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talent | innate |

As a noun talent

is talent.

As an adjective innate is

inborn; native; natural; as, innate vigor; innate eloquence.

As a verb innate is

to cause to exist; to call into being.

talent

English

(wikipedia talent)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (label) A unit of weight and money used in ancient times in Greece, the Roman Empire, and the Middle East.
  • * 1611 , Authorized Version, (w) XXV 14-15:
  • For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods. And unto one he gave five talents , to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey.
  • (label) A desire or inclination for something.
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  • But my hede said sir Palomydes I wille not ryde these thre dayes // therfor I pray you syr Dynadan abyde and ryde with vs / Feythfully said Dynadan I wylle not abyde for I haue suche a talent to see sir Tristram that I may not abyde longe from hym
  • A marked natural ability or skill.
  • (label) The men or (especially) women of a place or area, judged by their attractiveness.
  • * 2011 , Nic Venter, Wow! What a Life! (page 179)
  • I went down to the beach front, of course, for that was the first thing that all Vaalies did: to look at the sea and to check the talent on the beach.

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    innate

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Inborn; native; natural; as, innate vigor; innate eloquence.
  • Originating in, or derived from, the constitution of the intellect, as opposed to acquired from experience; as, innate ideas. See a priori, intuitive.
  • * South
  • There is an innate light in every man, discovering to him the first lines of duty in the common notions of good and evil.
  • * John Locke
  • how men may attain to all the knowledge they have, without the help of any innate impressions
  • (botany) Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament; as, an innate anther.
  • (Gray)

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    * Nouns often used with "innate": knowledge, idea, immunity, etc.

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    * innateness

    Verb

  • To cause to exist; to call into being.
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