... states the definition of honor as someone with high regard or respect; personal integrity; reputation and privilege. What Webster's Dictionary does not tell are the people who would qualify as being honorable under these traits. Honor, to me, means a person who is a team player, a family man and a person who does ... went through many turbulent years. He gave his full effort day in and day out to bring back the super bowl status that the Cowboys once were. In my own dictionary, looking up Emmitt Smith would easy as cutting a hot knife through butter. The definition of Emmitt Smith woul...

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... delve into the meaning of dedication. I am going to discover everything that it holds behind it. Dedication will be picked apart and defined. Dedication is defined by the Merriam Webster dictionary as "a devoting or setting aside for a particular purpose." (Merriam Webster) This definition explains how dedication can be related to devotion. When one dedicates their self to a cause or event, they ... not set aside a large part of his life to wrestling, and training for wrestling, he would have never achieved such goals. It takes dedication to achieve anything. The Oxford-English dictiona...

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... they treated or resolved in the novel. What is our position and opinion as the reader on the issues? The first moral issue in the novel is patriotism in the dictionary patriotism is defined as love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it. In this novel there are many of patriotism involved for example Miro he will sacrifice his life ... for money or fame they do it for their country. We call them terrorist because they hijack stuffs. And they hurt people. The second moral issue is terrorism in the dictionary terrorism is the unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by ...

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... the question put forth before me, I decided the best way to fully describe what it means to understand was to by first look up the literal definition. Seeing as Webster's Dictionary's are used widely, this definition seems that it must be correct. But I was asked to describe what I think "to understand" means. Seeing as this is the case, leaving Webster's answer ... ...

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... . A person who is compassionate, giving, and loyal is beautiful regardless of their exterior. So what is beauty? The definition of beauty varies from person to person. The Merriam Webster online dictionary defines beauty as "the quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit •another definition given ... by the same dictionary says "a beautiful person or thing; especially: a beautiful woman.eB eing beautiful means exciting sensuous or aesthetic pleasure. Beauty itself applies to whatever excites the keen...

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... been a little extreme as well, making her look like a fool.  Over the past few years, the two of us have worked together to be honest and yet kind. In the dictionary it says that honesty is truthfulness in character and behavior; a quality of a persons personality necessary for trust, respect, and honor; a foundation value and fundamental requirement for successful leadership. I think honesty ... ...

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According to "The American Heritage Dictionary," the primary definition of success is "the favorable outcome of something that has been attempted." Its projected to be an achievement of something that is desired or planned out. Success ... ...

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... God and Nihilism. First of all, one of Nietzsche's conclusions on the Death of God concerns the link between Nihilism and the principle of Being and Becoming. According to the dictionary, Nihilism leads to the rejection of all religious and moral principles, while promoting a constant skepticism toward real existence. Hence, as mentioned by Paul Catanu, "Nihilism is attained when we realize ... ...

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Health The term's health and physical activity have similar definitions with relation to how our society uses them. The word health is defined by the Webster's New World Dictionary as, "Physical and mental well-being, freedom from disease, pain or defect". Some people would interpret this definition as being the quality of life and the way to achieve this ... ...

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According to Merriam-Webster's dictionary, prayer is "an address (as a petition) to God or a god in word or thought." Although the world we live in today is sometimes very hectic, there are always moments in ... ...

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... two elements. This quotation has the capability of teaching readers effective lessons for living. The initial path of comprehending the quotation uses the literal interpretation, or recognizing the significance of dictionary explanations. By using this method, the quotation " a rose by any other name would smell as sweet-, a reader could construe: the smell of a rose stays the same, even if someone changes ... ...

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... , suggestive of, or inclined to be a maverick. A maverick is not someone who does everything that he or she is told, nor someone that follows rules. The word maverick has two dictionary meanings. One is somebody who holds independent views and who refuses to conform to the accepted or orthodox thinking on a subject. The other meaning is an unbranded animal, especially a calf ... ...

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... is success a measure of one's personal growth regardless of the material goods obtained? According to Michael Korda, success seems to be a materialistic definition. The true definition of success within the dictionary is: favorable outcome, accomplishment of what was aimed at, attainment of wealth or fame or position. Personally, I think success is an accomplishment and not specifically aimed at obtaining money. Success ... ...

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... new obligations: the encouragement of one another. Encouragement. Webster says that to encourage is "to inspire with courage, spirit, or hope;" but these are just mere words, right? How can a dictionary express the meaning of something that can change a person's life in a moment or lift someone from the abyss of despair to that wonderful feeling of being loved and needed? I can ... ...

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"Multiple Meanings- The Encarta dictionary defines the word "title- as: a descriptive heading for something that identifies a book, movie, play, painting, musical composition, or other literary or artistic work. The title of any story creatively describes ... ...

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... the word "hedgerow-. What exactly is a hedgerow? How does it get a bustle in it? The word "hedgerow- is the addition of "hedge- with "row-, and after looking it up in a dictionary, I found that a hedgerow is "a row of bushes, shrubs, or trees forming a hedge."" The last compound word found in the song is "everything-, which is obviously "every- and "thing- added together ... ...

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Natural. What is natural? Dictionary.com defines natural as conforming to the usual or ordinary course of nature. But this definition isn't enough. To properly define such a complex word you must define it not only ... ...

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... . However not all students can receive an A by themselves, so some choose a path of academic dishonesty. Dishonesty is defined as lack of honesty or lack of integrity (Funk & Wagnall's College Dictionary). Academic Dishonesty follows this same definition only in academic terms. Academic Dishonesty includes plagiarism (taking credit for others work), receiving unauthorized information of quizzes, tests, etc; copying work of others ... ...

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... engineering can be attained by an analysis of its formal, historical, and informal definitions. The word engineering can be understood by its formal definition. First, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word engineering has three different denotations. The first one is, "The action of the verb engineer; the work done by, or the profession of, an engineer." (OED 252) The ... ...

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... can be used as a cure for healing the souls of the upset and sick. Everyone needs laughter in their lives. Without laughter, everything would be dull and unexciting. According to dictionary.com, laughter is "a movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the lips, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction, or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous ... ...

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... as example and the denotations and connotations of each title are going to be compared. At first the general meaning of denotations and connotations are discussed. Denotation(s) is/are " the dictionary meaning or meanings of the word". ( Chapter Three, Page 41). Connotations are different; they suggest what people associate with the word. "The Connotations are what it suggests beyond what it ... ...

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... question, what is love? There is no exact answer. Hate, on the other hand, has the same opinion from most people so it has more of an exact answer. The dictionary definition of love states that love is defined as deep affection and warm feeling for another, as well as a strong fondness or enthusiasm towards someone. For instance, when you love ... ...

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Webster's dictionary defines the word mother as a "female parent". Webster defines the word parent as "one who brings up and cares for another." It's interesting to see that someone who could be ... ...

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One's name is what a person is distinguished by from the day of birth until the day of imminent death. The Oxford Dictionary defines it as a word or a combination of words constituting the individual designation by which a person, animal, place or thing is known, spoken of, etc. It is a word or words that ... ...

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... chorus warned of the dangers if a person has too much pride in his own fate without giving respect to the will and fate that the gods have intended. Merriam-Webster's dictionary defines fate as, "a power of thought to control all events and impossible to resist a persons destiny." This definition would imply that fate has an overwhelming power of the mind and ... ...

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