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  • 121dépasser — [ depase ] v. tr. <conjug. : 1> • XII e; de passer 1 ♦ Laisser en arrière, derrière soi en allant plus vite. ⇒ devancer, distancer, 1. doubler, passer; fam. gratter, 1. griller. « L équipage doucement en dépasse un autre, sans que s altère… …

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  • 122likely — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. credible; suitable, promising. See liability, agreement, chance, possibility. Ant., unlikely. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Probable] Syn. apparent, probable, seeming, credible, possible, feasible,… …

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  • 123unimaginable — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. inconceivable, incomprehensible, incredible, inapprehensible, ineffable, unbelievable, unheard of, indescribable, unthinkable, beyond comprehension, improbable; see also impossible 1 . Ant. imaginable*, conceivable,… …

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  • 124atom — [16] Etymologically, atom means ‘not cut, indivisible’. Greek átomos ‘that which cannot be divided up any further’ was formed from the negative prefix a ‘not’ and the base *tom ‘cut’ (source also of English anatomy and tome), and was applied in… …

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  • 125unimaginable — (adj.) 1610s, from UN (Cf. un ) (1) not + IMAGINABLE (Cf. imaginable). Related: Unimaginably …

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  • 126conceivable — a. 1. Imaginable, picturable, capable of being sensibly represented. 2. Thinkable, intelligible, comprehensible, capable of being understood, cogitable, rational. 3. Imaginable, supposable, possible, perhaps so …

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  • 127atom — [16] Etymologically, atom means ‘not cut, indivisible’. Greek átomos ‘that which cannot be divided up any further’ was formed from the negative prefix a ‘not’ and the base *tom ‘cut’ (source also of English anatomy and tome), and was applied in… …

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  • 128GENIZAH, CAIRO — Introduction The term genizah is a word shortened from the rabbinical Hebrew phrase bet genizah (see also genizah ). Its counterpart in late biblical Hebrew is genez (pl. genazim, ginzei) which in Esther evidently means a treasury, as well as the …

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