desert
41desert — {{11}}desert (n.1) wasteland, early 13c., from O.Fr. desert (12c.) desert, wilderness, wasteland; destruction, ruin, from L.L. desertum (Cf. It. diserto, O.Prov. dezert, Sp. desierto), lit. thing abandoned (used in Vulgate to translate wilderness …
42desert — I des•ert [[t]ˈdɛz ərt[/t]] n. 1) ecl an arid, sandy region capable of supporting only a few, usu. specialized, life forms 2) ecl any area in which few forms of life can exist because of lack of water or absence of soil 3) any place lacking in… …
43desert — I. /ˈdɛzət / (say dezuht) noun 1. an area so deficient in moisture as to support only a sparse, widely spaced vegetation, or none at all. 2. any area in which few forms of life can exist because of lack of water, permanent frost, or absence of… …
44DÉSERT — n. m. Zone inculte et dépourvue d’habitants. Un immense désert. Le désert du Sahara. Le désert de Gobi. Le sable des déserts. Fig. et fam., Prêcher dans le désert. Voyez PRÊCHER. Il se dit, par exagération, d’un Lieu où il y a peu d’habitants; et …
45desert — 1. v. 1 tr. abandon, give up, leave (deserted the sinking ship). 2 tr. forsake or abandon (a cause or a person, people, etc., having claims on one) (deserted his wife and children). 3 tr. fail (his presence of mind deserted him). 4 intr. Mil. run …
46desert — de|sert1 [ dezərt ] noun ** 1. ) count or uncount a large area of land with few plants and little water and where the weather is always dry 2. ) count a boring place where nothing happens or where everything is the same: a desert of parking lots… …
47desert — English has three distinct words desert, which come from two separate sources. Desert ‘what one deserves’ [13] (now usually used in the plural) is related, as its meaning suggests, to the verb deserve. It comes from Old French desert or deserte,… …
48desert — English has three distinct words desert, which come from two separate sources. Desert ‘what one deserves’ [13] (now usually used in the plural) is related, as its meaning suggests, to the verb deserve. It comes from Old French desert or deserte,… …
49desert — The desert, or wilderness, round Mount Sinai in the south of Palestine where the Israelites wandered for ‘forty years a fter leaving Egypt (Deut. 8:2) was forever in their consciousness, as it was also for the writers of the NT. Jesus temptations …
50désert — adj. (ep. d un lieu où la solitude paraît pesante, et même un peu angoissante qqf.) : sèran, na, e <lugubre> (Saxel) ; solè, solèta / soltà, solète / soltè (Albanais.001). A1) désert, vide de monde : érmo, a, e (Villards Thônes), dézê(r),… …
