cess
An assessed tax, duty, or levyAn assessed tax, duty, or levy; billeting.
» A good example of homonyms in Portuguese are the words "sessão", "seção" and "cessão".
Значення
значень: 6(Індія, Ірландія, Британія)An assessed tax, duty, or levy; billeting.
(Ірландія, Британія, розмовне)Usually preceded by good or (more commonly) bad: luck or success.
The area along either side of a railroad track which is kept at a lower level than the sleeper bottom, in order to provide drainage.
(застаріле)Bound; measure.
(діалектне, застаріле)A bog, in particular a peat bog.
(діалектне, застаріле)A piece of peat, or a turf, particularly when dried for use as fuel.
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речень: 1A good example of homonyms in Portuguese are the words "sessão", "seção" and "cessão".
Походження
For the first meaning below, the writings of Edmund Spenser, published 1633, point to a boFor the first meaning below, the writings of Edmund Spenser, published 1633, point to a borrowing from Irish cís (“tax, tribute, cess, rent”), likely from Latin census.
Possibly from an archaic dialect word meaning “bog”. According to the OED, from earlier suspiral (“water pipe, setting tank”).
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