ESSAY
\ˈɛse͡ɪ], \ˈɛseɪ], \ˈɛ_s_eɪ]\
Definitions of ESSAY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to; "This approach has been tried with good results"; "Test this recipe"
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an analytic or interpretive literary composition
By Princeton University
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put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to; "This approach has been tried with good results"; "Test this recipe"
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an analytic or interpretive literary composition
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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An assay. See Assay, n.
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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.
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To test the value and purity of (metals); to assay. See Assay.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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An assay. See Assay, n.
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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.
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To test the value and purity of (metals); to assay. See Assay.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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A literary composition on some special subject; an attempt; experiment.
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To try or attempt.
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Essayed.
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Essaying.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A trial: an experiment: a written composition less elaborate than a treatise.
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To try: to attempt: to make experiment of:-pr.p. essaying; pa.p. essayed'.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
