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amazing | bravo |

As a verb amazing

is .

As an adjective amazing

is causing wonder and amazement; possessing uniquely wonderful qualities.

As an interjection bravo is

bravo.

amazing

English

Verb

(head)
  • * 1848 , John Bunyan and Robert Philip, The Greatness of the Soul: And the Unspeakableness of the Loss Thereof , page 29, T. Nelson
    • How many things have men found out to the amazing of one another, to the wonderment of one another, to the begetting of endless commendations of one another in the world
  • * 1909 , John Fryer and William Crooke, A New Account of East India and Persia: Being Nine Years' Travels, 1672-1681 , page 92, Hakluyt Society
    • Fancies to be persuaded of the confused Articulation of Multitudes met as in a Fair, conversing and making a chattering, to the amazing of them all.
  • * 1996 August 5, Tim Behrendsen, "Tim Behrendsen Lost and Spaced THE FINAL TRY", rec.games.computer.quake.misc, Usenet
    • Amazing is judged relative what already exists, and Quake has the best underwater effects so far.
  • * 1997 November 30, Sir Frederick, "Pro-Mormons are amazing also", alt.religion.mormon.fellowship, Usenet
    • Reality, especially God's Reality is amazing. For instance that there is something rather than nothing is amazing. [... ] Amazing is amazing.
  • * 1999 July 13, Irma Dobkin and Mary Jo Peterson, Gracious Spaces , page xix, McGraw-Hill Professional
    • The amazing is happening.
  • * 2000 March 24, "Shadow", "Return of the Fulgore Rant!", alt.fan.dragons, Usenet
    • All that is impossibly amazing is considered nothing, and the impossibly amazing is considered normal.
  • * 2001 February 3, Brian, "D3 weird FPS", alt.games.descent Usenet
    • The amazing is that, in EXACTLY the same situation, the demo2 doesn't show this problem.
  • * 2003 June 23, Thomas Bernhard, Three Novellas , page 31, University of Chicago Press
    • Everything that amazes has its method, until we notice that the amazing is not amazing, has no method.
  • * 2004 October 23, MgClearwater, "George says: Joe and Brian stay..", alt.sports.baseball.ny-yankees, Usenet
    • Sheffield is an amazing athlete, how much of the amazing is provided from the Chemlab.
  • * 2006 May 16, Simon Baird, "monkeyGTD is amazing- a few questions and suggestions", GTD TiddlyWiki, Google goups
    • Cool! Of course 99% of the amazing is due to the "powered by TiddlyWiki" part of MonkeyGTD.. :)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing wonder and amazement; possessing uniquely wonderful qualities.

    • Synonyms

    * See

    Related terms

    * amazement

    Derived terms

    * amazingly * amazingness

    References

    * *

    bravo

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A hired soldier; an assassin; a desperado.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1753, author=Theophilus Cibber, title=The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753), chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=As for Rochester, he had not genius enough to enter the lists with Dryden, so he fell upon another method of revenge; and meanly hired bravoes to assault him.}}
  • * , title=Red Eve, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="Why should I fight the King of England's bravoes ?" inquired Acour in a languid voice of those who stood about him, a question at which they laughed.}}
  • * 1953 , (Raymond Chandler), The Long Goodbye , Penguin 2010, page 104:
    • Because the headache will always be there, a weapon that never wears out and is as deadly as the bravo ’s rapier or Lucrezia's poison vial.
  • A shout of "!"
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=Kate Dickinson Sweetser, title=Boys and girls from Thackeray, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=There was a roar of bravoes rang through the house; Pen bellowing with the loudest.}}
  • The letter B in the ICAO spelling alphabet.

    • Synonyms

    * (hired soldier) see

    Interjection

  • Used to express acclaim, especially to a performer.
    • Bravo, you have done a brilliant job!

    Usage notes

    Sometimes the (non-anglicized) Italian female form brava' is used for a woman, and the Italian plural forms '''brave''' (feminine) and ' bravi (masculine or mixed).

    Synonyms

    * See

    Related terms

    * bravissimo

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cheer or applaud, especially by saying bravo!
  • * {{quote-book, year=1910, author=May Agnes Fleming, title=The Baronet's Bride, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="And my Sunbeam was bravoed , and encored, and crowned with flowers, was she not?" }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1899, author=Richard Le Gallienne, title=Young Lives, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Together they had bravoed the great tragedians, and together hopelessly worshipped the beautiful faces, enskied and sainted, of famous actresses. }} ----