Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To obtain the fineness or size of (a silk thread) in deniers.
- noun A unit of weight in the French system, in use before 1812, equal to 19⅔ troy grains.
- noun A unit of weight for silk yarns, equal to about 8⅕ troy grains.
- noun One who denies or contradicts.
- noun One who refuses or rejects.
- noun One who disowns; one who refuses to own, avow, or acknowledge.
- noun A silver coin (also called the norus denarius) introduced by the Carolingian dynasty into France, and soon issued, with varying types and legends, by other countries.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A small copper coin of insignificant value.
- noun One who denies.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Person who
denies something. - noun now historical An old French coin worth one-twelfth of a
sou . - noun A
unit ofweight which indicates thefineness offiber oryarn , equal to onegram per 9000meters , used especially to measure or indicate the fineness ofhosiery .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of various former European coins of different denominations
- noun one who denies
- noun a unit of measurement for the fineness of silk or nylon or rayon
Etymologies
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Examples
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On the day when the deputies of the communes entered an assembly, and seated themselves beside the first two orders, the new comer, by virtue of the situation and rank occupied, took the name of third order; and as our fathers used to speak of the third denier (_tiers denier_), and the third day (_tierce journee_), so they must have spoken of the (_tiers-etat_) third estate.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2 1830
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Hence the term denier, which neatly encapsulates their flat refusal to face facts.
Feel free to doubt climate change: just don't deny it science editor 2010
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Hence the term denier, which neatly encapsulates their flat refusal to face facts.
Progressive Bloggers The Disaffected Lib 2010
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Hence the term denier, which neatly encapsulates their flat refusal to face facts.
Education news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk Robin McKie 2010
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Hence the term denier, which neatly encapsulates their flat refusal to face facts.
Education news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk Robin McKie 2010
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Hence the term denier, which neatly encapsulates their flat refusal to face facts.
Education news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk Robin McKie 2010
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Hence the term denier, which neatly encapsulates their flat refusal to face facts.
Progressive Bloggers The Disaffected Lib 2010
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Hence the term denier, which neatly encapsulates their flat refusal to face facts.
Education news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk Robin McKie 2010
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Funnily enough the term denier is not a scientific one, it is one used in normal discourse to describe what could probably be whipped up into a phsychological diagnosis.
RealClimate 2009
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Funnily enough the term denier is not a scientific one, it is one used in normal discourse to describe what could probably be whipped up into a phsychological diagnosis.
RealClimate 2009
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Denier is the unit used to measure a fabric’s weight and thickness; the higher the number, the thicker the tights.
ruzuzu commented on the word denier
"A small coin of varying composition and value current in western Europe from the eighth century until the French Revolution."
- The American Heritage Dictionary
June 29, 2010