emancipate |
1. v. To set free from the power of another; to liberate; as: | |
2. v. To set free, as a minor from a parent | |
a father may emancipate a child | |
3. v. To set free from bondage; to give freedom to; to manumit | |
to emancipate a slave | |
emancipate a country | |
4. v. To free from any controlling influence, especially from anything which exerts undue or evil influence | |
emancipate someone from prejudices or error | |
5. adj. Freed; set at liberty. | |
someone |
1. pron. Some person. | |
Can someone help me, please? | |
2. n. A partially specified but unnamed person. | |
Do you need a gift for that special someone? | |
3. n. an important person | |
He thinks he has become someone. | |
from |
1. prep. With the source or provenance of or at. | |
This wine comes from France. | |
I got a letter from my brother. | |
2. prep. With the origin, starting point or initial reference of or at. | |
He had books piled from floor to ceiling. | |
He left yesterday from Chicago. | |
Face away from the wall! | |
3. prep. (mathematics, now uncommon) Denoting a subtraction operation. | |
20 from 31 leaves 11. | |
4. prep. With the separation, exclusion or differentiation of. | |
An umbrella protects from the sun. | |
He knows right from wrong. | |
prejudices |
1. n. plural of prejudice | |
prejudice |
1. n. An adverse judgment or opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge of the facts. | |
2. n. Any preconceived opinion or feeling, whether positive or negative. | |
3. n. An irrational hostile attitude, fear or hatred towards a particular group, race or religion. | |
I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally. | |
4. n. (obsolete) Knowledge formed in advance; foresight, presaging. | |
5. n. (obsolete) Mischief; hurt; damage; injury; detriment. | |
6. v. To have a negative impact on (someone's position, chances etc.). | |
7. v. To cause prejudice in; to bias the mind of. | |
or |
1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...) | |
In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian. | |
He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what. | |
2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or. | |
3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities. | |
4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false). | |
It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold! | |
5. conj. Connects two equivalent names. | |
The country Myanmar, or Burma | |
6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR | |
7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on). | |
10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously. | |
11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere. | |
error |
1. n. The state, quality, or condition of being wrong. | |
2. n. A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately. | |
3. n. Sin; transgression. | |
4. n. (computing) A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination. | |
5. n. (statistics) The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one. | |
6. n. (baseball) A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly. | |
7. n. (appellate legal) One or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement. | |
8. n. Any alteration in the DNA chemical structure occurring during DNA replication, recombination or repairing. | |
9. v. (computing) To function improperly due to an error, especially accompanied by error message. | |
The web-page took a long time to load and errored out. | |
Remove that line of code and the script should stop erroring there. | |
This directory errors with a "Permission denied" message. | |
10. v. (telecommunications) To show or contain an error or fault. | |
The block transmission errored near the start and could not be received. | |
11. v. (nonstandard) To err. | |