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61SPARK (M.) — SPARK MURIEL (1918 ) Née à Édimbourg, à la fin de 1918, d’une mère quelque peu douée de voyance et d’un père ingénieur juif, Muriel Spark eut toujours le souci, sous le couvert transparent de la fiction, d’assumer ses origines l’enfance… …
62Manilow method — n. The discouragement of loitering in public places by broadcasting music that is offensive to young people, particularly the songs of singer Barry Manilow. Example Citations: Officials in Australia and Britain are implementing the Manilow method …
63cyberflaneur — n. A person who surfs the web with no purpose beyond curiosity and inquisitiveness. cyberflaneurism n. cyberflanerie n. Example Citations: Intrigued, I set out to discover what happened to the cyberflâneur. While I quickly found other… …
64intent — I adj. (cannot stand alone) intent on, upon (she is intent on getting the job done quickly) II n. 1) criminal intent 2) intent to + inf. (with intent to kill) 3) by intent 4) (misc.) to all intents and purposes ( practically ); (legal) loitering… …
65loiter — (v.) early 15c., idle one s time, dawdle over work, from M.Du. loteren be loose or erratic, shake, totter like a loose tooth or a sail in a storm; in modern Dutch, leuteren to delay, linger, loiter over one s work. Probably cognate with O.E.… …
66loiter — UK [ˈlɔɪtə(r)] / US [ˈlɔɪtər] verb [intransitive] Word forms loiter : present tense I/you/we/they loiter he/she/it loiters present participle loitering past tense loitered past participle loitered 1) to stand or wait in a public place for no… …
67vagrancy — At common law, the act of going about from place to place by a person without visible means of support, who is idle, and who, though able to work for his or her maintenance, refuses to do so, but lives without labor or on the charity of others.… …
68loiteringly — adverb : in a manner that is marked by loitering : with loitering moved loiteringly down the street * * * loiˈteringly adverb • • • Main Entry: ↑loiter …
69Loiter — Loi ter, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Loitered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Loitering}.] [D. leuteren to delay, loiter; cf; Prov. G. lottern to be louse, lotter louse, slack, unsettled, vagrant, OHG. lotar.] 1. To be slow in moving; to delay; to linger; to be… …
70Loitered — Loiter Loi ter, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Loitered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Loitering}.] [D. leuteren to delay, loiter; cf; Prov. G. lottern to be louse, lotter louse, slack, unsettled, vagrant, OHG. lotar.] 1. To be slow in moving; to delay; to linger; to… …
