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Dicho de una cosa:

English translation: Said of a thing:


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Spanish term or phrase:Dicho de una cosa:
English translation:Said of a thing:
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16:42 Sep 20, 2011
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Art/Literary - Linguistics / definitions from a dictionary
Spanish term or phrase: Dicho de una cosa:
This is from a dictionary. It defines the word blanco in Spanish.
Dicho de una cosa: Que sin ser blanca tiene el color mas claro que ....

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Cotiledon
United States
Local time: 00:31
Said of a thing:
Explanation:
Is it not?

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Note added at 11 mins (2011-09-20 16:54:03 GMT)
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Nothing which is said of a thing by participation belongs to that thing by its essence. But a creature is called good by participation, as is clear from Augustine. A creature is therefore not good essentially
http://dhspriory.org/thomas/QDdeVer21.htm

For whatever does not belong to a thing as such appertains to it through some cause, as white to man; that which has no cause is primary and immediate, so that it must needs be through itself and as such. But no single entity can as such belong to two things and to both of them; for what is said of a thing as such is limited to that very thing
http://www.american-buddha.com/cult.contragentiles2.htm

Commentary on Aristotle's Physics
For we find that something is said of a thing because of a part. Thus one is called white because his surface is white, and a man is called wise because there is ...
http://books.google.com/books?id=6CD0IRPg4roC&pg=PA217&lpg=P...
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rich.
Mexico
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Summary of answers provided
4 +5Said of a thing:
rich.
4 +1Referring to an object/a thing:
Simon Bruni
4 +1Regarding an object:
Andres Fekete


Discussion entries: 4





  

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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Regarding an object:


Explanation:
Suerte.

Andres Fekete
Uruguay
Local time: 02:31
Meets criteria
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Mónica Algazi
1 min
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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +5
Said of a thing:


Explanation:
Is it not?

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Note added at 11 mins (2011-09-20 16:54:03 GMT)
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Nothing which is said of a thing by participation belongs to that thing by its essence. But a creature is called good by participation, as is clear from Augustine. A creature is therefore not good essentially
http://dhspriory.org/thomas/QDdeVer21.htm

For whatever does not belong to a thing as such appertains to it through some cause, as white to man; that which has no cause is primary and immediate, so that it must needs be through itself and as such. But no single entity can as such belong to two things and to both of them; for what is said of a thing as such is limited to that very thing
http://www.american-buddha.com/cult.contragentiles2.htm

Commentary on Aristotle's Physics
For we find that something is said of a thing because of a part. Thus one is called white because his surface is white, and a man is called wise because there is ...
http://books.google.com/books?id=6CD0IRPg4roC&pg=PA217&lpg=P...

rich.
Mexico
Local time: 00:31
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Pablo Julián Davis: Or perhaps 'Said of something' but your version is A-OK.
42 mins
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agree  Charles Davis: "Said of a thing" is the formula used in Chambers.
56 mins
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agree  David Ronder: Simple, classic. And Chambers is close to my heart
4 hrs
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agree  Muriel Vasconcellos: 'Said of something' seems more common to me. Also abbreviated 'sthg' in some dictionaries.
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agree  anademahomar
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8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Referring to an object/a thing:


Explanation:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_E...

http://www.google.co.uk/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_E...

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http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/mine?rskey=drvSSH&r...

Simon Bruni
United Kingdom
Local time: 06:31
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Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 24

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Charles Davis: This formula is used. I would say "thing", not "object"; not all things are objects. I think it probably means "inanimate", or at least "not a person".
55 mins
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