Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - desert
Desert
desert
1. v. 1 tr. abandon, give up, leave (deserted the sinking ship). 2 tr. forsake or abandon (a cause or a person, people, etc., having claims on one) (deserted his wife and children). 3 tr. fail (his presence of mind deserted him). 4 intr. Mil. run away (esp. from military service). 5 tr. (as deserted adj.) empty, abandoned (a deserted house). Derivatives deserter n. (in sense 4 of v.). desertion n. Etymology: F d{eacute}serter f. LL desertare f. L desertus (as DESERT(2)) 2. n. & adj. --n. a dry barren often sand-covered area of land, characteristically desolate, waterless, and without vegetation; an uninteresting or barren subject, period, etc. (a cultural desert). --adj. 1 uninhabited, desolate. 2 uncultivated, barren. Phrases and idioms desert boot a suede etc. boot reaching to or extending just above the ankle. desert island a remote (usu. tropical) island presumed to be uninhabited. desert rat Brit. colloq. a soldier of the 7th British armoured division (with the jerboa as a badge) in the N. African desert campaign of 1941-2. Etymology: ME f. OF f. L desertus, eccl.L desertum (n.), past part. of deserere leave, forsake 3. n. 1 (in pl.) a acts or qualities deserving reward or punishment. b such reward or punishment (has got his deserts). 2 the fact of being worthy of reward or punishment; deservingness. Etymology: ME f. OF f. deservir DESERVE
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I. noun see: series Date: 13th century 1. arid land with usually sparse vegetation, an area of water apparently devoid of life, a wild uninhabited and uncultivated tract, a desolate or forbidding area , ~ic adjective ~like adjective II. adjective Date: 13th century desolate and sparsely occupied or unoccupied , of or relating to a ~, forsaken, III. noun Etymology: Middle English ~e, from Anglo-French, from feminine of ~, past participle of deservir to deserve Date: 13th century the quality or fact of deserving reward or punishment, deserved reward or punishment, excellence, worth, IV. verb Etymology: French déserter, from Late Latin ~are, frequentative of Latin deserere Date: 1603 transitive verb to withdraw from or leave usually without intent to return , 2. to leave in the lurch , to abandon (military service) without leave, intransitive verb to quit one's post, allegiance, or service without leave or justification, see: abandon ~er noun ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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