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Bust of Nefertiti; c. 1345 BC; limestone and plaster; height: 48 cm, width: 20 cm; Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany. A bust is a sculpted or cast representation of the upper part of the human body, depicting a person's head and neck, and a variable portion of the chest and shoulders. The piece is normally supported by a plinth. The bust is ...
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
a synonym of among acceptable in British English while seeming old fashioned or pretentious in American English [15] anorak a hooded coat (US parka); a socially impaired obsessive, particularly trainspotters (US geek, trekkie, otaku, etc.) answerphone an automated telephone-answering machine, from the trademark Ansafone (US & UK answering machine)
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Taylor Swift or bust. Taylor Swift's Eras Tour tickets had an average face-value price of $254 in 2023 and a resale market price of $3,801. Meanwhile, resale tickets on SeatGeek for a late ...
Bust may also refer to: Places. Bust, Bas-Rhin, a city in France; Lashkargah, Afghanistan, known as Bust historically; Media. Bust of feminist pop culture "Bust ...
It is possible that the expression "throw/push/shove someone under the bus" came from Britain in the late 1970s or early 1980s. [1] [2] The earliest known usage of this phrase was 21 June 1982, when Julian Critchley of The Times (London) wrote "President Galtieri had pushed her under the bus which the gossips had said was the only means of her removal."
Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...