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FEAT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A notable achievement
Example:
the book was her finest effort
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("feat" is a kind of...):
accomplishment; achievement (the action of accomplishing something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "feat"):
derring-do (brave and heroic feats)
hit ((baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball))
rally; rallying (the feat of mustering strength for a renewed effort)
stunt (a difficult or unusual or dangerous feat; usually done to gain attention)
tour de force (a masterly or brilliant feat)
Context examples:
I had to assure him that the feat would be beyond me.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The feat was accomplished by accessing two untapped streams of satellite data.
(New map uncovers thousands of unseen seamounts on ocean floor, NSF)
The research suggests bees don't need to understand complex mathematics to achieve these feats of quantitative comparison.
(Scientists Discover Bees Can Count Using Only Four Brain Cells, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Not a man believed him capable of the feat.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
As of 2003 when this Landsat 7 image was taken, more than 5,000 people have attempted to repeat their feat with only 1,600 successes and 175 fatalities.
(Everest, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Figuring out the size, shape and mass of our galaxy is no easy feat considering that we are measuring it from within.
(Researchers Estimate Mass of Milky Way to Be 3.9 Tredecillion Pounds, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
No doubt the feat was easy to Mr. Utterson; for he was undemonstrative at the best, and even his friendship seemed to be founded in a similar catholicity of good-nature.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
To perform this feat the group acquired 13,188 whole-mount pathology slide images of the prostate from Nippon Medical School Hospital (NMSH), The amount of data was enormous, equivalent to approximately 86 billion image patches (sub-images divided for deep neural networks), and the computation was performed on AIP's powerful RAIDEN supercomputer.
(Artificial Intelligence Identifies Features Associated with Cancer Recurrence, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Meg was too much absorbed in her private and particular John to care for any other lords of creation, and Beth too shy to do more than peep at them and wonder how Amy dared to order them about so, but Jo felt quite in her own element, and found it very difficult to refrain from imitating the gentlemanly attitudes, phrases, and feats, which seemed more natural to her than the decorums prescribed for young ladies.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
About two or three days before I was set at liberty, as I was entertaining the court with this kind of feat, there arrived an express to inform his majesty, that some of his subjects, riding near the place where I was first taken up, had seen a great black substance lying on the around, very oddly shaped, extending its edges round, as wide as his majesty’s bedchamber, and rising up in the middle as high as a man; that it was no living creature, as they at first apprehended, for it lay on the grass without motion; and some of them had walked round it several times; that, by mounting upon each other’s shoulders, they had got to the top, which was flat and even, and, stamping upon it, they found that it was hollow within; that they humbly conceived it might be something belonging to the man-mountain; and if his majesty pleased, they would undertake to bring it with only five horses.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
