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| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun Plural | 1. Plural inflection of the noun essay.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Noun Base (essay) |
1. An analytic or interpretive literary composition.[Wordnet]. 2. A tentative attempt.[Wordnet]. 3. An effort made, or exertion of body or mind, for the performance of anything; a trial; attempt; as, to make an essay to benefit a friend.[Websters]. 4. A composition treating of any particular subject; -- usually shorter and less methodical than a formal, finished treatise; as, an essay on the life and writings of Homer; an essay on fossils, or on commerce.[Websters]. 5. An assay.[Websters]. | |
| Verb Present Tense | 1. Present tense 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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"Essays" is a common misspelling or typo for: essayes. |
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Date "Essays" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1514. (references) |
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| Essays and Reviews | Essays and Reviews, published in 1860, is a collection of seven essays on religion, covering topics including the Biblical researches of the German critics, the evidences of Christianity, religious thought in England, and the cosmology of Genesis. (references) | ||
| Essays in Musical Analysis | Donald Francis Tovey's Essays in Musical Analysis are a series of analytical essays on classical music. (references) | ||
| Essays of George Orwell | George Orwell (pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair, the influential English author and critic) published two volumes of his essays during his life, Inside the Whale and Other Essays in 1940, and Critical Essays in 1946. Since his death, many collections of essays have appeared, most comprehensively the four volume Collected Essays, Letters and Journalism edited by his last wife, Sonia Orwell, which was published in 1968, and the last eleven volumes of the twenty volume The Complete Works of George Orwell, edited by Peter Davidson, which appeared in 1998. (references) | ||
| Essays on Chinese Characters | Essays on Chinese Characters (pinyin zi yuan) is a Eastern Jin Dynasty Chinese text by Ge Hong, in which the Chinese character 塔 (pinyin ta), meaning pagoda, first appears. (references) | ||
| Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy | Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy is a treatise on political economics by John Stuart Mill. (references) | ||
| How to Tell a Story and other Essays | A series of essays by Twain which describe his own writing style, attack the idiocy of a fellow author, defend the virtue of a dead woman, and try to protect ordinary citizens from insult by railroad conductors. (references) | ||
| My Belief: Essays on Life and Art | My Belief: Essays on Life and Art is a collection of essays written by the German author Hermann Hesse between 1904 and 1961, edited by Theodore Ziolkowski and first published in English in 1976. They were originally published in German individually and in various collections between 1951 and 1973. (references) | ||
| Physics Essays | Physics Essays " An International Journal Dedicated To Fundamental Questions In Physics" is a quarterly international publication started in 1988, by the Editor, Emilo Panarella, a fusion researcher, Chief Technology Officer of ALFT (at the time, Advanced Laser and Fusion Technology, Inc.). This publication publishes theoretical and experimental work in a wide variety of fields within physics, but is especially noted for sponsoring conferences in fusion research and publishing alternatives theories of relativity and quantum mechanics. (references) | ||
| Sketches of Etruscan Places and other Italian essays | Sketches of Etruscan Places and other Italian Essays, or Etruscan Places, is a collection of travel writings by D H Lawrence, first published posthumously in 1932. (references) | ||
| The World's Last Night and Other Essays | The World's Last Night and Other Essays is a 1960 collection of essays by C.S. Lewis where (among other things) he addresses the concept of Parousia. (references) | ||
| Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality | Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality was a 1905 work by Sigmund Freud which advanced his theory of sexuality, in particular its relation to childhood. In short, Freud argued that "perversion" was present even among the healthy, and that the path towards a mature and normal sexual attitude began not at puberty but at early childhood (see psychosexual development). Looking at children, Freud claimed to find a number of practices which looked innocuous but were really forms of sexual activity (thumb sucking was a primary example, the implications being fairly obvious). Freud also sought to link his theory of the unconscious put forward in The Interpretation of Dreams (1899) and his work on hysteria by means of positing sexuality as the driving force of both neuroses (through repression) and perversion. It also included the concepts of penis envy, castration anxiety, and the yet-unnamed Oedipal conflict. (references) | ||
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| Essays [Publication Type] | Health | Collections of papers and essays not previously published. (references) | |
| Hisp amer essays | Library Science | Hispanic American Essays. A Memorial to James Alexander Robertson, Edited by A. Curtis Wilgus. The University of North Carolina Press. Chapel Hill, North Carolina. (references) | |
| MACLAS Lat. Am. Essays | Library Science | MACLAS Latin American Essays. Univ. of Delaware. Newark, Del. (references) | |
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"essays" is a common misspelling or typo for: essayes. |
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dissertations, endeavors, attempts, essay, articles, assays, disquisitions, compositions, efforts, dissertation, offers, treatise, theses, thesis, papers, struggles, tastes, tests, trials, adjudicates, adventures, aims, analyses, auditions, canvasses, evidences, judges, rises, screens, searches, stresses. Consider also: bids, discourses, reviews, critiques, comments, endeavours, exertions, experiments, labours, reports, studies, themes, tracts, treatises, writings, memoirs, ventures, stabs, debates, passes, presses. | |
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tries, proves, seeks, strives, analyzes, demonstrates, establishes, examines, leavens, raises, renders, shews, shows, testifies. Consider also: goes, exerts, competes, decides, determines, intends, selects, succeeds, suggests, threatens, considers, discusses, observes, commentates, deliberates, scrutinizes, tempts. | |
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immolates, essayed, essaying, essayer, treatiser. | |
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miscellaneous writings. | |
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| Language | Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses) | |||
| Al Arabiya | مقالات (essay, essays, articles), اِسْتِقْراء (induction, essay, essayed, essaying, essays), تَجْرِبَة (assay, attempt, experience, experiment, expertise), اِخْتِبَار (assay, assaying, expertise, test, testing), جَرَّبَ (experience, experiment, test, try, attempt), تَخَبَّرَ (ask, asked, asking, asks, endeavor), اِبْتَلَى (endeavor, endeavored, endeavoring, endeavors, essay), مَوْضُوعٌ إِنْشَائِيّ (essay, essayed, essaying, essays), مَقَال (article, essay, articled, articles, articling), تَجْرِيب (testing, essay, essayed, essaying, essays). Additional references: Al Arabiya, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Al Fus-Ha | مقالات (essay, essays, articles), اِسْتِقْراء (induction, essay, essayed, essaying, essays), تَجْرِبَة (assay, attempt, experience, experiment, expertise), اِخْتِبَار (assay, assaying, expertise, test, testing), جَرَّبَ (experience, experiment, test, try, attempt), تَخَبَّرَ (ask, asked, asking, asks, endeavor), اِبْتَلَى (endeavor, endeavored, endeavoring, endeavors, essay), مَوْضُوعٌ إِنْشَائِيّ (essay, essayed, essaying, essays), مَقَال (article, essay, articled, articles, articling), تَجْرِيب (testing, essay, essayed, essaying, essays). Additional references: Al Fus-Ha, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Arabic | مقالات (essay, essays, articles), اِسْتِقْراء (induction, essay, essayed, essaying, essays), تَجْرِبَة (assay, attempt, experience, experiment, expertise), اِخْتِبَار (assay, assaying, expertise, test, testing), جَرَّبَ (experience, experiment, test, try, attempt), تَخَبَّرَ (ask, asked, asking, asks, endeavor), اِبْتَلَى (endeavor, endeavored, endeavoring, endeavors, essay), مَوْضُوعٌ إِنْشَائِيّ (essay, essayed, essaying, essays), مَقَال (article, essay, articled, articles, articling), تَجْرِيب (testing, essay, essayed, essaying, essays). Additional references: Arabic, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Bahasa Indonesia | berusaha (endeavour, essay, labour, contrive, try). Additional references: Bahasa Indonesia, Indonesia, Java, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Bohemian | literární úvaha (essay, essays), pojednání (treatise, dissertation, discourse, paper, tract), eseje (essays). Additional references: Bohemian, Czech Republic, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Brazilian Portuguese | essays (essays). Additional references: Brazilian Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Central Danish | essayer (essays). Additional references: Central Danish, Denmark, Germany, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Central Tai | เรียงความ ความพยายามลองดู (essay, essays). Additional references: Central Tai, Thailand, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Cestina | literární úvaha (essay, essays), pojednání (treatise, dissertation, discourse, paper, tract), eseje (essays). Additional references: Cestina, Czech Republic, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Chinese Simplified | 散文 (prose, proses, essay, essays, verse), 论文 (treatise, paper, thesis, dissertation, essay), 学校的短文 (school essays), 免费的散文 (free essays), 梦溪笔谈 (Dream Pool Essays), 篇 (article, chapter, piece of writing, sheet, books). Additional references: Chinese Simplified, China, Brunei, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Chinese Traditional | 散文 (prose, essay, essays, proses), 學校的短文 (school essays), 免費的散文 (free essays), 夢溪筆談 (Dream Pool Essays), 篇 (chapter, article, piece of writing, sheet, part). Additional references: Chinese Traditional, China, Brunei, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Czech | literární úvaha (essay, essays), pojednání (treatise, dissertation, discourse, paper, tract), eseje (essays). Additional references: Czech, Czech Republic, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Danish | essayer (essays). Additional references: Danish, Denmark, Germany, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Dansk | essayer (essays). Additional references: Dansk, Denmark, Germany, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Dari | آزمايش كردن (essay, essays, grope, groping). Additional references: Dari, Iran, Indo-European, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Deutsch | Aufsätze (essays, themes), Abhandlungen (treatises, disquisitions, essays, lucubrations). Additional references: Deutsch, Germany, Austria, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Dutch | essay (essay, essays). Additional references: Dutch, Netherlands, Aruba, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Finnish | aine (composition, essay, material, stuff, substance). Additional references: Finnish, Finland, Russia (Europe), essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Français | rédactions (essays), essaye (tries, essays), essais (assays, testing, trial, essays, inspection and approval), corriger des dissertations (grade essays). Additional references: Français, France, Algeria, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| French | rédactions (essays), essaye (tries, essays), essais (assays, testing, trial, essays, inspection and approval), corriger des dissertations (grade essays). Additional references: French, France, Algeria, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| German | Aufsätze (essays, themes), Abhandlungen (treatises, disquisitions, essays, lucubrations). Additional references: German, Germany, Austria, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Greek | αποπειρώμαι (attempt, bid, essay, essays). Additional references: Greek, Greece, Albania, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Greek (transliteration) | apopeiromai (attempt, bid, essay, essays). Additional references: Greek, Greece, Albania, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Hebrew | רוביח (essay, essays, linkage). Additional references: Hebrew, Israel, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| High Arabic | مقالات (essay, essays, articles), اِسْتِقْراء (induction, essay, essayed, essaying, essays), تَجْرِبَة (assay, attempt, experience, experiment, expertise), اِخْتِبَار (assay, assaying, expertise, test, testing), جَرَّبَ (experience, experiment, test, try, attempt), تَخَبَّرَ (ask, asked, asking, asks, endeavor), اِبْتَلَى (endeavor, endeavored, endeavoring, endeavors, essay), مَوْضُوعٌ إِنْشَائِيّ (essay, essayed, essaying, essays), مَقَال (article, essay, articled, articles, articling), تَجْرِيب (testing, essay, essayed, essaying, essays). Additional references: High Arabic, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| High German | Aufsätze (essays, themes), Abhandlungen (treatises, disquisitions, essays, lucubrations). Additional references: High German, Germany, Austria, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Hochdeutsch | Aufsätze (essays, themes), Abhandlungen (treatises, disquisitions, essays, lucubrations). Additional references: Hochdeutsch, Germany, Austria, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Indonesian | berusaha (endeavour, essay, labour, contrive, try). Additional references: Indonesian, Indonesia, Java, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Italian | temi (themes, Themis, apprehend, essays, mark), saggi (essays, wise), saggi letterari d'interesse passeggero (fugitive essays), saggistica (essay writing, literary essays). Additional references: Italian, Italy, Croatia, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Ivrit | רוביח (essay, essays, linkage). Additional references: Ivrit, Israel, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Japanese | 随筆 (essays, essay, miscellaneous writings, causerie, writings), 随想録 (collection of miscellaneous thoughts, essays), 記念論文集 (essays in celebration of something), essays, festschrift), ずいひつ (essays, miscellaneous writings), ずいそうろく (collection of miscellaneous thoughts, essays), きねんろんぶんしゅう (essays), エッセイ (essay, essays, essayes), 志集 (magazine, booklet of essays, booklet, essays), 漫文 (rambling essays, random jottings). Additional references: Japanese, Japan, Taiwan, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Kisuaheli | insha (essay, essays, composition, draft, theme). Additional references: Kisuaheli, Tanzania, Burundi, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Kiswahili | insha (essay, essays, composition, draft, theme). Additional references: Kiswahili, Tanzania, Burundi, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Norwegian | essay (essay, essays, attempt, composition, trial), Essayer (essays). Additional references: Norwegian, Norway, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Parsi | آزمايش كردن (essay, essays, grope, groping). Additional references: Parsi, Iran, Indo-European, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Persian | آزمايش كردن (essay, essays, grope, groping). Additional references: Persian, Iran, Indo-European, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Persian (Farsi) | آزمايش كردن (essay, essays, grope, groping). Additional references: Persian (Farsi), Iran, Indo-European, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Polish | esej (essay, essays), eseje (essays). Additional references: Polish, Poland, Czech Republic, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Polnisch | esej (essay, essays), eseje (essays). Additional references: Polnisch, Poland, Czech Republic, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Polski | esej (essay, essays), eseje (essays). Additional references: Polski, Poland, Czech Republic, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Portuguese | ensaios (commissioning, essays, rehearsals, command system tests, testing), essays (essays). Additional references: Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Ruotsi | försök (attempt, experiment, test, essay, attempts). Additional references: Ruotsi, Sweden, Finland, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Russian | эссе (essay, essays). Additional references: Russian, Russia, China, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Russian (transliteration) | esse (essay, essays). Additional references: Russian, Russia, China, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Russki | эссе (essay, essays). Additional references: Russki, Russia, China, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Russki (transliteration) | esse (essay, essays). Additional references: Russki, Russia, China, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Siamese | เรียงความ ความพยายามลองดู (essay, essays). Additional references: Siamese, Thailand, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Sjaelland | essayer (essays). Additional references: Sjaelland, Denmark, Germany, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Slovak | eseje (essays). Additional references: Slovak, Slovakia, Hungary, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Slovakian | eseje (essays). Additional references: Slovakian, Slovakia, Hungary, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Spanish | ensayos (assays, essays, rehearsals). Additional references: Spanish, Spain, Mexico, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Standard Thai | เรียงความ ความพยายามลองดู (essay, essays). Additional references: Standard Thai, Thailand, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Suomea | aine (composition, essay, material, stuff, substance). Additional references: Suomea, Finland, Russia (Europe), essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Suomi | aine (composition, essay, material, stuff, substance). Additional references: Suomi, Finland, Russia (Europe), essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Svenska | försök (attempt, experiment, test, essay, attempts). Additional references: Svenska, Sweden, Finland, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Swahili | insha (essay, essays, composition, draft, theme). Additional references: Swahili, Tanzania, Burundi, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Swedish | försök (attempt, experiment, test, essay, attempts). Additional references: Swedish, Sweden, Finland, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Thai | เรียงความ ความพยายามลองดู (essay, essays). Additional references: Thai, Thailand, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Thaiklang | เรียงความ ความพยายามลองดู (essay, essays). Additional references: Thaiklang, Thailand, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Ukrainian | Ессе (essays). Additional references: Ukrainian, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Ukrainian (transliteration) | esse (essays). Additional references: Ukrainian, essays. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
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