Essay

Word ESSAY
Character 5
Hyphenation es say es say
Pronunciations /ˈɛˌseɪ/

Definitions and meanings of "Essay"

What do we mean by essay?

A short literary composition on a single subject, usually presenting the personal view of the author. noun

Something resembling such a composition. noun

A testing or trial of the value or nature of a thing. noun

An initial attempt or endeavor, especially a tentative attempt. noun

To make an attempt at; try. transitive verb

To subject to a test. transitive verb

To make trial of; attempt; exert one's power or faculties upon; put to the test: as, to essay a difficult feat; to essay the courage of a braggart.

To try and test the value and purity of, as metals. Now written assay (which see).

Synonyms Undertake, Endeavor, etc. See attempt.

A trial, attempt, or endeavor; an effort made; exertion of body or mind to perform or accomplish anything: as, an essay toward reform; an essay of strength. noun

An experimental trial; a test. noun

An assay or test of the qualities of a metal. See assay, n. noun

In lit., a discursive composition concerned with a particular subject, usually shorter and less methodical and finished than a treatise; a short disquisition: as, an essay on the life and writings of Homer; an essay on fossils; an essay on commerce. noun

Synonyms Struggle. noun

Treatise, dissertation, disquisition, paper, tract, tractate. See definition of treatise. noun

An effort made, or exertion of body or mind, for the performance of anything; a trial; attempt. noun

A composition treating of any particular subject; -- usually shorter and less methodical than a formal, finished treatise noun

An assay. See Assay, n. noun

To exert one's power or faculties upon; to make an effort to perform; to attempt; to endeavor; to make experiment or trial of; to try. transitive verb

(authorship) A written composition of moderate length, exploring a particular issue or subject.

A test, experiment; an assay.

An attempt.

A proposed design for a postage stamp or a banknote.

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The word "essay" in example sentences

At its core were two pieces, the title essay and another, "The Eye Is a Part of the Mind," that offered the most sweeping argument against Greenbergian formalism. ❋ Eric Gibson (2011)

The title essay is written as a legal brief concerning the lawsuit of Wile E. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In his title essay in the recent book, Race, Incarceration, and American Values, Professor Loury sounds the alarm on some of the same concerns the Children's Defense Fund has been raising when we talk about the pipeline to prison crisis. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Emerson recognized this connection between nature and a certain elevation of mind, and he explains it in the title essay from "Nature": ❋ Unknown (2009)

As it happens, the title essay of the book is Mr. Rybczynski's attempt to fill out with fact the "fairy tales" he heard time and again about his parents 'fathers, one a prosperous banker and patriarch in interwar Warsaw, the other a philosopher and physicist in southeastern Poland who, in time, would withdraw from active life because of his troubled involvement with a married woman. ❋ Wladyslaw Pleszczynski (2009)

And I completely agree with the title essay - six-year-olds definitely shouldn't be dressed as sexily as they are these days. ❋ Tinylittlelibrarian (2008)

And the title essay picks up this theme: "Let the dedicated activist never overshadow the dedicated servant of literature — the matchless storyteller." ❋ Unknown (2007)

The title essay, on the other hand, is still up, and is also good, if lobsters are indeed something you feel like considering. ❋ Unknown (2007)

"The Peculiarities of the English" runs to fifty-seven printed pages, while in The Poverty of Theory the title essay alone is 206 pages long: it would have been twice as effective at one quarter the length. ❋ Countryman, Edward (2007)

In the title essay of the same volume where Thompson's "open letter" to Kolakowski is most available (The Poverty of Theory), Thompson demolishes the system-mongering of then-fashionable Louis Althusser. ❋ Countryman, Edward (2007)

We have an excerpt from "Walter Benjamin's Grave", the title essay about the cemetery where Benjamin was buried, eyewitness accounts of his border travails, and the circumstances of his demise. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Another, the title essay, is a poignant account of how a handknit sweater was a symbol of her love for her father. ❋ The Raven (2006)

The Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Feature Writing, 1985; Baltimore Sun devoted the title essay to her ninth-grade creative writing teacher, Miss Dennis: "I can't teach you how to write, but I can tell you how to look at things, how to pay attention," she would bark at us.... ❋ M-mv (2006)

The final section, the title essay, "The Flag and the Flag," is where Gitlin explores what most readers are most interested in: how did we get into this political mess? ❋ Unknown (2006)

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