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Aspect   /ˈæspˌɛkt/   Listen
Aspect

noun
1.
A distinct feature or element in a problem.  Synonym: facet.
2.
A characteristic to be considered.
3.
The visual percept of a region.  Synonyms: panorama, prospect, scene, view, vista.
4.
The beginning or duration or completion or repetition of the action of a verb.
5.
The feelings expressed on a person's face.  Synonyms: expression, face, facial expression, look.  "A look of triumph" , "An angry face"



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"Aspect" Quotes from Famous Books



... evil thoughts in its head, I must have been tried for a murder years ago, for I know it was loaded since I was a child, but that the lock has for the same space of time not been on speaking terms with the barrel. While, then, thus confirmed in our suspicions of mischief by Mat's warlike aspect, we both rose from the table, the door opened, and a young girl rushed in, and fell—actually threw herself into papa's arms. It was Nina herself, who had come all the way from Rome alone, that is, without any ...
— Lord Kilgobbin • Charles Lever
... for Bianconi's mother to take leave of her boy, wild though he was. On the occasion of this parting ceremony, she fainted outright, at which the young fellow thought that things were assuming a rather serious aspect. As he finally left the family home at Tregolo, the last words his mother said to him were these—words which he never forgot: "When you remember me, think of me as waiting at this window, watching ...
— Men of Invention and Industry • Samuel Smiles
... had never under the best material conditions presented a more cheerful and animated aspect. This was because all who began to grow depressed or who lost strength were sifted out of the army day by day. All the physically or morally weak had long since been left behind and only the flower of the ...
— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy
... form a general conception of the aspect which under such economic conditions the social relations must have assumed; but to follow out in detail the increase of luxury, of prices, of fastidiousness and frivolity is neither pleasant nor instructive. Extravagance and sensuous ...
— The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) • Theodor Mommsen
... three bedrooms upstairs, and the whole establishment was rather untidy in its aspect; but, though it might have been much cleaner, it is only fair to say that it might also ...
— Marm Lisa • Kate Douglas Wiggin


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