Desert
That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit.
A deserted or forsaken region; a barren tract incapable of supporting population, as the vast sand plains of Asia and Africa are destitute and vegetation.
A tract, which may be capable of sustaining a population, but has been left unoccupied and uncultivated; a wilderness; a solitary place.
Of or pertaining to a desert; forsaken; without life or cultivation; unproductive; waste; barren; wild; desolate; solitary; as, they landed on a desert island.
To leave (especially something which one should stay by and support); to leave in the lurch; to abandon; to forsake; -- implying blame, except sometimes when used of localities; as, to desert a friend, a principle, a cause, one's country.
To abandon (the service) without leave; to forsake in violation of duty; to abscond from; as, to desert the army; to desert one's colors.
To abandon a service without leave; to quit military service without permission, before the expiration of one's term; to abscond.
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Desert Quotations
Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?
William Shakespeare
Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
Khalil Gibran
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
Albert Camus
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
Milton Friedman
Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!
Golda Meir
Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.
Richard M. Nixon
I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert in a ton of chain mail for Ridley any day of the week. He's an amazing director and I can't wait to see the long version.
Orlando Bloom
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?
Richard P. Feynman
I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.
Ella Maillart
Desert Translations
desert in Afrikaans is verlaat
desert in Dutch is wildernis, woestenij, woestijn
desert in Finnish is autiomaa
desert in Italian is deserto
desert in Latin is inculta, derelinquo
desert in Portuguese is deserto
desert in Spanish is desierto, abandonar
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