Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The period during which a flower is fully open and functional.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The period or act of expansion in flowers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The period or state of full expansion in a flower.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The event of a
flower opening.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms
Etymologies
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Examples
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Emasculation and bagging was done at the beginning of anthesis, that is, when the first unisexual male catkins began to shed pollen.
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Alecto (sponsored by the Treasonous Supreme Court) says: pezmiztix says: the progressive ideology is the anthesis of the fundamental values which have made this country great.
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Fritz (God Told Me To Hate Conservatives) says: pezmiztix says: the progressive ideology is the anthesis of the fundamental values which have made this country great.
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Fritz (God Told Me To Hate Conservatives) says: pezmiztix says: the progressive ideology is the anthesis of the fundamental values which have made this country great.
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The dialectic is anologous to the hammer and the anvil–the hammer rises, the thesis, the hammer falls, the anthesis, and finally the anvil becomes the new synthesis, the new policies.
Avlon: Partisan politics ought to end at the water’s edge 2010
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I think focus is a great rule, but 'being tiny' as a mindset/rule, so you can flip the company for less than $50M to get around accounting issues with your true valuation is just the anthesis of entrepreneurship to me. evhead did sell his first company to Google and get his second podcasting one substantially funded, which I didnt, so The Farmer may be right, or lucky.
The Evan Williams vs Jim Collins Mash-Debate Ben Barren 2005
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I think focus is a great rule, but 'being tiny' as a mindset/rule, so you can flip the company for less than $50M to get around accounting issues with your true valuation is just the anthesis of entrepreneurship to me. evhead did sell his first company to Google and get his second podcasting one substantially funded, which I didnt, so The Farmer may be right, or lucky.
Archive 2005-11-01 Ben Barren 2005
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But I was surprised to hear that it was perceived by someone as the anthesis of being a physicist.
You seem [look] too… to be a physicist Risa 2006
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Hence we can't really compare them. religious promises are the very anthesis of the tech-singularity we'll be smarter and thereforemay arrive at an answer or state we can't currently achieve
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Hence we can't really compare them. religious promises are the very anthesis of the tech-singularity we'll be smarter and thereforemay arrive at an answer or state we can't currently achieve
missanthropist commented on the word anthesis
Greek Flowering.
July 9, 2008
jmjarmstrong commented on the word anthesis
JM is avoiding the antithesis of anthesis.
April 6, 2011