Word Finder - talent

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A marked natural ability or skill.

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He has a real talent for drawing.

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A unit of weight and money used in ancient times in Greece, the Roman Empire, and the Middle East.

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A desire or inclination for something.

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People of talent, viewed collectively; a talented person.

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The director searched their talent pool to fill the new opening.

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The men or (especially) women of a place or area, judged by their attractiveness.

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Not much talent in this bar tonight—let's hit the clubs.

My talent lies with the mind.

His talent is for narrative and description.

Whatever Natural talent she had, she'd somehow turned her brother from a vamp back into a human.

So, Elisabeth gets her musical talent from you.

The new essays in this volume were mostly critical, but one of them, in which perhaps his guessing talent is seen at its best, "The Divisions of the Irish Family," is an elaborate discussion of a problem which has long puzzled both Celtic scholars and jurists; and in another, "On the Classificatory System of Relationship," he propounded a new explanation of a series of facts which, he thought, might throw light upon the early history of society, at the same time putting to the test of those facts the theories he had set forth in Primitive Marriage.

Her talent is the ability to move in stealth mode.

We test them to see what the talent is and where to assign them.

All the best of me belongs to her--there is not a talent, or an aspiration or a joy in me that has not been awakened by her loving touch.

He had a considerable talent for this work and was often employed on similar occasions.

You were only inattentive, but you had talent--oh yes, you had talent!

Ayala persuaded his sister to appear as the heroine of his comedy, La primera Dama, and the innovation, if it scandalized some of his townsmen, permitted him to develop his talent more freely.

From his youth he was diligent in his studies and a great reader, and during his college life showed a marked talent for extemporaneous speaking.

Turgot was struck with the talent they displayed, and by virtue of his patronage Vergniaud, having gone to Paris, was admitted to the college of Plessis.

She almost equalled her husband in knowledge, and infinitely excelled him in talent and in tact.

Impelled by his convictions and talent, supported by the emperor Napoleon III.

In 1730 he entered the Mazarin College under the Jansenists, who soon perceived his exceptional talent, and, prompted perhaps by a commentary on the Epistle to the Romans which he produced in the first year of his philosophical course, sought to direct it to theology.

Augustus, who showed neither talent nor inclination for government, was content to leave Poland under the influence of Russia, and Saxony to the rule of his ministers.

Among the other writers previous to the Revolution mention must be made of John Ray the botanist and of John Evelyn, both men of great talent and research, whose works are still in high estimation.

As a boy he showed much talent, which was carefully trained under his father's eye.

Ali was a valiant man, but had no great talent as a ruler.

He'd never thought much of that talent, the ability to see into someone.

He cursed the talent that initially drew him to her, forced to wait for the fog to clear.

Such superb self-confidence can accomplish much, and it undoubtedly helped to form Fustel's talent and to give to his style that admirable concision which subjugates even when it fails to convince; but a student instinctively distrusts an historian who settles the most controverted problems with such impassioned assurance.

His talent enabled him to weld together the mixed southern clans which became incorporated under Judah, and to build up a monarchy which represented the highest conception of national life possible under the circumstances.

This exclusiveness naturally strengthened the popularity and power of the districts, where energy and talent found a scope elsewhere denied.

Herculano had greater book learning than Scott, but lacked descriptive talent and skill in dialogue.

Even in an imitative artist such precocity of talent is remarkable, and the date is therefore open to legitimate doubt.

This masterpiece of historiography was composed in 1225 or 1226 by a professional poet of talent at the request of William, son of the marshal.

Neither can the London silversmiths, though they employed the best talent available, particularly in the decade following the Great Exhibition of 1851, be credited with much influencing the art metal revival.

They have no genius or talent for comparatively humble questions of taxation and finance, commerce and manufacturers and agriculture.

It frustrated to Betsy who spent hours on the Internet seeking the most effective uses of Howie's talent.

For someone who needs more power, it's a very useful talent.

She was also able to turn objects into something else, a rare talent.

Waiting for professional business, he was content to act as court crier for two dollars and a half a day; but he soon gave indications of his talent, and his studious habits and attention to his cases rapidly brought him clients.

After being educated at the high school of Edinburgh and at Durham, he attended the literary and law classes at the university of Edinburgh, and becoming in 1810 a member of the Edinburgh faculty of advocates, he for some time enjoyed the intimate acquaintance of Cockburn, Jeffrey, Scott and other distinguished men whose talent then lent lustre to the Scottish bar.

In both fields he displayed much talent, and by writing his Synopsis of the Indian Tribes within the United States East of the Rocky Mountains and in the British and Russian Possessions in North America (1836), and by founding the American Ethnological Society of New York in 1842, he earned the title of "Father of American Ethnology."

Afewyearsafter Constantinople passed into the hands of the Ottomans, some ghazels, the work of the contemporary Tatar prince, Mir `Ali Shir, who under the nom de plume of Nevayi wrote much that shows true talent and poetic feeling, found their way to the Ottoman capital, where they were seen and copied by Ahmed Pasha, one of the viziers of Mahommed II.

In a temperate and learned speech, based on Fox's declaration against constitution-mongering, he supported both the enfranchising and the disfranchising clauses, and easily disposed of the cries of "corporation robbery," "nabob representation," "opening for young men of talent," &c. The following year (1832) found Campbell solicitor-general, a knight and member for Dudley, which he represented till 1834.

In the 17th century we find Ludovico Sergardi (Quinto Settano), a Latinist and satirical writer of much talent and culture; but the most original and brilliant figure in Sienese literature is that of Girolamo Gigli (1660-1722), author of the Gazzettino, La Sorellina di Don Pilone, Il Vocabolario cateriniano and the Diario ecclesiastico.

His talent in finance won him a distinguished place in the chamber.

Their country was rich in figs, vines and olive trees; the silver mines in the mountain range of Dysorum brought in a talent a day to their conqueror Alexander.

It came into existence in KiOto and was thence transferred to Yedo (Tokyo), where the greatest of Japanese playwrights, Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1724), and a musician of exceptional talent, Takemoto Gidayu, collaborated to render this puppet drama a highly popular entertainment.

The tempestuous politics of the war and reconstruction period suited his aggressive nature and constructive talent.

While in England he had made active use of his remarkable talent for pamphleteering.

The specimens we possess are not devoid of talent or of a certain happy art of expression.

But the Montagnards made up by their fanatical, or desperate, energy and boldness for what they lacked in talent or in numbers.

Mickiewicz had had a predecessor, but of far less talent, Casimir Brodzinski (1791-1835).

He had been introduced to Richelieu in 1623, and by his humour and his talent as a raconteur soon made himself indispensable to the cardinal.

Thus foot, digit, palm, cubit, stadium, mile, talent, mina, stater, drachm, obol, pound, ounce, grain, metretes, medimrius, modius, hin and many others mean nothing exact unless qualified by the name of their country or city.

By the theory of maris 1/5 of 20.6 cubed is 1755; by maris = Assyrian talent, 1850, in place of 1850 or 1980 stated above; hence the more likely theory of weight, rather than cubit, connexion is nearer to the facts.