inflected form
51tense — tense1 tensely, adv. tenseness, n. /tens/, adj., tenser, tensest, v., tensed, tensing. adj. 1. stretched tight, as a cord, fiber, etc.; drawn taut; rigid. 2. in a state of mental or nervous strain; high strung; taut: a tense person …
52Codicote — is a large village, and civil parish about seven miles (11 km) south of Hitchin in Hertfordshire, England. It has timber framed and chequered brick houses, of special interest being the 18th century Pond House and the half timbered As You… …
53-teen — combining form meaning ten more than, from O.E. tene, tiene, from P.Gmc. *tekhuniz (Cf. O.S. tein, Du. tien, O.H.G. zehan, Ger. zehn, Goth. taihun), an inflected form of the root of TEN (Cf. ten); cognate with L. decim (Cf. It. dici, Sp …
54inflection — [in flek′shən] n. [L inflexio < inflexus, pp. of inflectere: see INFLECT] 1. a turning, bending, or curving 2. a turn, bend, or curve 3. any change in tone or pitch of the voice; modulation [to signal a question by a rising inflection] 4. a… …
55vocabulary entry — noun Date: circa 1934 a word (as the noun book), hyphenated or open compound (as the verb book match or the noun book review), word element (as the affix pro ), abbreviation (as agt), verbalized symbol (as Na), or term (as man in the street)… …
56Jerzy Kuryłowicz — (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjɛʐɨ kurɨˈwɔvit͡ʂ]; 1895 1978) was a Polish linguist who studied Indo European languages. He was the brother of Włodzimierz Kuryłowicz and his son is also called Jerzy Kuryłowicz. Contents 1 Life 2 Work in… …
57Gershayim — is a punctuation mark used in the Hebrew language. It has two distinct meanings. # The original meaning of Gershayim is to denote a note of cantillation in the reading of the Torah, taking the form of a doubled curved stroke printed above the… …
58The Mourners — Bernard Malamud’s short story The Mourners” first appeared in Discovery in January, 1955. The story was later included in The Magic Barrel, the first collection of short stories written by Bernard Malamud published in 1958. Plot SummaryKessler is …
59Grotesquerie — is a literary form that became a popular genre in the early 20th century. It can be grouped with science fiction and horror. Authors such as Ambrose Bierce, Fritz Leiber, H. Russell Wakefield, Seabury Quinn, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Margaret St …
60construct state — /kon strukt/, Gram. (in Semitic languages) the inflected form of a noun dependent on a following noun, with the combination expressing a genitive relationship, as Hebrew beth David house of David, where beth house of is the construct form of… …
