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  • 31about to — 1. Close to; ready to. Used with an infinitive. * /We were about to leave when the snow began./ * /I haven t gone yet, but I m about to./ Compare: GOING TO, ON THE POINT OF. 2. {informal} Having a wish or plan to. Used with an infinitive in… …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 32about to — 1. Close to; ready to. Used with an infinitive. * /We were about to leave when the snow began./ * /I haven t gone yet, but I m about to./ Compare: GOING TO, ON THE POINT OF. 2. {informal} Having a wish or plan to. Used with an infinitive in… …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 33about to — The word about has a meaning of readiness or willingness; the phrase not about to conveys an idea of unwillingness, unreadiness, or opposition of some sort: He was not about to pay the bill. The expression is trite and informal and should be… …

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  • 34about — (a bou) s. m.    Terme d art et métier. 1°   L extrémité par laquelle un morceau de bois de charpente ou de menuiserie est assemblé avec un autre. 2°   Le bout par lequel une tringle ou un tirant de fer se joint, se fixe à quelque chose.… …

    Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • 35about — See about, around, round …

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  • 36about — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adv. around, round, on all sides; approximately; nearly, almost. prep. concerning, regarding, anent, respecting. See relation, nearness. II (Roget s IV) modif. & prep. 1. [Approximately] Syn. roughly,… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 37about URI scheme — about:blank redirects here. For the spyware variant aboutblank , see CoolWebSearch#Variants. About: redirects here. For other uses, see about; for the Wikipedia about page, see Wikipedia:about. about is an internal URI scheme (also known as a URL …

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  • 38About: URI — about: схема внешних уникальных идентификаторов ресурсов (URI), указывающая на псевдопротокол в различных веб браузерах, предназначенный для отображения определённой информации о встроенных функциях, интерфейсов для настройки, и пасхальных яиц.… …

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  • 39about: URI — about:  схема внешних уникальных идентификаторов ресурсов (URI), указывающая на псевдопротокол в различных веб браузерах, предназначенный для отображения определённой информации о встроенных функциях, интерфейсов для настройки, и пасхальных… …

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  • 40About a Girl (TV series) — About a Girl Title card Genre Comedy Created by Adam Tobin …

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