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- Dictionaryden/dɛn/
noun
- 1. a wild mammal's hidden home; a lair: "a female mink had set up her den there" Similar
- 2. a small subdivision of a Cub Scout pack. US
verb
- 1. (of a wild animal) live in a den: "the cubs denned in the late autumn"
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NOAD says a den is a small, comfortable room in a house where a person can pursue an activity in private. Macmillan defines it as a room in a house where someone goes to relax and be alone. In contrast, the living room is an area of the home where the family might convene together. Usually, in a floor plan, the den is smaller than the living room.
Weariness, which seeketh to get the ultimate one leap, with a death-leap; a poor ignorant weariness, unwilling even to will any longer: that created all gods and backworlds. There is also a derived word "backworldsmen". I guess the world is author-invented? Could you shed some light on its meaning? meaning-in-context. translation.
Sep 28, 2014 · 1. Tacenda is an obsolete (Ngram) term meaning: (from TFD) tacenda, tacit - Tacenda are things not to be mentioned or made public—things better left unsaid; tacit means "unspoken, silent" or "implied, inferred." you are supposed to use more contemporary expressions (as suggested in a comment) such as taboo subject or the common saying ...
@PaulWagland: That may depend upon what the person is doing. If Bob visits someone's shop and sees that Joe has produced something Bob requested and but a "Bob" label on it, and if Joe happens to be busy at the time, Joe might in fact prefer that Bob not disturb him purely for the purpose of offering thanks.
Feb 3, 2015 · Early references to the grinning Cheshire cat. The allusion to the expression by "Peter Pindar" (John Wolcot) appears in The Edinburgh Magazine (September 1792), where it appears as an extract from "A Pair of Lyric Epistles to Lord Macartney and his Ship":
Feb 12, 2011 · 1. @Acco No, "a set of criteria" would be correct, because a set, in standard usage, implies more than one member. (Mathematically, of course, you can have an empty set or a single-member set; but in normal English, a set is taken to be 2 or more items taken together.) – Hellion. Feb 11, 2016 at 6:05.
I have heard the term "CFNM" being used in sexuality, does anybody know what the term means ? (Note: OP said "CNFM", but another user edited that to "CFNM".) Actually 'googling' didn't help at all.
Jul 11, 2013 · 1. Grammatically, both by and as are acceptable in either of the examples given. But as mathematical statements, both examples have problems. In the first example, “The function f is defined by/as f=a+b+c ”, unless a, b, c all are previously-defined functions or constants, the arguments of f and its dependence on them is unclear, ie ...
Feb 24, 2017 · 1. For example: I'm not able to come to a conclusion as to which is better since I am unable to decide which I use more often. – James Webster. Sep 27, 2013 at 9:00. To my ears, unable is more fitting for short-lived circumstances. I'm unable to answer the phone right now. I'm not able to come to the party on Friday.
Feb 2, 2016 · What exactly a noun represents isn't really tightly fixed in the way we imagine it to be. It can change radically or subtly with the context of the sentence that we see it in and the context of that sentence within the larger conversation. The upshot of this is that if a park seems like a place to you, it is! If it seems like a thing to you, it ...
