English Dictionary: toothbrush | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
or resist them; a member of an opposing or hostile party; an opponent; an antagonist; an enemy; a foe. His ancient knot of dangerous adversaries. --Shak. Agree with thine adversary quickly. --Matt. v. 25. It may be thought that to vindicate the permanency of truth is to dispute without an adversary. --Beattie. {The Adversary}, The Satan, or the Devil. Syn: {Adversary}, {Enemy}, {Opponent}, {Antagonist}. Usage: Enemy is the only one of these words which necessarily implies a state of personal hostility. Men may be adversaries, antagonists, or opponents to each other in certain respects, and yet have no feelings of general animosity. An adversary may be simply one who is placed for a time in a hostile position, as in a lawsuit, an argument, in chess playing, or at fence. An opponent is one who is ranged against another (perhaps passively) on the opposing side; as a political opponent, an opponent in debate. An antagonist is one who struggles against another with active effort, either in a literal fight or in verbal debate. | |
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Dipper \Dip"per\, n. 1. One who, or that which, dips; especially, a vessel used to dip water or other liquid; a ladle. 2. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A small grebe; the dabchick. (b) The buffel duck. (c) The water ouzel ({Cinolus aquaticus}) of Europe. (d) The American dipper or ouzel ({Cinclus Mexicanus}). {The Dipper} (Astron.), the seven principal stars in the constellation of the Great Bear; popularly so called from their arrangement in the form of a dipper; -- called also {Charles's Wain}. See {Ursa Major}, under {Ursa}. | |
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Tit \Tit\, n. 1. A small horse. --Tusser. 2. A woman; -- used in contempt. --Burton. 3. A morsel; a bit. --Halliwell. 4. [OE.; cf. Icel. titter a tit or small bird. The word probably meant originally, something small, and is perhaps the same as teat. Cf. {Titmouse}, {Tittle}.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) Any one of numerous species of small singing birds belonging to the families {Parid[91]} and {Leiotrichid[91]}; a titmouse. (b) The European meadow pipit; a titlark. {Ground tit}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Wren tit}, under {Wren}. {Hill tit} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of Asiatic singing birds belonging to {Siva}, {Milna}, and allied genera. {Tit babbler} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of small East Indian and Asiatic timaline birds of the genus {Trichastoma}. {Tit for tat}. [Probably for tip for tap. See {Tip} a slight blow.] An equivalent; retaliation. {Tit thrush} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of Asiatic and East Indian birds belonging to {Suthora} and allied genera. In some respects they are intermediate between the thrushes and titmice. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Depart \De*part"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Departed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Departing}.] [OE. departen to divide, part, depart, F. d[82]partir to divide, distribute, se d[82]partir to separate one's self, depart; pref. d[82]- (L. de) + partir to part, depart, fr. L. partire, partiri, to divide, fr. pars part. See {Part}.] 1. To part; to divide; to separate. [Obs.] --Shak. 2. To go forth or away; to quit, leave, or separate, as from a place or a person; to withdraw; -- opposed to arrive; -- often with from before the place, person, or thing left, and for or to before the destination. I will depart to mine own land. --Num. x. 30. Ere thou from hence depart. --Milton. He which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart. --Shak. 3. To forsake; to abandon; to desist or deviate (from); not to adhere to; -- with from; as, we can not depart from our rules; to depart from a title or defense in legal pleading. If the plan of the convention be found to depart from republican principles. --Madison. 4. To pass away; to perish. The glory is departed from Israel. --1 Sam. iv. 21. 5. To quit this world; to die. Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace. --Luke ii. 29. {To depart with}, to resign; to part with. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
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Depress \De*press"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Depressed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Depressing}.] [L. depressus, p. p. of deprimere; de- + premere to press. See {Press}.] 1. To press down; to cause to sink; to let fall; to lower; as, to depress the muzzle of a gun; to depress the eyes. [bd]With lips depressed.[b8] --Tennyson. 2. To bring down or humble; to abase, as pride. 3. To cast a gloom upon; to sadden; as, his spirits were depressed. 4. To lessen the activity of; to make dull; embarrass, as trade, commerce, etc. 5. To lessen in price; to cause to decline in value; to cheapen; to depreciate. 6. (Math.) To reduce (an equation) in a lower degree. {To depress the pole} (Naut.), to cause the sidereal pole to appear lower or nearer the horizon, as by sailing toward the equator. Syn: To sink; lower; abase; cast down; deject; humble; degrade; dispirit; discourage. | |
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Do \Do\, v. i. 1. To act or behave in any manner; to conduct one's self. They fear not the Lord, neither do they after . . . the law and commandment. -- 2 Kings xvii. 34. 2. To fare; to be, as regards health; as, they asked him how he did; how do you do to-day? 3. [Perh. a different word. OE. dugen, dowen, to avail, be of use, AS. dugan. See {Doughty}.] To succeed; to avail; to answer the purpose; to serve; as, if no better plan can be found, he will make this do. You would do well to prefer a bill against all kings and parliaments since the Conquest; and if that won't do; challenge the crown. -- Collier. {To do by}. See under {By}. {To do for}. (a) To answer for; to serve as; to suit. (b) To put an end to; to ruin; to baffle completely; as, a goblet is done for when it is broken. [Colloq.] Some folks are happy and easy in mind when their victim is stabbed and done for. --Thackeray. {To do withal}, to help or prevent it. [Obs.] [bd]I could not do withal.[b8] --Shak. {To do without}, to get along without; to dispense with. {To have done}, to have made an end or conclusion; to have finished; to be quit; to desist. {To have done with}, to have completed; to be through with; to have no further concern with. {Well to do}, in easy circumstances. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Over \O"ver\, adv. 1. From one side to another; from side to side; across; crosswise; as, a board, or a tree, a foot over, i. e., a foot in diameter. 2. From one person or place to another regarded as on the opposite side of a space or barrier; -- used with verbs of motion; as, to sail over to England; to hand over the money; to go over to the enemy. [bd]We will pass over to Gibeah.[b8] --Judges xix. 12. Also, with verbs of being: At, or on, the opposite side; as, the boat is over. 3. From beginning to end; throughout the course, extent, or expanse of anything; as, to look over accounts, or a stock of goods; a dress covered over with jewels. 4. From inside to outside, above or across the brim. Good measure, pressed down . . . and running over. --Luke vi. 38. 5. Beyond a limit; hence, in excessive degree or quantity; superfluously; with repetition; as, to do the whole work over. [bd]So over violent.[b8] --Dryden. He that gathered much had nothing over. --Ex. xvi. 18. 6. In a manner to bring the under side to or towards the top; as, to turn (one's self) over; to roll a stone over; to turn over the leaves; to tip over a cart. 7. At an end; beyond the limit of continuance; completed; finished. [bd]Their distress was over.[b8] --Macaulay. [bd]The feast was over.[b8] --Sir W. Scott. Note: Over, out, off, and similar adverbs, are often used in the predicate with the sense and force of adjectives, agreeing in this respect with the adverbs of place, here, there, everywhere, nowhere; as, the games were over; the play is over; the master was out; his hat is off. Note: Over is much used in composition, with the same significations that it has as a separate word; as in overcast, overflow, to cast or flow so as to spread over or cover; overhang, to hang above; overturn, to turn so as to bring the underside towards the top; overact, overreach, to act or reach beyond, implying excess or superiority. {All over}. (a) Over the whole; upon all parts; completely; as, he is spatterd with mud all over. (b) Wholly over; at an end; as, it is all over with him. {Over again}, once more; with repetition; afresh; anew. --Dryden. {Over against}, opposite; in front. --Addison. {Over and above}, in a manner, or degree, beyond what is supposed, defined, or usual; besides; in addition; as, not over and above well. [bd]He . . . gained, over and above, the good will of all people.[b8] --L' Estrange. {Over and over}, repeatedly; again and again. {To boil over}. See under {Boil}, v. i. {To come it over}, {To do over}, {To give over}, etc. See under {Come}, {Do}, {Give}, etc. {To throw over}, to abandon; to betray. Cf. {To throw overboard}, under {Overboard}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
6. To make ready for an object, purpose, or use, as food by cooking; to cook completely or sufficiently; as, the meat is done on one side only. 7. To put or bring into a form, state, or condition, especially in the phrases, to do death, to put to death; to slay; to do away (often do away with), to put away; to remove; to do on, to put on; to don; to do off, to take off, as dress; to doff; to do into, to put into the form of; to translate or transform into, as a text. Done to death by slanderous tongues. -- Shak. The ground of the difficulty is done away. -- Paley. Suspicions regarding his loyalty were entirely done away. --Thackeray. To do on our own harness, that we may not; but we must do on the armor of God. -- Latimer. Then Jason rose and did on him a fair Blue woolen tunic. -- W. Morris (Jason). Though the former legal pollution be now done off, yet there is a spiritual contagion in idolatry as much to be shunned. --Milton. It [[bd]Pilgrim's Progress[b8]] has been done into verse: it has been done into modern English. -- Macaulay. 8. To cheat; to gull; to overreach. [Colloq.] He was not be done, at his time of life, by frivolous offers of a compromise that might have secured him seventy-five per cent. -- De Quincey. 9. To see or inspect; to explore; as, to do all the points of interest. [Colloq.] 10. (Stock Exchange) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note. Note: (a) Do and did are much employed as auxiliaries, the verb to which they are joined being an infinitive. As an auxiliary the verb do has no participle. [bd]I do set my bow in the cloud.[b8] --Gen. ix. 13. [Now archaic or rare except for emphatic assertion.] Rarely . . . did the wrongs of individuals to the knowledge of the public. -- Macaulay. (b) They are often used in emphatic construction. [bd]You don't say so, Mr. Jobson. -- but I do say so.[b8] --Sir W. Scott. [bd]I did love him, but scorn him now.[b8] --Latham. (c) In negative and interrogative constructions, do and did are in common use. I do not wish to see them; what do you think? Did C[91]sar cross the Tiber? He did not. [bd]Do you love me?[b8] --Shak. (d) Do, as an auxiliary, is supposed to have been first used before imperatives. It expresses entreaty or earnest request; as, do help me. In the imperative mood, but not in the indicative, it may be used with the verb to be; as, do be quiet. Do, did, and done often stand as a general substitute or representative verb, and thus save the repetition of the principal verb. [bd]To live and die is all we have to do.[b8] --Denham. In the case of do and did as auxiliaries, the sense may be completed by the infinitive (without to) of the verb represented. [bd]When beauty lived and died as flowers do now.[b8] --Shak. [bd]I . . . chose my wife as she did her wedding gown.[b8] --Goldsmith. My brightest hopes giving dark fears a being. As the light does the shadow. -- Longfellow. In unemphatic affirmative sentences do is, for the most part, archaic or poetical; as, [bd]This just reproach their virtue does excite.[b8] --Dryden. {To do one's best}, {To do one's diligence} (and the like), to exert one's self; to put forth one's best or most or most diligent efforts. [bd]We will . . . do our best to gain their assent.[b8] --Jowett (Thucyd.). {To do one's business}, to ruin one. [Colloq.] --Wycherley. {To do one shame}, to cause one shame. [Obs.] {To do over}. (a) To make over; to perform a second time. (b) To cover; to spread; to smear. [bd]Boats . . . sewed together and done over with a kind of slimy stuff like rosin.[b8] --De Foe. {To do to death}, to put to death. (See 7.) [Obs.] {To do up}. (a) To put up; to raise. [Obs.] --Chaucer. (b) To pack together and envelop; to pack up. (c) To accomplish thoroughly. [Colloq.] (d) To starch and iron. [bd]A rich gown of velvet, and a ruff done up with the famous yellow starch.[b8] --Hawthorne. {To do way}, to put away; to lay aside. [Obs.] --Chaucer. {To do with}, to dispose of; to make use of; to employ; -- usually preceded by what. [bd]Men are many times brought to that extremity, that were it not for God they would not know what to do with themselves.[b8] --Tillotson. {To have to do with}, to have concern, business or intercourse with; to deal with. When preceded by what, the notion is usually implied that the affair does not concern the person denoted by the subject of have. [bd]Philology has to do with language in its fullest sense.[b8] --Earle. [bd]What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? --2 Sam. xvi. 10. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fore \Fore\, n. The front; hence, that which is in front; the future. {At the fore} (Naut.), at the fore royal masthead; -- said of a flag, so raised as a signal for sailing, etc. {To the fore}. (a) In advance; to the front; to a prominent position; in plain sight; in readiness for use. (b) In existence; alive; not worn out, lost, or spent, as money, etc. [Irish] [bd]While I am to the fore.[b8] --W. Collins. [bd]How many captains in the regiment had two thousand pounds to the fore?[b8] --Thackeray. | |
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Whet \Whet\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Whetted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Whetting}.] [AS. hwettan; akin to D. wetten, G. wetzen, OHG. wezzen, Icel. hvetja, Sw. v[84]ttja, and AS. hw[91]t vigorous, brave, OS. hwat, OHG. waz, was, sharp, Icel. hvatr, bold, active, Sw. hvass sharp, Dan. hvas, Goth. hwassaba sharply, and probably to Skr. cud to impel, urge on.] 1. To rub or on with some substance, as a piece of stone, for the purpose of sharpening; to sharpen by attrition; as, to whet a knife. The mower whets his scythe. --Milton. Here roams the wolf, the eagle whets his beak. --Byron. 2. To make sharp, keen, or eager; to excite; to stimulate; as, to whet the appetite or the courage. Since Cassius first did whet me against C[91]sar, I have not slept. --Shak. {To whet on}, {To whet forward}, to urge on or forward; to instigate. --Shak. | |
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Toddy \Tod"dy\, n. [Formed from Hind. t[be][?][c6] the juice of the palmyra tree, popularly, toddy, fr. t[be][?] the palmyra tree, Skr. t[be]la.] 1. A juice drawn from various kinds of palms in the East Indies; or, a spirituous liquor procured from it by fermentation. 2. A mixture of spirit and hot water sweetened. Note: Toddy differs from grog in having a less proportion of spirit, and is being made hot and sweetened. {Toddy bird} (Zo[94]l.), a weaver bird of the East Indies and India: -- so called from its fondness for the juice of the palm. {Toddy cat} (Zo[94]l.), the common paradoxure; the palm cat. | |
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Toothbrush \Tooth"brush`\, n. A brush for cleaning the teeth. | |
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Totipresence \To`ti*pres"ence\, n. [L. totus all, whole + E. presence.] Omnipresence. [Obs.] --A. Tucker. | |
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Totipresent \To`ti*pres"ent\, a. [L. totus all, whole + E. present.] Omnipresence. [Obs.] --A. Tucker. | |
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Tutti-frutti \Tut"ti-frut`ti\, n. [It., lit., all fruits.] A confection of different kinds of preserved fruits. -- a. Flavored with, or containing, various fruits. | |
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Thedford, NE (village, FIPS 48760) Location: 41.97885 N, 100.57454 W Population (1990): 243 (123 housing units) Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
The Devouring Fungus Tales from the Computer Age: Karla Jennings Norton, 1990 ISBN 0-393-30732-8 The author of this pioneering compendium knits together a great deal of computer- and hacker-related folklore with good writing and a few well-chosen cartoons. She has a keen eye for the human aspects of the lore and is very good at illuminating the psychology and evolution of hackerdom. Unfortunately, a number of small errors and awkwardnesses suggest that she didn't have the final manuscript checked over by a native speaker; the glossary in the back is particularly embarrassing, and at least one classic tale (the Magic Switch story, retold here under {A Story About Magic} in Appendix A is given in incomplete and badly mangled form. Nevertheless, this book is a win overall and can be enjoyed by hacker and non-hacker alike. | |
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The Tao of Programming James Geoffrey Infobooks, 1987 ISBN 0-931137-07-1 This gentle, funny spoof of the "Tao Te Ching" contains much that is illuminating about the hacker way of thought. "When you have learned to snatch the error code from the trap frame, it will be time for you to leave." |