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Welcome!
Welcome to my blog. I am delighted to have you here to participate and share the Random Thoughts I would be posting ‘in passing’. Thank you for coming. It is great to have a connoisseur like you visiting and I would endeavour to make you happy to be here. Also, many of you have spared your valuable surfing time and taken the trouble of visiting this blog on my invitation. This serves to remind me just how important it is for me to make the blog worth it.
En passant would contain posts on any topic of general interest I would come across, be it from the areas of sports, entertainment or trivia. But no serious stuff here. No politics, and, no economics. One Caveat Emptor: I am not a authority on any subject. So, basically, I would be offering my personal views on any topic. I would welcome feedback, criticism, counterviews, provided these are not abusive.
Among the posts I have planned to publish are on the topics as diverse as Vishwanathan Anand, the King of Chess; re-publication of old classics written by Ibne Safi, South Asia’s Ian Fleming; and, 'Avatar’, James Cameron’s stunning masterpiece.
And before I start posting new stuff, I thank you for being here. It's a pleasure to see so many of you here. To all of you, I want to say once more, welcome! Enjoy en passant!
En passant would contain posts on any topic of general interest I would come across, be it from the areas of sports, entertainment or trivia. But no serious stuff here. No politics, and, no economics. One Caveat Emptor: I am not a authority on any subject. So, basically, I would be offering my personal views on any topic. I would welcome feedback, criticism, counterviews, provided these are not abusive.
Among the posts I have planned to publish are on the topics as diverse as Vishwanathan Anand, the King of Chess; re-publication of old classics written by Ibne Safi, South Asia’s Ian Fleming; and, 'Avatar’, James Cameron’s stunning masterpiece.
And before I start posting new stuff, I thank you for being here. It's a pleasure to see so many of you here. To all of you, I want to say once more, welcome! Enjoy en passant!
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Definition - en passant
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
en pas•sant
ɑn pæ-sɑnt; Fr. ɑ̃ pɑsɑ̃
Pronunciation [ahn pa-sahnt; Fr. ahn pah-sahn]
–noun
1. French. in passing; by the way.
2. Chess. a method by which a pawn that is moved two squares can be captured by an opponent's pawn commanding the square that was passed.
Origin: 1655–65
Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
/,ɒ̃.pæs.ɒ̃/ /,ɑ̃ː.pæ’sɑ̃ː/ adv formal
If you say something en passant, you mention something quickly while talking about something else
She mentioned, en passant, that she'd been in Brighton the previous week.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
En` pas`sant´
1. (Chess) In passing; in the course of any procedure;
WordNet Dictionary
Adv. 1. en passant - incidentally; in the course of doing something else; "he made this remark in passing"
Synonyms: in passing
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
en pas•sant
ɑn pæ-sɑnt; Fr. ɑ̃ pɑsɑ̃
Pronunciation [ahn pa-sahnt; Fr. ahn pah-sahn]
–noun
1. French. in passing; by the way.
2. Chess. a method by which a pawn that is moved two squares can be captured by an opponent's pawn commanding the square that was passed.
Origin: 1655–65
Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
/,ɒ̃.pæs.ɒ̃/ /,ɑ̃ː.pæ’sɑ̃ː/ adv formal
If you say something en passant, you mention something quickly while talking about something else
She mentioned, en passant, that she'd been in Brighton the previous week.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
En` pas`sant´
1. (Chess) In passing; in the course of any procedure;
WordNet Dictionary
Adv. 1. en passant - incidentally; in the course of doing something else; "he made this remark in passing"
Synonyms: in passing
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