English search results for: In Search of Excellence [Thomas J Peters Robert H Waterman Jr ]
#876
adjective
Definitions:
- direct/absolute
- moving straight forward/in straight line
- straight/not curved
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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All or none
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Frequency:
Frequent, top 2000+ words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#877
verb
- conjugation: 2nd conjugation
- voice: transitive
Definitions:
- cleave
- disperse
- make a parting in/between;, par
- separate/divide
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#878
noun
- declension: 3rd declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- formation of diminutive
- understatement
- [capitis ~ => loss of civil rights]
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Frequent, top 2000+ words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#879
verb
- conjugation: 1st conjugation
- voice: intransitive
Definitions:
- be in conflict/peril
- brandish weapons
- fight, battle
- struggle/contend/strive
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
War, Military, Naval, Ships, Armor
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All or none
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Frequency:
Frequent, top 2000+ words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#880
adjective
Definitions:
- attentive, fond (of), devoted (to)
- thrifty, economical, frugal
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Age:
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#881
noun
- declension: 3rd declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- fitness/suitability (for task),
- honor, esteem, standing
- worth, excellence
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Frequent, top 2000+ words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#882
verb
- conjugation: 3rd conjugation
- voice: transitive
Definitions:
- expand/enlarge
- relax/cheer up/free of restraint
- spread/extend over area/time
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#883
verb
- conjugation: 3rd conjugation
- voice: semi-deponent
Definitions:
- (w/DAT) lack confidence (in), despair (of)
- despair
- distrust
- expect not
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Age:
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#884
noun
- declension: 3rd declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- delivery/speech
- inflection
- method/style/form of speaking
- public speaking
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#885
noun
- declension: 3rd declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- declaration of judgment/penalty
- prediction
- speaking/saying/uttering (action)
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#886
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: masculine
Definitions:
- devil
- evil one
- The Devil, Satan, Prince of Evil/Darkness
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Age:
Latin not in use in Classical times (6-10th centuries) Christian
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Area:
Ecclesiastic, Biblical, Religious
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Frequency:
Frequent, top 2000+ words
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Source:
Latham, “Revised Medieval Word List”, 1980
#887
noun
- declension: 1st declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- metal model of hand as token of agreement
- pledge/contract
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Age:
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#888
noun
- declension: 1st declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- metal model of hand as token of agreement
- pledge/contract
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#889
verb
- conjugation: 3rd conjugation
Definitions:
- detour/digress/branch off
- divert, turn away/aside/in/off
- lodge/put up
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#890
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: neuter
Definitions:
- circumlocution/evasion
- deviation/diversion/digression
- loophole
- port of call
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#891
verb
- conjugation: 1st conjugation
- voice: transitive
Definitions:
- devour, consume
- engulf/ingulf, absorb, drink in
- swallow, gulp down
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#892
adjective
Definitions:
- out-of-way, off road
- remote/secluded
- retired
- sequestered, in seclusion
- shy
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Age:
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#893
verb
- conjugation: 3rd conjugation
Definitions:
- detour/digress/branch off
- divert, turn away/aside/in/off
- lodge/put up
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Frequent, top 2000+ words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#894
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: neuter
Definitions:
- circumlocution/evasion
- deviation/diversion/digression
- loophole
- port of call
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Frequency:
Frequent, top 2000+ words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#895
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: neuter
Definitions:
- defeat, loss of battle
- overthrow
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
War, Military, Naval, Ships, Armor
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Frequency:
Frequent, top 2000+ words
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Source:
Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#896
verb
- conjugation: 1st conjugation
- voice: transitive
Definitions:
- disparage/belittle, speak/write slightingly of
- reduce/depreciate/detract from
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Frequency:
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#897
verb
- conjugation: 1st conjugation
- voice: transitive
Definitions:
- disparage/belittle, speak/write slightingly of
- reduce/depreciate/detract from
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Frequency:
Frequent, top 2000+ words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#898
verb
- conjugation: 2nd conjugation
- voice: transitive
Definitions:
- distort, bend out of shape
- pervert, misrepresent, twist sense of, alter form
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Age:
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Frequency:
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#899
verb
- conjugation: 2nd conjugation
- voice: transitive
Definitions:
- betroth, promise (woman) in marriage
- despair/yield/give up
- pledge, promise
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Age:
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#900
verb
- conjugation: 1st conjugation
Definitions:
- despair (of)
- give up as hopeless (of cure)
- have no/give up hope (of/that)
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
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Frequency:
Frequent, top 2000+ words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)