Noun

(en noun)

(senseid)(usually in plural) That which is deserved or merited; a just punishment or reward

* 1600 , (John Dowland), (Flow My Tears)

From the highest spire of contentment / my fortune is thrown; / and fear and grief and pain for my deserts / are my hopes, since hope is gone.

* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21

"Nonsense, Mina. It is a shame to me to hear such a word. I would not hear it of you. And I shall not hear it from you. May God judge me by my deserts , and punish me with more bitter suffering than even this hour, if by any act or will of mine anything ever come between us!"

* A. Hamilton

His reputation falls far below his desert .

Noun

(en noun)

A barren area of land or desolate terrain, especially one with little water or vegetation; a wasteland.

* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)

Not thus the land appear'd in ages past, / A dreary desert and a gloomy waste.

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, chapter=5, title= The Lonely Pyramid , passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.}}

(label) Any barren place or situation.

* 1858 , William Howitt, Land, Labour, and Gold; Or, Two Years in Victoria (page 54)

He declared that the country was an intellectual desert ; that he was famishing for spiritual aliment, and for discourse on matters beyond mere nuggets, prospectings, and the price of gold.

* 2006 , Philip N. Cooke, Creative Industries in Wales: Potential and Pitfalls (page 34)

So the question that is commonly asked is, why put a media incubator in a media desert and have it managed by a civil servant?

Noun

(countable) The action of entering, or going in.

Her entrance attracted no attention whatsoever.

The act of taking possession, as of property, or of office.

the entrance of an heir upon his inheritance, or of a magistrate into office

(countable) The place of entering, as a gate or doorway.

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, title= , chapter=1 citation , passage=‘It was called the wickedest street in London and the entrance was just here. I imagine the mouth of the road lay between this lamp standard and the second from the next down there.’}}

Place your bag by the entrance so that you can find it easily.

(uncountable) The right to go in.

You'll need a ticket to gain entrance to the museum.

to give entrance to friends

The entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation.

a difficult entrance into business

* Shakespeare

Beware of entrance to a quarrel.

* Halliwell

St. Augustine, in the entrance of one of his discourses, makes a kind of apology.

The causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an entering.

His entrance of the arrival was made the same day.

(nautical) The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line.

(nautical) The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line.

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