echt

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echt

(ĕkt)

adj.

Real; genuine.

adv.

Really; genuinely.

[German, from Middle High German, from Middle Low German echte; akin to Old High German ēohaft, customary; see aiw- in Indo-European roots.]

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echt

(ɛçt; English ɛkt)

adj

real; genuine; authentic

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echt

(ɛxt)

adj. German.

real; authentic; genuine.

echt

A German word meaning real or authentic.

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Adj.

echt - not fake or counterfeit; "a genuine Picasso"; "genuine leather"

genuine

honest, honorable - not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent; "honest lawyers"; "honest reporting"

real, existent - being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory; "real objects"; "real people; not ghosts"; "a film based on real life"; "a real illness"; "real humility"; "Life is real! Life is earnest!"- Longfellow

sincere - open and genuine; not deceitful; "he was a good man, decent and sincere"; "felt sincere regret that they were leaving"; "sincere friendship"

true - consistent with fact or reality; not false; "the story is true"; "it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true"- B. Russell; "the true meaning of the statement"

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Munt, and tap surreptitiously when the tunes come--of course, not so as to disturb the others--; or like Helen, who can see heroes and shipwrecks in the music's flood; or like Margaret, who can only see the music; or like Tibby, who is profoundly versed in counterpoint, and holds the full score open on his knee; or like their cousin, Fraulein Mosebach, who remembers all the time that Beethoven is "echt Deutsch"; or like Fraulein Mosebach's young man, who can remember nothing but Fraulein Mosebach: in any case, the passion of your life becomes more vivid, and you are bound to admit that such a noise is cheap at two shillings.

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Also a big football fan, Mr Duguid spent many years as Echt AFC's groundsman.

Tributes paid to man who died at club; COMMUNITY

A big fan of football, ronald spent many years as echt AFC's groundsman before stepping down from the role in 2008.

Tributes as man dies playing game he loved

Echt is hopeful that this year's event will be even more successful, thus helping to raise awareness of pancreatic cancer research and opportunities that exist for advancements in early diagnosis and treatment.

Sandler-Kenner Foundation Announces Participation in North Texas Giving Day

"My cousins Mark and Kristopher are welders and live in Echt and Aberdeen.

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Rarities make up the programme, Spring and Three Russian Songs, all sounding suitably echt.

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He will definitely miss Thursday's Europa League clash against FC U t r echt in Holland and will also be sidelined for Blackpool's visit to Anfield next Sunday.

Konchesky winning race for first derby

This proved to be Vesta, though the identity of the object was not known at first, and it formed the subject of two Dun Echt circulars.'

The only naked-eye asteroid?

could not access Stein's records in Echt's Carmel and hence made some factual errors in the biography that, between 1948 and 1963, reached nine German editions.

Edith Stein: The Life of a Philosopher and Carmelite

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The Derridean might place these types of goods within a "labyrinth of signs" having no grounding in the Logos or other candidate for what is Echt, where the mesh of discourse formed can be changed so as to allow the sign-user to find libidinal satisfaction through other methods of approach toward the material and the rational than are coherent for the Enlightenment subject.

Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault

Heather McNaught, 31, who lives in Echt, Aberdeenshire, told the court she was woken by the noise of a car being driven at high speed two hours before the crash.