The Cassell Concise Dictionary

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packet (pak'it) n. 1 a small package. 2 [coll.) a large sum of money, packet-boat n. [Hist.) a vessel conveying mail, goods and passengers at regular intervals, packet switching n. [Comput.) a system of communication in which a message is broken down into units and sent separately to a pre-allocated address. alcopop (al'kopop) n. an alcoholic drink tasting and packaged like a soft drink. [alcohol, POP1] abate (abat') v. t. 1 to lessen, esp. to make less violent or intense. 2 to deduct or subtract (from a price or sum). 3 [Law) to annul (a writ); to terminate (a nuisance). raison d'etre (râzôn det'ro) n. the reason for a thing's existence. gab (gab) n. 1 idle talk, chatter. 2 (Sc.) the mouth. [pres.p. gabbing, past, p.p. gabbed) to talk glibly, to chatter. dandelion (dan'dilîan), n. a plant, Taraxacum officinale, with a yellow rayed flower and toothed leaves. [F dent de lion, lion's tooth] disinterested a. 1 without personal interest or prejudice; unbiased, impartial, unselfish. 2... Tovább

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packet (pak'it) n. 1 a small package. 2 [coll.) a large sum of money, packet-boat n. [Hist.) a vessel conveying mail, goods and passengers at regular intervals, packet switching n. [Comput.) a system of communication in which a message is broken down into units and sent separately to a pre-allocated address. alcopop (al'kopop) n. an alcoholic drink tasting and packaged like a soft drink. [alcohol, POP1] abate (abat') v. t. 1 to lessen, esp. to make less violent or intense. 2 to deduct or subtract (from a price or sum). 3 [Law) to annul (a writ); to terminate (a nuisance). raison d'etre (râzôn det'ro) n. the reason for a thing's existence. gab (gab) n. 1 idle talk, chatter. 2 (Sc.) the mouth. [pres.p. gabbing, past, p.p. gabbed) to talk glibly, to chatter. dandelion (dan'dilîan), n. a plant, Taraxacum officinale, with a yellow rayed flower and toothed leaves. [F dent de lion, lion's tooth] disinterested a. 1 without personal interest or prejudice; unbiased, impartial, unselfish. 2 [loosely) uninterested. Usage note: Disinterested is often thought to mean the same as uninterested, but the commonly accepted distinction is that disinterested means impartial, while uninterested means not interested. ? embarass common misspelling of EMBARRASS. covers standard English colloquial language and slang older usages scientific and technical language defines the very latest words and expressions includes well over 200,000 definitions, arranged according to frequency of usage easy-to-use pronunciation guide details of background information and grammatical forms etymologies usage notes guides to common misspellings Vissza