Look up: Talent

1. talent
   [n] - a person who possesses unusual innate ability in some field or activity
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2. talent
   an agent sent on tour in search of talented people for acting, sports or business. Category: General • a person whose work is discovering talented people, as for motion pictures, professional athletics, etc.,.. Category: General
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3. Talent
   Tal'ent noun [ French, from Latin talentum a talent (in sense 1), Greek ... a balance, anything weighed, a definite weight, a talent; akin to ... to bear, endure, ..., Latin tolerare , tollere , to lift up, sustain, endure. See Th...
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4. talent
   1. Among the ancient Greeks, a weight and a denomination of money equal to 60 minae or 6,000 drachmae. The Attic talent, as a weight, was about 57 lbs. Avoirdupois; as a denomination of silver money, its value was £243 15s. Sterling, or about $1,180. 'Rowing vessel whose burden does not exceed five...
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5. talent
   noun a person who possesses unusual innate ability in some field or activity
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6. Talent
   From the Greek talanton = scales; Greek and Roman weight unit for a certain sum of money. We have shifted the word´s association of material, monetary value to one expressing admirable human characteristics: talents are a person´s inherent abilities, as given by God.
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7. Talent
   • (v. t.) Among the Hebrews, a weight and denomination of money. For silver it was equivalent to 3,000 shekels, and in weight was equal to about 93/ lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination of silver, it has been variously estimated at from
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8. talent
   (from the article `genius`) Genius is distinguished from talent, both quantitatively and qualitatively. Talent refers to a native aptitude for some special kind of work and ...
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9. talent
   unit of weight used by many ancient civilizations, such as the Hebrews, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans. The weight of a talent and its relationship to ... [2 related articles]
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10. Talent
    HMS Talent is a British Trafalgar Class fleet submarine of 5208 tons displacement dived launched in 1988. HMS Talent is powered by a pressurised water-cooled PWR 1 nuclear reactor with two Paxman auxiliary diesel engines, providing a top speed of 32 knots dived. HMS Talent carries a crew of 97 inclu...
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11. Talent
    Talent is British slang for an attractive person.
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12. Talent
    Talent is British slang for an attractive person.
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13. Talent
    An individual or company hired to work in an exhibit to greet visitors, demonstrate product, or stage a performance.
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14. talent
    a historic unit of weight, used in various forms throughout the eastern Mediterranean. The Hebrew sacred talent, mentioned in the Bible, was equal to 60 minas or about 30 kilograms (66 pounds). The Greek talent, also equal to 60 minas, was smaller, 25.8 kilograms or about 57 pounds.
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15. Talent
    A talent was an ancient Jewish monetary unit comprised of 3000 shekels. In ancient Greece, the talent was a unit of currency equivalent to 600 drachma.
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16. Talent
    60 minas at 100 drachmas each, 6000 drachmas
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17. Talent
    (measurement) . A talent was approximately the mass of the water required to fill an amphora The "talent" (, from τάλαντον-->, talanton `scale, balance`) was one of several ancient units of mass, as well as corresponding units of value equivalent to ...
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18. Talent
    (artwork) `Talent` (1986), is a photographic work by David Robbins comprising eighteen photographs that depict contemporary artists such as Cindy Sherman, Jeff Koons, Jenny Holzer, Robert Longo, and fourteen others using the headshot portraits long-utilized by the entertainment industr...
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