating disk,
whether solid, or a frame composed of an outer rim, spokes
or radii, and a central hub or nave, in which is inserted
the axle, -- used for supporting and conveying vehicles,
in machinery, and for various purposes; as, the wheel of a
wagon, of a locomotive, of a mill, of a watch, etc.
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The gasping charioteer beneath the wheel
Of his own car. --Dryden.
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2. Any instrument having the form of, or chiefly consisting
of, a wheel. Specifically:
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(a) A spinning wheel. See under Spinning.
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(b) An instrument of torture formerly used.
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His examination is like that which is made by
the rack and wheel. --Addison.
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Note: This mode of torture is said to have been first
employed in Germany, in the fourteenth century. The
criminal was laid on a cart wheel with his legs and
arms extended, and his limbs in that posture were
fractured with an iron bar. In France, where its use
was restricted to the most atrocious crimes, the
criminal was first laid on a frame of wood in the form
of a St. Andrew's cross, with grooves cut transversely
in it above and below the knees and elbows, and the
executioner struck eight blows with an iron bar, so as
to break the limbs in those places, sometimes finishing
by two or three blows on the chest or stomach, which
usually put an end to the life of the criminal, and
were hence called coups-de-grace -- blows of mercy. The
criminal was then unbound, and laid on a small wheel,
with his face upward, and his arms and legs doubled
under him, there to expire, if he had survived the
previous treatment. --Brande.
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(c) (Naut.) A circular frame having handles on the
periphery, and an axle which is so connected with the
tiller as to form a means of controlling the rudder
for the purpose of steering.
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(d) (Pottery) A potter's wheel. See under Potter.
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Then I went down to the potter's house, and,
behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. --Jer.
xviii. 3.
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Turn, turn, my wheel! This earthen jar
A touch can make, a touch can mar. --Longfellow.
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(e) (Pyrotechny) A firework which, while burning, is
caused to revolve on an axis by the reaction of the
escaping gases.
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(f) (Poetry) The burden or refrain of a song.
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Note: "This meaning has a low degree of authority, but is
supposed from the context in the few cases where the
word is found." --Nares.
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You must sing a-down a-down,
An you call him a-down-a.
O, how the wheel becomes it! --Shak.
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3. A bicycle or a tricycle; a velocipede.
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4. A rolling or revolving body; anything of a circular form;
a disk; an orb. --Milton.
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5. A turn revolution; rotation; compass.
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According to the common vicissitude and wheel of
things, the proud and the insolent, after long
trampling upon others, come at length to be trampled
upon themselves. --South.
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[He] throws his steep flight in many an aery wheel.
--Milton.
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A wheel within a wheel, or Wheels within wheels, a
complication of circumstances, motives, etc.
Balance wheel. See in the Vocab.
Bevel wheel, Brake wheel, Cam wheel, Fifth wheel,
Overshot wheel, Spinning wheel, etc. See under Bevel,
Brake, etc.
Core wheel. (Mach.)
(a) A mortise gear.
(b) A wheel having a rim perforated to receive wooden
cogs; the skeleton of a mortise gear.
Measuring wheel, an odometer, or perambulator.
Wheel and axle (Mech.), one of the elementary machines or
mechanical powers, consisting of a wheel fixed to an axle,
and used for raising great weights, by applying the power
to the circumference of the wheel, and attaching the
weight, by a rope or chain, to that of the axle. Called
also axis in peritrochio, and perpetual lever, -- the
principle of equilibrium involved being the same as in the
lever, while its action is continuous. See {Mechanical
powers}, under Mechanical.
Wheel animal, or Wheel animalcule (Zool.), any one of
numerous species of rotifers having a ciliated disk at the
anterior end.
Wheel barometer. (Physics) See under Barometer.
Wheel boat, a boat with wheels, to be used either on water
or upon inclined planes or railways.
Wheel bug (Zool.), a large North American hemipterous
insect (Prionidus cristatus) which sucks the blood of
other insects. So named from the curious shape of the
prothorax.
Wheel carriage, a carriage moving on wheels.
Wheel chains, or Wheel ropes (Naut.), the chains or ropes
connecting the wheel and rudder.
Wheel cutter, a machine for shaping the cogs of gear
wheels; a gear cutter.
Wheel horse, one of the horses nearest to the wheels, as
opposed to a leader, or forward horse; -- called also
wheeler.
Wheel lathe, a lathe for turning railway-car wheels.
Wheel lock.
(a) A letter lock. See under Letter.
(b) A kind of gunlock in which sparks were struck from a
flint, or piece of iron pyrites, by a revolving wheel.
(c) A kind of brake a carriage.
Wheel ore (Min.), a variety of bournonite so named from the
shape of its twin crystals. See Bournonite.
Wheel pit (Steam Engine), a pit in the ground, in which the
lower part of the fly wheel runs.
Wheel plow, or Wheel plough, a plow having one or two
wheels attached, to render it more steady, and to regulate
the depth of the furrow.
Wheel press, a press by which railway-car wheels are forced
on, or off, their axles.
Wheel race, the place in which a water wheel is set.
Wheel rope (Naut.), a tiller rope. See under Tiller.
Wheel stitch (Needlework), a stitch resembling a spider's
web, worked into the material, and not over an open space.
--Caulfeild & S. (Dict. of Needlework).
Wheel tree (Bot.), a tree (Aspidosperma excelsum) of
Guiana, which has a trunk so curiously fluted that a
transverse section resembles the hub and spokes of a
coarsely made wheel. See Paddlewood.
Wheel urchin (Zool.), any sea urchin of the genus Rotula
having a round, flat shell.
Wheel window (Arch.), a circular window having radiating
mullions arranged like the spokes of a wheel. Cf. {Rose
window}, under Rose.
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To keep within bounds
(gcide) | Bound \Bound\ (bound), n. [OE. bounde, bunne, OF. bonne, bonde,
bodne, F. borne, fr. LL. bodina, bodena, bonna; prob. of
Celtic origin; cf. Arm. bonn boundary, limit, and boden, bod,
a tuft or cluster of trees, by which a boundary or limit
could be marked. Cf. Bourne.]
The external or limiting line, either real or imaginary, of
any object or space; that which limits or restrains, or
within which something is limited or restrained; limit;
confine; extent; boundary.
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He hath compassed the waters with bounds. --Job xxvi.
10.
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On earth's remotest bounds. --Campbell.
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And mete the bounds of hate and love. --Tennyson.
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To keep within bounds, not to exceed or pass beyond
assigned limits; to act with propriety or discretion.
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Syn: See Boundary.
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Wheels within wheels
(gcide) | Wheel \Wheel\ (hw[=e]l), n. [OE. wheel, hweol, AS. hwe['o]l,
hweogul, hweowol; akin to D. wiel, Icel. hv[=e]l, Gr.
ky`klos, Skr. cakra; cf. Icel. hj[=o]l, Dan. hiul, Sw. hjul.
[root]218. Cf. Cycle, Cyclopedia.]
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1. A circular frame turning about an axis; a rotating disk,
whether solid, or a frame composed of an outer rim, spokes
or radii, and a central hub or nave, in which is inserted
the axle, -- used for supporting and conveying vehicles,
in machinery, and for various purposes; as, the wheel of a
wagon, of a locomotive, of a mill, of a watch, etc.
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The gasping charioteer beneath the wheel
Of his own car. --Dryden.
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2. Any instrument having the form of, or chiefly consisting
of, a wheel. Specifically:
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(a) A spinning wheel. See under Spinning.
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(b) An instrument of torture formerly used.
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His examination is like that which is made by
the rack and wheel. --Addison.
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Note: This mode of torture is said to have been first
employed in Germany, in the fourteenth century. The
criminal was laid on a cart wheel with his legs and
arms extended, and his limbs in that posture were
fractured with an iron bar. In France, where its use
was restricted to the most atrocious crimes, the
criminal was first laid on a frame of wood in the form
of a St. Andrew's cross, with grooves cut transversely
in it above and below the knees and elbows, and the
executioner struck eight blows with an iron bar, so as
to break the limbs in those places, sometimes finishing
by two or three blows on the chest or stomach, which
usually put an end to the life of the criminal, and
were hence called coups-de-grace -- blows of mercy. The
criminal was then unbound, and laid on a small wheel,
with his face upward, and his arms and legs doubled
under him, there to expire, if he had survived the
previous treatment. --Brande.
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(c) (Naut.) A circular frame having handles on the
periphery, and an axle which is so connected with the
tiller as to form a means of controlling the rudder
for the purpose of steering.
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(d) (Pottery) A potter's wheel. See under Potter.
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Then I went down to the potter's house, and,
behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. --Jer.
xviii. 3.
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Turn, turn, my wheel! This earthen jar
A touch can make, a touch can mar. --Longfellow.
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(e) (Pyrotechny) A firework which, while burning, is
caused to revolve on an axis by the reaction of the
escaping gases.
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(f) (Poetry) The burden or refrain of a song.
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Note: "This meaning has a low degree of authority, but is
supposed from the context in the few cases where the
word is found." --Nares.
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You must sing a-down a-down,
An you call him a-down-a.
O, how the wheel becomes it! --Shak.
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3. A bicycle or a tricycle; a velocipede.
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4. A rolling or revolving body; anything of a circular form;
a disk; an orb. --Milton.
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5. A turn revolution; rotation; compass.
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According to the common vicissitude and wheel of
things, the proud and the insolent, after long
trampling upon others, come at length to be trampled
upon themselves. --South.
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[He] throws his steep flight in many an aery wheel.
--Milton.
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A wheel within a wheel, or Wheels within wheels, a
complication of circumstances, motives, etc.
Balance wheel. See in the Vocab.
Bevel wheel, Brake wheel, Cam wheel, Fifth wheel,
Overshot wheel, Spinning wheel, etc. See under Bevel,
Brake, etc.
Core wheel. (Mach.)
(a) A mortise gear.
(b) A wheel having a rim perforated to receive wooden
cogs; the skeleton of a mortise gear.
Measuring wheel, an odometer, or perambulator.
Wheel and axle (Mech.), one of the elementary machines or
mechanical powers, consisting of a wheel fixed to an axle,
and used for raising great weights, by applying the power
to the circumference of the wheel, and attaching the
weight, by a rope or chain, to that of the axle. Called
also axis in peritrochio, and perpetual lever, -- the
principle of equilibrium involved being the same as in the
lever, while its action is continuous. See {Mechanical
powers}, under Mechanical.
Wheel animal, or Wheel animalcule (Zool.), any one of
numerous species of rotifers having a ciliated disk at the
anterior end.
Wheel barometer. (Physics) See under Barometer.
Wheel boat, a boat with wheels, to be used either on water
or upon inclined planes or railways.
Wheel bug (Zool.), a large North American hemipterous
insect (Prionidus cristatus) which sucks the blood of
other insects. So named from the curious shape of the
prothorax.
Wheel carriage, a carriage moving on wheels.
Wheel chains, or Wheel ropes (Naut.), the chains or ropes
connecting the wheel and rudder.
Wheel cutter, a machine for shaping the cogs of gear
wheels; a gear cutter.
Wheel horse, one of the horses nearest to the wheels, as
opposed to a leader, or forward horse; -- called also
wheeler.
Wheel lathe, a lathe for turning railway-car wheels.
Wheel lock.
(a) A letter lock. See under Letter.
(b) A kind of gunlock in which sparks were struck from a
flint, or piece of iron pyrites, by a revolving wheel.
(c) A kind of brake a carriage.
Wheel ore (Min.), a variety of bournonite so named from the
shape of its twin crystals. See Bournonite.
Wheel pit (Steam Engine), a pit in the ground, in which the
lower part of the fly wheel runs.
Wheel plow, or Wheel plough, a plow having one or two
wheels attached, to render it more steady, and to regulate
the depth of the furrow.
Wheel press, a press by which railway-car wheels are forced
on, or off, their axles.
Wheel race, the place in which a water wheel is set.
Wheel rope (Naut.), a tiller rope. See under Tiller.
Wheel stitch (Needlework), a stitch resembling a spider's
web, worked into the material, and not over an open space.
--Caulfeild & S. (Dict. of Needlework).
Wheel tree (Bot.), a tree (Aspidosperma excelsum) of
Guiana, which has a trunk so curiously fluted that a
transverse section resembles the hub and spokes of a
coarsely made wheel. See Paddlewood.
Wheel urchin (Zool.), any sea urchin of the genus Rotula
having a round, flat shell.
Wheel window (Arch.), a circular window having radiating
mullions arranged like the spokes of a wheel. Cf. {Rose
window}, under Rose.
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Within
(gcide) | Within \With*in"\, prep. [OE. withinne, withinnen, AS.
wi[eth]innan; wi[eth] with, against, toward + innan in,
inwardly, within, from in in. See With, prep., In, prep.]
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1. In the inner or interior part of; inside of; not without;
as, within doors.
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O, unhappy youth!
Come not within these doors; within this roof
The enemy of all your graces lives. --Shak.
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Till this be cured by religion, it is as impossible
for a man to be happy -- that is, pleased and
contented within himself -- as it is for a sick man
to be at ease. --Tillotson.
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2. In the limits or compass of; not further in length than;
as, within five miles; not longer in time than; as, within
an hour; not exceeding in quantity; as, expenses kept
within one's income. "That he repair should again within a
little while." --Chaucer.
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Within these five hours lived Lord Hastings,
Untainted, unexamined, free, at liberty. --Shak.
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3. Hence, inside the limits, reach, or influence of; not
going outside of; not beyond, overstepping, exceeding, or
the like.
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Both he and she are still within my power. --Dryden.
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Within himself
The danger lies, yet lies within his power.
--Milton.
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Were every action concluded within itself, and drew
no consequence after it, we should, undoubtedly,
never err in our choice of good. --Locke.
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1. In the inner part; inwardly; internally. "The wound
festers within." --Carew.
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Ills from within thy reason must prevent. --Dryden.
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2. In the house; in doors; as, the master is within.
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Within a while
(gcide) | While \While\, n. [AS. hw[imac]l; akin to OS. hw[imac]l,
hw[imac]la, OFries. hw[imac]le, D. wigl, G. weile, OHG.
w[imac]la, hw[imac]la, hw[imac]l, Icel. hv[imac]la a bed,
hv[imac]ld rest, Sw. hvila, Dan. hvile, Goth. hweila a time,
and probably to L. quietus quiet, and perhaps to Gr. ? the
proper time of season. [root]20. Cf. Quiet, Whilom.]
1. Space of time, or continued duration, esp. when short; a
time; as, one while we thought him innocent. "All this
while." --Shak.
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This mighty queen may no while endure. --Chaucer.
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[Some guest that] hath outside his welcome while,
And tells the jest without the smile. --Coleridge.
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I will go forth and breathe the air a while.
--Longfellow.
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2. That which requires time; labor; pains. [Obs.]
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Satan . . . cast him how he might quite her while.
--Chaucer.
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At whiles, at times; at intervals.
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And so on us at whiles it falls, to claim
Powers that we dread. --J. H.
Newman.
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The while, The whiles, in or during the time that;
meantime; while. --Tennyson.
Within a while, in a short time; soon.
Worth while, worth the time which it requires; worth the
time and pains; hence, worth the expense; as, it is not
always worth while for a man to prosecute for small debts.
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Within an ace of
(gcide) | Ace \Ace\ ([=a]s), n.; pl. Aces ([=a]"s[e^]z). [OE. as, F. as,
fr. L. as, assis, unity, copper coin, the unit of coinage.
Cf. As.]
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1. A unit; a single point or spot on a card or die; the card
or die so marked; as, the ace of diamonds.
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2. Hence: A very small quantity or degree; a particle; an
atom; a jot.
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I 'll not wag an ace further. --Dryden.
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3. (Sport) A single point won by a stroke, as in handball,
rackets, etc.; in tennis, frequently, a point won by a
service stroke.
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To bate an ace, to make the least abatement. [Obs.]
Within an ace of, very near; on the point of. --W. Irving.
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Within cooey
(gcide) | Cooey \Coo"ey\, Cooee \Coo"ee\, n. [Of imitative origin.]
A peculiar cry uttered by the Australian aborigines as a call
to attract attention, and also in common use among the
Australian colonists. In the actual call the first syllable
is much prolonged (k[=oo]"-) and the second ends in a shrill,
staccato [=e]. To represent the sound itself the spelling
cooee is generally used. [Written also cooie.]
Within cooey, within earshot.
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Within doors
(gcide) | Door \Door\, n. [OE. dore, dure, AS. duru; akin to OS. dura,
dor, D. deur, OHG. turi, door, tor gate, G. th["u]r, thor,
Icel. dyrr, Dan. d["o]r, Sw. d["o]rr, Goth. daur, Lith.
durys, Russ. dvere, Olr. dorus, L. fores, Gr. ?; cf. Skr.
dur, dv[=a]ra. [root]246. Cf. Foreign.]
1. An opening in the wall of a house or of an apartment, by
which to go in and out; an entrance way.
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To the same end, men several paths may tread,
As many doors into one temple lead. --Denham.
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2. The frame or barrier of boards, or other material, usually
turning on hinges, by which an entrance way into a house
or apartment is closed and opened.
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At last he came unto an iron door
That fast was locked. --Spenser.
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3. Passage; means of approach or access.
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I am the door; by me if any man enter in, he shall
be saved. --John x. 9.
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4. An entrance way, but taken in the sense of the house or
apartment to which it leads.
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Martin's office is now the second door in the
street. --Arbuthnot.
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Blank door, Blind door, etc. (Arch.) See under Blank,
Blind, etc.
In doors, or Within doors, within the house.
Next door to, near to; bordering on.
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A riot unpunished is but next door to a tumult.
--L'Estrange.
Out of doors, or Without doors, and, [colloquially], {Out
doors}, out of the house; in open air; abroad; away; lost.
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His imaginary title of fatherhood is out of doors.
--Locke.
To lay (a fault, misfortune, etc.) at one's door, to charge
one with a fault; to blame for.
To lie at one's door, to be imputable or chargeable to.
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If I have failed, the fault lies wholly at my door.
--Dryden.
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Note: Door is used in an adjectival construction or as the
first part of a compound (with or without the hyphen),
as, door frame, doorbell or door bell, door knob or
doorknob, door latch or doorlatch, door jamb, door
handle, door mat, door panel.
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Withinforth
(gcide) | Withinforth \With*in"forth`\, adv.
Within; inside; inwardly. [Obs.] --Wyclif.
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[It is much greater] labor for to withinforth call into
mind, without sight of the eye withoutforth upon
images, what he before knew and thought upon. --Bp.
Peacock.
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Withing
(gcide) | Withe \Withe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Withed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Withing.]
To bind or fasten with withes.
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You shall see him withed, and haltered, and staked, and
baited to death. --Bp. Hall.
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Withinside
(gcide) | Withinside \With*in"side`\, adv.
In the inner parts; inside. [Obs.] --Graves.
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christ within
(wn) | Christ Within
n 1: a divine presence believed by Quakers to enlighten and
guide the soul [syn: Inner Light, Light, {Light
Within}, Christ Within] |
light within
(wn) | Light Within
n 1: a divine presence believed by Quakers to enlighten and
guide the soul [syn: Inner Light, Light, {Light
Within}, Christ Within] |
within delta of
(foldoc) | delta
within delta of
1. A quantitative change, especially a small or incremental
one (this use is general in physics and engineering). "I just
doubled the speed of my program!" "What was the delta on
program size?" "About 30 percent." (He doubled the speed of
his program, but increased its size by only 30 percent.)
2. [Unix] A diff, especially a diff stored under the set
of version-control tools called SCCS (Source Code Control
System) or RCS (Revision Control System). See {change
management}.
3. A small quantity, but not as small as epsilon. The
jargon usage of delta and epsilon stems from the
traditional use of these letters in mathematics for very small
numerical quantities, particularly in "epsilon-delta" proofs
in limit theory (as in the differential calculus). The term
delta is often used, once epsilon has been mentioned, to
mean a quantity that is slightly bigger than epsilon but
still very small. "The cost isn't epsilon, but it's delta"
means that the cost isn't totally negligible, but it is
nevertheless very small. Common constructions include "within
delta of ---", "within epsilon of ---": that is, "close to"
and "even closer to".
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within epsilon of
(foldoc) | epsilon
within epsilon of
1. The fifth letter of the Greek alphabet.
2. (From the Hungarian mathematician {Paul
Erdos}) A very small, insignificant, or negligible quantity of
something.
The use of epsilon is from the epsilon-delta method of
proof in differential calculus.
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within delta of
(jargon) | within delta of
adj.
See delta.
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within epsilon of
(jargon) | within epsilon of
adj.
See epsilon.
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