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  • 111SUPERFLUIDITÉ — Le terme «superfluide» a été introduit en 1937 par P. Kapitza pour décrire les résultats de ses expériences sur l’hélium 4 liquide à très basse température. En effet, au dessous de 2,17 K celui ci est susceptible de s’écouler sans viscosité… …

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  • 112discourage — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. depress, dishearten, dismay; dissuade, deter. See dejection, dissuasion, fear.Ant., encourage, persuade. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To dishearten] Syn. dispirit, dampen, dismay, daunt, intimidate,… …

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  • 113dishearten — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. discourage, dispirit. See dejection. Ant., encourage, cheer. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. dampen, dismay, daunt, get down*; see depress 2 , discourage 1 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. discourage,… …

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  • 114undaunted — un|daunt|ed [ ʌn dɔntəd ] adjective determined and not afraid to continue doing something, even though it might be difficult: undaunted by: They seem undaunted by the huge amount of work involved. ╾ un|daunt|ed|ly adverb …

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  • 115domestic — [16] Domestic comes, via French domestique, from Latin domesticus, a derivative of domus ‘house’. This can be traced back to an Indo European *domo , *domu , which was also the source of Greek dómos and Sanskrit dama ‘house’, and goes back in its …

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  • 116tame — [OE] Tame evolved from a prehistoric Germanic *tamaz, which also produced German zahm and Dutch tam. This in turn was descended from the Indo European base *dom , which also lay behind Latin domāre ‘tame, subdue’ (source of English daunt [13] and …

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  • 117dauntless — 1590s, from DAUNT (Cf. daunt) + LESS (Cf. less). Related: Dauntlessly …

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  • 118undaunted — (adj.) mid 15c., with reference to horses, untamed, not broken in, from UN (Cf. un ) (1) not + pp. of DAUNT (Cf. daunt) (v.). In reference to persons, meaning intrepid is recorded from 1580s …

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  • 119undaunting — (adj.) 1786, not quailing [OED], from UN (Cf. un ) (1) not + prp. of DAUNT (Cf. daunt) …

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  • 120gʷes-, zgʷes- —     gʷes , zgʷes     English meaning: to extinguish     Deutsche Übersetzung: “erlöschen”     Material: O.Ind. jásate, jásyati “is erschöpft”, jüsa yati “löscht, erschöpft”; Maybe a truncated form in Alb.Gheg *jüsa yati, shuejt, shuajta (aor.)… …

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