with"). Occasionally in Greek it had senses of "against" (catapult) or "wrongly" (catachresis), also "along, through, over, across, concerning." Also sometimes used as an intensive or with a sense of completion of action (catalogue). Very active in ancient Greek, this prefix is found...
battingPrefix/Suffix Words battingRelated Words batted 3/5 « bat nounnocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate chiropteran. noun(baseball) a turn trying to get a hit at-bat. he was at bat when...
More commonly, English has a creative process calledtmesis– the insertion of a full word into another one, not for the communication of semantic information, but for emphasis or effect. Swear words are most commonly used, creating strings like fan-bloody-tastic,cata-fucking-strophic and seventy...
usually associated with good, powerful storytelling.” Goya. Almost a mystical experience in itself. But look it up in a dictionary and you’ll find “as if,”“as though” and “as it were.” One Urdu speaker I asked translated it as “as though”; another, “and so.” It’s used...
Catachrysea; and Jerom (c) makes mention of a place of this name, and says they are mountains abounding with gold in the wilderness, eleven miles from Horeb, where Moses is said to write Deuteronomy; elsewhere (d) he calls it Dysmemoab, i.e. the west of Moab, near Jordan, opposite...
with"). Occasionally in Greek it had senses of "against" (catapult) or "wrongly" (catachresis), also "along, through, over, across, concerning." Also sometimes used as an intensive or with a sense of completion of action (catalogue). Very active in ancient Greek, this prefix is found...
with"). Occasionally in Greek it had senses of "against" (catapult) or "wrongly" (catachresis), also "along, through, over, across, concerning." Also sometimes used as an intensive or with a sense of completion of action (catalogue). Very active in ancient Greek, this prefix is found...
with"). Occasionally in Greek it had senses of "against" (catapult) or "wrongly" (catachresis), also "along, through, over, across, concerning." Also sometimes used as an intensive or with a sense of completion of action (catalogue). Very active in ancient Greek, this prefix is found...
"sudden nervous shock and paralysis, the state of an animal when it is feigning death," 1880, Latinized and Anglicized from GermanKataplexie(1878), from Greekkataplexis"stupefaction, amazement, consternation," fromkataplēssein"to strike down" (with fear, etc.), fromkata"down" (seecata-...
with"). Occasionally in Greek it had senses of "against" (catapult) or "wrongly" (catachresis), also "along, through, over, across, concerning." Also sometimes used as an intensive or with a sense of completion of action (catalogue). Very active in ancient Greek, this prefix is found...