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AIRT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does airt mean? 

AIRT (verb)
  The verb AIRT has 1 sense:

1. channel into a new directionplay

  Familiarity information: AIRT used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


AIRT (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Channel into a new direction

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

airt; redirect

Context example:

redirect your attention to the danger from the fundamentalists

Hypernyms (to "airt" is one way to...):

direct; send (cause to go somewhere)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "airt"):

sublimate (direct energy or urges into useful activities)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody


 Context examples 


Look here all around you in what airt ye will; all them steans, holdin' up their heads as well as they can out of their pride, is acant—simply tumblin' down with the weight o' the lies wrote on them, 'Here lies the body' or 'Sacred to the memory' wrote on all of them, an' yet in nigh half of them there bean't no bodies at all; an' the memories of them bean't cared a pinch of snuff about, much less sacred.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)



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