66. take at one's word See word17 67. take care to pay attention; be heedful 68. take care of to assume responsibility for; look after 69. take chances take a chance to behave in a risky manner 70. take five informal chiefly US and Canadian to take a break of five minutes 71. ...
The words "alternate" vs. "alternative" are closely related and can serve as synonyms at times, but they can't be used interchangeably in all cases. The terms date to the 16th century, and both describe a choice apart from what is first offered. Understanding how the terms workgrammatically...
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"Your people have done much evil to my clan, for you killed my dear son Saburou, so devout in his faith and understanding [3]. It is through my faith in the Lotus Sutra that I teach freely its truths to even those who are my enemies." "We'll get nothing from him f...
Spanish and Portuguese diplomats found themselves being used as messengers for trial balloons sent by the Fascist Governments of Belgium and Denmark as well as more substantive discussions with the Finnish Government (these Finnish overtures resulted in the Memorandum of Understanding on 17 August...
He turns to her, and his puzzlement turns to understanding. In the palm of her hand she holds a chip. It has the marks of wear on it, but its casing is still golden. “You know whose it is,” she says. “When I made you, he was also in my thoughts.” ...
So I thought it was important for more people to have entry points into these texts, first by understanding how they relate to current discourse and then what is strangely left out of said conversations. The main example is the very first text in the canon, Homo Ludens by Johan Huizinga, ...
My understanding is that no one (certainly not evabjd, at any rate) has bought Night Lolita, but rather Night Lolita had a hard start due to their dolls being quickly counterfeited, but they've managed to grow a pretty strong audience of Chinese children since then. It seems they have ...
The word congruent means that they are alike in shape, and would match exactly if one was placed on the other. This is very useful in calculating angles formed by parallel lines when only one of the angles is known. In the image above, angles 3, 4, 5, and 6 are the interior angles...
What’s fascinating is that my attempts to teach the stuff have helped me conceptualize it in ways that have fed my scientific understanding as well as story. So, the boundaries between the teaching, the science and my science fiction are being continually transgressed. A kind of illegal ...