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an increase in wages (US: raise) an increase in amount, value, price, etc. roach The assembled filter tip of a marijuana joint Fish including members of the family Cyprinidae: Cockroach (colloquial). The extinguished remnants of a marijuana joint roast (colloquial) to reprimand severely. (v.) to cook in an oven; (n.) meat so cooked
Siáu-chhoan Siōng-gī (Naoyoshi Ogawa; 小川尚義), main author and editor of the Comprehensive Taiwanese–Japanese Dictionary (1931) Below is a list of Hokkien dictionaries, also known as Minnan dictionaries or Taiwanese dictionaries, sorted by the date of the release of their first edition. The first two were prepared by foreign Christian missionaries and the third by the Empire of ...
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. 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 ...
In France children use the word pouce as the equivalent of the English pax and the American time-out. The literal translation of pouce is thumb or big toe. [18] "Lu !" is -- or was -- a common truce term in Châteauroux, central France, in the fifties and sixties. the word pouce is also popular with children in Israel.
This is a list of words that have entered the English language from the Yiddish language, many of them by way of American English.There are differing approaches to the romanization of Yiddish orthography (which uses the Hebrew alphabet); thus, the spelling of some of the words in this list may be variable (for example, shlep is a variant of schlep, and shnozz, schnoz).
A thesaurus or synonym dictionary lists similar or related words; these are often, but not always, synonyms. [15] The word poecilonym is a rare synonym of the word synonym. It is not entered in most major dictionaries and is a curiosity or piece of trivia for being an autological word because of its meta quality as a synonym of synonym.
A bet or raise made with a drawing hand, building the pot in anticipation of filling the draw community card See main article: community card poker complete hand See made hand completion To raise a small bet up to the amount of what would be a normal-sized bet. See table stakes. connectors Two or more cards of consecutive or close to ...
and raise us up, our Guardian, to life renewed. Spread over us the shelter of Your peace. Guide us with Your good counsel; for Your Name’s sake, be our help. Shield and shelter us beneath the shadow of Your wings. Defend us against enemies, illness, war, famine and sorrow. Distance us from wrongdoing. For You, God, watch over us and deliver us.