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moss | bright |

As a noun moss

is (computing).

As a proper noun bright is

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moss

English

(wikipedia moss)

Noun

  • Any of various small, green, seedless plants growing on the ground or on the surfaces of trees, stones, etc.; now specifically, a plant of the division Bryophyta (formerly ).
  • (countable) A kind or species of such plants.
  • (informal) Any alga, lichen, bryophyte, or other plant of seemingly simple structure.
    • Spanish moss'''; Irish '''moss'''; club '''moss .
  • A bog; a fen.
    • the mosses of the Scottish border

    Usage notes

    * The plural form mosses'' is used when more than one kind of moss is meant. The singular ''moss is used referring to a collection of moss plants of the same kind.

    Hyponyms

    * (simple plant) alga, cryptogam, lichen

    Hypernyms

    * (Bryophyta) bryophyte

    Derived terms

    * (Tillandsia usneoides ) * (Bryozoa) * (Bartramia spp. ) * a rolling stone gathers no moss * et al) * black moss (Tillandsia usneoides ) * bog moss * ) * carrageen moss (Chondrus crispus ) * * ) * ) * ) * club moss, club-moss, (club-foot moss) (Lycopodiaceae) * ) * ) * ) * enmoss * ) * * (Tillandsia usneoides ) * ) * ) * head moss * ) * ) * Iceland moss () * idle-moss * Irish moss (Chondrus crispus ) * ) * (Tillandsia usneoides ) * ) * moss-agate * moss animal, (Bryozoa) * moss-back, mossback * moss-backed, mossbacked, mossy-backed * moss-bag * moss-bank * moss-basket * moss-bass * ) * moss-berry, (Vaccinium oxycoccos ) * (Botaurinae) * moss-box * ) * moss-carder, ) * ) * spp. ) * (Bryozoa) * ) * * ) * moss-earth * mossed * mosser * mossery * moss-fiber, moss-fibre * moss-flow * moss frog (Rhacophoridae) * mossful * moss-gold () * moss green * moss-grown, mossgrown * moss-hag, moss-hagg * moss-hagger * * moss-head * * moss-house * mossify * mossland * mossless * moss-litter * ) * moss-oak * moss opal * moss-peat * ) * mossplant * (Bryozoa) * moss-rake * moss-reeve * ) * ) * moss-seat * moss-starch * moss stitch * moss-tenant * moss-trooper * mosstroopery * moss-trooping * moss-whin () * ) * moss-wood * moss-work * mossy * oak moss * pearl moss (Chondrus crispus ) * peat-moss * ) * reindeer moss () * * ) * * * ''spp. ) * snake moss () * Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides ) * spike moss (Selaginellaceae) * ) * tree-moss * unmossed * white moss

    Verb

  • To become covered with moss.
    • An oak whose boughs were mossed with age.
  • To cover (something) with moss.

    • See also

    * muscoid

    References

    * A New English dictionary on historical principles , Volume 6, Sir James Augustus Henry Murray, Sir William Alexander Craigie, Charles Talbut Onions, editors, Clarendon Press, 1908, pages 684-6 ----

    bright

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Visually dazzling; luminous, lucent, clear, radiant; not dark.
  • :
  • *
  • *:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.
  • *Sir (Francis Drake) (c.1540-1596)
  • *:The earth was dark, but the heavens were bright .
  • * (1800-1859)
  • *:The public places were as bright as at noonday.
  • *(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (1807-1882)
  • *:The sun was bright o'erhead.
  • Having a clear, quick intellect; intelligent.
  • :
  • * Episode 16
  • *:—Ah, God, Corley replied, sure I couldn't teach in a school, man. I was never one of your bright ones, he added with a half laugh.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Revenge of the nerds , passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}
  • Vivid, colourful, brilliant.
  • :
  • *(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
  • *:Here the bright crocus and blue violet grew.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.}}
  • Happy, in (soplink).
  • :
  • *1937 , , (The Hobbit) , Ch.11:
  • *:Their spirits had risen a little at the discovery of the path, but now they sank into their boots; and yet they would not give it up and go away. The hobbit was no longer much brighter than the dwarves. He would do nothing but sit with his back to the rock-face and stare.
  • Sparkling with wit; lively; vivacious; cheerful.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:Be bright and jovial among your guests.
  • Illustrious; glorious.
  • *(Charles Cotton) (1630-1687)
  • *:the brightest annals of a female reign
  • Clear; transparent.
  • *(James Thomson) (1700-1748)
  • *:From the brightest wines / He'd turn abhorrent.
  • (lb) Manifest to the mind, as light is to the eyes; clear; evident; plain.
  • *(Isaac Watts) (1674-1748)
  • *:with brighter evidence, and with surer success

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * * brighten * bright-eyed * bright-eyed and bushy-tailed * brightness * bright side * bright young thing * brightwork * eyebright

    See also

    * (Brights movement)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An artist's brush used in oil and acrylic painting with a long ferrule and a flat, somewhat tapering bristle head.
  • (obsolete) splendour; brightness
  • * Milton
    • Dark with excessive bright thy skirts appear.
  • (neologism) A person with a naturalistic worldview with no supernatural or mystical elements.
  • * {{quote-news, date = 2003-06-20
    • , title = The future looks bright , first = Richard , last = Dawkins , authorlink = Richard Dawkins , newspaper = (The Guardian) , issn = 0261-3077 , url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003/jun/21/society.richarddawkins , passage = Brights' constitute 60% of American scientists, and a stunning 93% of those scientists good enough to be elected to the elite National Academy of Sciences (equivalent to Fellows of the Royal Society) are ' brights . }}
  • * {{quote-book, date = 2006-02-02
    • , title = Breaking the Spell: Religion As a Natural Phenomenon , first = Daniel C. , last = Dennett , authorlink = Daniel C. Dennett , location = New York , publisher = Viking , isbn = 9780670034727 , ol = 3421576M , page = 27 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=yWtwDDqR61QC&pg=PA27&dq=brights , passage = Many of us brights' have devoted considerable time and energy at some point in our lives to looking at the arguments for and against the existence of God, and many ' brights continue to pursue these issues, hacking away vigorously at the arguments of believers as if they were trying to refute a rival scientific theory. }}
  • * {{quote-book, date = 2008-03-17
    • , title = The Delusion of Disbelief: Why the New Atheism Is a Threat to Your Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness , first = David , last = Aikman , location = Carol Stream , publisher = Tyndale House Publishers , isbn = 9781414317083 , ol = 24967138M , page = 28 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=zn6XkS-4BJcC&pg=PA28&dq=brights , passage = Dawkins has received appreciative letters from people who were formerly what he derisively calls "faith-heads" who have abandoned their delusions and come over to the side of the brights , the pleasant green pastures where clear-eyed, brave, bold, and supremely brainy atheists graze contentedly. }}
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    • Antonyms

    * (non-supernaturalist) (neologism) super, supernaturalist

    Hyponyms

    * (non-supernaturalist) atheist

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