SERE

Serename

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  A proposed language family of Ubangian languages spoken in South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

sereadj詞源 1/sɪə/

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  archaicliteraryWithout moisture; dry.

  • The autumn winds rushing / Waft the leaves that are searest, / But our flower was in flushing, / When blighting was nearest.
  • [T]he recitation of Border Minstrelsy, or a well-sung ballad, served to revive the sere and yellow leaf of age by their refreshing memories of the pleasurable past.
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  archaicliteraryOf thoughts, etc.: barren, fruitless.

  • Our talk had been serious and sober, But our thoughts they were palsied and sere— Our memories were treacherous and sere—
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  obsoleteOf fabrics: threadbare, worn out.

  • The roaring wind! it roar'd far off, / It did not come anear; / But with its sound it shook the sails / That were so thin and sere.

serenoun詞源 2/sɪə/

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  biologyecologynatural-sciencesA natural succession community of organisms in an ecosystem, especially a series of communities succeeding one another from a time when habitat is unoccupied or disturbed to the time when a climax community is achieved.

  • We examined one of several seres found in the middle Rocky Mountains that progress from a subalpine or montane forb-dominated meadow to a climax forest dominated by Engelmann spruce (Picea engelmannii).
  • [C]ommunity types may represent either climax plant associations or successional communities within a sere.

serenoun詞源 3/sɪə/

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  obsoleteA claw, a talon.

  • Her [Minerva's] seres struck through Achilles' tent, and closely she instill'd / Heaven's most-to-be-desired feast to his great breast, and fill'd / His sinews with that sweet supply, for fear unsavoury fast / Should creep into his knees.

sereadj詞源 4/sɪə/

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  obsoletedialectalIndividual, separate, set apart.

  • Therefore I have ſeene good ſhooters [archers] which would have for everye bowe a ſere caſe, made of wullen clothe, and then you maye putte three or four of them ſo caſed, into a lether caſe if you will.
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  obsoletedialectalDifferent; diverse.

  • Thou wert well-nee moidered [footnote: Distracted.] wi' me, I know, but it thou'd telled me, Mary, I mun do better or else we mun goo our sere-ways [footnote: Different ways.], belike I should a done better. I'm nobbut a mon, Mary, a lundy day-tale mon [footnote: Clumsy day-labourer.].

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• survival
• evasion
• resistance
• and escape