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versor(dictionary)

beautiful (iou) and versor (iou)


beautiful (iou)



beautiful adjective & noun. LME.
[from Beauty + -FUL.]
A. adjective. Full of Beauty, delightful to the eye or ear, or to any faculty or taste; morally or intellectually impressive or satisfying; colloq. that one likes very much; very good, excellent; pleasant, delightful. LME.
beautiful letters US = BELLES-LETTRES. beautiful people colloq. (a) hippies, esp. flower people; (b) the fashionable rich. the beautiful: with the adjective postposed for emphasis or irony; the in its ideal form, esp. as a cult.
Bible (AV): Psalms 48:2 Beautifull for situation, the ioy of the whole earth is mount Sion. D. Hume Another argument..which seems to me very strong and beautiful. N. Hawthorne It had been the beautifullest of weather all day. P. G. Hamerton A beautiful patience, and resignation. R. Kipling Everybody paid in fullbeautiful feelin'. E. St V. Millay Sweet sounds, oh, beautiful Music, do not cease! G. B. Shaw Her lover, a beautiful youth of eighteen. M. de la Roche I'll never forget how beautiful you were to me. Aldous Huxley A very nice fellow and a beautiful pianist. E. O'Neill Your mother was one of the most beautiful girls you could ever see. Day Lewis It is..a face which might be beautiful one day and plain another, but never uninteresting.
b. absol. as noun.
Beautiful one. Used chiefly as a form of address. M16.
That which is beautiful; the qualities constituting Beauty. M18.
beautifully adverb in a beautiful manner, delightfully; colloq. very well, excellently: M16.
beautifulness noun E16.

versor (iou)



versor noun. M17.
[Latin vers- pa. ppl stem of vertere turn: see -OR.]
The needle of a compass. rare. Only in M17.
Math. In quaternions, an operator which changes the direction of a vector without altering its length. M19.