Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Slovene – Ob svetem Nikoli is a wordplay that literally means "on St. Nicholas' feast day". The word nikoli, when stressed on the second syllable, means "never", when stressed on the first it is the locative case of Nikola, i.e. Nicholas; Spanish – cuando las vacas vuelen ("when cows fly") or cuando los chanchos vuelen ("when pigs fly ...
One Way Home is the third studio album by American rock band the Hooters, released in 1987 by Columbia Records. The album peaked at #27 on the Billboard 200 chart on August 29, 1987. Background
Borne means to carry, realize, or bear something. [26] Standard: I was born on March 6, 1982. Standard: I contracted mosquito-borne malaria while in Africa. breath and breathe. A breath (noun) is the air that is inhaled or exhaled from the lungs. To breathe (verb) is the act of inhaling or exhaling. buy and by. Buy means to purchase or spend ...
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 ...
The word has become extremely common in modern Hebrew. Zechuchith (זכוכית) is a hapax legomenon of Biblical Hebrew, found only in Job 28:17. The word derives from the root זכה z-ch-h, meaning clear/transparent and refers to glass or crystal. In Modern Hebrew, it is used for "glass".
synonym: 1: a word equivalent in meaning or nearly so to another word; a word that may be substituted for another word that has the same or a similar meaning, such as near and close (compare "antonym"). 2: In Biology, one or more names given to the same taxon, and so considered equivalent.
Go out with one's boots on/with a bang/in style To die while doing something enjoyed Informal Go to, or head for, the last roundup [11] To die Euphemistic Associated with dying cowboys, along with "Going to that big ranch in the sky." Go to one's reward [2] To die Euphemistic: Final reckoning, just deserts after death Go to one's watery grave [1]
In a review of One Way Home, David Fricke of Rolling Stone described the song as a "powerful pop KO of TV pulpit pounders", with its "core riff" being "a metallic jig figure – sort of Boston meets John Barleycorn – fattened up with iron-fist guitar chords and Close Encounters synth effects".