Книга: Walker, Tim «Completion»
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Производитель: "Неизвестный" A sharp, perceptive and painfully funny book about money, love and the sorrows and joys of modern family life. MEET THE MANVILLES. JERRY, a former award-winning adman who s beginning to leave a trail of ex-wives and semi-estranged children. PEN, his artist ex-wife, who s a lot more in love with her new garden in the South of France than with her new husband. ISOBEL, their daughter, trapped in air-conditioned Dubai, too busy managing her online farm to raise her own children. CONRAD, her brother, who tends to his bicycles and his latest crush from a grotty flat-share in East London. The House on the Hill was once their happy family home, regularly featured in the newspaper lifestyle sections and in Pen s popular children s books. But the house has fallen out of use, and so has the family. When Pen decides it s finally time to sell, Jerry discovers some unexpected new occupants who aren t so eager to move on. Soon the Manvilles each of them funny, flawed and sporadically... ISBN:9780099559177 Издательство: "Неизвестный" (2014)
ISBN: 9780099559177 |
Walker
Walker Walk"er, n.
1. One who walks; a pedestrian.
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2. That with which one walks; a foot. [Obs.]
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Lame Mulciber, his walkers quite misgrown.
--Chapman.
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3. (Law) A forest officer appointed to walk over a certain
space for inspection; a forester.
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4. [AS. wealcere. See {Walk}, v. t., 3.] A fuller of cloth.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
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She cursed the weaver and the walker
The cloth that had wrought. --Percy's
Reliques.
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5. (Zo["o]l.) Any ambulatorial orthopterous insect, as a
stick insect.
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6. (construction, tunneling) A shift superintendent or assistant superintendent who supervises several shifters(4] and their crews. Since these crews are usually separated by some distance, the walker is frequently seen walking between them. Also called {walking boss}. [RDH]
Источник: Walker
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Completion — may refer to: Completeness Completion (American football) Completion (oil and gas wells) one stage of Conveyancing, transfer of the title of property from one person to another In mathematics: Completion (metric space) Completion (order theory)… … Wikipedia
completion — I noun accomplishment, achievement, attainment, climax, close, commission, conclusion, consequence, consummation, course, crowning, culmination, denouement, discharge, dissolution, effectuation, end, ending, entirety, execution, expiration,… … Law dictionary
Completion — Com*ple tion, n. [L. completio a filling, a fulfillment.] 1. The act or process of making complete; the getting through to the end; as, the completion of an undertaking, an education, a service. [1913 Webster] The completion of some repairs.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
completion — late 14c., from L. completionem (nom. completio), noun of action from complere to fill up, complete (see COMPLETE (Cf. complete)) … Etymology dictionary
completion — [n] accomplishment, finishing achievement, attainment, close, conclusion, consummation, culmination, curtains*, dispatch, end, expiration, finalization, finis, finish, fruition, fulfillment, hips*, integration, perfection, realization, swan song* … New thesaurus
