Word Finder - achievement

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The act of achieving or performing; a successful performance; accomplishment

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A great or heroic deed or feat; something accomplished by valor or boldness

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An escutcheon or ensign armorial; now generally applied to the funeral shield commonly called hatchment.

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An award for completing a particular task or meeting an objective in a video game.

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Finishing the game does not give you a 100% score until you have unlocked all of the achievements.

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• trophy

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(grammar) The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that change in an instant.

His great achievement was the History of Germany in the Nineteenth Century.

Government is a great achievement of civilization.

But his great achievement was a speech against the Whig Reform Bill.

Of these plans he had not merely one or two in his head but dozens, some only beginning to form themselves, some approaching achievement, and some in course of disintegration.

His death prevented the achievement of his designs; but he had broken down the barrier, he had planted the seed of the Greek's influence in the four quarters of the Persian Empire.

It was as if she wanted to show him that his losses were an achievement that made her love him all the more, but Nicholas now considered himself unworthy of her.

Your student has worked years for this achievement.

Notwithstanding its defects, Froude's History is a great achievement; it presents an important and powerful account of the Reformation period in England, and lays before us a picture of the past magnificently conceived, and painted in colours which will never lose their freshness and beauty.

But to employ enamels successfully is an achievement demanding special training and materials not easy to procure or to prepare.

He was made governor of Picardy in 1619; suppressed an uprising of nobles in 1620; and in 1621, with slight military ability or achievement, was appointed constable of France.

For this achievement Lambermont was made a baron.

Just as the historical school grew up along with the greatest constructive achievement of the 29th century, namely, the consolidation of Germany, so the application to modern problems of the methods of that school has been called forth by the constructive needs of the present generation.

His tactical achievement could avail the emperor nothing, and it exposed his own force to considerable danger.

His achievement was a closely approximate D geometrical solution of the FIG.

The work of Valdemar was completed and consolidated by his illustrious daughter Margaret (1 375 - 1 4 12), whose crowning achievement was the Union of Kalmar (1397), whereby she sought to combine the three northern kingdoms The Union f o into a single state dominated by Denmark.

It was an achievement that has yet to be repeated.

His great achievement was the conquest of a part of Ituraea, which he added to Judaea and whose inhabitants he compelled to accept Judaism.

In all that region of achievement the Chinese potters stood alone and seemingly unapproachable.

The greatest single material achievement of Mr Roosevelt's presidency was the taking over by the United States of the project to build a Panama Canal.

This achievement was anticipated or outdone by an unknown calculator, whose manuscript was seen in the Radcliffe library, Oxford, by Baron von Zach towards the end of the century, and contained the ratio correct to 152 places.

The initiation of this movement was the great achievement of Groot's life; he lived to preside over the birth and first days of his other creation, the society of Brothers of Common Life.

In this last achievement Professor Finke finds the solution of a problem which Langlois had declared to be insoluble.

S.E., was, however, his greatest achievement.

His complete achievement had a twofold aspect.

Particular attention will be given to strategies most likely to help raise achievement in the school.

His services to France in this capacity were the crowning achievement of his life, and he enjoyed the conspicuous honour of holding his office without a break for five years through as many successive administrations - those of Floquet and Tirard, his own fourth ministry (March 1890-February 1892), and the Loubet and Ribot ministries.

Between him and the tide of feeling at the Renaissance lay the whole achievement of Arab science.

It should be remembered that what with the known timidity of his colleagues, and what with the strength and violence of the Russian party in England, his achievement at Berlin was like the reclamation of butter from a dog's mouth; as Prince Bismarck understood in acknowledging Disraeli's gifts of statesmanship. It should also be remembered, when his Eastern policy in 1876-1878 is denounced as malign and a failure, that it was never carried out.

It was then, and remains 40 years later, the party's crowning achievement.

Organizing your own Relay for Life is a tremendous achievement.

On Friday 24th March, 11 talented sports people will be awarded a Hallmark Award in recognition of their sporting achievement.

Hirado That, however, is an achievement of no small consequence, especially since it had never previously been essayed outside China.

His capture of the Spanish frigate "Esmeralda" (40) in the harbour of Callao, on the 5th of November 1820, was an achievement of signal daring.

Thus the Revised Version was the achievement of English-speaking Christendom as a whole; only the Roman Catholic Church, of the great English-speaking denominations, refused to take part in the undertaking.

A whole literature of criticism and apology made its appearance, and the achievement of so many years of patient labour seemed destined to perish in a storm of resentments.

It happened to him, as he himself claimed, to turn a page in the history of thought, and one cannot ignore the actual advance upon his predecessor achieved by him or the brilliant fertility of the genius by which that achievement was accomplished.

The achievement of independence found the people of the United States owning the entire country between the Gulf and the Great Lakes, excepting only Florida, as far to the west as the Mississippi; but the actual settlements were, with a few minor exceptions, confined to a strip of territory along the Atlantic shore.

The introduction of these lines and points constitutes a striking achievement in geometry, and from their association with circles they have been named the " circular lines " and " circular points."

Liguori's great achievement lay in steering a middle course between these various extremes.

We are thus presented with a view of the literature of the age which is much more characteristic and comprehensive than that given by the brilliant poet to whom we owe the Ilamasa, and enables us to form a better judgment on the general level of poetic achievement.

But the emendation deserves the higher praise as being in most instances the more difficult achievement.

The point of Aristotle was to draw a line between rational and other evidences, to insist on the former, and in fact to found a logic of rhetoric. But if in the Rhetoric to Alexander, not he, but Anaximenes, had already performed this great achievement, Aristotle would have been the meanest of mankind; for the logic of rhetoric would have been really the work of Anaximenes the sophist, but falsely claimed by Aristotle the philosopher.

The merit of this crowning achievement belongs to Sigismund alone; but for him it would have been impossible.

He was a man of more promise than performance, and his chief achievement was the discovery of the elements iridium and osmium, which he found in the residues from the solution of platinum ores (1804).

As there are practically only three great armies available for the purpose of a war of aggression, the negotiation of contingent arrangements does not seem too remote for achievement by skilful and really well-meaning negotiation.

His most successful achievement was the union with Poland for mutual defence against the Habsburgs and the Czechs.

In a necessarily inadequate sketch it is impossible to give more than the barest mention to one or two other features of modern missionary achievement in India, e.g.

His great achievement was the perfecting of the Mimansa or Vedanta philosophy.

This memorable achievement was greeted with an outburst of public enthusiasm.

But the crowning achievement of Goethe's literary life was the completion of Faust.