poised [pɔɪzd]
1.[ADJ] If a part of your body is poised, it is completely still but ready to move at any moment.
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permeate
permeate [pɜ:rmieɪt]
1. [VERB] If an idea, feeling, or attitude permeates a system or permeates society, it affects every part of it or is present throughout it.
1. [VERB] If an idea, feeling, or attitude permeates a system or permeates society, it affects every part of it or is present throughout it.
perfect storm
perfect storm
[NOUN] a combination of events which are not individually dangerous, but occurring together produce a disastrous outcome.
[NOUN] a combination of events which are not individually dangerous, but occurring together produce a disastrous outcome.
parliament
parliament US [pɑ:rləmənt] / UK [pɑ:ləmənt]
[NOUN] The parliament of some countries, for example Britain, is the group of people who make or change its laws, and decide what policies the country should follow.
[NOUN] The parliament of some countries, for example Britain, is the group of people who make or change its laws, and decide what policies the country should follow.
penetrate
English
Verb
penetrate (third-person singular simple present penetrates, present participle penetrating, simple past and past participle penetrated)
1. Manage to enter into.
¶ He takes the prepared charcoal used by artists, brings it to a white heat, and suddenly plunges it in a bath of mercury, of which the globules instantly penetrate the pores of charcoal, and may be said to metallize it. [1879, Th Du Moncel, The Telephone, the Microphone and the Phonograph, Harper, page 166]
¶ Man with all his noble qualities...with his godlike intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system...still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. [Charles Darwin, 1809-1882]
Derived terms
penetration
penetrable
Verb
penetrate (third-person singular simple present penetrates, present participle penetrating, simple past and past participle penetrated)
1. Manage to enter into.
¶ He takes the prepared charcoal used by artists, brings it to a white heat, and suddenly plunges it in a bath of mercury, of which the globules instantly penetrate the pores of charcoal, and may be said to metallize it. [1879, Th Du Moncel, The Telephone, the Microphone and the Phonograph, Harper, page 166]
¶ Man with all his noble qualities...with his godlike intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system...still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. [Charles Darwin, 1809-1882]
Derived terms
penetration
penetrable
purge
purge
Verb
purge (third-person singular simple present purges, present participle purging, simple past and past participle purged)
1. (transitive) to clean thoroughly; to cleanse; to rid of impurities
Verb
purge (third-person singular simple present purges, present participle purging, simple past and past participle purged)
1. (transitive) to clean thoroughly; to cleanse; to rid of impurities
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