Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
OE. pretenden, to lay claim to, F. prétendre, L. praetendere, praetentum, to stretch forward, pretend, simulate, assert; prae, before + tendere, to stretch. See Tend (v. t.)
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
Fr. prétendre—L. prætendĕre—præ, before, tendĕre, tentum, tensum, to stretch.
In literature:
The fox began to run and pretended to be in great terror.
"Italian Popular Tales" by Thomas Frederick Crane
You should hear her talking to father and pretending that she thinks fishing nice.
"Lalage's Lovers" by George A. Birmingham
He and Ruskin set a certain cant afloat, for every fad and pose which pretends to be sober and earnest must have a cant.
"Folkways" by William Graham Sumner
In the succeeding reign an alchymist appeared who pretended to have discovered the secret.
"Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" by Charles Mackay
To send it by post, pretending to be ill again, would be hypocrisy he could not support.
"The Manxman A Novel - 1895" by Hall Caine
I'm not going to pretend that I didn't notice frictions and irritations.
"The Kingdom Round the Corner" by Coningsby Dawson
The pretended Cadi took his seat and commanded that Abul Hassan and Ali Cogia should be brought before him.
"Tales of Folk and Fairies" by Katharine Pyle
Well, I don't pretend to direct people's diet.
"The Humbugs of the World" by P. T. Barnum
Then he staggered forward and pretended to fall.
"The Dodge Club" by James De Mille
But he was pretending, and he didn't know how far he had come.
"The Doers" by William John Hopkins
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In poetry:
"This is the man did once pretend
God was his Father and his Friend
If God the blessed loved him so,
Why doth he fail to help him now?"
"Psalm 22" by Isaac Watts
With giant’s blood he besmear’d himself,
And besmear’d his steed all o’er;
Then back he rides to King Diderik,
Pretends to be wounded sore.
"Vidrik Verlandson (From The Old Danish) " by George Borrow
"All these things I know, I know.
And that's why my heart is breaking!"
"Then what do you gain by pretending so?"
"The joy of an old wound waking."
"The Oldest Song" by Rudyard Kipling
'Twere folly to pretend
I never begged before;
Or if thou now befriend,
I'll trouble thee no more:
Thou often hast relieved my pain,
And often I must come again.
"The Beggar" by John Newton
Each thought he was thinking of nothing but "Snark"
And the glorious work of the day;
And each tried to pretend that he did not remark
That the other was going that way.
"The Hunting Of The Snark " by Lewis Carroll
No knave but boldly will pretend
The requisites that form a friend,
A real and a sound one;
Nor any fool, he would deceive,
But prove as ready to believe,
And dream that he had found one.
"Friendship" by William Cowper
In news:
Pretender Contenders for a playoff spot, but pretenders for the Stanley Cup.
Pretender Like the Rangers, the Habs are contenders for a playoff spot, but pretenders for the Cup.
2 Roma that looks very likely -- no one will be allowed to call the Nerazzurri pretenders any longer.
A man wanted for murder pretends to be a New York Times reporter.
The group would interpret the hits of others, and in a sense, they were the great pretenders .
They pretended they hadn't heard.
Pretending to be professional in New York is hard work.
Despite the famous last name — and the fact that he plays the same instrument as his father — Ravi Coltrane, son of jazz icons John (sax) and Alice (piano), doesn't pretend to be anything more than just a saxophonist.
I HAVE friends who pretend to have allergies so they can avoid getting pets for their children, which I find shameful on many levels.
Pretend to be snowbound, with a really great menu.
When the airlines of every nation seemed to consist of Boeing and Douglas jets, Washington could pretend that there was a free market in aircraft.
Mets are not the Yankees, but do they have to pretend they're the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Which teams do you believe are the contenders and pretenders.
I find the whole thing of pretending embarrassing.
KFFMDon't be pretending you don't have a stash of snacks available somewhere in your office – usually in one of your desk drawers.
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In science:
Obviously, the model is rather simple and specific to pretend to describe properly any real biological system.
The simplest model of spatially distributed population with reasonable migration of organisms
In general, the qualitative effect of fitting parameters but pretending that they were known before the data was taken is that the p-value is not distributed uniformly.
A Test Statistic for Weighted Runs
This form of information hiding seems to be fundamental for modern computing where the large ma jority of users users cannot conceivably pretend to understand how their boxes arrive at their observed behavior.
Informal Control code logic
With these new definitions, Theorems 4.1 and 4.2 remain valid, and we can still use Theorem 4.3 to numerically compute each maximin m by pretending [m] = {Pm}, i.e., by temporarily quantizer ¯φmax discarding other states in [m].
Asymptotic Optimality Theory For Decentralized Sequential Multihypothesis Testing Problems
It is easy to verify that once we associate the completedata test with the normal model (i.e., pretending the large-sample approximation is exact), the denominator of RI1 is the same as the denominator of Doss’s RIw as given in his (5).
Rejoinder: Quantifying the Fraction of Missing Information for Hypothesis Testing in Statistical and Genetic Studies
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