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appropriate(2) (iou) and Cantor, Georg (sh)


appropriate(2) (iou)



appropriate verb trans. Pa. pple & ppl adjective -ated, -ate (see prec.). LME.
[Latin appropriat- pa. ppl stem of appropriare make one's own, from ad AP-1 + propius own, proper: see -ATE3.]
Take to oneself as one's own property or for one's own use. LME.
G. Anson Appropriating the whole ships provisions to themselves. E. Mellor The name 'priesthood'..was never appropriated by apostles to themselves.
Make over to a person, institution, etc., as his, her, or its own or for his, her, or its use. LME-E18.
Bible (Coverdale): Micah 4:13 Their goodes shalt thou appropriate vnto the Lorde. T. Blount It was lawful to appropriate the whole Fruits of a Benefice to an Abbey or Priory.
Devote, set aside, or assign, to the use of a person or institution, to or for a special purpose or use. LME.
M. Pattison The revenue is appropriated to the payment of University officers. Time Economic Opportunity Act..appropriates almost $948 million for ten programs including job Training, work-study programs, [etc.].
Assign or attribute as properly pertaining to; attribute specially or exclusively to. arch. LME.
Joseph Strutt These amusements..were appropriated to the season of Lent. Coleridge The word presumption I appropriate to the internal feeling.
Make, or select as, appropriate or suitable (to). arch. LME.
R. Plot The best methods of Cultivating, appropriating seeds and manures, and cureing the diseases of land. H. Hallam The subject chosen is appropriated to the characteristic peculiarities of the poet.
Take possession of; use as one's own, esp. without permission. L16.
J. K. Jerome He comes in quietly.., appropriates the most comfortable chair. P. V. White Some man, a kind of bushranger,..rode up to their vehicle, and appropriated every single valuable the unfortunate couple had upon them. A. J. P. Taylor The Conservatives appropriated patriotism.
appropriative adjective of appropriating character or tendency M17.
appropriator noun a person who or thing which appropriates; esp. (Ecclesiastical History) the monastery etc. to which a benefice is assigned: M17.
approprie, appropre verb trans. = APPROPRIATE verb ME-E17.

Cantor, Georg (sh)




born March 3, 1845, St. Petersburg, Russia
died Jan. 6, 1918, Halle, Ger.

German mathematician, founder of set theory.

He was the first to examine number systems, such as the rational numbers and the real numbers, systematically as complete entities, or sets. This led him to the surprising discovery that not all infinite sets are the same size. In particular, he showed that the rational numbers could be put in a one-to-one correspondence with the counting numbers; hence the set is countable. He also showed that no such correspondence is possible for the much larger set of irrational numbers; hence they are known as an uncountable set. His investigations led him to the classification of transfinite numbers, which are, informally speaking, degrees of infinity.