Parrot vs Freedom - What's the difference?
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A kind of bird, many species of which are colourful and able to mimic human speech, of the order Psittaciformes or (narrowly) of the family Psittacidae.
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A parroter; a person who repeats what was just said.
* 1837 , ,
(archaic) A puffin.
(geology, obsolete) Channel coal.
To repeat (exactly what has just been said) without necessarily showing understanding, in the manner of a parrot.
* 1996 , (15 June)
(uncountable) The state of being free, of not being imprisoned or enslaved.
(countable) The lack of a specific constraint, or of constraints in general; a state of being free, unconstrained.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)
, volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Frankness; openness; unreservedness.
* Milton
Improper familiarity; violation of the rules of decorum.
As a proper noun parrot
is .As a noun freedom is
(uncountable) the state of being free, of not being imprisoned or enslaved.parrot
English
(wikipedia parrot)Noun
(en noun)- I bought a wonderful parrot at the pet store.
- Mrs Merdle was at home, and was in her nest of crimson and gold, with the parrot' on a neighbouring stem watching her with his head on one side, as if he took her for another splendid ' parrot of a larger species.
- What kind of a parrot are you? He just said that.
- In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking . In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men’s thinking.
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* (English Citations of "parrot")Synonyms
* (kind of bird) popinjay, Psittaciformes * (person who repeats what was said) copycat, mimic, parroter * (puffin) puffin, sea-parrot, tomnoddy * (channel coal) channel coalHyponyms
* (kind of bird) (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l)Derived terms
* blood parrot * blood parrotfish * burrowing parrot * parrot's beak orchid * parrot's bill * parrot-billed sparrow * parrot bush * parrot-coal * parrot crossbill * parrot cry * parrot disease * parrot feather * parrot fever * parrot flower * parrot green * parrot lily * parrot pitcher plant * parrot snake * parrot toadstool * parrot waxcap * parrot weed * parrotbill * parrotfinch * parrotfish * parrothouse * parrotlet * parroty * sea-parrotSee also
* Polly * popinjay * * who's a pretty boy thenVerb
- So when political leaders parrot the tobacco company line, say cigarettes are not necessarily addictive, and oppose our efforts to keep tobacco away from our children, they continue to cater to powerful interests, but they're not standing up for parents and children.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "parrot")Synonyms
* (to repeat exactly) (l), (l)Derived terms
* parroter * parrot-fashion * parrotism * parrotize * parrotry * poll parrotAnagrams
*freedom
English
(wikipedia freedom)Noun
Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution, passage=The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.}}
- I emboldened spake and freedom used.
