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  • 71decline — [14] The notion underlying decline is of ‘bending away’. It comes via Old French decliner from Latin dēclināre ‘turn aside, go down’, a compound verb formed from the prefix dē , ‘away, aside’ and clināre ‘bend’, which also produced English… …

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  • 72pillow — [OE] Pillow in a recognizable form emerged in the 14th century. It was based on an inflected form of Old English pyle ‘pillow’. This came via a prehistoric West Germanic *pulwīn (source also of German pfühl and Dutch peluw ‘pillow’) from Latin… …

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  • 73-teen — [tēn] [ME tene < OE tene, tyne, inflected form of tien,TEN] suffix ten and: used to form the cardinal numbers from thirteen to nineteen …

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  • 74in|flect|ion — «ihn FLEHK shuhn», noun. 1. a change in the tone or pitch of the voice: »We usually end questions with a rising inflection. 2. Grammar. a) a variation in the form of a word to show case, number, gender, person, tense, mood, voice, or comparison.… …

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  • 75lexicalization — noun Date: 1949 1. the realization of a meaning in a single word or morpheme rather than in a grammatical construction 2. the treatment of a formerly freely composed, grammatically regular, and semantically transparent phrase or inflected form as …

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  • 76Cockle (bivalve) — For the plant, see Lolium temulentum. Cockle Live specimens of Cerastoderma edule from France Scientific classification Kingdom …

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  • 77Printf — The class of printf functions (which stands for print formatted ) is a class of functions, typically associated with curly bracket programming languages, that accept a string parameter (called the format string) which specifies a method for… …

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  • 78Dhamma vicaya — Part of a series on Buddhism Outline · Portal History Timeline · Councils …

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  • 79sieur — [syër] n. 〚OFr, inflected form of sire, SIRE〛 SIR: archaic Fr. title of respect * * * …

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  • 80back formation — Ling. 1. the analogical creation of one word from another word that appears to be a derived or inflected form of the first by dropping the apparent affix or by modification. 2. a word so formed, as typewrite from typewriter. [1885 90] * * * …

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