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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Penetrating (0.01006 detik)
Found 3 items, similar to Penetrating.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: penetrate
bidas, membobolkan, mendobrak, menembus, menghunjam, menjebol, menyusup, meresap, molos
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: penetrating
penetrating
adj 1: having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine
distinctions;
“an acute observer of politics and
politicians”;
“incisive comments”;
“icy knifelike
reasoning”;
“as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a
fang”;
“penetrating insight”;
“frequent penetrative
observations” [syn:
acute,
discriminating,
incisive,
keen,
knifelike,
penetrative,
piercing,
sharp]
2: tending to penetrate; having the power of entering or
piercing;
“a toxic penetrative spray applied to the
surface”;
“a cold penetrating wind”;
“a penetrating odor”
[syn:
penetrative]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Penetrating
Penetrating
\Pen"e*tra`ting\, a.
1. Having the power of entering, piercing, or pervading;
sharp; subtile; penetrative; as, a penetrating odor.
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2. Acute; discerning; sagacious; quick to discover; as, a
penetrating mind.
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Penetrate
\Pen"e*trate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Penetrated; p.
pr. & vb. n.
Penetrating.] [L. penetratus, p. p. of
penetrare to penetrate; akin to penitus inward, inwardly, and
perh. to pens with, in the power of, penus store of food,
innermost part of a temple.]
1. To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to effect
an entrance into; to pierce; as, light penetrates
darkness.
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2. To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to
touch with feeling; to make sensible; to move deeply; as,
to penetrate one's heart with pity. --Shak.
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The translator of Homer should penetrate himself
with a sense of the plainness and directness of
Homer's style. --M. Arnold.
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3. To pierce into by the mind; to arrive at the inner
contents or meaning of, as of a mysterious or difficult
subject; to comprehend; to understand.
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Things which here were too subtile for us to
penetrate. --Ray.
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