meditate /'med^teit (i> 1] to sit quietly and think deeply, to make your mind completely empty, as a form of religious training: The monks spend hours every day meditating. meditation ^medi'teij^n ' [n U] when you sit quietly and calmly, and try to make your mind completely empty
В someone who does not believe in Cod
atheist /'eitii-^st/ jn C] someone who believes that there are no gods. Dr Conan has been an atheist all her adult life.
agnostic /aeg'nostik, ag-fl-no:-/ [n C]
someone who thinks it is impossible to
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know whether God exists or not: Though brought up in the Jewish faith, he became an agnostic in later life.
Ш not connected with religion
secular / sekj^br [adj] not connected with any religious belief or organization - use this especially when comparing religious and non-religious institutions, ideas etc: The choir sang a mixture of secular and religious music. I They want to change the country from a secular state to an islamic republic.
и buildings for religion
church tj3:rtj a holy building where Christians go to pray and to have their religious ceremonies
chapel 'tjasp^l' a small church, or a church where particular Christian groups go to pray and to have their religious ceremonies: the Austin Baptist Chapel
temple 'temper a holy building where
people pray and religious ceremonies take
place, in religions such as Buddhism. Hinduism. Sikhism, and Shinto: the Buddhist Temple in Ladakh
mosque mDsk||ma:sk/ a holy building
where Muslims go to pray and to have their religious ceremonies: the Great Mosque of Damascus
synagogue , sin3gng||-ga:g/ a holy building where Jews go to pray and to have their religious ceremonies
REMAIN
to still exist after everything else
has gone
^ if you mean 'continue to be the same', go to continue j
U to remain
left left,/ lad; not before noun| something or someone that is left is still there after everything else has gone or has been used: Is there any milk left? I By 5 o'clock there was no one left in the office. I If Tracey leaves, I'll be the only girl left in the class.
have sth left How much time do we have left to finish this9
be left over /bi: left something
that is left over, especially money or food, is still there after you have used everything that you need: I pay all the
bills and save any money that is left
over.
+ from Was there any food left over from the party?
remain rimein/ [u Ij formal if something remains, it still exists or is still available after everything else has gone, or been used, or been dealt with: Not much of the house remained after the fire. I We have dealt with most things, but a few small problems remain. I Some elements of the old class system still remain.
remain to be done A few problems remain to be discussed.
El someone or something that remains
the rest to rest [n singular or plural] what is left after everything or everyone else has gone, or been used, or been dealt with: You carry these two bags and I'll bring the rest. I Four of the attackers were killed, the rest escaped. + of What will you do with the rest of the money? I Hell be in a wheelchair for the rest of his life.
the remains /сЪ ri'meinz/ [n plural] the remains of something are the small parts of it that are left after most of it has been destroyed or has disappeared + of Archaeologists have discovered the remains of an ancient Roman village.
remaining n'meinii]/ [adj only before ncunl espf.cialiy writttn the remaining people or things are the ones that are left when all the others have gone, or been used, or been dealt with: The few remaining guests were in the kitchen finishing off the wine, i The only remaining question is whether we can borrow the money. I the Navy's one remaining aircraft-carrier
what is le/t of sth wot iz left dv (sth)
the small amount that remains after everything else has gone or been used: As the noise of the explosion died away, he
REMEMBER
looked up at what was left of his roof. \ At last she went, and I settled down to enjoy what was left of the afternoon.
leftovers <'left3uv3rz/ [n plural] informal
food that has not been eaten at the end of
a meaclass="underline" We used the leftovers to make
soup the next day.
REMEMBER
opposite forcet
II to remember something from the past
remember n'membor (u I/T] if you remember something that happened, something you did, or something you used to know, the thought of it comes back into your mind: Do you remember your first day at school? I I couldn't remember her name. I Where are my keys0 Oh, I remember, I left them in the kitchen. remember who/what/where/how I can't remember where I put my bag. + (that) Suddenly I remembered that I'd left the iron on!
remember doing sth He remembered meeting her at a party once. remember sth welt/vividly That was a wonderful Christmas - I remember it
well.
Don't say 'I am remembering that j day' Say I remember that day or I can
remember that day j
i
Don't say 'I remember to have seen him'. Say I remember seeing him i
Ql will never forget ai wii nevr>r
for'get rspkciai.i.y spokfn use this to say that you will remember something for a long time because it was very shocking, very enjoyable, very frightening etc: III never forget the sight of him lying there in the hospital. I I can promise you an experi ence you will never forget!
think back/ioolc back eiqk Ьжк, lok
Ьжк Iphrasa/ verb I] to think about something that happened in the past because you want to remember it: She tried to think back and remember exactly what Jim had said.
+ to Thinking back to when I was first married, I realize now that I made a lot of mistakes.
look back on When I look back on those days, it always makes me sad.
memory /'menvri [n С often plural] something that you remember from the past about a person, place, or experience + of I have lots of happy memories of my time in Japan.