Saturday, May 7, 2011
Friday, May 6, 2011
Thursday, May 5, 2011
rose. (136/365)
Noun
- S: (n) rose, rosebush (any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses)
- S: (n) blush wine, pink wine, rose, rose wine (pinkish table wine from red grapes whose skins were removed after fermentation began)
- S: (n) rose, rosiness (a dusty pink color)
Verb
- S: (v) rise, lift, arise, move up, go up, come up, uprise (move upward) "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows"
- S: (v) rise, go up, climb (increase in value or to a higher point) "prices climbed steeply"; "the value of our house rose sharply last year"
- S: (v) arise, rise, uprise, get up, stand up (rise to one's feet) "The audience got up and applauded"
- S: (v) rise, lift, rear (rise up) "The building rose before them"
- S: (v) surface, come up, rise up, rise (come to the surface)
- S: (v) originate, arise, rise, develop, uprise, spring up, grow (come into existence; take on form or shape) "A new religious movement originated in that country"; "a love that sprang up from friendship"; "the idea for the book grew out of a short story"; "An interesting phenomenon uprose"
- S: (v) ascend, move up, rise (move to a better position in life or to a better job) "She ascended from a life of poverty to one of great
- S: (v) wax, mount, climb, rise (go up or advance) "Sales were climbing after prices were lowered"
- S: (v) heighten, rise (become more extreme) "The tension heightened"
- S: (v) get up, turn out, arise, uprise, rise (get up and out of bed) "I get up at 7 A.M. every day"; "They rose early"; "He uprose at night"
- S: (v) rise, jump, climb up (rise in rank or status) "Her new novel jumped high on the bestseller list"
- S: (v) rise (become heartened or elated) "Her spirits rose when she heard the good news"
- S: (v) rise (exert oneself to meet a challenge) "rise to a challenge"; "rise to the occasion"
- S: (v) rebel, arise, rise, rise up (take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance)
- S: (v) rise, prove (increase in volume) "the dough rose slowly in the warm room"
- S: (v) rise, come up, uprise, ascend (come up, of celestial bodies) "The sun also rises"; "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."; "Jupiter ascends"
- S: (v) resurrect, rise, uprise (return from the dead) "Christ is risen!"; "The dead are to uprise"
Adjective
- S: (adj) rose, roseate, rosaceous (of something having a dusty purplish pink color) "the roseate glow of dawn"
Definition of "rose" from Princeton's WordNet
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
cheese. (135/365)
at Secco Wine Bar, Richmond.
Noun
- S: (n) cheese (a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk)
- S: (n) tall mallow, high mallow, cheese, cheeseflower, Malva sylvestris (erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States)
Verb
- S: (v) cheese (used in the imperative (get away, or stop it)) "Cheese it!"
- S: (v) cheese (wind onto a cheese) "cheese the yarn"
Definition of "cheese" from Princeton's WordNet
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
jungle. (134/365)
Monday, May 2, 2011
beautiful/handsome. (133/365)
also found (late last night) in Cary Town, RVA.
Adjective
- S: (adj) beautiful (delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration) "a beautiful child"; "beautiful country"; "a beautiful painting"; "a beautiful theory"; "a beautiful party"
- S: (adj) beautiful ((of weather) highly enjoyable) "what a beautiful day"
Adjective
- S: (adj) fine-looking, good-looking, better-looking, handsome, well-favored, well-favoured (pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion) "a fine-looking woman"; "a good-looking man"; "better-looking than her sister"; "very pretty but not so extraordinarily handsome"- Thackeray; "our southern women are well-favored"- Lillian Hellman
- S: (adj) big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, handsome, giving, liberal, openhanded (given or giving freely) "was a big tipper"; "the bounteous goodness of God"; "bountiful compliments"; "a freehanded host"; "a handsome allowance"; "Saturday's child is loving and giving"; "a liberal backer of the arts"; "a munificent gift"; "her fond and openhanded grandfather"
Sunday, May 1, 2011
wanted. (132/365)
found in Cary Town, RVA
Verb
- S: (v) desire, want (feel or have a desire for; want strongly) "I want to go home now"; "I want my own room"
- S: (v) want, need, require (have need of) "This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner"
- S: (v) want (hunt or look for; want for a particular reason) "Your former neighbor is wanted by the FBI"; "Uncle Sam wants you"
- S: (v) want (wish or demand the presence of) "I want you here at noon!"
- S: (v) want (be without, lack; be deficient in) "want courtesy"; "want the strength to go on living"; "flood victims wanting food and shelter"
Adjective
- S: (adj) wanted (desired or wished for or sought) "couldn't keep her eyes off the wanted toy"; "a wanted criminal"; "a wanted poster"
- S: (adj) cherished, precious, treasured, wanted (characterized by feeling or showing fond affection for) "a cherished friend"; "children are precious"; "a treasured heirloom"; "so good to feel wanted"
Definition of "wanted" from Princeton's WordNet
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