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  • 31foreign — adj. foreign to * * * [ fɒrɪn] foreign to …

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  • 32foreign — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. alien, strange, exotic; extraneous, unrelated. See extrinsic, abode. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Concerning a country, idea, or way of life not one s own] Syn. remote, exotic, strange, alien, far,… …

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  • 33foreign — adjective 1) foreign branches of American banks Syn: overseas, exotic, distant, external, alien, nonnative Ant: domestic, native 2) the concept is very foreign to us Syn …

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  • 34foreign — Belonging to another nation or country. In a political sense, we call every country foreign which is not within the jurisdiction of the same government. In this sense, Canada, Mexico, and all transatlantic countries are foreign to the United… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 35foreign — Synonyms and related words: accidental, adventitious, alien, apart, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, curious, detached, disconnected, discrete, disjunct, disrelated, dissociated, distant, distasteful, exotic, exterior, external, exterrestrial,… …

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  • 36foreign — [13] Etymologically, foreign means ‘out of doors’. It comes via Old French forein from Vulgar Latin *forānus, a derivative of Latin forās ‘out of doors, abroad’. This originated as the accusative plural of *fora, an unrecorded variant form of… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 37foreign to — unfamiliar or uncharacteristic. → foreign …

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  • 38foreign — [ fɒrɪn, fɒrən] adjective 1》 from, in, or characteristic of a country or language other than one s own.     ↘dealing with or relating to other countries. 2》 coming or introduced from outside. 3》 (usu. foreign to) unfamiliar or uncharacteristic.… …

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  • 39foreign — svetimas statusas T sritis informatika apibrėžtis Apibūdinantis sistemai, programai, dokumentui nepriklausantį objektą. Pavyzdžiui, tinklalapyje gali būti panaudotas svetimas paveikslas, esantis kitoje svetainėje; programų paketo „Star Office“… …

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  • 40foreign — [13] Etymologically, foreign means ‘out of doors’. It comes via Old French forein from Vulgar Latin *forānus, a derivative of Latin forās ‘out of doors, abroad’. This originated as the accusative plural of *fora, an unrecorded variant form of… …

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