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put out the word

What is the meaning of 'put out the word' in the following sentence? As soon as we knew that it was a deep earthquake- that it was this type of earthquake- we immediately put out the word that we...
13:57 Sun 31st Oct 20048 answers, last by Peter Pedant 21:52 Mon 01st Nov 2004
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go off on a tangent.

Why does the phrase of "go off on a tangent" become to mean "to suddenly start doing, discussing, or thinking about something completely different"?
06:27 Sun 31st Oct 20046 answers, last by jocook17 03:48 Wed 19th Jan 2005
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plow on

what is the meaning of "plowed on" in the following sentence? The professor told his neurobiology class he was going to use the program which compares a student's term paper with every other...
17:11 Sat 30th Oct 20042 answers, last by Ouisch 18:16 Sat 30th Oct 2004
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what the Internet giveth, it may now taketh away.

What is the meaning of "what the Internet giveth, it may now taketh away." in the following sentence and why is the word 'giveth' or 'taketh' used?   The Internet may have initially allowed...
16:52 Sat 30th Oct 20044 answers, last by Merlin 15:37 Mon 01st Nov 2004
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pagna survivals and backlash against herbalists

What is the meand of "pagan survivals" and "backlash against herbalists" in the following sentence? For several centuries dominantly Christian societies believed that Satan  was acting through...
05:04 Sat 30th Oct 20043 answers, last by allen 17:06 Sat 30th Oct 2004
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rear guard action

What is the meanig of "rear guard action" in the following sentence? "On the way back to their boats Masons men were surprised by a party of about three hundred Pequot warriors. The white men and...
04:10 Sat 30th Oct 20041 answer, last by smorodina 10:04 Sat 30th Oct 2004
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bring ... back into line

What is the meaning of "bring ... back into line" in the following sentence? "What was to become known as the Pequot War was to start, however, on the water. A group of mischievous Pequots had taken a...
04:06 Sat 30th Oct 20041 answer, last by smorodina 09:59 Sat 30th Oct 2004
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literal meaning of brink

What is the meaning of brink literally?
09:11 Tue 26th Oct 20041 answer, last by bernardo 09:45 Tue 26th Oct 2004
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the meaning of voting record

What is the meaning of voting record in the following sentence?When Representative James M. Curley vacated his overwhelmingly Democratic district to become mayor of Boston, Kennedy ran for that seat....
06:55 Tue 26th Oct 20042 answers, last by bernardo 10:13 Tue 26th Oct 2004
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the meaning of "hollow phrase"

What is the meaning of "hollow phrase" in the following sentence? The Supreme Court of the United States held in the Civil Rights Cases109 US 3 (1883) that the Fourteenth Amendment did not give the...
03:25 Tue 26th Oct 20041 answer, last by Quizmonster 09:26 Tue 26th Oct 2004
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the meaning of "rather than name"

What is the meaning of "rather than name" in the following sentence? The first Jim Crow law was passed in 1723, when blacks in the state of Virginia were stripped of the right to vote and own...
03:16 Tue 26th Oct 20042 answers, last by Kingaroo 04:58 Wed 27th Oct 2004
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the meaning of line.

what is the meaning of "line" in the following two sentences? 1. Because of the acute need for officers at the beginning of the American Civil War, naval tradition was ignored and commodore became for...
07:30 Mon 25th Oct 20045 answers, last by Ewood27 23:16 Mon 25th Oct 2004
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the meaning of "take over"

What is the meaning of "take over " in the following sentence? "After the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, most European countries started to take over the newly discovered lands."
05:47 Mon 25th Oct 20042 answers, last by allen 16:13 Mon 25th Oct 2004
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working out of a garage

What is the meaning of "working out of a garage" in the following sentence? "In the late 1970s, two young California entrepreneurs, working out of a garage, assembled the first widely marketed...
03:14 Mon 18th Oct 20041 answer, last by edtown 05:13 Mon 18th Oct 2004
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Aunt Mabel

I found the following sentence in the book "Word Smart". I want to know that whether 'Aunt Mabel' is a real person or fictional one and if she is a real person, who she is. "Even though Jerome did...
02:12 Thu 14th Oct 20041 answer, last by Kingaroo 22:30 Thu 14th Oct 2004
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difference between tenement and apartment building

In American English, what is the difference between tenement and apartment building?
02:08 Wed 13th Oct 20041 answer, last by Ouisch 03:02 Wed 13th Oct 2004
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the meaning of "by training"

What is the meaning of "by training" in the following sentence? "He was a naval officer and engineer by training."
09:03 Tue 12th Oct 20044 answers, last by woofgang 09:19 Tue 12th Oct 2004
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the meaning of "receive play"

What is the meaning of "receive play' in the following sentence? : By the spring of 1964, Lyndon Johnson had begun to use the name "Great Society" to describe his reform program, and that term...
07:53 Tue 12th Oct 20041 answer, last by Kingaroo 21:59 Tue 12th Oct 2004
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epitome

what is the meaning and origin of epitome
07:58 Sun 10th Oct 20041 answer, last by Ewood27 08:45 Sun 10th Oct 2004
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office football pool

What is 'office football pool'?
07:56 Sun 10th Oct 20041 answer, last by Ouisch 09:51 Sun 10th Oct 2004

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