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Definition: TO BELIEVE IN |
TO BELIEVE IN1. (a) To believe that the subject of the thought (if a person or thing) exists, or (if an event) that it has occurred, or will occur; -- as, to believe in the resurrection of the dead. ``She does not believe in Jupiter.'' --J. H. Newman. (b) To believe that the character, abilities, and purposes of a person are worthy of entire confidence; -- especially that his promises are wholly trustworthy. ``Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.'' --John xiv. 1. (c) To believe that the qualities or effects of an action or state are beneficial: as, to believe in sea bathing, or in abstinence from alcoholic beverages. |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I have to believe in a world outside my own mind. (Memento; writing credit: Bo Goldman; Lawrence Hauben) I want her to believe in love and virtue and the sanctity of marriage, and still not be able to stop herself. (Dangerous Liaisons; writing credit: Christopher Hampton. based on the novel 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses' by Choderlos de Laclos.) There's nothing in this world to believe in. (Cowboy Bebop; writing credit: Akihiko Inari) I used to believe in things too. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) I was at church Easter Sunday, and the minister was talking about the mystery of faith, and how easy it is to doubt what you can't prove, and how none of us saw the miracle at the Lord's tomb that day, all we had to do was to believe in it hard enough, and it would be true. (Millennium; writing credit: Eric Knight) | |
Lyrics | He tells me to believe in Jesus (Something To Believe In; performing artist: Poison) He's got nobody left to believe in (Somebody To Love; performing artist: QUEEN; writing credit: Freddie Mercury) I believe there's still much to believe in (Lost In Love; performing artist: Air Supply) We got something to believe in (Born To Be My Baby; performing artist: Bon Jovi) When there's nothing to believe in (Take It To The Limit; performing artist: EAGLES) | |
Song Titles | Something To Believe In (performing artist: Poison) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Author | Quotation |
Georg C. Lichtenberg | Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates. |
Prime Minister Winston Churchill | I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my father's house to believe in democracy. "Trust the people" -- that was his message. |
Voltaire | To believe in God is impossible -- not to believe in Him is absurd. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | GHOST, n. The outward and visible sign of an inward fear. He saw a ghost. It occupied -- that dismal thing! -- The path that he was following. Before he'd time to stop and fly, An earthquake trifled with the eye That saw a ghost. He fell as fall the early good; Unmoved that awful vision stood. The stars that danced before his ken He wildly brushed away, and then He saw a post. Jared Macphester Accounting for the uncommon behavior of ghosts, Heine mentions somebody's ingenious theory to the effect that they are as much afraid of us as we of them. Not quite, if I may judge from such tables of comparative speed as I am able to compile from memories of my own experience. There is one insuperable obstacle to a belief in ghosts. A ghost never comes naked: he appears either in a winding-sheet or "in his habit as he lived." To believe in him, then, is to believe that not only have the dead the power to make themselves visible after there is nothing left of them, but that the same power inheres in textile fabrics. Supposing the products of the loom to have this ability, what object would they have in exercising it? And why does not the apparition of a suit of clothes sometimes walk abroad without a ghost in it? These be riddles of significance. They reach away down and get a convulsive grip on the very tap-root of this flourishing faith. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Maureen O'Hara | I mean, just because things don't turn out the way you want them to the first time, you've still got to believe in people. |
Rush Limbaugh | Telling people to believe in themselves is the ultimate in compassion. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | People everywhere are coming to realize that what is involved is material well-being, human dignity, and the right to believe in and worship God. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Translations for "TO BELIEVE IN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Japanese Kanji | 徹する (to devote oneself, to do intently and exclusively, to go through, to penetrate, to sink in), 奉ずる (to dedicate, to follow, to obey, to present, to serve), 信ずる (to believe, to confide in, to have faith in, to place trust in), 信じる (to believe, to confide in, to have faith in, to place trust in). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | し"ずる (to believe, to confide in, to have faith in, to offer, to place trust in, to present), し"じる (to believe, to confide in, to have faith in, to place trust in), ほうずる (to dedicate, to follow, to inform, to obey, to present, to report, to serve), てっする (to devote oneself, to do intently and exclusively, to go through, to penetrate, to sink in). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | otay elievebay inay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-e-e-i-i-l-n-o-t-v" | |
-2 letters: olivenite. | |
-3 letters: lenitive. | |
-4 letters: beeline, believe, ebonite, invitee, olivine, veinlet, violent. | |
-5 letters: beetle, belive, biotin, blivet, bolete, boleti, bovine, eleven, elevon, entoil, etoile, invite, iolite, oleine, violet, violin. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-e-e-i-i-l-n-o-t-v" | |
+5 letters: interconvertible. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 4F 42 45 4C 49 45 56 45 49 4E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01001111 00100000 01000010 01000101 01001100 01001001 01000101 01010110 01000101 00100000 01001001 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T O   B E L I E V E   I N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 004F 0042 0045 004C 0049 0045 0056 0045 0049 004E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)544923639464339563924348 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Japanese Kanji | 辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 | 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ" |
Japanese Katakana | じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょ | 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ" |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Quotations: Familiar | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Quotations: Spoken 7. Quotations: Speeches 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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