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“person”
1. A human being regarded as an individual.
2. Someone who is characterized by a preference or liking for a specified thing.
3. Parts of grammar, a category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms, according to whether they indicate the speaker ( first person), the addressee ( second person), or a third party ( third person).
4. In Christian Theology, where each of the three persons of being God, namely the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, who together constitute the Trinity.
2. Someone who is characterized by a preference or liking for a specified thing.
3. Parts of grammar, a category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms, according to whether they indicate the speaker ( first person), the addressee ( second person), or a third party ( third person).
4. In Christian Theology, where each of the three persons of being God, namely the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, who together constitute the Trinity.
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person-, parson-
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(Latin: striving to equal; rivaling or competing with; imitate, imitating; trying to do something as well as or better than another system, person, or other people)
(Latin: suffix; indicating a person who specializes in something)
(Latin: a suffix; a person who, the thing which; people who, things which)
(Latin: a suffix forming adjectives from nouns ending in -ary; a person who, a thing that; a person who is a part of something, pertaining to one's state or condition; a person who has a connection with or belief in the stated subject; a promotor of something; a native or inhabitant of someplace; someone of a certain age)
(Latin: a suffix; a person who, a place where, a thing which, or pertaining to; connected with; having the character of; apparatus)
(Latin: a suffix; a person who; a thing which)
(Latin: a suffix; a person who)
(Greek: image, likeness; form of a person or object; a sacred, holy, or religious representaion)
(Greek > Latin > Old French > French: pretended ignorance; saying the opposite of what a person really means)
(Greek: talk, speak; speech; word; a person who speaks in a certain manner; someone who deals with topics or subjects)
(Latin: mendicare, to beg; a beggar; an infirm, wretched, miserable person)
(Greek: a feeble minded person; foolish; dull)
(Greek: a suffix meaning: to talk, to speak; a branch of knowledge; any science or academic field that ends in -ology which is a variant of -logy; a person who speaks in a certain manner; someone who deals with certain topics or subjects)
(Latin: human being; originally, character in a drama, mask)
(Latin: a sign, an omen, portent; a wonder, a person; especially, a child who is endowed with extraordinary qualities)
(Latin: one's own; to belong to a person, a thing, or a group)
(Greek: a person who crouches; than extended to a beggar, poor; paupers; modernized meanings: street people, homeless, vagrant, living in poverty)
(speaking a foreign language in English; the inability to tell what a person does not mean until he/she has spoken)
(Greek > Latin: any person or something of enormous size or power)
(Latin: animating, enlivening; vigorous, vigor, active; to be alive, activity, to quicken; then a quickening action of growing; a specific sense of "plant cultivated for food, edible herb, or root" is first recorded in 1767; the differences between the meanings from its original links with "life, liveliness" was completed in the early twentieth century, when vegetable came to be used for an "inactive person".)
(Latin > Italian: a person skilled in one of the fine arts, especially in music)
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“person”
Benign is what a person becomes after he or she is eight.
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paraprosdokian, paraprosdokia
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Efficiency expert: A person smart enough to tell others how to run their businesses but who is too smart to start his or her own.
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paraprosdokian, paraprosdokia
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Going to church doesn't make a person a Christian, any more than standing in a garage makes him or her a car.
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paraprosdokian, paraprosdokia
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Hands: A Personal, First Person Presentation
Cheiro Sinistro and Manual Dextro want you to know more about them by reading their hand revelations.
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Special Contents of Interest
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individual person
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Pleonasms or Tautological Redundancies
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person-to-person (adjective) (not comparable)
Something that takes place directly between two individuals: Jill received a person-to-person call from Jack's cell phone.
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person-, parson-
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Secret: something that is told to just one person at a time.
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paraprosdokian, paraprosdokia
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To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many sources is research.
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paraprosdokian, paraprosdokia
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two-person tandem *
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Pleonasms or Tautological Redundancies
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