Searches summary in November 2009

Crosstips helped to find the following words this month:

English (GB)

• withdraw
  pull back or move away or backward
• education
  the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill

Français

• prédisposition
• spongieuse
  qui s'imbibe facilement;
  qui ressemble à une éponge
• tournebroche
  (cuisine) système servant à faire tourner la broche d'une rôtissoire
• modelage
  action de modeler;
  résultat de cette action
• dominateur
  qui domine, qui prend plaisir à dominer;
  personne aimant dominer, exerçant un pouvoir autoritaire
• unijambistes
• illumination
  fait d'illuminer, d'éclairer d'une lumière vive;
  ensemble de lumières décoratives (les illuminations de Noël);
  inspiration soudaine
• flirt
  relation amoureuse passagère et superficielle;
  personne qui fait l'objet de ce sentiment
• diligence
  véhicule hippomobile servant au transport de voyageurs;
  soin extrême, grande vigilance;
  grande rapidité, promptitude
• hindouisme
  religion de l'Inde brahmanique qui se base sur les castes et qui croit en l'existence d'un principe universel
• sapinières
• faramineux
  d'une intensité ou d'une valeur extraordinaire
• lapidaires

English (US)

• lysol
  a clear oily brown solution of cresols in soap; used as an antiseptic and disinfectant
• expos
  The Montreal Expos (Les Expos de Montréal) is the name of a Major League Baseball team that was located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from 1969 until the end of the 2004 season, when the team was moved to Washington, D.C. and became the Washington
• dvina
• asia
  the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations
• traverse
  travel across or pass over
• cord
  a line made of twisted fibers or threads
• unicode
  Unicode is a computing industry standard allowing computers to represent and manipulate text expressed in most of the world's writing systems consistently. ...
• anon
  at another time
• known
  apprehended with certainty
• angst
  an acute but unspecific feeling of anxiety; usually reserved for philosophical anxiety about the world or about personal freedom
• amateur
  someone who pursues a study or sport as a pastime
• tiptoe
  the tip of a toe
• mistype
  To type incorrectly, introducing spelling mistakes or other errors; To categorize incorrectly
• wheelbarrow
  transport in a wheelbarrow
• zeds
• hello
  an expression of greeting
• ebbing
  ebb: a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number);
  ebb - flow back or recede; "the tides ebbed at noon";
  ebb - hem in fish with stakes and nets so as to prevent them from going back into the sea with the ebb
• carpet
  a natural object that resembles or suggests a carpet
• salivated
  salivate - produce saliva; "We salivated when he described the great meal";
  salivate - be envious, desirous, eager for, or extremely happy about something; "She was salivating over the raise she anticipated";
  salivation - the secretion of saliva
• garb
  dress: provide with clothes or put clothes on; "Parents must feed and dress their child";
  attire: clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion; "formal attire"; "battle dress"

Svenska

• gurka

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