The meaning of ABSTRACT is disassociated from any specific instance. How to use abstract in a sentence. The Crisscrossing Histories of Abstract and Extract
1610s, "one who gives advice," agent noun fromadvise(v.). The meaning "faculty assigned to mentor students" is from 1887. The meaning "military person sent to help a government or army in a foreign country" is recorded from 1915. Alternative form, Latinateadvisor, is perhaps a back-for...
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[Spanish,royal, real, from Latinrēgālis,royal, fromrēx, rēg-,king; seereg-inIndo-European roots.] re·al3 (rā-äl′) n.pl.re·ais(rā-īsh′) 1.A unit of currency formerly used in Portugal. 2.See Table atcurrency. [Portuguese,royal, real, from Latinrēgālis,royal; seereal2...
In this brief paper, it is argued that the initial *s- found in the Latin and perhaps Greek reflexes of the Indo-European adprep *uper(i) 'over, above' derives from blending with another adprep of the same meaning, *ser(i). Evidence is also presented for the creation of another blend...
1尊敬的提阿非罗大人,在我之前,曾有很多人尝试过要报道发生在我们中间的事。2这些事与人们告诉我们的情形是一致的,告诉我们这些事的人们,从一开始就亲眼目睹了这些事,他们也曾做过向人们传播上帝信息的工作。3我也认为这个意图很好,所以我对每件事都从头进行了仔细的调查,然后按...
There is a third verb that is connected to a noun of agency:burgle→burglar. In this case, however,burglaris the original word (derived from Anglo-Latin) with the verbburglederived from it, a process known as a “back-formation.” ...
-are, Danish -ere), from Proto-Germanic *-arjoz. Some believe this root is identical with, and perhaps a borrowing of, Latin -arius.In words of Latin origin, verbs derived from pp. stems of Latin ones (including most verbs in -ate) usually take the Latin ending -or, as ...
gonu (γόvυ, 1119) “a knee” (Latin, genu), is used (a) metaphorically in Heb. 12:12, where the... KNOW, KNOWN, KNOWLEDGE, UNKNOWN A. Verbs. 1. gindskō (γινρώσκω, 1097) si...
(the general Germanic word, cognate with Gothic, Old Norse, Danish, Swedish, Dutch, Germanhals), from Proto-Germanic*halsaz, which is perhaps cognate with Latincollum(seecollar(n.)); andsweora,swira"neck, nape," probably also from a PIE root meaning "column" (cognate with Old English...