Words+immediately+preceding+or+following

  • 1context — n. Words immediately preceding or following, adjoining matter, connection, connected thought or thoughts …

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  • 2Judaism — /jooh dee iz euhm, day , deuh /, n. 1. the monotheistic religion of the Jews, having its ethical, ceremonial, and legal foundation in the precepts of the Old Testament and in the teachings and commentaries of the rabbis as found chiefly in the… …

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  • 3Hinduism — /hin dooh iz euhm/, n. the common religion of India, based upon the religion of the original Aryan settlers as expounded and evolved in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, etc., having an extremely diversified character with many… …

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  • 4History of Spanish — Spanish language …

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  • 5combinatorics — /keuhm buy neuh tawr iks, tor , kom beuh /, n. (used with singular v.) See combinatorial analysis. * * * Branch of mathematics concerned with the selection, arrangement, and combination of objects chosen from a finite set. The number of possible… …

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  • 6Death of Ludwig van Beethoven — Beethoven s funeral as depicted by Franz Stöber (1795–1858) The death of Ludwig van Beethoven on 26 March 1827 followed a prolonged illness. It was witnessed by his sister in law and by his close friend Anselm Hüttenbrenner, who provided a vivid… …

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  • 7Momente — The Großer Sendesaal of the WDR Studios in Cologne in 1954. The first version of Momente was premiered here on 21 May 1962 Momente (Moments) is a work by the German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, written between 1962 and 1969, scored for solo… …

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  • 8syllable — /sil euh beuhl/, n., v., syllabled, syllabling. n. 1. an uninterrupted segment of speech consisting of a center of relatively great sonority with or without one or more accompanying sounds of relatively less sonority: Man, eye, strength, and… …

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  • 9only — A frequent error in speech, a mistake made by nearly everyone, is misplacing a modifier such as only. When one says Hank only wanted to borrow $5, he has said that the only thing Hank wanted was to borrow $5. What he probably had in mind was Hank …

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  • 10context —   n. words or passages immediately preceding and following a word or passage.    ♦ contextual, a …

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