Rev·er·end n. the title of an Anglican archbishop or an Irish Roman Catholic bishop. most sig·nif·i·cant bit (abbr.: MSB) n. [COMPUTING] the bit in a binary number that is of the greatest numerical va...
Sign off on INFORMAL assent or give one's approval to: it was hard to get celebrities to sign off on those issues.
Os·ten·si·bly adv. [sentence adverb] apparently or purportedly, but perhaps not actually:
Connection or cooperative link between people or organizations: he developed a close association with the university | the program was promoted in association with the Department of Music. - the acti...
Born in England. He is remembered for character roles such as Henry VIII (The Private Life of Henry VIII, 1933) and Captain Bligh (Mutiny on the Bounty, 1935); he also played Quasimodo in The Hunchbac...
It doesn’t really matter [if she ever wears the dress], as long as she loves it. She’ll wear it a hundred times in her imagination before she even tries it on again. As long as she has the option of w...
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Esp. (in mining) one used for washing ore. a channel for conveying molten metal from a furnace or container to a ladle or mold. laun·der·er n. Middle English (as a noun denoting a person who washes...
Called MOTOR LAUNCH. HISTORICAL the largest boat carried on a man-of-war. late 17th cent. (denoting the longboat of a man-of-war): from Spanish lancha 'pinnace', perhaps from Malay lancharan, from l...
[COMPUTING] change (a piece of text within a program) from being a comment to being part of the program that is run by the computer by removing tagging that identifies the text as a comment. un·com·me...
La·ver Rod (1938- ), Australian tennis player; full name Rodney George Laver. In 1962, he won the four major singles championships (British, American, French, and Australian) in one year, called the G...
Con·stan·ti·no·ple the former name of Istanbul from AD 330 (when it was given its name by Constantine the Great) until the capture of the city by the Turks in 1453.
CANADIAN SHIELD. Laurentian from Latin Laurentius 'Lawrence' (from St. Lawrence River) + -AN. Linked entries: CANADIAN SHIELD ■ -AN ■ Lau·ri·er Sir Wilfrid (1841-1919), Canadian statesman; prime mini...
And I don't like people who eat powdered doughnuts. I don't car how careful you are, they're just plain messy. I can't believe they taste good enough to justify getting that sugar all over everything,...
Henry IV (1367-1413), son of John of Gaunt; reigned 1399-1413; known as Henry Bolingbroke. He overthrew Richard II, establishing the Lancastrian dynasty. Henry V (1387-1422), son of Henry IV; reigned...
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