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Monday, January 10, 2011 @ 09:01 AM
Respect
When you admire someone, especially because of their personal qualities, knowledge, or skills.
When you regard something or someone as important and are careful not to harm them or treat them rudely.
Example Usage: I have the greatest respect for my teacher; The boys showed a complete lack of respect for authority.
Did you know…? The word ‘respect’ was the Oxford Dictionary’s 97th most-viewed word last year.
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plural respects
The men are showing respect to one another.
Definition of RESPECT
1 : a feeling of admiring someone or something that is good, valuable, important, etc.
[noncount]
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He has earned/gained/won their respect.
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The soldier saluted as a sign of respect.
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Despite our differences, I have enormous respect for him.
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She has a lot of respect for his opinion. [=she values his opinion very highly]
[singular]
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I have a great respect for his accomplishments.
2 : a feeling or understanding that someone or something is important, serious, etc., and should be treated in an appropriate way
[noncount]
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She showed no respect [=consideration] for my feelings.
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I expect to be treated with respect.
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He has no respect for the rules. [=he does not obey/follow the rules; he disregards the rules]
[count]
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He has a healthy respect for the dangers of the work he does. [=he is aware of the dangers and does the work in a careful way]
3 [count] : a particular way of thinking about or looking at something
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The show was perfect in all respects. [=in every way]
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Your theory makes sense in one respect.
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In many respects [=in many ways], her life has been a hard one.
4 respects [plural] : a polite greeting or expression of kind feelings
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Please give/send my respects to your parents. [=please tell your parents I said hello]
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I paid my respects [=offered my condolences] to the family at the funeral.
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We went to his funeral to pay our last/final respects.
with (all) (due) respect
— used as a polite or formal way of saying that you disagree with someone
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I have to say, with all respect, that I don’t think your solution will work.
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With all due respect, I must disagree with your conclusions.
with respect to formal also in respect to or chiefly British in respect of
: about or concerning (something or someone) : in relation to (something or someone)
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There is a question with respect to your earlier comments.
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There have been problems with respect to transferring the data from the old computer to the new one.
Don’t we all want Respect? It seems that in to days world it’s hard to get Respect most of the time.
There is a generation that has been brought up not learning Respect.
When you take time to Listen and Look around you will see what kind of world we are living in today.
There are so many people who live for their self or only want to see certain people happy and not others.
What we Have to Do is Respect, Start by showing Respect to the ones we know to Respect.
Today there are people yelling for no more Police, no more Government… We will have pure Panic and Destruction if Order and Respect does not return back to the Generations.
I Pray that we can All come together and show each other what it means to be in order and save our world for us a better future.
Enjoy Life,
Renea
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