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gnocchi - Etymology dictionary

31.12.2019 — 1891, from It. gnocchi, pl. of gnocco, from nocchio a knot in wood, perhaps from a Germanic source akin to knuckle. So called for their shape.

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adj. Aspiring is used with these nouns: ↑actor, actress, ↑artist, ↑musician, ↑​novelist, ↑poet, ↑singer, ↑writer.

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sheepfold - English-Tagalog dictionary

08.01.2020 — Look at other dictionaries: Sheepfold — Sheep fold , n. A fold or pen for sheep; a place where sheep are collected or confined. [1913 Webster] …

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급급여율령 - Dictionary of Chinese idioms in Korean

급급여율령【急急如律令】 빨리 법령대로 따르라는 뜻. 본래 한(漢) 때 공문서에 쓰던 것이나, 후에는 주술가(呪術家)의 잡신을 쫓는 주문(呪文) 끝에 붙여 빨리 물러 ...

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cerulean - Etymology dictionary

10.02.2020 — 1660s, from L. caeruleus blue, dark blue, blue green, perhaps dissimilated from caelulum, dim. of caelum heaven, sky, of uncertain origin (see CELESTIAL (Cf.

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malfunction - Collocations dictionary

verb Malfunction is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑equipment, ...

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νερουλός - Dictionary of Greek

Look at other dictionaries: νερουλός — [нэрулос] εκ. водянистый, жидкий, разбавленный … Λεξικό Ελληνικά-ρωσική νέα (Греческо-русский новый словарь).

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control society - Academic Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Deleuze develops his notion of the 'control society' at the beginning of the 1990s. In the 1970s Michel Foucault showed how, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a disciplinary society had developed that was based on strategies of confinement. As Deleuze points out, Foucault carried out this historical work in order to show what we had inherited of the disciplinary model, and not ...

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commission - school_en.enacademic.com

to commission a person is to authorize as well as instruct to perform a certain duty, as the execution of an artistic work, or to appoint to a certain rank or office; authorize implies the giving of power or the right to act, ranging in application from a specific legal power to discretionary powers in dealings of any kind; to accredit, in this comParison, implies the sending of a person, duly ...