Dictionaries & Thesauruses
epub |eng | 2000-03-11 | Author:Graham King [King,Graham]

* * * Oz Abbros Australians are loth to use long words and they are ferocious verbal surgeons. But they also possess the curious habit of adding an ‘o’ at ...
( Category: Dictionaries & Thesauruses March 11,2018 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2011-07-11 | Author:Plotnik, Arthur [Plotnik, Arthur]

“It was not, however, a matter of a few miserable drops of rain. There were bucketfuls, jugfuls, whole niles, iguaçús, and yangtses of the stuff …” —José Saramago, Seeing, 2006 ...
( Category: Dictionaries & Thesauruses March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Unknown

were connected with the social values of a given group, either to the point of identification (as in tribal religion) or as a vehicle to reinforce social ideals (as in ...
( Category: Drawing March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ronak Husni

“What a terrible man!” “What a terrible woman!” “What a terrible woman Zeinab is!” “Amr is a terrible companion.” “Ibrahim is the worst of companions.” Fairly/quite/rather/pretty All these adverbs of ...
( Category: Dictionaries & Thesauruses March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-11 | Author:David Grambs

WEATHER, FORCES OF NATURE, AND THE SOLAR SYSTEM WEATHER AND FORCES OF NATURE characterized by good weather fair, clear, pleasant, lovely, balmy, halcyon, temperate, springlike, summer-like, summery characterized by bad ...
( Category: Dictionaries & Thesauruses March 11,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1978-03-11 | Author:J. C. Cooper

An ancient Palmyran relief depicts the Moon as a male god, whose armour, sword and, especially, crescent suggests the horns of power associated with male fertility gods in their aggressive, ...
( Category: Graphic Design March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-31 | Author:Thomas Herold [Herold, Thomas]

GDP GDP is the acronym for Gross Domestic Product. GDP stands for the entire value in dollars of all goods and services that have actually been produced within the nation ...
( Category: Education & Reference March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Partridge, Eric

( Category: Dictionaries & Thesauruses March 11,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2010-01-21 | Author:Douglas Adams; John Lloyd

( Category: Humor March 9,2018 )
epub |rus | | Author:Simon Winchester [Winchester, Simon]

A selection of slips—some handwritten, some cut from books, some printed—for the word mechnical, which would have been housed in the Scriptorium pigeonholes, waiting to be examined, considered and finally ...
( Category: Dictionaries & Thesauruses March 7,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-04 | Author:Samuel Johnson

I Is in English considered both as a vowel and consonant; though, since the vowel and consonant differ in their form as well as sound, they may be more properly ...
( Category: Dictionaries & Thesauruses March 5,2018 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-02-21 | Author:Max Cryer [Cryer, Max]

Know the ropes The term refers to a person having knowledge of a particular system. It did not necessarily arise among sailing ship crews, though its first known occurrence in ...
( Category: Humor March 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-17 | Author:Collins Dictionaries

Public holidays When a public holiday falls on a Tuesday or Thursday, it is common for people to take the Monday or the Friday off as well. This is known ...
( Category: Foreign Language Study & Reference March 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-20 | Author:Barbara Hammer

Conference Sex (or The Names Have Not Been Changed as There Are No Innocents) I CAME FOR SOMETHING, SOMETHING BESIDES THE thousands of milling women whose faces blurred into an ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 3,2018 )