(a.) Involving surds; not capable of being expressed in rational numbers; radical; irrational; as, a surd expression or quantity; a surd number.
(a.) Uttered, as an element of speech, without tone, or proper vocal sound; voiceless; unintonated; nonvocal; atonic; whispered; aspirated; sharp; hard, as f, p, s, etc.; -- opposed to sonant. See Guide to Pronunciation, //169, 179, 180.
(n.) A quantity which can not be expressed by rational numbers; thus, Ã2 is a surd.
(n.) A surd element of speech. See Surd, a., 4.
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Turd
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(1) A Peperami looks almost exactly like a long dried turd.
(2) If My Little Pony produced turds, then these would be they.
(3) So we decided to just back off and let [politicians] do their comedy and we’ll do ours.” Parker has previously referred to Trump and Clinton as “the giant douche and the turd sandwich” .
(4) For more than a decade, he was leader of the fractious Socialist party, where he once reportedly likened the constant task of calming of ego spats and political rows to clearing up dog turds.
(5) 'A little turd' by Edwina Currie, and the 'sleazeball's sleazeball' by David Mellor, which is almost enough to make you warm to him.
(6) In a recent cartoon he criticised the regime's offers of reforms, with a picture of an official with rosebuds in his speech bubble – and a turd in his head.
(7) For one senior lawyer, the former Law Society chief Robert Sayer, his public designation of one rival as "a dog turd" plainly has no bearing on his current work at Sayer Moore & Co solicitors.
(8) 8.19pm BST Howard's not even listening he's just looking at his fruity turd.
(9) Trump may say misogynist things, but other Republican candidates do them | Jessica Valenti Read more It’s true, like his fans have said , that the turds hurtling out of Trump’s mouth-hole aren’t created by committee and vetted by a campaign operative (though Nixonian dirty trickster Roger Simon says he tried ).
(10) Then we can remind everyone to wear shoes and sandals when they go to the toilet … and to wash their hands.” • World toilet day: public poo, crap compost and a golden turd – in pictures
(11) Doubtless fans of experimental music, hysteria and exaggeration have read of the weekend event’s other problems, the final turd blockage in the U-bend of its cash flow being the caught-on-CCTV vandalism of an arcade machine by a person who had gained access to the site by pretending to be a member of the Fall’s entourage.
(12) If I'm in a really bad mood it looks like a huge glass turd planted near the edge of the road.
(13) Addressing the public relations audience, Walker said: "People outside the communications industry sometimes think that it is possible to spin anything – that the proverbial turd can indeed be polished, if you'll pardon the metaphor.
(14) It is a frequent outcome for site-specific work, which began in the late 1960s as a reaction to the growing commodification of art, but during the 80s and 90s was all too often a ready-made garnish for corporate lobbies and commercial piazzas – what American architect James Wines summed up as the "turd on the plaza".
(15) Naturally, my birth almost kills my mother, for my head is too big, full of words words words birds turds.
(16) Those handy “don’t get raped tips” that keep turning up on the internet like bad bitcoin are just more kangaroo turds for the pile that Western women are expected to carry around in our heads all the time.
(17) It would be easy to mock those involved – to accompany Marianne's tutu-appliquéing activities with a comedy trombone, perhaps, or to let us know that it's all a bit infradig by filming Martin unknowingly treading on a turd, then following him as he tramples it around the Northern line.
(18) Towards the end of the meal, I stepped into the men's room to pee and there, disintegrating in the western-style toilet, was an unflushed turd, a little reminder saying, "See, you're still in China!"
(19) They look like the turds of an animal who has been eating whole peppercorns.
(20) With a name so redolent of turd, Mr Murdstone was not a man to whom I warmed and I was not at all unhappy when my mother sent me to stay with Peggotty for a fortnight.