Word Finder - english

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Spinning or rotary motion given to a ball around the vertical axis, as in billiards or bowling.

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You can't hit it directly, but maybe if you give it some english.

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An unusual or unexpected interpretation of a text or idea, a spin, a nuance.

We speak English here.

Fred said as coffee and English muffins were served.

There were thousands of English soldiers in Boston.

More people are learning English in China than there are people who speak it in the United States.

Shakespeare was undoubtedly the greatest master the English language has ever known and, quite probably, will ever know.

These nations will play a substantial role in shaping this new English, as they bring grammatical structure, idioms, and nuanced words from their native tongue.

Although this "much-abused prelate," as Lecky calls him, was a firm supporter of the English government in Ireland, he was far from being a man of tyrannical or intolerant disposition.

I read an English caper about that happening one time.

They spoke in broken English, but they appeared to understand what she wanted.

Her English vocabulary was growing a word at a time—mostly terms like dust, vacuum, linens, dishes and other domestic terminologies.

There is in this town, with a very few exceptions, no taste for the best or for very good books even in English literature, whose words all can read and spell.

The Deans met Maria's betrothed, Emilio, who spoke halting English and was as polite as his fiancée.

It was nice to hear English spoken without a Spanish accent.

The condition of the operatives is becoming every day more like that of the English; and it cannot be wondered at, since, as far as I have heard or observed, the principal object is, not that mankind may be well and honestly clad, but, unquestionably, that corporations may be enriched.

The two German women sharing her room ceased talking when she entered and looked her over before one said in halting English, "You're American."

Everyone in the future will learn English because it will be the language of the Internet and thus the language of the world and commerce.

Speaking in English, he displayed an eloquence and command of the language scarcely excelled by the greatest orators in their own tongue.

The forests are under an English official.

In 1664 he was chosen one of the directors of the imperial army raised to fight the Turk; and after the peace which followed the Christian victory at St Gotthard in August 1664, he aided the English king Charles II.

American English is taught in schools and American slang is practiced in bars everywhere.

Edith is, as them English novels say, 'in seclusion'—probably plotting how to wrap up Donald and take him home.

Leo at once formed a new league with the emperor and the king of Spain, and to ensure English support made Wolsey a cardinal.

In using the phrase, "Necessitous men are not free men," Roosevelt was actually quoting from a decision in a well-known 1762 English legal case.

Anatole kept on refilling Pierre's glass while explaining that Dolokhov was betting with Stevens, an English naval officer, that he would drink a bottle of rum sitting on the outer ledge of the third floor window with his legs hanging out.

He was the last English king who reigned in Northumbria.

Hutton took charge of the literary side of the paper, and by degrees his own articles became and remained up to the last one of the best-known features of serious and thoughtful English journalism.

From the free out-door life at Nohant she passed at thirteen to the convent of the English Augustinians at Paris, where for the first two years she never went outside the walls.

Douglas's longest, last, and in some respects most important work is his translation of the Aeneid, the first version of a great classic poet in any English dialect.

The service has since been extended to certain other English provincial towns; and the Anglo-Belgian telephone service has similarly been extended.

It was the spirit of the age; and England, English and Holland and France were fired by it.

No doubt there was a class that knew only English; there may have been a much smaller class that knew only French; any man who pretended to high cultivation would speak all as a matter of course; Bishop Gilbert Foliot, for instance, was eloquent in all three.

My studies the first year were French, German, history, English composition and English literature.

Last year, my second year at Radcliffe, I studied English composition, the Bible as English composition, the governments of America and Europe, the Odes of Horace, and Latin comedy.

It was called "Ivy Green" because the house and the surrounding trees and fences were covered with beautiful English ivy.

I read La Fontaine's "Fables" first in an English translation, and enjoyed them only after a half-hearted fashion.

Great poetry, whether written in Greek or in English, needs no other interpreter than a responsive heart.

A few days ago I received a little box of English violets from Lady Meath.

You are studying English history, aren't you.

Green's "Short History of the English People" is in six large volumes.

One who has just come from reading perhaps one of the best English books will find how many with whom he can converse about it?

Sometimes I saw him at his work in the woods, felling trees, and he would greet me with a laugh of inexpressible satisfaction, and a salutation in Canadian French, though he spoke English as well.

If the name was not derived from that of some English locality--Saffron Walden, for instance--one might suppose that it was called originally Walled-in Pond.

Almost every New England boy among my contemporaries shouldered a fowling-piece between the ages of ten and fourteen; and his hunting and fishing grounds were not limited, like the preserves of an English nobleman, but were more boundless even than those of a savage.

At length, in the war of 1812, her dwelling was set on fire by English soldiers, prisoners on parole, when she was away, and her cat and dog and hens were all burned up together.

The English will come off badly, you know, if Napoleon gets across the Channel.

The races, the English Club, sprees with Denisov, and visits to a certain house--that was another matter and quite the thing for a dashing young hussar!

At the beginning of March, old Count Ilya Rostov was very busy arranging a dinner in honor of Prince Bagration at the English Club.

If his family had lived in the United States for centuries, why didn't they learn to speak proper English?

All this time I thought the company was interested in him because he could speak both Spanish and English.

You explain it... in English.