Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Acquainted through study or experience; knowledgeable or skilled.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Conversant or acquainted; practised; skilled: with in.
- Turned; turned over.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Math.) Turned.
- adjective See under
Sine , andIllust. ofFunctions . - adjective Acquainted or familiar, as the result of experience, study, practice, etc.; skilled; practiced; knowledgeable; expert.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
knowledgeable orskilled , either throughstudy orexperience
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an injectable form of benzodiazepine (trade name Versed) useful for sedation and for reducing pain during uncomfortable medical procedures
- adjective thoroughly acquainted through study or experience
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The first time I researched versed, I was vacuuming th ecarpet and the word versed kept running through my mind.
Brad Ideas - Comments Anonymous 2010
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The first time I researched versed, I was vacuuming th ecarpet and the word versed kept running through my mind.
Brad Ideas - Comments anti 2010
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The first time I researched versed, I was vacuuming th ecarpet and the word versed kept running through my mind.
Brad Ideas - Comments Anonymous 2010
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The first time I researched versed, I was vacuuming th ecarpet and the word versed kept running through my mind.
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They're facing four counts each of principal to second-degree murder, the charge that the murders were committed in the fourth day after Katrina when, according to the attorney general, this medical staff mixed morphine and a drug called versed into one injectable drug with only one possible outcome.
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Then a learned Brahmana, Saunaka by name versed in self-knowledge and skilled in the _Sankhya_ system of yoga, addressed the king, saying, 'Causes of grief by thousands, and causes of fear by hundreds, day after day, overwhelm the ignorant but not the wise.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Vana Parva, Part 1 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Then a learned Brahmana, Saunaka by name versed in self-knowledge and skilled in the Sankhya system of yoga, addressed the king, saying, 'Causes of grief by thousands, and causes of fear by hundreds, day after day, overwhelm the ignorant but not the wise.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Measuring the deflection in question -- which is equivalent to the so-called versed sine of the arc traversed -- we have a basis for determining the strength of the deflecting force.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science 1904
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I've been meaning to revisit it once I became more "versed" in Tarr granted, I had seen the earlier ones and Werckmeister when I saw this the first time.
Damnation Ed Howard 2009
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If a concept that a bill uses that will effect EVERYONE cannot be broken down so as it can be understood by someone who is not 'versed' as a lawyer, it is not only a bad bill, but it is a horrible idea.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local Michael O 2010
gulyasrobi commented on the word versed
"versed" in Hungarian means: your poem
August 7, 2012