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  • 1absorbed — adj. 1) deeply, completely, thoroughly, totally absorbed 2) absorbed by, with; in (she was absorbed by/with the problem; the children were absorbed in their homework; absorbed in thought) * * * [əb zɔːbd] completely thoroughly totally absorbed… …

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  • 2absorbed — absorbedly /ab sawr bid lee, zawr /, adv. absorbedness, n. /ab sawrbd , zawrbd /, adj. deeply interested or involved; preoccupied: He had an absorbed look on his face. [1755 65; ABSORB + ED2] * * * …

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  • 3heavily involved in — deeply absorbed in, greatly entangled in, considerably concerned with …

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  • 4sink — sinkable, adj. sinklike, adj. /singk/, v., sank or, often, sunk; sunk or sunken; sinking; n. v.i. 1. to displace part of the volume of a supporting substance or object and become totally or partially submerged or enveloped; fall or descend into… …

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  • 5sink — I. verb (sank or sunk; sunk; sinking) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English sincan; akin to Old High German sinkan to sink Date: before 12th century intransitive verb 1. a. to go to the bottom ; submerge …

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  • 6Immersion — Im*mer sion, n. [L. immersio; cf. F. immersion.] 1. The act of immersing, or the state of being immersed; a sinking within a fluid; a dipping; as, the immersion of Achilles in the Styx. [1913 Webster] 2. Submersion in water for the purpose of… …

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  • 7Immersion lens — Immersion Im*mer sion, n. [L. immersio; cf. F. immersion.] 1. The act of immersing, or the state of being immersed; a sinking within a fluid; a dipping; as, the immersion of Achilles in the Styx. [1913 Webster] 2. Submersion in water for the… …

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  • 8The Hurricane (1999 film) — Infobox Film name = The Hurricane caption = Theatrical poster director = Norman Jewison producer = Armyan Bernstein Norman Jewison John Ketcham writer = Story: Rubin Hurricane Carter Sam Chaiton Terry Swinton Screenplay: Dan Gordon Armyan… …

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  • 9D. R. Bendre — Bendre redirects here. For other uses, see Bendre (disambiguation). Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre © Kamat s Potpourri Born 31 January 1896 Dharwad, Karnataka, India …

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  • 10On Photography — is a 1977 collection of essays by Susan Sontag. It originally appeared as a series of essays in the New York Review of Books between 1973 and 1977. Contents …

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