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On a third occasion, the brolga, seeing the emu on a brood of 10 eggs, tried to get them, but was fended off as the emu rushed off the nest and charged the native companion. It in turn, leapt at the opportunity to smash the eggs by dropping down from the sky. Only one remained intact.
The Spanish word petate has given rise to other commo nahuatlisms such as petatearse (“to die”), petatear (meaning “to bluff” in a card game), and petatazo (the smell of marijuana). The Spanish word tiza is a nahuatlism used to refer to sticks of chalk. The word is seldom used in Mexico, with the Hellenism gis used in its place.
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 ...
A fossil word is a word that is broadly obsolete but remains in current use due to its presence within an idiom or phrase. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] An example for a word sense is 'ado' in 'much ado'. An example for a phrase is ' in point ' (relevant), which is retained in the larger phrases ' case in point ' (also 'case on point' in the legal context) and ...
The word cow is easy to use when a singular is needed and the sex is unknown or irrelevant—when "there is a cow in the road", for example. Further, any herd of fully mature cattle in or near a pasture is statistically likely to consist mostly of cows, so the term is probably accurate even in the restrictive sense.
Intact may refer to: Intact (group of companies), a Romanian media trust; Intact (album) and "Intact" (song) by Ned's Atomic Dustbin; Intacto, a film; Entire (animal), describing an animal that has not been spayed or neutered; Genital integrity; Intact Financial, a Canadian insurance company
The Wheeler–Kenyon method is characterised by intact baulks (pictured here topped with white sandbags) between each excavation unit. backfill 1. To re-fill a trench once an excavation has been completed. 1A. To re-fill a cut and cover tunnels 1B. To re-fill unused canals 1C. To re-fill trenches for gas, water, power and communication lines 2.
Examples include the extension of word meanings via metaphor, [106] the evolution of measurement terms like "foot" from concrete to abstract meanings, [107] and the identification of systematic patterns in word blends (e.g., "brunch" from a blend of "breakfast" and "lunch"). [108]