Jan 31, 2014

An index of key words from the first act of Hamlet aka a quick dictionary

Play- a dramatic composition or piece, a drama; a dramatic performance, as on the stage; exercise or activity for amusement or recreation; fun or jest, as opposed to seriousness; a pun; the playing, action, or conduct of a game; the manner or style of playing or of doing something; an act or instance of playing or of doing something; one's turn to play; a playing for stakes; gambling; an attempt to accomplish something, often in a manner showing craft or calculation; maneuver; an enterprise or venture; deal; action, conduct, or dealing of a specified kind: fair play; foul play; action, activity, or operation; brisk, light, or changing movement or action; elusive change or movement, as of light or colors; a space in which something, as a part of a mechanism, can move; freedom for action, or scope for activity; attention in the press or other media; coverage; an act or instance of being broadcast




Duty- something that one is expected or required to do by moral or legal obligation; the binding or obligatory force of something that is morally or legally right; moral or legal obligation; an action or task required by a person's position or occupation; the respectful and obedient conduct due a parent, superior,elder, etc.; an act or expression of respect; a task or chore that a person is expected to perform; an assigned task, occupation, or place of service; the military service required of a citizen by a country; a specific or ad valorem tax imposed by law on the import or export of goods; a payment, service, etc., imposed and enforceable by law or custom; tax: income duty; the amount of work done by an engine per unit amount of fuel consumed; the measure of effectiveness of any machine; the amount of water necessary to provide for the crop in a given area; bowel movement.




Suit- a set of clothing, armor, or the like, intended for wear together; a set of men's garments of the same color and fabric, consisting of trousers, a jacket, and sometimes a vest; a similarly matched set consisting of a skirt and jacket, and sometimes a topcoat or blouse, worn by women; any costume worn for some special activity; a business executive; the act, the process, or an instance of suing in a court of law; legal prosecution; lawsuit; one of the four sets or classes (spades, hearts, diamonds,and clubs) into which a common deck of playing cards is divided; the aggregate of cards belonging to one of these sets held in a player's hand at one time; one of various sets or classes into which less common decks of cards are divided, as lances, hammers, etc., found in certain decks formerly used or used in fortune telling; the wooing or courting of a woman; the act of making a petition or an appeal; a petition, as to a person of rank or station; a complete group of sails for a boat;


Seem- to appear to be, feel, do, etc.; to appear to one's own senses, mind, observation, judgment,etc.; to appear to exist; to appear to be true, probable, or evident:; to give the outward appearance of being or to pretend to be




Is- 3rd person singular present indicative of be.




Speak- to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk; to communicate vocally; mention; to converse; to deliver an address, discourse, etc.; to make a statement in written or printed words; to communicate, signify, or disclose by any means; convey significance; to produce sounds or audible sequences of individual or concatenated sounds of a language, especially through phonation, amplification, and resonance, and through any of a variety of articulatory processes; to express data or other information audibly by means of an audio response unit; to emit a sound, as a musical instrument; make a noise or report; to bark when ordered; to bay on finding a scent.



State- the condition of a person or thing, as with respect to circumstances or attributes; the condition of matter with respect to structure, form, constitution, phase, or the like; status, rank, or position in life; station; the style of living befitting a person of wealth and high rank:; a particular condition of mind or feeling; an abnormally tense, nervous, or perturbed condition; a politically unified people occupying a definite territory; nation; the territory, or one of the territories, of a government; any of the bodies politic which together make up a federal union; the body politic as organized for civil rule and government; the operations or activities of a central civil government



Nature- the material world, especially as surrounding humankind and existing independently of human activities; the natural world as it exists without human beings or civilization; the elements of the natural world, as mountains, trees, animals,or rivers; natural scenery; the universe, with all its phenomena; the sum total of the forces at work throughout the universe; reality, as distinguished from any effect of art; the particular combination of qualities belonging to a person,animal, thing, or class by birth, origin, or constitution; native or inherent character; the instincts or inherent tendencies directing conduct; character, kind, or sort; characteristic disposition; temperament



Reason- a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc; a statement presented in justification or explanation of a belief or action; the mental powers concerned with forming conclusions,judgments, or inferences; sound judgment; good sense; normal or sound powers of mind; sanity; a premise of an argument; the faculty or power of acquiring intellectual knowledge,either by direct understanding of first principles or by argument.



Silence- absence of any sound or noise; stillness;the state or fact of being silent; muteness; absence or omission of mention, comment, or expressed concern; the state of being forgotten; oblivion; concealment; secrecy.



Tongue- the usually movable organ in the floor of the mouth in humans and most vertebrates, functioning in eating, in tasting,and, in humans, in speaking; an analogous organ in invertebrate animals; the tongue of an animal, as an ox, beef, or sheep, used for food,often prepared by smoking or pickling; the human tongue as the organ of speech; the faculty or power of speech; speech or talk, especially mere glib or empty talk; manner or character of speech; the language of a particular people, region, or nation; a dialect;  a people or nation distinguished by its language; tongues, speech, often incomprehensible, typically uttered during moments of religious ecstasy



Ear- the organ of hearing and equilibrium in vertebrates, in humans consisting of an external ear that gathers sound vibrations, a middle ear in which the vibrations resonate against the tympanic membrane, and a fluid-filled internal ear that maintains balance and that conducts the tympanic vibrations to the auditory nerve, which transmits them as impulses to the brain; the external ear alone; the sense of hearing:; keen or sensitive perception of the differences of sound,especially sensitiveness to the quality and correctness of musical sounds: an ear for music; attention; heed








PS I'm sorry Mrs. Clinch all of the snow distracted me and senior year is so tiring and I have a job and I'm in a very committed over-a-year-long relationship and I get distracted easily, so I forget about my blogs and you should pity me and not give me too bad of a grade please

PPS I'm also sorry for running out of ideas to blog on and for rambling so much, but this blog might actually be useful for future blogs on Hamlet so yes.

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