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• plods — plÉ‘d /plÉ’d n. slow walk, labored walk v. walk laboriously, walk heavily, trudge; work hard, persist in a task …   English contemporary dictionary

• plods on — walks slowly, moves at a slow pace; methodical, thorough, meticulous …   English contemporary dictionary

• plod — [[t]plɒ̱d[/t]] plods, plodding, plodded 1) VERB If someone plods, they walk slowly and heavily. [V adv/prep] Crowds of French and British families plodded around in yellow plastic macs. 2) VERB If you say that someone plods on or plods along with …   English dictionary

• plod´ding|ly — plod «plod», verb, plod|ded, plod|ding, noun. –v.i. 1. to walk heavily or slowly; trudge: »The old man plods wearily along the road. SYNONYM( …   Useful english dictionary

• plod´der — plod «plod», verb, plod|ded, plod|ding, noun. –v.i. 1. to walk heavily or slowly; trudge: »The old man plods wearily along the road. SYNONYM( …   Useful english dictionary

• Plod — Plod, v. t. To walk on slowly or heavily. [1913 Webster] The ploughman homeward plods his weary way. Gray. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Plodder — Plod der, n. One who plods; a drudge. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• plod — verb (plodded; plodding) Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1562 intransitive verb 1. to work laboriously and monotonously ; drudge 2. a. to walk heavily or slowly ; trudge b. to proceed slowly or tediou …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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• Hypallage — (pronEng|haɪˈpælədʒiː) is a literary device that is the reversal of the syntactic relation of two words (as in her beauty s face ).One kind of hypallage, also known as a transferred epithet, is the trope or rhetorical device in which a modifier,… …   Wikipedia