(n.) A period of immeasurable duration; also, an emanation of the Deity. See Eon.
(n.) An immeasurable or infinite space of time; eternity; a long space of time; an age.
(n.) One of the embodiments of the divine attributes of the Eternal Being.
Example Sentences:
(1) Being without one for aeons – a day – made me realise how much I rely on it.
(2) The £40m dowry will be used to refurbish stores as Aeon outlets with the cash helping to preserve employment of Tesco's nearly 1,000 workforce.
(3) After the acres of print and aeons of time spent discussing the extremist takeover of the Labour party, a more pressing matter has been left more or less ignored.
(4) It seems an aeon since Ellen DeGeneres generated so much controversy for coming out as a lesbian on her TV show in 1997.
(5) In real-life terms, 16 years is aeons – certainly enough to break off a 12-year engagement, meet the father of my children, give birth to those children; lose my wonderful stepdad to a stroke, offer to be a surrogate mum; see my sister marry, divorce and fall in love again; experience my brother and his wife having a beautiful son; and buy one of those tremendous trampolines for the garden.
(6) Their bible is the International Chronostratigraphic Chart , the beautiful document that archives Earth history from the present back to the “informal” aeon of the Hadean, between 4bn and 4.6bn years ago (“informal” because vanishingly little is known about it).
(7) The smoke hung in the air for a small aeon before wind and the encroaching darkness removed the stain from the sky.
(8) Their specialism is the division of deep time into aeons, eras, periods, epochs and stages, and the establishment of temporal limits for those divisions and their subdivisions.
(9) 3.44pm BST 73rd over: England 161-7 (Ali 52, Jordan 1) Two slips, a silly point and a short leg, as Herath comes into Jordan, who doesn't see him as early as Prior or Ali - each block seems hurried - and then a jaffa bounces and spinds past the outside edge, aeons and hectares too good for him.
(10) It is not now, so clearly the climate has changed since aeons ago.
(11) "We are very pleased to announce this deal with Aeon and are confident this will deliver the best outcome for our staff and for our shareholders," said Clarke.
(12) This is an abridged version of an essay that appears in the digital-only magazine Aeon
(13) Aeon is expected to buy the rest of the shares in Tesco Japan in the autumn.
(14) Still, on it plods, aeons passing with every will-sapping shot of Alfie crying in a doorway, his cuckolded jowls flapping like windsocks.
(15) Trying to call a cab from one of the two main services is equally frustrating: you listen to Elton John for 20 minutes while holding an operator, then wait a further aeon or two for a recorded message to the effect that there no cabs available in your sector at the moment, and could you please call back later.
(16) It was as well behaved an opening to a game as these rivals have managed for aeons.
(17) Yet the tax system is full of such weirdnesses, and has been ever since married couples rightly stopped being taxed jointly, aeons ago.
(18) It's a swanky address but, as she points out, she bought it aeons ago, when even such lowly forms of life as political activists and freelance journalists could still afford a piece of Manhattan real estate.
(19) Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian Joseph Cooke This is an idea that’s been going on for aeons of time; this middle class thing like, ‘We’re different to you and you’re a lower class person so you stay on that side of void and eat at that cafe down there, and we’ll sit on this side and eat at this restaurant.” It’s like a mould.
(20) Despite the UK’s enthusiasm for Amazon , and similarly permissive test flights elsewhere in Europe, Canada and Australia, “no single country stands out as being aeons ahead of everyone else,” says Holland Michel.
Spirit
Definition:
(n.) Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself.
(n.) A rough breathing; an aspirate, as the letter h; also, a mark to denote aspiration; a breathing.
(n.) Life, or living substance, considered independently of corporeal existence; an intelligence conceived of apart from any physical organization or embodiment; vital essence, force, or energy, as distinct from matter.
(n.) The intelligent, immaterial and immortal part of man; the soul, in distinction from the body in which it resides; the agent or subject of vital and spiritual functions, whether spiritual or material.
(n.) Specifically, a disembodied soul; the human soul after it has left the body.
(n.) Any supernatural being, good or bad; an apparition; a specter; a ghost; also, sometimes, a sprite,; a fairy; an elf.
(n.) Energy, vivacity, ardor, enthusiasm, courage, etc.
(n.) One who is vivacious or lively; one who evinces great activity or peculiar characteristics of mind or temper; as, a ruling spirit; a schismatic spirit.
(n.) Temper or disposition of mind; mental condition or disposition; intellectual or moral state; -- often in the plural; as, to be cheerful, or in good spirits; to be downhearted, or in bad spirits.
(n.) Intent; real meaning; -- opposed to the letter, or to formal statement; also, characteristic quality, especially such as is derived from the individual genius or the personal character; as, the spirit of an enterprise, of a document, or the like.
(n.) Tenuous, volatile, airy, or vapory substance, possessed of active qualities.
(n.) Any liquid produced by distillation; especially, alcohol, the spirits, or spirit, of wine (it having been first distilled from wine): -- often in the plural.
(n.) Rum, whisky, brandy, gin, and other distilled liquors having much alcohol, in distinction from wine and malt liquors.
(n.) A solution in alcohol of a volatile principle. Cf. Tincture.
(n.) Any one of the four substances, sulphur, sal ammoniac, quicksilver, or arsenic (or, according to some, orpiment).
(n.) Stannic chloride. See under Stannic.
(v. t.) To animate with vigor; to excite; to encourage; to inspirit; as, civil dissensions often spirit the ambition of private men; -- sometimes followed by up.
(v. t.) To convey rapidly and secretly, or mysteriously, as if by the agency of a spirit; to kidnap; -- often with away, or off.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sheez, I thought, is that what the revolutionary spirit of 1789 and 1968 has come to?
(2) The spirit is great here, the players work very hard, we kept the belief when we were in third place and now we are here.
(3) Eight of the UK's biggest supermarkets have signed up to a set of principles following concerns that they were "failing to operate within the spirit of the law" over special offers and promotions for food and drink, the Office of Fair Trading has said.
(4) Olympic games are a competition between countries, but here spectators can freely choose which star to cheer for and unite as one,” said Inoki, a lawmaker in Japan’s upper house who was known as “Burning Fighting Spirit” in the ring.
(5) "I wanted it to have a romantic feel," says Wilson, "recalling Donald Campbell and his Bluebird machines and that spirit of awe-inspiring adventure."
(6) I would like to add the spirit within the dressing room, it is much better now.
(7) United have a fantastic spirit, we don't have the same spirit.
(8) Following exposure to white spirit vapour, the effect of the expired solvent on evidential breath alcohol equipment was investigated under controlled exposure chamber conditions and in a simulated painting exercise.
(9) Meeting the families shows how well-adjusted they are, their spirit and determination and the way they have acted is an absolute credit to themselves."
(10) Gin was popularised in the UK via British troops who were given the spirit as “Dutch courage” during the 30 years’ war.
(11) The main cause of oesophageal cancer in western countries is consumption of alcoholic beverages, the degree of risk being much greater for certain spirits than for wine or beer.
(12) Per adult (greater than or equal to 15 years) consumption of beer, wine, spirits and absolute alcohol for a 14-year period (1971--1984) was related to female breast cancer morbidity rates in Western Australia.
(13) At the front of the march was Lee Cheuk-yan, a former lawmaker of 20 years, carrying a banner calling for Liu’s spirit to inspire people.
(14) The country goes to the polls on Thursday in what observers see as its most spirited presidential race.
(15) People like Hugo forgot how truly miserable Paris had been for ordinary Parisians.” Out of a job and persona non grata in Paris, Haussmann spent six months in Italy to lift his spirits.
(16) This suggests that a surgical scrub should be used more widely in clinical practice, and that a spirit-based hand lotion might with advantage become a partial substitute for handwashing, particularly in areas where handwashing is frequent and iatrogenic coagulase-negative staphylococcal infection common.
(17) Horrocks plans to summon the spirit of Margaret Thatcher to make his case: “The [1970] Conservative government came in with a manifesto commitment to kill the Open University, to kill Harold Wilson’s brainchild at birth.
(18) And yet, the spirit of '68 endures, perhaps mythical, perhaps as a lingering sense of the possibilities that mass activism once had.
(19) In our time of rapidly changing life styles it is useful to understand that voices also mirror the spirit of an era.
(20) An increasing incidence of methylated spirit burns in barbecue users is documented in a three year retrospective survey.