en
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7.4
- other
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- The teacher encouraged her students to enrich their essays with more detailed examples.
Examples
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They tried to enlarge the meeting room to accommodate more participants.
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The new policy aims to ensure that all employees have access to fair treatment.
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OK, so now I have two major panels and I'm going to start to en small in them and make some adjustments.
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The boeuf en croute is fantastic.
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While it sounds pretty fancy, cooking "en Papillote" is simply cooking in a pouch.
Blog text (7) -
En garde!
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En seis días, just six little days, bingo, I'm home free.
Idioms
Compounds
- Jargon
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6.9
The preparation and tidy arrangement of ingredients and tools before cooking
- Specialized
A short horizontal line used between numbers to show a range, or between words to show a connection
- Specialized
A chess move where a pawn captures an opponent's pawn as if it had moved only one square
A piece of beef cooked rare, covered in mushroom paste and wrapped in pastry
- Archaic
To call many people who are not soldiers into the army during an emergency
- Specialized
The way things like the background, objects, and lights are arranged in a film or play to create a mood
Surface Forms
Etymology
The prefix en- means 'to put into' or 'make', so adding en- to a noun or adjective makes a verb that causes something to be in that state. That is why enlarge means 'make large' and enable means 'make able'.