(v. t.) Among the ancient Greeks, a weight and a denomination of money equal to 60 minae or 6,000 drachmae. The Attic talent, as a weight, was about 57 lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination of silver money, its value was £243 15s. sterling, or about $1,180.
(v. t.) Among the Hebrews, a weight and denomination of money. For silver it was equivalent to 3,000 shekels, and in weight was equal to about 93/ lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination of silver, it has been variously estimated at from £340 to £396 sterling, or about $1,645 to $1,916. For gold it was equal to 10,000 gold shekels.
(v. t.) Inclination; will; disposition; desire.
(v. t.) Intellectual ability, natural or acquired; mental endowment or capacity; skill in accomplishing; a special gift, particularly in business, art, or the like; faculty; a use of the word probably originating in the Scripture parable of the talents (Matt. xxv. 14-30).
Example Sentences:
(1) The greatest stars who emerged from the early talent shows – Frank Sinatra, Gladys Knight, Tony Bennett – were artists with long careers.
(2) The talent base in the UK – not just producers and actors but camera and sound – is unparalleled, so I think creativity will continue unabated.” Lee does recognise “massive” cultural differences between the US and UK.
(3) He is a leader and helps manage the defence, while Pablo Armero can be a bit of a loose cannon but he is certainly a talented player.
(4) Cape no longer has the monopoly on talent; the stars are scattered these days, and Franklin's "fantastically discriminating" deputy Robin Robertson can take credit for many recent triumphs, including their most recent Booker winner, Anne Enright.
(5) Perhaps there were some other generations in Portuguese football with more talent, but they didn’t win.
(6) They were preceded by the publication of The Success and Failure of Picasso (1965) and Art and Revolution: Ernst Neizvestny and the Role of the Artist in the USSR (1969); in one, he made a hopeless mess of Picasso’s later career, though he was not alone in this; in the other, he elevated a brave dissident artist beyond his talents.
(7) She expressed her condolences to Winehouse's parents, Mitch and Janis, who did not attend the inquest, marking the loss of "a talented woman at such a young age".
(8) Britain's Got Talent had an average of 10.6 million (44%) for the fourth series opener last year and 10.3 million (45%) in 2009.
(9) His coding talent attracted attention early: a music-recommendation program he wrote as a teenager brought approaches from both Microsoft and AOL.
(10) Top 10 Arpad Cseh Senior investment director, UBS Alice La Trobe Weston Executive director, head of European credit research, MSIM Morgan Stanley Katie Garrett Executive director, senior engineer, Goldman Sachs Alix Ainsley, Charlotte Cherry H R director, group operations (job share), Lloyds Banking Group Matt Dawson Director for business development, The Instant Group Angela Kitching, Hannah Pearce Head of external affairs (job share), Age UK Morwen Williams Head of newsgathering operations, BBC Georgina Faulkner Head of Sky multisports, Sky Maggie Stilwell Managing partner for talent, UK & Ireland, EY Sarah Moore Partner, PwC
(11) Treasury secretary Tim Geithner called her an "exceptional talent" whose broad experience would "provide invaluable leadership for this indispensable institution at a critical time for the global economy".
(12) The entire point of encouraging social mobility is that people have different talents and we need to do better at ensuring they make the most of them.
(13) The new arrangements put more emphasis on elected members, but he says they do not have the talents to take on the job.
(14) I love showcasing my talents – not only to my hometown fans and my own team but to the world.
(15) FWA chairman Andy Dunn said: "Those members who have been fortunate enough to be working at a match involving Luis Suárez have witnessed an astonishing talent first-hand.
(16) GROUP A FRANCE The hosts can call on their most talented group of players for a decade, with an exciting young generation featuring Raphaël Varane, Paul Pogba, Antoine Griezmann and Anthony Martial.
(17) We’ve both inherited our great good fortune through no skills or talents of our own.
(18) But the challenge facing Galliano is not simply to convince the fashion industry of his talent, which is still evident.
(19) From the shallow pool of talent to the lack of a definable playing style and questions over whether they can handle the step up from qualification to tournament football, this is now England.
(20) As a precociously talented young artist, his interests didn't lie with landscape or the countryside – "though I did collect frog spawn and things like that" – but more with the advertising, posters and signwriting he saw around town.
Totty
Definition:
(a.) Unsteady; dizzy; tottery.
Example Sentences:
(1) And there's disbelief when he describes the moment ex-model Rachel Tatton-Brown (or "the hottest totty in town" as Evans describes her) pulled him in a club.
(2) Francesco Totti has escaped with a spell on the naughty step for goading Lazio fans in the wake of Sunday's Rome derby, but has been fined €10,000 for each thumb he pointed down in a bid to rile them up.
(3) He added: "[Francesco] Totti's sending-off against Korea was neither a penalty nor a dive.
(4) I don't even have to watch the replays... Totti dived," he said in an interview with Il Messaggero newspaper published yesterday.
(5) One was ridiculed for objecting to a "top totty" beer being sold in the Commons bar.
(6) In a Ravensthorpe newsagents, Ali Totti, 20, announced that he was going to vote Liberal Democrat.
(7) And I was very struck by the Top Totty stuff," – a recent controversy about the Commons' bar selling a bottled beer called Top Totty.
(8) We have previously demonstrated, however, that proteolytic cleavage of PKC-epsilon generates a constitutive kinase activity that is an efficient histone IIIS kinase [Schaap, Hsuan, Totty & Parker (1990) Eur.
(9) South Korea (3-4-3): Lee W J; Choi J C, Hong M B (Cha D R, 83 min), Kim T Y (Hwang S H, 63); Song C G, Kim N I (Lee C S, 68), Yoo S C, Lee Y P; Park J S, Ahn J H, Seol K H. Booked : Kim N I, Lee C S, Choi J C. Italy (4-3-1-2): Buffon; Panucci, Iuliano, Maldini, Coco; Zambrotta (Di Livio, 72), Tommasi, Zanetti; Totti; Vieri, Del Piero (Gattuso, 62).
(10) Although he did not give details on where his immediate future lay, the 32-year-old said he wanted to emulate the former Deportivo La Coruña veteran Juan Carlos Valerón and the Roma captain, Francesco Totti, by extending his stay with Atlético.
(11) I have seen many offside calls like the one given against Tommasi (and besides, that depends on the linesman’s flag, not Moreno) while the sending off of Totti seemed like a huge error, but not a premeditated one … Moreno seemed to get things right with the fouls in midfield and in the danger zones, as well as with his yellow cards prior to that second one [for Totti].” Manusia pointed out that both Totti and Vieri had been guilty at different points of raising their arms into the faces of South Korea players, and that Moreno could have sent either player off if he had truly intended to fix this match.
(12) Roma swept forward in waves, Totti drifting in from the left of new manager Rudi Garcia's 4-3-3 to dictate play from a spot just behind the attack.
(13) They all believe Totti was unfairly sent off and it looked too debatable to merit a caution.
(14) Up front, the likes of Alessandro Del Piero, Christian Vieri, Francesco Totti and Pippo Inzaghi were all in their prime.
(15) Against the likes of Francesco Totti, such familiarity could prove an invaluable asset.
(16) South Korea v Italy, 2-1 Italy's Francesco Totti receives a second yellow for diving against South Korea although the defender Song Chong-gug gets the ball and also crashes into the Italian, who fell to the ground.
(17) First came an unjust red card for Francesco Totti, who was received his second yellow after going down under a challenge from Song Chong-gug in the box.
(18) Examples included naked pictures of women accompanying a call for more photos of "top student totty", and girls pictured kissing on a flyer.
(19) 8, 4125-4132; Kozma, S. C., Ferrari, S., Bassand, P., Siegmann, M., Totty, N., and Thomas, G. (1990) Proc.
(20) I would love to be the Valerón or Totti of Atléti but today more than ever is not the time to talk about that,” he said.