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doover
noun
Australian Slang.
thingamabob; thingamajig.
More about doover
Doover is an Australian slang word for thingamabob, thingamajig “something whose name is unknown.” As with many slang terms, an etymology (literally 鈥渢rue story鈥�) for doover does not exist. The Hebrew noun 诲腻产丑腻谤 鈥渨ord, thing, matter鈥� has been suggested as a source; an alteration of “do for (now)” is more likely.
how is doover used?
I carefully take little plastic doovers from the handle and top, and plier off the frame’s metal retainers without damaging them.
Well, not unlike my husband, who haunts hardware stores for ever newer and more complicated devices and doovers, I have become addicted to shops selling sewing bits and bobs.
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More about scilicet
The English adverb scilicet 鈥渘amely, specifically, to wit鈥� comes from Latin 蝉肠墨濒颈肠别迟, a contraction of the phrase 蝉肠墨谤别 licet 鈥渋t is permitted to know, one may be sure, of course, naturally.” The infinitive of the impersonal verb licet is 濒颈肠脓谤别 “to be allowed,” the source of licentia 鈥渇reedom, freedom to do what one wants, lack of restraint, license鈥� (as in English). The infinitive 蝉肠墨谤别 鈥渢o know鈥� was translated into Old English as (hit is t艒) witanne 鈥淭hat is to know, to wit,鈥� a gerund phrase from the verb witan 鈥渢o know,鈥� which became in Middle English it is to wite 鈥渋t is to be noted,鈥� and survives in current English as to wit. Scilicet entered English in the late 14th century.
how is scilicet used?
this universal world contains other guess sorrows than yours, Viscount,鈥�scilicet than unvarying health, unbroken leisure, and incalculable income.
Marqueray like most men kept his work and play, scilicet his political intrigues and his pursuit of Phyllida, in separate compartments.
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celestial
adjective
pertaining to the sky or visible heaven, or to the universe beyond the earth鈥檚 atmosphere.
More about celestial
Celestial has always had several meanings, beginning with Latin caelestis, 鈥渂eing in, happening in, or coming from the sky or heavens,鈥� ranging from the physical, astronomical, and navigational to the supernatural and divine, including the pagan Roman reference to emperors posthumously deified. Caelestis is an adjective derived from the noun caelum “heaven, sky,” whose etymology is unclear.聽The adjective celestial entered English in the late 14th century, the noun in the second half of the 16th.
how is celestial used?
Located deep in the disk of the Milky Way, the dense, dead celestial body聽had been slinging high-energy radiation into the cosmos聽for a week or so, as a rare class of objects called soft gamma-ray repeaters are known to do.
Of all the celestial bodies, the moon is closest to the matters of this lower world.
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