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Look up: surprise

  1. Surprise
    Surprise is a town in Maricopa County Arizona, USA Surprise is a village in Butler County Nebraska, USA
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  2. surprise
    [n] - the astonishment you feel when something totally unexpected happens to you 2. [n] - a sudden unexpected event 3. [n] - the act of surprising someone 4. [v] - take unawares 5. [v] - take unawares or by surprise
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. surprise
    a device proposed by Weaver(1948)to provide some basis for the realisation of an event governed by a set of probabilities Category: Statistics
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  4. Surprise
    Sur·prise' noun [ French surprise , from surprendre , surpris ; sur over + prendre to take, Latin prehendere . See Sur- , and Prehensile .] 1. The act of coming upon, or taking, unawares; the act of seizing unexpectedly; surprisal; as, the fort was taken by surprise . 2. The state of being surprised, or taken unawar ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/250

  5. Surprise
    Sur·prise' transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Surprised ; present participle & verbal noun Surprising .] [ From Surprise , noun : confer French surprendre , past participle surpris .] 1. To come or fall suddenly and unexpectedly; to take unawares; to seize or capture by ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/250

  6. surprise
    1. To come or fall suddenly and unexpectedly; to take unawares; to seize or capture by unexpected attack. 'Fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites.' (Isa. Xxxiii. 14) 'The castle of Macduff I will surprise.' (Shak) 'Who can speak The mingled passions that surprised his heart?' (Thomson) ... 2. To strike with wonder, astonishment, or confusion, by ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  7. surprise
    surprisal noun the act of surprising someone
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  8. surprise
    noun a sudden unexpected event
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  9. surprise
    noun the astonishment you feel when something totally unexpected happens to you
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  10. Surprise
    • (n.) The act of coming upon, or taking, unawares; the act of seizing unexpectedly; surprisal; as, the fort was taken by surprise. • (n.) To come or fall suddenly and unexpectedly; to take unawares; to seize or capture by unexpected attack. • (n.) To strike with wonder, astonishment, or confusion, by something sudden, unexpected, or...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  11. surprise
    (from the article `human behaviour`) ...heart rate and of course by smiling and crying. Infants show a quieting of motor activity and a decrease in heart rate in response to an ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/s/190

  12. surprise
    surprise 1. To encounter suddenly or unexpectedly; to take or catch unawares. 2. To attack, or to capture suddenly, and without warning. 3. To cause someone to feel wonder, astonishment, or amazement, as at something not anticipated or expected. 4. To cause (someone) to do or to say something unintended; and to elicit or to detect through surprise. 5. E...
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf


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23 November 2009

This day in history:
At sixteen minutes past five on 23rd November 1963, a British television institution was born. Doctor Who would go on to become the longest-running science-fiction programme in the world, eventually spawning twenty six seasons of adventures from 1963 to 1989. In total, eight actors have played the part of Gallifrey's most famous Time Lord. From the very first - William Hartnell in 1963 - to the very last - Paul McGann, in the 1996 TV Movie - the Doctor has wandered through time and space in his trusty time machine, an old type-40 TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimensions in Space). Although appearing to be nothing more than a battered blue police box, it is in fact vastly bigger on the inside than on the outside, and always departs with its familiar wheezing, groaning sound. read more

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