... the database
of the
Oxford DictionaryofEnglish
(a forthcoming
new edition of the 1998
New OxfordDictionary of
English)
so that it contains not only the original
dictionary content but also ... assignment
of further indicators to statistically similar defini-
tions. Automatic assignment is a little more
straightforward and robust here, since most of the
time the occurrence of strongly-typed ... exceptions. The stylistic regularity of a
dictionary like ODE supports the enumeration of a
finite (albeit large) list of structures and patterns
which can be matched against a given entry or...
... Bank
NSPCA National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
NSPCC National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
NT New Testament; National Theatre; National Trust
NTP normal temperature ... equipment manufacturer
OFFER Office of Electricity Regulation (regulatory body)
Ofgas Office of Gas Supply (regulatory body)
Oflot Office of the National Lottery (regulatory body)
Ofrail Office of the ... high-speed train)
TLS Times Literary Supplement
TM trademark; transcendental meditation
TNT trinitrotoluene; trinitrotoluol
TSB Trustee Savings Bank
TUC Trades Union Congress
U
u.c. in typography,...
... first.
First out of the gate
When someone is first out of the gate, they are the first to do something that others are trying to do.
First port of call
The first place you stop to do something ... particularly good at judging the quality of something.
Discretion is the better part of valour
This idiom means that it is often better to think carefully and not act than to do something that may cause ... gets their just deserts, they get the punishment or suffer the misfortune that it is felt they
deserve.
Just in the nick of time
If you do something in the nick of time, you just manage to...
... nuts
If you do something from soup to nuts, you do it from the beginning right to the very end.
From the bottom of your heart
If someone does something from the bottom of their heart, then they ...
Just deserts
If a bad or evil person gets their just deserts, they get the punishment or suffer the misfortune that it is felt they
deserve.
Just in the nick of time
If you do something in the ... come to understand it even though it is difficult to comprehend.
Get your teeth into
<p>If you get your teeth into something, you become involved in or do something that is intellectually...
... a
solution to absorb electromagnetic radiation incident upon it. It
equals the logarithm of the ratio of the radiant power of the inci-
dent radiation, U
0
, to the radiant power of the transmitted ... transfer of the amino
acid to an ester link with the 3′-terminal hydroxyl of tRNA.
activated complex term that may be used to denote the assembly
of atoms at the transition state of a chemical reaction.
activation ... radia-
tion, U. For a solution, absorbance is expressed as the logarithm of
the ratio of the radiant power of light transmitted through the ref-
erence sample to that of the light transmitted through...
...
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implication of major ... varied with the thickness of the str. and the
velocity of the wind to give a chordal effect. The Aeolian harp was popular from the late 16th or
early 17th cents. to the late 19th cent. Now made ... length from about 7' to 12'. It has a similar mouthpiece to
that of the cornet, and is restricted to notes of the harmonic series. Strauss wrote a part for Alphorn
in Daphne, but it...
... find this entry:
tribe: To purify the dialect of the t. ELIOT 74:19
This will lead you to the poem by T. S. Eliot which is the nineteenth quotation on page 74.
Table of Contents
Preface
How to ...
memorable that they quote it (or allude to it) in speech or writing. Often they will quote it
directly, introducing it with a phrase like “As——says” but equally often they will assume that
the reader ... after each quotation to its original source or to an authoritative record of
its use. The reference usually consists of either (a) a book-title with its date of publication and a
reference to...
... definition of psychiatry is the care of the
id by the odd.
The principal objection to old age is that there is
no future in it.
The psychiatrist is the obstetrician of the mind.
The publication of ... functions that resist death.
Attributed
We cannot therefore deny that a change in just
one of an organ’s tissues is frequently enough to
disturb the functions in all the others; yet likewise,
it ... ()
The reason that academic disputes are so bitter is
that the stakes are so small.
There are two kinds of sleep. The sleep of the just
and the sleep of the just after.
There is no bed shortage...
...
the
better
to — so as to
—
better.
1986
Peter Mathiessen
Men's
lives
Francis
ran
both
motors
with
their
housings
off, the
better
to tinker
with
them.
get
the better of ... 'You must
j empty
out
the
bathing-tub,
but not
the baby i
j along
with
it.'
1998
New
Scientist
It
is
easy
to
throw
out the
baby
with
the bathwater when it
comes
to
UFO
... crack
of the whip fair
treatment;
a
chance to participate or
compete
on equal
terms. British informal
1989
T.
M.
Albert
Tales
of
the
Ulster
Detective
You
might think
that
the...
... progress of transitions in usage—which
preoccupies other chapters. The history ofEnglish is, in this sense, not a series of
static states but, at each and every point in time, patterns of variation ... continued on a
signiWcant scale over the best part of three centuries. The forms ofEnglish that the
migrants took with them varied considerably according to such factors as the part
of Britain ... cases the identity of the words or the meaning of the texts cannot be
conWdently made out. In such circumstances it is not surprising that there is
uncertainty surrounding the nature of the language...