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make great strides — To make rapid progress • • • Main Entry: ↑stride … Useful english dictionary
Velocity — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Velocity >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 velocity velocity speed celerity Sgm: N 1 swiftness swiftness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 rapidity rapidity eagle speed Sgm: N 1 expedition expedition … English dictionary for students
Progression — (Roget s Thesaurus) >Motion forward PARAG:Progression >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 progress progress progression progressiveness Sgm: N 1 advancing advancing &c. >V. Sgm: N 1 advance advance advancement Sgm: N 1 ongoing ongoing … English dictionary for students
Clerics of Saint Viator — Clerics of Saint Viator † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Clerics of Saint Viator St. Viator, lector of the cathedral at Lyons, France, lived in the fourth century and is the earliest type of the teacher of the cathedral schools, In the… … Catholic encyclopedia
proceed — I (continue) verb begin again, begin where one left off, carry on, get back to work, get on, recommence, reinstate, renew, resume, return, take up again II (co forward) verb act, advance, arise, emanate, ensue, extend, flow, follow, follow a… … Law dictionary
progression — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Moving forward Nouns progression, progress, progressiveness; motion; advance, advancing, advancement; ongoing, chain; floodtide, headway; march (see travel). See continuity, time. Verbs progress, advance … English dictionary for students
ciconiiform — ▪ bird Introduction any member of the five or six families of storklike (stork) birds (bird): herons (heron) and bitterns (bittern) (Ardeidae), the shoebill (sole species of the Balaenicipitidae), the hammerhead (sole species of the Scopidae) … Universalium
stride — [strīd] vi. strode, stridden, striding [ME striden < OE stridan, akin to Ger streiten, to quarrel < IE * streidh < base * (s)ter , to be stiff, rigid > STARE, STARVE] 1. to walk with long steps, esp. in a vigorous or swaggering manner … English World dictionary
japan — japanner, n. /jeuh pan /, n., adj., v., japanned, japanning. n. 1. any of various hard, durable, black varnishes, originally from Japan, for coating wood, metal, or other surfaces. 2. work varnished and figured in the Japanese manner. 3. Japans,… … Universalium
Japan — /jeuh pan /, n. 1. a constitutional monarchy on a chain of islands off the E coast of Asia: main islands, Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku. 125,716,637; 141,529 sq. mi. (366,560 sq. km). Cap.: Tokyo. Japanese, Nihon, Nippon. 2. Sea of, the… … Universalium
