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Adj. expending, expended &c v.; sumptuary. Phr
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Adj. expending, expended &c v.; sumptuary. Phr. vectigalia nervos esse reipublicae [Lat.] [Cicero]. 810. Receipt -- N. receipt, value received, money coming in; income, incomings, innings, revenue, return, proceeds; gross receipts, net profit; earnings &c (gain) 775; accepta†, avails. rent, rent roll; rental, rentage†; rack-rent. premium, bonus; sweepstakes, tontine. pension, annuity; jointure &c (property) 780 [Obs.]; alimony, palimony [Coll.], pittance; emolument &c (remuneration) 973. V. receive &c 785; take money; draw from, derive from; acquire &c 775; take &c 789. bring in, yield, afford, pay, return; accrue &c (be received from) 785. Adj. receiving, received &c v.; profitable &c (gainful) 775. 811. Accounts -- N. accounts, accompts†; commercial arithmetic, monetary arithmetic; statistics &c (numeration) 85; money matters, finance, budget, bill, score, reckoning, account. books, account book, ledger; day book, cash book, pass book; journal; debtor and creditor account, cash account, running account; account current; balance, balance sheet; compte rendu [Fr.], account settled, acquit, assets, expenditure, liabilities, outstanding accounts; profit and loss account, profit and loss statement, receipts. bookkeeping, accounting, double entry bookkeeping, reckoning. audit.
[person who keeps accounts] accountant, auditor, actuary, bookkeeper, bean counter [Sarc.]; financier &c 801; accounting party; chartered accountant, certified accountant; accounting firm, auditing firm. V. keep accounts, enter, post, book, credit, debit, carry over; take stock; balance accounts, make up accounts, square accounts, settle accounts, wind up accounts, cast up accounts; make accounts square, square accounts. bring to book, tax, surcharge and falsify. audit, field audit; check the books, verify accounts. falsify an account, garble an account, cook an account, cook the books, doctor an account. Adj. monetary &c 800; accountable, accounting. 812. Price -- N. price, amount, cost, expense, prime cost, charge, figure; demand, damage; fare, hire, wages &c (remuneration) 973; value &c 812.1. dues, duty, toll, tax, impost, cess†, sess†, tallage†, levy; abkari†; capitation tax, poll tax; doomage [U.S.], likin†; gabel†, gabelle†; gavel, octroi†, custom, excise, assessment, benevolence, tithe, tenths, exactment†, ransom, salvage, tariff; brokerage, wharfage, freightage. bill &c (account) 811; shot.
amount to, come to, mount up to; stand one in. fetch, sell for, cost, bring in, yield, afford.
one may have it for; a bon marche [Fr.]. 812a. Value [intrinsic worth] -- N. {ant. to 812b} worth, rate, value, intrinsic value, quality; par value. [estimated value] valuation, appraisal, assessment, appraisement. [value as estimated in a market] price current, market price, quotation; fair price, going price; what it will fetch &c v.; what the market will bear. money's worth; penny's worth &c; worth. cost (price) 812.
precious (expensive) 814. Phr. worth the price; worth a king's ransom; accountants who know the price of everything and the value of nothing. 812b. Worthlessness -- N. {ant. to 812a} worthlessness, valuelessness†; lack of value; uselessness. [low value] cheapness, shoddiness; low quality, poor quality. [worthless item] trash, garbage. Adj. worthless, valueless; useless. [of low value] cheap, shoddy; slapdash. inexpensive &c 815. Phr. not worth the paper it's printed on, not worth a sou. 813. Discount -- N. discount, abatement, concession, reduction, depreciation, allowance; qualification, set-off, drawback, poundage, agio†, percentage; rebate, rebatement†; backwardation, contango†; salvage; tare and tret†. sale, bargain; half price; price war. wholesale, wholesale price; dealer's price; trade price. coupon, discount coupon, cents-off coupon; store coupon, manufacturer's coupon; double coupon discount, triple coupon discount. V. discount, bate; abate, rebate; reduce, price down, mark down take off, allow, give, make allowance; tax. Adj. discounting &c v.. Adv. at a discount, below par; at wholesale; have a friend in the business. 814. Dearness -- N. dearness &c adj.; high price, famine price, fancy price; overcharge; extravagance; exorbitance, extortion; heavy pull upon the purse. V. be dear &c adj.; cost much, cost a pretty penny; rise in price, look up. [demand a price in excess of value] overcharge, bleed, fleece, extort. [pay a price in excess of value] pay too much, pay through the nose, pay too dear for one's whistle, pay top dollar. Adj. dear; high, high priced; of great price, expensive, costly, precious; worth a Jew's eye†, dear bought. at a premium. not to be had, not to be had for love or money; beyond price, above price, priceless, of priceless value.
drug in the market; deadhead†. V. be cheap &c adj.; cost little; come down in price, fall in price. buy for a mere nothing, buy for an old song; have one's money's worth. Adj. cheap; low, low priced; moderate, reasonable; inexpensive, unexpensive†; well worth the money, worth the money; magnifique et pas cher [Fr.]; good at the price, cheap at the price; dirt cheap, dog cheap; cheap, cheap as dirt, cheap and nasty; catchpenny; discounted &c 813. half-price, depreciated, unsalable. gratuitous, gratis, free, for nothing; costless, expenseless†; without charge, not charged, untaxed; scotfree, shotfree†, rent-free; free of cost, free of expense; honorary, unbought, unpaid.
overpaid. Phr. handsome is that handsome does [Goldsmith]. 817. Economy -- N. economy, frugality; thrift, thriftiness; care, husbandry, good housewifery, savingness†, retrenchment. savings; prevention of waste, save-all; cheese parings and candle ends; parsimony &c 819. cost-cutting, cost control.
save money, invest money; put out to interest; provide for a rainy day, save for a rainy day, provide against a rainy day, save against a rainy day; feather one's nest; look after the main chance. cut costs.
underpaid. Adv. sparingly &c adj.; ne quid nimis [Lat.]. Phr. adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit [Lat.]; magnum est vectigal parsimonia [Lat.] [Cicero]. 817a. Greed [excessive desire] -- N. covetousness, ravenousness &c adj.; venality, avidity, cupidity; acquisitiveness (acquisition) 775; desire &c 865. [greed for money or material things] greed, greediness, avarice, avidity, rapacity, extortion. selfishness &c 943; auri sacra fames [Lat.]. grasping, craving, canine appetite, rapacity.
greedy as a hog; overeager; voracious; ravenous, ravenous as a wolf; openmouthed, extortionate, exacting, sordid†, alieni appetens [Lat.]; insatiable, insatiate; unquenchable, quenchless; omnivorous. 818. Prodigality -- N. prodigality, prodigence†; unthriftiness†, waste; profusion, profuseness; extravagance; squandering &c v.; malversation. prodigal; spendthrift, waste thrift; losel†, squanderer†, locust; high roller [U.S.]. V. be prodigal &c adj.; squander, lavish, sow broadcast; pour forth like water; blow, blow in [Slang]; pay through the nose &c (dear) 814; spill, waste, dissipate, exhaust, drain, eat out of house and home, overdraw, outrun the constable; run out, run through; misspend; throw good money after bad, throw the helve after the hatchet†; burn the candle at both ends; make ducks and drakes of one's money; fool away one's money, potter away one's money, muddle away one's money, fritter away one's money, throw away one's money, run through one's money; pour water into a sieve, kill the goose that lays the golden eggs; manger son ble en herbe [Fr.]. Adj. prodigal, profuse, thriftless, unthrifty, improvident, wasteful, losel†, extravagant, lavish, dissipated, overliberal; full-handed &c (liberal) 816. penny wise and pound foolish. Adv. with an unsparing hand; money burning a hole in one's pocket. Phr. amor nummi [Lat.]; facile largiri de alieno [Lat.]; wie gewonnen so zerronnen [G.]; les fous font les festins et les sages les mangent [Fr.]; spendthrift alike of money and of wit [Cowper]; squandering wealth was his peculiar art [Dryden]. 819. Parsimony -- N. parsimony, parcity†; parsimoniousness†, stinginess &c adj.; stint; illiberality, tenacity. avarice, greed &c 817.1. miser, niggard, churl, screw, skinflint, crib, codger, muckworm†, scrimp, lickpenny†, hunks, curmudgeon, Harpagon, harpy, extortioner, Jew, usurer; Hessian [U.S.]; pinch fist, pinch penny.
drive a bargain, drive a hard bargain; cheapen, beat down; stop one hole in a sieve; have an itching palm, grasp, grab. Adj. parsimonious, penurious, stingy, miserly, mean, shabby, peddling, scrubby, penny wise, near, niggardly, close; fast handed, close handed, strait handed; close fisted, hard fisted, tight fisted; tight, sparing; chary; grudging, griping &c v.; illiberal, ungenerous, churlish, hidebound, sordid, mercenary, venal, covetous, usurious, avaricious, greedy, extortionate, rapacious. Adv. with a sparing hand. Phr. desunt inopioe multa avaritiae omnia [Lat.] [Syrus]; hoards after hoards his rising raptures fill [Goldsmith]; the unsunn'd heaps of miser's treasures [Milton]. CLASS VI WORDS RELATING TO THE SENTIENT AND MORAL POWERS SECTION I. AFFECTIONS IN GENERAL 820. Affections -- N. affections, affect; character, qualities, disposition, nature, spirit, tone; temper, temperament; diathesis†, idiosyncrasy; cast of mind, cast of soul, habit of mind, habit of soul, frame of mind, frame of soul; predilection, turn, natural turn of mind; bent, bias, predisposition, proneness, proclivity, propensity, propenseness†, propension†, propendency†; vein, humor, mood, grain, mettle; sympathy &c (love) 897. soul, heart, breast, bosom, inner man; heart's core, heart's strings, heart's blood; heart of hearts, bottom of one's heart, penetralia mentis [Lat.]; secret and inmost recesses of the heart, cockles of one's heart; inmost heart, inmost soul; backbone. passion, pervading spirit; ruling passion, master passion; furore†; fullness of the heart, heyday of the blood, flesh and blood, flow of soul. energy, fervor, fire, force. V. have affections, possess affections &c n.; be of a character &c n.; be affected &c adj.; breathe. Adj. affected, characterized, formed, molded, cast; attempered†, tempered; framed; predisposed; prone, inclined; having a bias &c n.; tinctured with, imbued with, penetrated with, eaten up with. inborn, inbred, ingrained; deep-rooted, ineffaceable, inveterate; pathoscopic†; congenital, dyed in the wool, implanted by nature, inherent, in the grain. affective.
warmth, glow, unction, gusto, vehemence; fervor, fervency; heartiness, cordiality; earnestness, eagerness; empressement [Fr.], gush, ardor, zeal, passion, enthusiasm, verve, furore†, fanaticism; excitation of feeling &c 824; fullness of the heart &c (disposition) 820; passion &c (state of excitability) 825; ecstasy &c (pleasure) 827. blush, suffusion, flush; hectic; tingling, thrill, turn, shock; agitation &c (irregular motion) 315; quiver, heaving, flutter, flurry, fluster, twitter, tremor; throb, throbbing; pulsation, palpitation, panting; trepidation, perturbation; ruffle, hurry of spirits, pother, stew, ferment; state of excitement.
bear, suffer, support, sustain, endure, thole [Scot.], aby†; abide &c (be composed) 826; experience &c (meet with) 151; taste, prove; labor under, smart under; bear the brunt of, brave, stand. swell, glow, warm, flush, blush, change color, mantle; turn color, turn pale, turn red, turn black in the face; tingle, thrill, heave, pant, throb, palpitate, go pitapat, tremble, quiver, flutter, twitter; shake &c 315; be agitated, be excited &c 824; look blue, look black; wince; draw a deep breath. impress &c (excite the feelings) 824. Adj. feeling &c v.; sentient; sensuous; sensorial, sensory; emotive, emotional; of feeling, with feeling &c n.. warm, quick, lively, smart, strong, sharp, acute, cutting, piercing, incisive; keen, keen as a razor; trenchant, pungent, racy, piquant, poignant, caustic. impressive, deep, profound, indelible; deep felt, home felt, heartfelt; swelling, soul-stirring, deep-mouthed, heart-expanding, electric, thrilling, rapturous, ecstatic. earnest, wistful, eager, breathless; fervent; fervid; gushing, passionate, warm-hearted, hearty, cordial, sincere, zealous, enthusiastic, glowing, ardent, burning, red-hot, fiery, flaming; boiling over. pervading, penetrating, absorbing; rabid, raving, feverish, fanatical, hysterical; impetuous &c (excitable) 825. impressed with, moved with, touched with, affected with, penetrated with, seized with, imbued with &c 82; devoured by; wrought up &c (excited) 824; struck all of a heap; rapt; in a quiver &c n.; enraptured &c 829.
excitability &c 825; fastidiousness &c 868; physical sensibility &c 375. sore point, sore place; where the shoe pinches.
take to heart, treasure up in the heart; shrink. die of a rose in aromatic pain [Pope]; touch to the quick; touch on the raw, touch a raw nerve.
cold fit, cold blood, cold heart; coldness, coolness; frigidity, sang froid [Fr.]; stoicism, imperturbation &c (inexcitability) 826 [Obs.]; nonchalance, unconcern, dry eyes; insouciance &c (indifference) 866; recklessness &c 863; callousness; heart of stone, stock and stone, marble, deadness. torpor, torpidity; obstupefaction†, lethargy, coma, trance, vegetative state; sleep &c 683; suspended animation; stupor, stupefaction; paralysis, palsy; numbness &c (physical insensibility) 376. neutrality; quietism, vegetation. V. be insensible &c adj.; have a rhinoceros hide; show insensibility &c n.; not mind, not care, not be affected by; have no desire for &c 866; have no interest in, feel no interest in, take no interest in; nil admirari [Lat.]; not care a straw for &c (unimportance) 643; disregard &c (neglect) 460; set at naught &c (make light of) 483; turn a deaf ear to &c (inattention) 458; vegetate. render insensible, render callous; blunt, obtund†, numb, benumb, paralyze, deaden, hebetate†, stun, stupefy; brutify†; brutalize; chloroform, anaesthetize†, put under; assify†. inure; harden the heart; steel, caseharden, sear.
apathetic; leuco-†, phlegmatic; dull, frigid; cold blooded, cold hearted; cold as charity; flat, maudlin, obtuse, inert, supine, sluggish, torpid, torpedinous†, torporific†; sleepy &c (inactive) 683; languid, half-hearted, tame; numbed; comatose; anaesthetic &c 376; stupefied, chloroformed, drugged, stoned; palsy-stricken. indifferent, lukewarm; careless, mindless, regardless; inattentive &c 458; neglectful &c 460; disregarding. unconcerned, nonchalant, pococurante†, insouciant, sans souci [Fr.]; unambitious &c 866. unaffected, unruffled, unimpressed, uninspired, unexcited, unmoved, unstirred, untouched, unshocked†, unstruck†; unblushing &c (shameless) 885; unanimated; vegetative. callous, thick-skinned, hard-nosed, pachydermatous, impervious; hardened; inured, casehardened; steeled against, proof against; imperturbable &c (inexcitable) 826 [Obs.]; unfelt. Adv. insensibly &c adj.; aequo animo [Lat.]; without being moved, without being touched, without being impressed; in cold blood; with dry eyes, with withers unwrung†. Phr. never mind; macht nichts [G.], it is of no consequence &c (unimportant) 643; it cannot be helped; nothing coming amiss; it is all the same to, it is all one to. 824. Excitation -- N. excitation of feeling; mental excitement; suscitation†, galvanism, stimulation, piquance, piquancy, provocation, inspiration, calling forth, infection; animation, agitation, perturbation; subjugation, fascination, intoxication; enravishment†; entrancement; pressure, tension, high pressure. unction, impressiveness &c adj.. trail of temper, casus belli [Lat.]; irritation &c (anger) 900; passion &c (state of excitability) 825; thrill &c (feeling) 821; repression of feeling &c 826; sensationalism, yellow journalism. Directory: pub -> docs pub -> Asilomar Conference on Circuits, Systems & Computers, Pacific Grove, ca, November 1978, pp. 55 58 pub -> Forthcoming meetings and conferences pub -> Harmonised compatibility and sharing conditions for video pmse in the 7 9 ghz frequency band, taking into account radar use docs -> Assembly language/machine language/coding tutorial part one by scatt index prefix part one : The Basics An Introduction. First Steps Processors Bits and Bytes docs -> A dragon in the tube docs -> Revisão Bibliográfica: Learning Vector Quantization 28/04/2003 docs -> Revisão bibliográfica redes neurais recorrentes docs -> Revisão Bibliográfica: Autômatos Celulares docs -> Updated March 2017 Registration Quick Reference Card for Employees/Associates Download 2.24 Mb. Share with your friends:
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