definition of mordant
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mordantadjective uk â / ËmÉË.d É nt / usâ / ËmÉËr.d É nt / formal mordant meaning, definition, what is mordant: (especially of humour) cruel and criticizing in a humorous way: . Learn more.
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Morphine Morphine is a pain medication of the opiate type which is found naturally in a number of plants and animals. It acts directly on the central nervous system (CNS) to decrease the feeling of pain. It can be taken for both acute pain and chronic pain. Morphine is frequently used for pain from myocardial infarction and during labour.
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- Rating Newest Oldest. Best Answer: By definition a mordant is a substance that set dyes. It doesn't really contribute to the coloring of the bacteria. The iodine in Gram stain fixes the crystal violet to the bacterial cell wall of the Gram positive bacteria. Source(s): College microbiology lab. Wei H · 9 years ago.
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confidante You may well be confident in your confidant, but you would not be confidant in your confident. Although this distinction has not always been observed by writers, confidante is generally used for a female confidant. The word confidant is more frequently used to describe a man, but it may be applied to either gender.
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- What morphine is. Morphine is a type of painkiller called an opioid. Opioids are strong drugs similar to natural pain killing substances made in our body called endorphins. Opioid drugs were originally made from opium poppies and can now be man made in the laboratory.
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Morpheme (Words and Word Parts) In English grammar and morphology, a morpheme is a meaningful linguistic unit consisting of a word (such as dog) or a word element (such as the -s at the end of dogs) that can't be divided into smaller meaningful parts. Adjective: morphemic. Morphemes are the smallest units of meaning in a language.
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- (ɪnˈfɔr mənt) n. 1. a person who informs or gives information; informer. 2. a person who supplies social or cultural data in answer to the questions of an investigator. 3. a native speaker of a language who supplies utterances or other data for one analyzing or learning the language.
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confidant Confidant /'kɒnfɪdænt/ is a noun. A confidant is a person who you discuss your private problems and worries with. You use the spelling confidante when the person is a woman. ...Colonel House, a friend and confidant of President Woodrow Wilson.
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morphverb  [ I or T] morph meaning, definition, what is morph: to gradually change one image into another, or combine them, using a computer program: . Learn more.
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- CONTEMNER definition - One who has committed contempt of court. Wyatt v. People, 17 Colo. 252, 28 Pac. 961
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morph morph 2. (môrf) n. One of various distinct forms of a species (such as color variant) or of an organism during different parts of its life cycle.
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martyr mar•tyr. 1. a person who willingly suffers death rather than renounce his or her religion. 2. a person who is put to death or suffers on behalf of a cause. 3. a person who undergoes severe or constant suffering.4. to make a martyr of, esp. by putting to death.5. to torment; torture.. a person who willingly suffers death rather than renounce his or her religion. 2. a person who is put to death or suffers on behalf of a cause. 3. a person who undergoes severe or constant suffering. 4. to make a martyr of, esp. by putting to death. 5. to torment; torture.
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morpheme Definition of morpheme for English Language Learners. linguistics : a word or a part of a word that has a meaning and that contains no smaller part that has a meaning. See words that rhyme with morpheme Britannica English: Translation of morpheme for Arabic speakers Britannica.com: Encyclopedia article about morpheme.
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demagogue demagogue A demagogue is someone who becomes a leader largely because of skills as a speaker or who appeals to emotions and prejudices. Though the Greek root for demagogue literally means a leader of the people, the word has for centuries had a negative connotation: it actually means a leader who has manipulated the emotions and prejudices of the rabble.
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- 1. gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood. 2. characterized by or expressing gloom: a morose silence. [1555–65; < Latin mōrōsus fretful, peevish, willful =mōr- (s. of mōs) will, inclination + -ōsus -ose1] mo•rose′ly, adv.
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About Morguefile Morguefile is a free photo archive “for creatives, by creatives.” Founded by Michael Connors in the early Internet days of 1996, the site was created to serve as a free image exchange for creative professionals and teachers to use in their work.
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- Full Definition of MORBID. 1. 2. : abnormally susceptible to or characterized by gloomy or unwholesome feelings. 3. — mor·bid·ly adverb. — mor·bid·ness noun. See morbid defined for English-language learners.ull Definition of MORBID. 1. 2. : abnormally susceptible to or characterized by gloomy or unwholesome feelings. 3. — mor·bid·ly adverb. — mor·bid·ness noun. See morbid defined for English-language learners.
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- Flatland by Abbott, Edwin View in context. Every moment of the man's waking life was filled with morbid thought of hatred--he had become mentally as he was physically in outward appearance, the personification of the blighting emotion of Hate. The Son Of Tarzan by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context.
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- GCIDE(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: morph(n.) A sequence of phonemes, often a word fragment, which constitutes the minimum unit of meaning or syntax within a given word. A morph may be one of several variants of a morpheme, depending for its individal form on the context in which it occurs.
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- Moron was originally a scientific term, coined by psychologist Henry Goddard from a Greek word meaning foolish and used to describe a person with a genetically determined mental age between 8 and 12 on the Binet scale.
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pedantry pedantry definition: Pedantry is an excessive attention to the rules or paying strong attention to the minor points of learning. (noun) An example of pedantry is a friend standing in line for a show not letting another friend cut in line in front of t...
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Definition of 'pedant' Definition of 'pedant'. pedant (pedənt ) If you say that someone is a pedant, you mean that they are too concerned with unimportant details or traditional rules, especially in connection with academic subjects. I am no pedant and avoid being dogmatic concerning English grammar and expression.
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- (comparative more pedantic, superlative most pedantic) 1  Like a pedant, overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning. 2  Being showy of one's knowledge, often in a boring manner.  Being finicky or fastidious, especially with language.
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confidant confidant - someone to whom private matters are confided. intimate. confidante - a female confidant. friend - a person you know well and regard with affection and trust; he was my best friend at the university. repository, secretary - a person to whom a secret is entrusted.
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comrade (ˈkɒm ræd, -rɪd) n. 1. a person who shares in one's activities, occupation, etc.; companion, associate, or friend. 2. a fellow member of a fraternal group, political party, etc. 3. (often cap.) a Communist or fellow Communist.