Years vs Sears - What's the difference?
years | sears |
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* 1981 , May 5 1718-PDT, Jim McGrath, Earliest Usenet use via Google Groups: fa.sf-lovers , said with a smile at an awards ceremony in the Pennsylvania state Capitol
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=
, magazine=(American Scientist), title= (colloquial, hyperbole) An unusually long time.
(sear)
Dry; withered, especially of vegetation.
To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument.
To wither; to dry up.
(figurative) To mark permanently, as if by burning.
A scar produced by searing
Part of a gun that retards the hammer until the trigger is pulled.
As a noun years
is plural of lang=en.As a verb sears is
third-person singular of sear.As a proper noun Sears is
{{surname|lang=en}.years
English
Noun
(head)- It will be a shorter book and it will not start four million years ago.
Katie L. Burke
In the News, passage=Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy.}}
Synonyms
* (unusually long time) ages, yonks, for ever,Statistics
*Anagrams
*sears
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* *sear
English
Alternative forms
* (l) * (l)Etymology 1
From (etyl) seer, seere, from (etyl) .Adjective
(en-adj)Etymology 2
From (etyl) seeren, seren, from (etyl) , Greek hauos'' ("dry"), Sanskrit ''s?sa'' ("drought"). The use in firearms terminology may relate to French ''serrer ("to grip").Verb
(en verb)- (Shakespeare)
- The events of that day were seared into her memory.
