(Bridge) a way of playing the last few tricks in a hand so that an opponent is forced to make a particular lead vb(tr) (Bridge) to force (an opponent) to make a particular lead near the end of a hand:declarer endplayed West for the jack of spades. ...
rhetorical device- a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance) 2. apostrophe- the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word punctuation mark,punctuation- the marks used to clarify meaning by indic...
endowed with (something) ends ends of the earth, (from) the ends of the earth, the endure enemy enemy combatant energy enfant terrible enfold enfold (oneself or someone) in (something) enfold in enforce enforce (something) on (one)
A Spaewife, spae-wife or Spey-wife, is a Scots language term used as the title of several works of fiction: Robert Louis Stevenson’s poem “The Spaewife“[see above]; John Galt’s historical romance The Spaewife: A Tale of the Scottish Chronicles; and Paul Peppergrass’s The Spae...
But most of all a readiness to acknowledge without jealousy the claims of those who were endowed with any especial gift, such as eloquence or knowledge of law or ethics or any other subject, and to give them active support, that each might gain the honour to which his individual eminence ...
There has been much debate over the origin and meaning of this word. There is no consensus even among Masonic researchers as to its meaning or legitimacy: one Masonic scholar alleges that the word first appeared in an early 18th Century Royal Arch ritual as the name of an allegorical explore...
It was also possible, as in present-day English, to modify the meaning of almost any word by prepositional affixes such as ante-, post-, up-, down-, etc. By such methods it was found possible to bring about an enormous diminution of vocabulary. Given, for instance, the word good, ...
“I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold...
To eliminate dukkha completely one has to eliminate the main root of dukkha, which is 'thirst', as we saw earlier. 要想彻底袪除苦的根本──渴(爱)。 这在前面已经讲过, Therefore Nirvana is known also by the term Tanhakkhaya 'Extinction of Thirst'. ...
According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, artificial intelligence (AI) refers to a system “endowed with the intellectual processes characteristic of humans, such as the ability to reason, discover meaning, generalize, or learn from past experience.” AI computer systems are able to perform tasks nor...