English-Thai: Longdo Dictionary (UNAPPROVED version -- use with care )
Great Offices of State
(n ) อำมาตย์นายก เป็นตำแหน่งในรัฐบาลสหราชอาณาจักร
great scott
(slang) คำอุทานด้วยความประหลาดใจ
English
[edit] Etymology
* Possibly from the name of an actual person, possibly of US military background.
* Possibly an altered and anglicized for of the German Grüß Gott!, or "God bless!" into Great Scott!, since rejected by some etymologists.
* Likely to be a mild substitute for invoking the name of God.
[edit] Interjection
Great Scott
1. An exclamation of surprise or amazement.
[edit] References
* article on Great Scott at World Wide Words
1/4 of the world's carbon dioxide emissions are from America, Its per-capita emissions are also the greatest in the world.
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A big bomb fell, and a great many people lost their lives.
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About the wedding ... It's a once-in-a-lifetime chance to be the main attraction so instead of doing it on a shoestring why not pull out all the stops and make a great show of it?
great
Accordingly, besides noun declension patterns, there also existed a greater variety of verb conjugation patterns than in Modern English.
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After an uphill struggle against great odds they finally got the company on its feet again.
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A great change has come about after the war.
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A great contrast between city life and country life.
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A great deal of energy is locked up in the nucleus.
[, eejanaika] (exp) (1) isn't it great?; (n) (2) carnival-like religious celebrations (e.g. dancing festivals) that occurred across Japan from June 1867 to May 1868 [Add to Longdo]
[だいなり, dainari] greater-than mark, right angle bracket [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (4 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Great \Great\ (gr[=a]t), a. [Compar. {Greater}; superl.
{Greatest}.] [OE. gret, great, AS. gre['a]t; akin to OS. &
LG. gr[=o]t, D. groot, OHG. gr[=o]z, G. gross. Cf. {Groat}
the coin.]
1. Large in space; of much size; big; immense; enormous;
expanded; -- opposed to {small} and {little}; as, a great
house, ship, farm, plain, distance, length.
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2. Large in number; numerous; as, a great company, multitude,
series, etc.
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3. Long continued; lengthened in duration; prolonged in time;
as, a great while; a great interval.
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4. Superior; admirable; commanding; -- applied to thoughts,
actions, and feelings.
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5. Endowed with extraordinary powers; uncommonly gifted; able
to accomplish vast results; strong; powerful; mighty;
noble; as, a great hero, scholar, genius, philosopher,
etc.
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6. Holding a chief position; elevated: lofty: eminent;
distinguished; foremost; principal; as, great men; the
great seal; the great marshal, etc.
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He doth object I am too great of birth. --Shak.
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7. Entitled to earnest consideration; weighty; important; as,
a great argument, truth, or principle.
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8. Pregnant; big (with young).
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The ewes great with young. --Ps. lxxviii.
71.
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9. More than ordinary in degree; very considerable in degree;
as, to use great caution; to be in great pain.
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We have all
Great cause to give great thanks. --Shak.
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10. (Genealogy) Older, younger, or more remote, by single
generation; -- often used before grand to indicate one
degree more remote in the direct line of descent; as,
great-grandfather (a grandfather's or a grandmother's
father), great-grandson, etc.
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{Great bear} (Astron.), the constellation Ursa Major.
{Great cattle} (Law), all manner of cattle except sheep and
yearlings. --Wharton.
{Great charter} (Eng. Hist.), Magna Charta.
{Great circle of a sphere}, a circle the plane of which
passes through the center of the sphere.
{Great circle sailing}, the process or art of conducting a
ship on a great circle of the globe or on the shortest arc
between two places.
{Great go}, the final examination for a degree at the
University of Oxford, England; -- called also {greats}.
--T. Hughes.
{Great guns}. (Naut.) See under Gun.
{The Great Lakes} the large fresh-water lakes (Lakes
Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario) which lie on
the northern borders of the United States.
{Great master}. Same as {Grand master}, under {Grand}.
{Great organ} (Mus.), the largest and loudest of the three
parts of a grand organ (the others being the choir organ
and the swell, and sometimes the pedal organ or foot
keys), It is played upon by a separate keyboard, which has
the middle position.
{The great powers} (of Europe), in modern diplomacy, Great
Britain, France, Germany, Austria, Russia, and Italy.
{Great primer}. See under {Type}.
{Great scale} (Mus.), the complete scale; -- employed to
designate the entire series of musical sounds from lowest
to highest.
{Great sea}, the Mediterranean sea. In Chaucer both the Black
and the Mediterranean seas are so called.
{Great seal}.
(a) The principal seal of a kingdom or state.
(b) In Great Britain, the lord chancellor (who is
custodian of this seal); also, his office.
{Great tithes}. See under Tithes.
{The great}, the eminent, distinguished, or powerful.
{The Great Spirit}, among the North American Indians, their
chief or principal deity.
{To be great} (with one), to be intimate or familiar (with
him). --Bacon.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Great \Great\, n.
The whole; the gross; as, a contract to build a ship by the
great.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
great
adj 1: relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than
others of its kind; "a great juicy steak"; "a great
multitude"; "the great auk"; "a great old oak"; "a great
ocean liner"; "a great delay"
2: of major significance or importance; "a great work of art";
"Einstein was one of the outstanding figures of the 20th
centurey" [syn: {great}, {outstanding}]
3: remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or
effect; "a great crisis"; "had a great stake in the outcome"
4: very good; "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car"; "had a
great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing" [syn:
{bang-up}, {bully}, {corking}, {cracking}, {dandy}, {great},
{groovy}, {keen}, {neat}, {nifty}, {not bad(p)}, {peachy},
{slap-up}, {swell}, {smashing}]
5: uppercase; "capital A"; "great A"; "many medieval manuscripts
are in majuscule script" [syn: {capital}, {great},
{majuscule}]
6: in an advanced stage of pregnancy; "was big with child"; "was
great with child" [syn: {big(p)}, {enceinte}, {expectant},
{gravid}, {great(p)}, {large(p)}, {heavy(p)}, {with
child(p)}]
n 1: a person who has achieved distinction and honor in some
field; "he is one of the greats of American music"
From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary [reverse index] [fd-tur-eng]:
gr.
1. (kıs.) grain, grand, great, gross.
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เช่น Secretary of State=รัฐมนตรีต่างประเทศของสหรัฐฯ (ในภาพตัวอย่าง),
High school=โรงเรียนมัธยมปลาย
