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world 1. the earth as a planet, esp including its inhabitants 2. mankind; the human race 3. the universe or cosmos; everything in existence 4. a complex united whole regarded as resembling the universe 5. any star or planet, esp one that might be inhabited 6. an area, sphere, or realm considered as a complete environment 7. Logic See possible world world [wərld] (relativity) Pertaining to Lorentz transformations and four-dimensional space-time, rather than rotations and three-dimensional space, as in world scalar, world vector, world line. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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So you must try to be contented with making your name boyish, and playing brother to us girls," said Beth, stroking the rough head with a hand that all the dish washing and dusting in the world could not make ungentle in its touch. Not for the world would he let Tom Swift know of the situation. We were talking about what it is like to spend one's childhood in little towns like these, buried in wheat and corn, under stimulating extremes of climate: burning summers when the world lies green and billowy beneath a brilliant sky, when one is fairly stifled in vegetation, in the color and smell of strong weeds and heavy harvests; blustery winters with little snow, when the whole country is stripped bare and gray as sheet-iron. |
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