Exercise

  • 31exercise — 1. noun /ˈɛk.sə.saɪz,ˈɛk.sɚ.saɪz/ a) Any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability. The teacher told us the next exercise is to write an essay. b) Physical activity intended to improve strength and fitness …

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  • 32exercise — 1. Active: bodily exertion for the sake of restoring the organs and functions to a healthy state or keeping them healthy. 2. Passive: motion of limbs without effort by the patient. isometric e. e. consisting of muscular contractions without… …

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  • 33exercise — [14] The notion underlying exercise is of ‘removal of restraint’. It comes ultimately from Latin exercēre, a compound verb formed from the prefix ex ‘out of, from’ and arcēre ‘restrain, enclose’ (source of English arcane and related to English… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 34exercise —    copulation    Usually taken in a horizontal position:    The looks he gave me when he was talking about faith and the Blessed Virgin. It isn t only the bishops who like to get their exercise. (R. Doyle, 1996 a woman had a conversation with a… …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • 35exercise — [14] The notion underlying exercise is of ‘removal of restraint’. It comes ultimately from Latin exercēre, a compound verb formed from the prefix ex ‘out of, from’ and arcēre ‘restrain, enclose’ (source of English arcane and related to English… …

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  • 36Exercise — When a stockholder takes advantage of a privilege offered by a company or other financial institution. This includes warrants, options and other exotic financial instruments. When you exercise your stock option, you trade in your options for the… …

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  • 37exercise — See exercise, exorcise …

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  • 38exercise — exercice фр. [эгзэрси/с] exercise англ. [э/ксэсайз] Exerzitium нем. [экзэрци/циум] упражнение …

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  • 39Exercise —   Refer instead to Exercise, Subscribe and Convert …

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  • 40exercise — I. n. 1. Practice, use, appliance, application, performance, operation, employment. 2. Exertion, labor, work, toil, effort, action, activity. 3. Training, schooling, discipline, drill, drilling. 4. Lesson, task, test lesson, examples for practice …

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