Associations to the word «Deferent»
Noun
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Wiktionary
DEFERENT, adjective. Showing deference.
DEFERENT, adjective. (obsolete) Serving to carry; bearing.
DEFERENT, noun. (obsolete) That which carries or conveys.
DEFERENT, noun. (obsolete) (Ptolemaic astronomy) An imaginary circle surrounding the Earth, in whose periphery either the heavenly body or the centre of the heavenly body's epicycle was supposed to be carried round.
Dictionary definition
DEFERENT, adjective. Showing deference.
Wise words
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at
least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are
nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to
build something with them; they do not win their true
meaning until one knows how to apply them.