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— Stephen Crane

I stood upon a high place,

And saw, below, many devils

Running, leaping,

And carousing in sin.

…

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noun

A person whose profession is acting on the stage, in films, or on television.

“The lead actor delivered a powerful performance that moved the entire audience to tears.”

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datum

Part of Speech: nounPronunciation: /ˈdeɪtəm/Used In Literature ↓

(plural: data) A measurement of something on a scale understood by both the recorder (a person or device) and the reader (another person or device). The scale is arbitrarily defined, such as from 1 to 10 by ones, 1 to 100 by 0.1, or simply

Origin

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Common Phrases

. datumplane datumline datumpoint datumdatum sensedatum primary
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Synonyms

data point

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Related Words

zerobaselinebenchmarkbenchmarkingfootnotereferencebase

Poetry examples for “datum”

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Samedi.byWilliam Cowper

Pline, l'oncle et le neveu) l'exprime ainsi: ^^Uquidem

heatos puto, quitus deorvm mu/nere datum esty aut facere

scribenda, aut^ legenda scribere; beatissimo verb quibus

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