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dream | magic |

As a noun dream

is imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping.

As a verb dream

is (lb) to see imaginary events in one's mind while sleeping.

As a proper noun magic is

the decrypted japanese messages produced by us cryptographers in and prior to world war ii.

dream

English

(wikipedia dream)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . The derivation from Old English dr?am'' is controversial, since the word itself is only attested in writing in its meaning of “joy, mirth, musical sound”. Possibly there was a separate word ''dr?am meaning “images seen while sleeping”, which was avoided in literature due to potential confusion with “joy” sense, which would account for the common definition in the other Germanic languages, or the derivation may indeed simply be a strange progression from “mirth, joy, musical sound”.. Attested words for “sleeping vision” in Old English were . The verb is from (etyl) (m), possibly (see above) from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • Imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping.
  • * (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
    • Dreams are but interludes which fancy makes.
  • * (Lord Byron) (1788-1824)
    • I had a dream' which was not all a ' dream .
  • *
    • She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
  • A hope or wish.
  • *
    • So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams .
  • * (Martin Luther King)
    • I have a dream' that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. I have a ' dream today!
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=August 5, author=Nathan Rabin
    • , title= TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993) , passage=Ralph Wiggum is generally employed as a bottomless fount of glorious non sequiturs, but in “I Love Lisa” he stands in for every oblivious chump who ever deluded himself into thinking that with persistence, determination, and a pure heart he can win the girl of his dreams .}}
  • A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy.
  • * (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
    • There sober thought pursued the amusing theme, / Till Fancy coloured it and formed a dream .
  • * (w) (1819-1885)
    • It is not to them a mere dream , but a very real aim which they propose.

    Synonyms

    * (events experienced whilst asleep) sweven (archaic)

    Derived terms

    * American dream * daydream * dreamboat * dreamcatcher * dreamland * dreamscape * dream team * dreamy * dream vision * dreamworld * live the dream * lucid dream * pipe dream * wet dream

    See also

    * nightmare

    Verb

  • (lb) To see imaginary events in one's mind while sleeping.
  • (lb) To hope, to wish.
  • (lb) To daydream.
  • :
  • (lb) To envision as an imaginary experience (usually when asleep).
  • :
  • *(and other bibliographic particulars) (Cowper)
  • *:And still they dream that they shall still succeed.
  • *(and other bibliographic particulars) (Dryden)
  • *:At length in sleep their bodies they compose, / And dreamt the future fight, and early rose.
  • (lb) To consider the possibility (of).
  • :
  • *1599-1602 , (William Shakespeare), (Hamlet) , Act I scene 5, lines 167-8
  • *:There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
  • *
  • *:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.

    • Derived terms

    * bedream * dream up * dream on

    Usage notes

    * "Dreamt" is less common in both US and UK English in current usage, though somewhat more prevalent in the UK than in the US. "Drempt" is quite rare, possibly just eye-dialect.

    References

    External links

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    Anagrams

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    magic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * magick (qualifier) Used as a deliberate archaism; used for supernatural magic, as distinguished from stage magic. * magicke (obsolete) * magique (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The use of rituals or actions, especially based on supernatural or occult knowledge, to manipulate or obtain information about the natural world, especially when seen as falling outside the realm of religion; also the forces allegedly drawn on for such practices.
  • *c. 1489 , (William Caxton), Foure Sonnes of Aymon :
  • *:And whan he shall be arrayed as I telle you / lete hym thenne doo his incantacyons & his magyke as he wyll […].
  • *1781 , (Edward Gibbon), Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , II.23:
  • *:The arts of magic and divination were strictly prohibited.
  • *1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 23:
  • *:Conversions to the new religion […] have frequently been assisted by the view of converts that they are acquiring not just a means of otherworldly salvation, but a new and more powerful magic .
  • A specific ritual or procedure associated with supernatural magic or with mysticism; a spell.
  • Something producing remarkable results, especially when not fully understood; an enchanting quality; exceptional skill.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement.}}
  • A conjuring trick or illusion performed to give the appearance of supernatural phenomena or powers.

    • Synonyms

    * (allegedly supernatural method to dominate natural forces) dwimmer, thaumaturgy, conjuring, sorcery, witchcraft, dweomercraft/dwimmercraft * (illusion performed to give the appearance of magic or the supernatural) sleight of hand, illusionism, legerdemain, dwimmer

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Having supernatural talents, properties or qualities attributed to magic.
    • a magic''' wand; a '''magic dragon
  • Producing extraordinary results, as though through the use of magic; wonderful, amazing.
    • a magic moment
  • Pertaining to conjuring tricks or illusions performed for entertainment etc.
    • a magic''' show; a '''magic trick
  • (colloquial) Great; excellent.
    • — I cleaned up the flat while you were out. — Really? Magic !
  • (physics) Describing the number of nucleons in a particularly stable isotopic nucleus; 2, 8, 20, 28, 50, 82, 126, and 184.

    • Synonyms

    * *

    Verb

    (magick)
  • To produce, transform (something), (as if) by magic.

    • Synonyms

    * (produce magically) conjure up

    Derived terms

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    Anagrams

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