n. grant made by government to creator the sole right; invention protected by grant
E.g. While copyright protects the expression of an idea, a patent is a state granted monopoly on the idea itself.
n. father and ruler of family or tribe
E.g. In many primitive tribes, the leader and lawmaker was the patriarch.
a. inspired by love for one's country
E.g. The patriot adheres to certain patriotic values, such as respect for a flag.
n. eccentricity; oddness; an odd or unusual characteristic; private ownership; proprietorship
E.g. There, a fundamental peculiarity is that the image elements do not influence each other while the image is being reconstructed.
v. gaze; stare; look searchingly; company with
E.g. We peer in at ten infants through the glass walls of a new-born nursery, imagining the bright futures ahead in the 80 years of life they can expect.
a. having no equal; incomparable
E.g. At our town Sam is a peerless cooker: no one could compare with him.
a. insightful; aware; wise; having the ability to perceive
E.g. In sense capacity, in perceptive and discriminative ability, there is likewise a practical equality.
n. lasting indefinitely long time; suggesting self-renewal; remaining active throughout all the time
E.g. These plants are hardy perennial and will bloom for many years.
n. flawlessness; excellence; state of being without flaw or defect
E.g. The Patriots are currently a level of perfection that we like to see here.
n. entertainer; who performs or takes part in a play or performance of any kind
E.g. He was already a hugely popular performer before the world music brought him fame in Europe and the United States.
n. edge, especially of a round surface; surface of a solid; circumference
E.g. He sensed that there was something just beyond the periphery of his vision.
n. endurance; steady persistence in adhering to a course of action
E.g. I honor endurance, perseverance, industry, talent; because these are the means by which men achieve great ends and mount to lofty eminence.
n. endurance; tenacity; state or quality of being persistent; persistency
E.g. He conceded that even with persistence and good fortune, it would take at least two generations for Asia to match European levels of cooperation.
n. group of people willing to obey orders
E.g. The physical security of United Nations personnel may be uppermost in the minds of UN Secretary General Koffi Annan.
a. having precise or logical relevance; pertaining or relating
E.g. That policy, in pertinent part, said as follows: "A person living at other countries should not be counted as a vote."
n. animal kept for amusement or companionship
E.g. Losing a pet is the worst feeling, don't give up I'm sure she will be found!
ad. in a manner that is extraordinary or amazing
E.g. China's vast industrial machine is churning out mobile phones, television sets, computers and cars at a phenomenally growing rate.
n. intensely luminous surface of a star ,especially the sun
E.g. The photosphere of an astronomical object is the region from which externally received light comes.
n. large timber or post; heap; hair; fiber of wool, cotton; head of an arrow or spear
E.g. I suffer from all of these types of reading, and I must admit my pile is nearly as large as yours at present.
v. have desire for something or someone; yearn; grieve or mourn for
E.g. Though she tried to be happy living with Clara in the city, Heidi used to pine for the mountains and for her gruff but loving grandfather.
n. large sweet fleshy tropical fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves
E.g. It is a brief history of how the pineapple has served as both a food and a symbol.
a. initial; groundbreaking; originating; serving to pioneer
E.g. Reines has also been engaged in pioneering experiments probing decay modes of the proton.
n. epidemic disease with a high death rate; annoyance
E.g. This research tells us the ravages of the plague that swept through Europe in the mid 14th century.
n. farm; an area under cultivation; a group of cultivated trees or plants
E.g. Sugar prices were so high that Hawaiian plantation owners were paying laborers a previously unthinkable $3.20 an hour.
n. flat piece of metal; thick sheet of metal; small, usually circular, vessel of metal or wood for food table
E.g. As she said this, she came upon a neat little house, on the door of which was a bright brass plate with the name "W. RABBIT" engraved upon it.
n. highland; upland; relatively flat highland
E.g. In geology and earth science, a plateau is an area of highland, usually consisting of relatively flat terrain.
n. dullness; insipidity of thought; commonplace statement; lack of originality
E.g. In giving advice to his son, old Polonius expressed himself only in same platitude; every word out of his mouth was a commonplace.
a. dull and tiresome; commonplace
E.g. Since these mission statements are often platitudinous, they don’t often drive behavior or impress customers, but a good one might do both.
a. flexible; yielding; easily bent or shaped
E.g. In remodeling the bathroom, we have replaced all the old, rigid lead pipes with new, pliable copper tubing.
a. flexible; easily influenced; easily bent or flexed; pliable
E.g. He says that media in China is largely pliant, meaning his company has rarely faced tough questions.
n. farm implement consisting of a heavy blade at the end of a beam
E.g. The plow is a long beam with a most primitive share in the middle, a cow at one end, and a boy at the other.
n. installing and repairing pipes and fixtures for water or gas or sewage in a building
E.g. The metal is used extensively in the construction industry, for electrical wiring and copper pipes are used for plumbing.
v. dive; submerge; become suddenly lower; decrease dramatically; throw oneself into a substance or place
E.g. The hunting dogs plunge into the forest.
n. fine granular substance produced in flowers; fine bran or flour
E.g. The image at the beginning of this post is a picture of pollen from a holly plant.
v. fertilize by transferring pollen
E.g. Although honeybees are effective to fertilize under high temperature in California, they do not effectively pollinate alfalfa in western Canada.
n. insect that carries pollen from one flower to another
E.g. A garden established in 1998 at the White Memorial to attract butterflies has been reclassified as a pollinator project.
a. having many sides or relating to a surface marked by polygons
E.g. This building is in polygonal structure, it isn't a traditional rectangle one.
v. gaze intently; stare; scrutinize; read or study carefully and attentively
E.g. Determined to become a physician, Beth spent hours to pore over her anatomy text.
a. full of pores; able to absorb fluids; full of tiny pores that allow fluids or gasses to pass through
E.g. Dancers like to wear porous clothing because it allows the ready passage of water and air.
v. foretell; serve as an omen or a warning of; indicate by prediction
E.g. The king does not know what these omens portend and asks his soothsayers to interpret them.