mercoledì 6 novembre 2013

Una parola inglese al giorno, per la lettera: A.

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Principali fonti lessicografiche:

1. English word of the day: Innovative languagecom.
2. Word of the day: from Dictionary.com.
3. Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day.
4. A.Word.A.Day: Wordssmith.
5. The Word of the Day: Zanichelli.
6. Dicios: dizionario plurilingue.
7. English for Spanish Word of the Day: Transparent Language.
8. English for Portoguese Word of the Day: Transparent Language.
9. Verbix: coniugatore di verbi universale, qui inglese.
10. Word-reference.com.
11. Conjusaison anglaise.
12. Pons.
13. Glosbe.

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Sommario:
Letterario Numerico: 1. anent. - 2. almost. - 3. animalcule. - 4. automobile. - 5. ankle. -
Fonetico Alfabetico: A >  angry -
Vignette Inglesi: A  >  allowed -

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anent

A.Word.A.Day--anent

Pronunciation RealAudio
anent (uh-NENT) preposition
Regarding, concerning, about.
[From Middle English, from Old English on efen (on even).]
"Our experience with Mr. Estrada validates the analysis on the flaw in the Constitution anent the term of office of the Chief Executive - six years is just too short for a good president (like Fidel V. Ramos) - and too long! for a bad one like President Estrada."
Rick B. Ramos; To Take a Stand: Disenchantment; BusinessWorld (Manila, Philippines); Apr 5, 2000.
"In the case of Citibank, the subsidiary of Citicorp, which is itself to be cocooned in Citigroup, the money trail has actually been excavated to a certain degree, anent the escapades of Raúl Salinas, a k a Mr. Ten Percent, brother of Carlos Salinas, former president of Mexico."
Alexander Cockburn; Beat the Devil: Banks, Drugs and Marriage; The Nation (New York); May 4, 1998.
This week's theme: words derived from Old English.

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When two elephants fight it is the grass that gets trampled. -African proverb
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TLie: 01-05-2014
Italian word: quasi
English translation: almost
Part of speech: adverb
Italian example:
Il fiume raggiunge quasi il livello di guardia, c'è rischio d'inondazione.
English example:
The river has almost reached the danger level; there is a risk of flooding.
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Sansoni: almost.
  • avv.
  • quasi, pressoché: we're almost there ci siamo quasi; we almost missed the bus per poco non abbiamo perso l'autobus.
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animalcule, noun:

1. a minute or microscopic animal, nearly or quite invisible to the naked eye, as an infusorian or rotifer.
2. Archaic. a tiny animal, as a mouse or fly. 

But man contemplates the universe as an animalcule would an elephant.
-- Edward Buwler-Lytton, Zanoni, 1842
He has absolutely no idea of the prodigious personage that I am, and of the microscopic animalcule that he is in comparison.
-- Marcel Proust, translated by D. J. Enright, In Search of Lost Time, 1989, originally published in 1927

Animalcule comes directly from the Neo-Latin word animalculum meaning "a small animal."
Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for animalcule
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Sansoni: animalcule
  • n.
  • (Biol) microbo m.

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automobile
Two-door automobile
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11.26.13/IL: automobile.
• The automobile is turning right.
• automobile factory.
• two-door automobile.
Dicios definition:
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ankle
The athlete spaines his ankle
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IL: 01-07-2013
ankle:
• The athlete spained his ankle.
• swollen ankle
• sprain an ancle
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Sansoni: ankle
  • n.
  • caviglia f.: to sprain one's ankle slogarsi la caviglia.
+ sprain.
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