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soddy

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Editorial note

As a defensive mechanism, they're picking on English to distract everyone from their soddy language.

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Quick take

An English surname.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of soddy gathered in one view.

noun

An English surname.

noun

Alternative form of soddie. [(US, Canada, informal) A house constructed from blocks of sod, once common in the prairies of the United States and Canada.]

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for soddy.

noun

Alternative form of soddie. [(US, Canada, informal) A house constructed from blocks of sod, once common in the prairies of the United States and Canada.]

See also: sod-house, adobe-house

Example sentences

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As a defensive mechanism, they're picking on English to distract everyone from their soddy language.

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No coincidence that Soddy was the discoverer of transmutation.

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I got more experience in that than one might believe on a tech forum, from working as a bartender in soddy half-casino half-bar locations.

4

Eric Zencey, one of the contributors to the Daly News piece cited is also the author of the Soddy critique I just referenced in another comment.

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I've used this successfully numerous times to track down idea origins (or near-origins), examples being the concepts of money as based on energy (Frederick Soddy -> H.

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Not to mention Rutherford's 1899 studies of radioactivity, following Henri Becquerel's work on Uranium, following Marie Curie's work on Radium and her suggestion of radioactivity being atoms breaking up, and Rutherford's student Frederick Soddy and his work on Radon, and Paul Villard's work on Gamma Ray emissions from Radon.

Quote examples

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Soddy's economics views, based on thermodynamics, have been criticized by orthodox economists: "Mr.

Proper noun examples

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Wells in 1901 had been reading the work of William Ramsay, Ernest Rutherford, and Frederick Soddy.

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For another example, in Japan Soddy's Hexlet was described in 1822, while in the West it was introduced in England in 1937.

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Soddy himself is a partial answer, in the case of economics, though I find Georgescu-Roegen generally a more complete treatment.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use soddy in a sentence?

As a defensive mechanism, they're picking on English to distract everyone from their soddy language.

What does soddy mean?

An English surname.

What part of speech is soddy?

soddy is commonly used as noun.