Appreciated
[ə'pri:ʃieitid]
Definition
(adj.) fully understood or grasped; 'dangers not yet appreciated'; 'these apprehended truths'; 'a thing comprehended is a thing known as fully as it can be known' .
Edited by Dinah--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Appreciate
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Examples
- The bread and coffee were highly appreciated. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He does this strange prospecting with an amount of gravity that can never be estimated or appreciated by a man who has not seen the operation. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Since that episode, which will probably be appreciated by most automobilists, Edison has taken up the electric automobile, and is now using it as well as developing it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I think we appreciated the great figure of David in the grand square, and the sculptured group they call the Rape of the Sabines. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- General Halleck appreciated the situation and, without being asked, forwarded reinforcements with all possible dispatch. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Quiet as you look, there is both a force and a depth somewhere within not easily reached or appreciated. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He appreciated its importance, and hastened to try to recover the line from us. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- When it is remembered that most of the 7? miles of tunnel was cut through solid rock, by boring and blasting, the immensity of the undertaking can be appreciated. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- They appreciated each other. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The fact was, of course, appreciated at King's Pyland, where the Colonel's training-stable is situated. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Mr. Micawber is going to a distant country expressly in order that he may be fully understood and appreciated for the first time. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The excellent and considerate feelings which prompted Mr. Winkle to take this step can never be too highly appreciated or too warmly extolled. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He appreciated fully its inherent difficulties, not only in manufacture, but also in the marketing of the product. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Mr Meagles, hove down by his good company while he highly appreciated it, was not himself. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Emanuel's gifts kept well supplied with chocolate comfits: It pleased him to see even a small matter from his hand duly appreciated. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Though most of the facts were familiar to me, I had not sufficiently appreciated their relative importance, nor their connection to each other. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The cultivation and garnering of crops from such vast areas can only be appreciated by comparisons. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Plato appreciated the value of this faculty, and saw that it might be quickened by the study of number and relation. Plato. The Republic.
- Dorothea was not only his wife: she was a personification of that shallow world which surrounds the appreciated or desponding author. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- How extensive this business has become may be appreciated when it is stated that at the Orange plant there are produced at this time over eight million feet of motion-picture film per year. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The advantages of the propeller are becoming every year more appreciated, and it is rapidly superseding the paddle-wheel. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- But there are some other interesting points that may be touched on now in regard to a few of Edison's financial and commercial ventures not generally known or appreciated. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- St. Clare never understood me, never appreciated me. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- But, as we have seen, his motives were not always rightly appreciated. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Although the principle of the dynamo was clearly embodied in the Hjorth patent, its value was not appreciated until some time later. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The enormous importance of such a machine began to be appreciated at the beginning of the century, and it set cotton up as a King whose dominion has extended across the seas. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- I do not know how thou hast appreciated him. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The story of that momentous voyage of two months and nine days must be read in detail to be appreciated. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I appreciated that point, and I conjectured that it was dropped by the murderer in his hurried flight. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The commercial value of this invention may be appreciated from the fact that by the application of its principles there is effected a saving of 62 1/2 per cent. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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