Word Finder - feat

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A relatively rare or difficult accomplishment.

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To form; to fashion.

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Dexterous in movements or service; skilful; neat; pretty.

Getting the iron hot was no easy feat.

All hope seemed lost, when by a brilliant feat of arms John Sobieski, king of Poland, drove away the besiegers in hopeless confusion and saved the cause of Christianity, 1683.

It was perhaps the most astonishing single feat of arms in the World War.

Getting into Fashion Week in NYC is no easy feat.

Can you emulate that feat?

Getting the iron hot was no great feat, but keeping it the right temperature was.

It was to be their last feat of arms in the World War, and they had the satisfaction of knowing, as they left the line on the 6th, that the last fortifications of the Germans on the Fourth Army front had fallen, and that the way was clear into the open country beyond.

Repetitions of the feat are now counted by the score.

Had it not been for the fact that the tree was almost completely severed from its trunk and had so much pressure on it from the opposite side, it would probably have been an impossible feat.

The story of the first Atlantic cable is told elsewhere (see Telegraph), and it must suffice here to say that in 1858, after two disappointments, Bright successfully accomplished what to many had seemed an impossible feat, and within a few days of landing the Irish end of the line at Valentia he was knighted in Dublin.

To eradicate poverty and establish world peace seems to be an impossible feat.

Washing them also became much less of a feat.

If you are able to accomplish the impressive feat of creating your own web page on your computer, you are already more than halfway to having your website published on the internet.

A similar sound may be made by affixing those feathers to the end of a rod and drawing them rapidly downwards in the same position as they occupy in the bird's tail while it is performing the feat.

In the MS. of the chronicle of Diebold Schilling of Bern (c. 1480) there is in the picture of the battle of Sempach a warrior pierced with spears falling to the ground, which may possibly be meant for Winkelried; while in that of Diebold Schilling of Lucerne (1511), though in the text no allusion is made to any such incident, there is a similar picture of a man who has accomplished Winkelried's feat, but he is dressed in the colours of Lucerne.

Its mathematical prediction was not only an unsurpassed intellectual feat; it showed also that Newton's law of gravitation, which Airy had almost called in question, prevailed even to the utmost bounds of the solar system.

Dee is now the first woman in history to accomplish this feat.

This feat would not be possible without strap locks.

Making time for a workout every single day is certainly no easy feat.

According to him the men of Schwyz and of Unterwalden were the first to rise, those of Uri following suit much later But neither Justinger nor Hemmerli makes any allusion to Tell or his feat.

After this last feat of arms, which has perhaps been exaggerated by the Latin chroniclers, who compare him to Hector and the Maccabees, John died in the habit of a Franciscan friar.

The astonishing feat of photographing the bones of the living animal within the tissues soon rendered the Rontgen rays indispensable in surgery and directed an army of investigators to their study.

This was regafded as a miraculous feat brought about by the incantations of the magician Merlin, who caused a great stone circle in Ireland (said to have been previously carried thither out of Africa by giants) to be transported to Salisbury Plain, where, at Merlin's "word of power," all the stones moved into their proper places.

His chief feat was the famous defence of Siena (1555), which he has told so admirably.

Hubert Latham all but performed the same feat on an Antoinette monoplane.

This began the lively paper war humorously called "the second war of Sempach," in which the Swiss (with but rare exceptions) maintained the historical character of the feat against various foreigners - Austrians and others.

Cynthia suggested a funeral, complete with a shoebox coffin and a solemn burial, a feat Dean would have guessed impossible given the frozen earth.

However, in trying to repeat this feat of strength Young was caught out on the rivers edge.

This week, David Cameron's Conservatives did their best to emulate that feat.

The city achieves the feat of being cozy rather than crowded.

It was not a place for seclusion, but the desire to undertake an ascetic feat arose and she accepted it.

Clement also achieved front page local press coverage which reported on his amazing feat.

So is it another death-defying feat for the passion story, or an anti-Semitic betrayal?

Most spectacular goalscoring feat of the weekend goes to Notts Forest's Nicky Southall.

And Boyd's main feat is to turn these slightly offbeat men into the lovable stars of a sweet romance.

The aircraft was then refueled and repeated the feat, after using a conventional take-off to get airborne again.

Demonstrations by the Airhedz Club, and tryouts on a full size trapeze rig, run by Whitstable-based Expressive Feat aerialist team.

This area also offers one chance of finding the crimson-winged wallcreeper - no mean feat in a landscape so vast.

The feat by which he will be remembered was the destruction of the Confederate ironclad "Albemarle" in the Roanoke river on the 27th of October in 1864.

Captain Popham, with a small detachment, stormed the rock fortress of Gwalior, then deemed impregnable and the key of central India; and by this feat held in check Sindhia, the most formidable of the Mahratta chiefs.

The feat of hitting the jack is so common that it really calls for no special reward.

It should moreover be noted that Magellan's famous expedition had for its object not the barren feat of circumnavigation but the breaking down of this monopoly, without violating the terms of the papal bull which gave to Spain the conquest of the West, to Portugal the possession of the East.

There is no doubt that the transmission of articulate sounds and speech over long distances without wires by means of electric waves is not only possible as an experimental feat but may perhaps come to be commercially employed.

The British armed mission of 1904 performed a brilliant feat of marching and reached Lhasa, whose mysteries were thus unveiled, but this exploit belongs to the section dealing with history, below.

To give an instance of tyranny in Uri, the author tells us the story of the refusal of "der Than" to do reverence to the hat placed on a pole, of his feat of skill, and of his shooting the bailiff, Gessler, from behind a bush in the "hollow way" near Kussnacht.

These do not hunt in packs, but will sometimes singly attack a bullock; they and the wolves make havoc among sheep. A favourite feat of the boldest of the young men of southern Afghanistan is to enter the hyena's den, single-handed, muffle and tie him.

The astonishing feat of photographing the bones of the living animal within the tissues soon rendered the Röntgen rays indispensable in surgery and directed an army of investigators to their study.

His greatest exploit was the brilliant surprise of Paulus Hook, N.J., on the 19th of August 1779; for this feat he received a gold medal, a reward given to no other officer below general's rank in the whole war.

To tread upon the air (and this is what is really meant) is, at first sight, in the highest degree utopian; and yet there are thousands of living creatures which actually accomplish this feat.

Helen knows the meaning of more than a hundred words now, and learns new ones daily without the slightest suspicion that she is performing a most difficult feat.