essay

essay
noun
… OF ESSAYS
▪ anthology, collection, selection, series, set, volume
▪

In 2001 she published a collection of essays.

VERB + ESSAY
▪ do, write
▪

Have you done your essay yet?

▪ finish
▪

I finished my essay about 10 o'clock last night!

▪ conclude
▪

He concludes the essay by calling for a corrective.

▪ publish
▪ hand in, turn in (esp. AmE)
▪

Essays handed in late will not be accepted.

▪ contribute, submit
▪ present
▪

A version of this essay was presented at the Astronomical Society.

▪ read
▪ collect
▪

The fifteen essays collected in this volume.

ESSAY + VERB
▪ be entitled sth, be titled sth (esp. AmE)
▪

an essay entitled ‘Memory’

▪ address sth, discuss sth, examine sth, explore sth
▪

The essays explore Einstein's personal development.

▪ provide sth
▪

This essay provides a comprehensive overview of the subject.

▪ argue sth, suggest sth
ESSAY + NOUN
▪ question, title, topic
▪

You have to answer three out of eight essay questions in the exam.

▪ assignment
▪

Lunch was the only time she could finish her essay assignment.

▪ competition (esp. BrE), contest (AmE)
▪

the teenage winner of an essay contest

▪ collection (esp. AmE)
PREPOSITION
▪ in an/the essay
▪

He made some very good points in his essay.

▪ essay about, essay on
▪

We have to write an essay on the environment.

▪ essay by
▪

an essay by Montaigne


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  • essay — ESSAY. s. m. Espreuve qu on fait de quelque chose. Faire essay, un essay. faire l essay de la monnoye. faire l essay d une machine. cette drogue est trop violente, il est dangereux d en faire l essay. donner à l essay. prendre à l essay. faire l… …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • essay — Essay, m. acut. Est une tentatoire, qui est espreuve de ce qui est à faire, Periculi factio, Tentamentum, L apprenty fait son essay, Suae industriae tyro facit periculum, Selon ce on dit, Faire son coup d essay, Aliqua in re quid de suo ingenio,… …   Thresor de la langue françoyse

  • Essay — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Essay País …   Wikipedia Español

  • Essay — Es say, n.; pl. {Essays}. [F. essai, fr. L. exagium a weighing, weight, balance; ex out + agere to drive, do; cf. examen, exagmen, a means of weighing, a weighing, the tongue of a balance, exigere to drive out, examine, weigh, Gr. exa gion a… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Essay — Smn Abhandlung, Aufsatz erw. fach. (18. Jh.) Entlehnung. Entlehnt aus ne. essay, dieses aus afrz. essai, eigentlich Probe, Versuch , aus l. exagium n. das Wägen , einer postverbalen Ableitung von l. exigere (exāctum) abwägen, beurteilen , zu l.… …   Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen sprache

  • essay — vb endeavor, strive, struggle, *attempt, try Analogous words: work, labor, toil, travail (see corresponding nouns at WORK) essay n 1 endeavor, striving, struggle, attempt, try (see under ATTEMPT vb) Analogous words: *effort, exertion, trouble,… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • Essay — Es*say , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Essayed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Essaying}.] [F. essayer. See {Essay}, n.] 1. To exert one s power or faculties upon; to make an effort to perform; to attempt; to endeavor; to make experiment or trial of; to try. [1913… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • essay — [n1] written discourse article, composition, discussion, disquisition, dissertation, explication, exposition, manuscript, paper, piece, study, theme, thesis, tract, treatise; concept 271 essay [n2] try, attempt aim, bid, dry run*, effort,… …   New thesaurus

  • Essay — Essay,derod.das:⇨Abhandlung(1) Essay→Aufsatz …   Das Wörterbuch der Synonyme

  • Essay — »Abhandlung, die eine literarische oder wissenschaftliche Frage in knapper und anspruchsvoller Form behandelt«: Das Fremdwort wurde in der 2. Hälfte des 19. Jh.s aus gleichbed. engl. essay entlehnt, das aus frz. essai »Versuch, Abhandlung« stammt …   Das Herkunftswörterbuch

  • Essay — (engl., spr. Essäh), so v.w. Essai; bes. Essays, in der Englischen Literatur kürzere Aufsätze, worin die Ergebnisse der philosophischen Doctrinen popularisirt u. zur Belehrung u. Geschmackbildung in Zeit u. Wochenschriften mitgetheilt werden. Die …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

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