alien (verb)

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• alien — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 non citizen ADJECTIVE ▪ enemy ▪ During the war, he was imprisoned as an enemy alien. ▪ illegal, undocumented (AmE) ▪ Illegal aliens are usually deported to their country of origin …   Collocations dictionary

• alien — [14] The essential notion contained in alien is of ‘otherness’. Its ultimate source is Latin alius ‘other’ (which is related to English else). From this was formed a Latin adjective aliēnus ‘belonging to another person or place’, which passed… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• alien — [14] The essential notion contained in alien is of ‘otherness’. Its ultimate source is Latin alius ‘other’ (which is related to English else). From this was formed a Latin adjective aliēnus ‘belonging to another person or place’, which passed… …   Word origins

• alien — 1. noun /ˈeɪ.li.ən/ a) A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration. An alien born may purchase lands, or other estates: but not for his own use; for the king is… …   Wiktionary

• alien — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. foreign, strange. n. foreigner, stranger, immigrant. See unconformity, exterior.Ant., alike, native. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Of foreign extraction] Syn. exotic, strange, unknown; see foreign 1 ,… …   English dictionary for students

• alien — I. adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French, from Latin alienus, from alius Date: 14th century 1. a. belonging or relating to another person, place, or thing ; strange b. relating, belonging, or owing allegiance to another country… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• alien — Noun: A person born in another country of parents who are not citizens of the United States, and who has not been naturalized here, or, one who, having been a citizen of the United States, has expatriated himself. 3 Am J2d Aliens § 1. Verb: To… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• Object–verb–subject — Linguistic typology Morphological Isolating Synthetic Polysynthetic Fusional Agglutinative Morphosyntactic Alig …   Wikipedia

• Object Verb Subject — (OVS) or Object Verb Agent (OVA) is one of the permutations of expression used in linguistic typology, although it is rare among languages in general. OVS denotes the sequence Object Verb Subject in unmarked expressions: Oranges ate Sam , Thorns… …   Wikipedia

• schlockjob\ verb — To advertise a job opening as one thing or to have one set of requirements only for the applicant to find out the job is nowhere like what was described on the internet or in the newspaper. Bobbi soon found out that she had been schlockjobbed the …   Dictionary of american slang

• schlockjob\ verb — To advertise a job opening as one thing or to have one set of requirements only for the applicant to find out the job is nowhere like what was described on the internet or in the newspaper. Bobbi soon found out that she had been schlockjobbed the …   Dictionary of american slang