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delegate
noun
a person designated to act for or represent another or others; deputy; representative, as in a political convention.
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English delegate ultimately comes from Latin 诲脓濒脓驳腻迟耻蝉 鈥渁ppointee,鈥� a noun use of the past participle of the verb 诲脓濒脓驳腻谤别 鈥渢o appoint, assign,鈥� a compound of the prefix 诲脓- 鈥渁way (from here)鈥� and the simple verb 濒脓驳腻谤别 鈥渢o send as an envoy, depute,鈥� a derivative of the noun lex (stem 濒脓驳-) 鈥渓aw鈥� (source of legal and, via Old French, loyal). Formerly in U.S legal and constitutional usage, a delegate was the title of a representative of a state in the First Continental Congress (1774), and later the title of the representative of a Territory in the U.S. House of Representatives. Delegate entered English in the 14th century.
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By the end of Super Tuesday, more than a third of all convention delegates will have been pledged nationally.
By the mid-1960s, Nixon was still regarded as a joke by the national press and the national party structure, but he found himself with more and more friends at the party’s local level, friends who would eventually be delegates to the 1968 Republican Convention.
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astronaut
noun
a person engaged in or trained for spaceflight.
Why NASA chose astronaut
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Astronaut entered the orbit of English speakers in the late 1800s from the realm of science fiction. The first recorded instance comes from an 1880 novel by Percy Greg called Across the Zodiac: The Story of a Wrecked Record, in which Astronaut is the name of the narrator’s spacecraft. The sense under discussion today, “a person engaged in or trained for spaceflight,” emerged in the 1920s, decades before the launch of Sputnik (1957) marked the beginning of the Space Age. Astronaut is a compound of astro– “pertaining to stars or celestial bodies or to activities, as spaceflight, taking place outside the earth’s atmosphere,” from Greek 谩蝉迟谤辞苍 “star, constellation,” and –naut a combining form meaning “traveler,” from Greek 苍补煤迟脓蝉 “蝉补颈濒辞谤.”听
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In the latter part of the twentieth century, those fantasies [of conquering space] were replaced by actual vehicles which could venture into space and a daring new breed of hero鈥攖he astronaut.
From the very beginning this “astronaut” business was just an unbelievable good deal. It was such a good deal that it seemed like tempting fate for an astronaut to call himself an astronaut, even though that was the official job description.
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丑补产颈迟耻茅
noun
a frequent or habitual visitor to a place: a 丑补产颈迟耻茅 of art galleries.
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贬补产颈迟耻茅, 鈥渁 frequent or habitual visitor,鈥� still feels very French in its spelling and pronunciation. 贬补产颈迟耻茅 is often used for someone who frequents places of recreation or amusement, such as poolrooms, bars, or used bookstores. French 丑补产颈迟耻茅 is a noun use of the masculine past participle of the verb habituer 鈥渢o frequent,鈥� from Late Latin 丑补产颈迟耻腻谤别, a derivative of the Latin noun habitus 鈥渟tate, state of being, condition.鈥� 贬补产颈迟耻茅 entered English in the 19th century.
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Mr. Zegen is a hunter and gatherer of no mean talent, a gift he said he inherited from his mother, a 丑补产颈迟耻茅 of garage, estate and yard sales, who scored the red-and-black rug on the floor in the living room.
丑补产颈迟耻茅