| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To try, test, experiment, attempt or endeavor.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To tempt or entice.[Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Present participle conjugation of the verb essay.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (essay) | 1. Make an effort or attempt; "The infant had essayed a few wobbly steps".[Wordnet]. 2. Put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to; "This approach has been tried with good results"; "Test this recipe".[Wordnet]. 3. To exert one's power or faculties upon; to make an effort to perform; to attempt; to endeavor; to make experiment or trial of; to try.[Websters]. 4. To test the value and purity of (metals); to assay.[Websters]. 5. Base verb from the following inflections: essaying, essayed, essays, essayist, essayists, essayingly and essayedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "ESSAYING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Specialty Definition: ESSAYING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Trying; making an effort; attempting.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] An Attempt; a try. (references) | 2: [Verb] Present participle of essay. (references) | |
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Common Expressions: essay
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Admissions essay | An admissions essay is written by a potential student as part of a some college admissions processes in order to get to know more about the student than what forms can provide. Usually it is about oneself although some colleges allow one to write about anything. Generally, there is a maximum word limit on the essay to lighten the work load of the reviewers. (references) | ||
| An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | An Essay Concerning Human Understanding is one of John Locke's two most famous works, the other being his Second Treatise on Civil Government. First appearing in 1689, the essay concerns the foundation of human knowledge and understanding. He describes the mind at birth as a blank sheet, or tabula rasa, being filled later through experiences. The essay was one of the principal sources of empiricism in modern philosophy, and influenced philosophers such as Hume and Kant. (references) | ||
| An Essay on Censorship | An Essay on Censorship is a lengthy letter, in verse, by Anthony Burgess addressed to his fellow novelist Salman Rushdie. Published in the wake of the 1989 Iranian fatwa against Rushdie and the Bradford book-burnings that followed, Burgess's letter has been compared to the Essay on Man of Alexander Pope. (references) | ||
| An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races | An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races by Joseph Arthur Comte de Gobineau is an early and significant work defining the concept of Scientific racism and White supremacy. (references) | ||
| An Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language | The best remembered of the numerous works of John Wilkins was An Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language (London, 1668), in which he expounds a new universal language for the use of philosophers. (references) | ||
| Essay of Dramatick Poesie | Essay of Dramatick Poesie is a work of dramaturgy by John Dryden published in 1668. It was probably written during the plague year of 1666. Dryden takes up the subject that Philip Sidney had set forth in his Defence of Poesie (1580) and attempts to justify drama as a legitimate art form. (references) | ||
| Extended Essay | The Extended Essay (EE) is one of the requirements of the IB Diploma Programme. It is an essay of up to 4,000 words, written on a freely-chosen topic, and provides the students with an opportunity to conduct independent research on a topic that interests them. The student writing an EE works together with a supervisor who advises and guides them in the writing process. In total, students are expected to spend about 40 hours on writing the EE, but some students use a shorter and others a longer amount of time. The Extended Essay is externally assessed (graded) by the International Baccalaureate Organization. (references) | ||
| Prince Consort Essay | The Prince Consort Essay was a surface printed postage stamp essay, created in 1850 as an example of the surface printed stamps that Henry Archer proposed to print and perforate under contract with the British government at a lower price than the current printing firm of Perkins Bacon. The Prince Consort stamps were provided by Robert Edward Branston, from an engraving executed by Samuel William Reynolds. (references) | ||
| That Darn Essay | That Darn Essay was a unsucsesful musical starring FW De Klerk and Tom Cruise. Schoolmates De Klerk and Cruise are given an essay on history but my cant do it because they are to lazy. So they decided to cheat by telling a nerd at gunpoint to do the work for them. The nerd complyed and completed the work. (references) | ||
| To exibit an essay | To declaim or otherwise present it in public. [Obs.]. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
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Specialty Expressions: essay
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Bibliographic essay | Art | A critical essay in which the bibliographer identifies and evaluates the core literature of a subdiscipline or field of study, providing guidance to students, researchers, and collection development librarians (example: the bibliographic essay published at the beginning of each issue of the review journal CHOICE). Compare with literature review. (references) | |
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