Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Becoming

We leave to go out of town in the morning and won't be back until Saturday maybe Sunday. I think at times things are so closely defined that we can't tell them apart. Or qualities that appear one way are actually another or intention behind makes it quite different.

Posting a few definitions so I remember them for a post I am working on...

Dominant:
1 a : commanding, controlling, or prevailing over all others b : very important, powerful, or successful 2 : overlooking and commanding from a superior position

Submissive:
1. inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination; "submissive servants"; "a submissive reply"; "replacing troublemakers with more submissive people"
2. abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant; "slavish devotion to her job ruled her life"; "a slavish yes-man to the party bosses"- S.H.Adams; "she has become submissive and subservient"

Slave:
1. a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another;
2. a person entirely under the domination of some influence or person

Submit:
1. to give over or yield to the power or authority of another
2. to subject to some kind of treatment or influence.
3. to yield oneself to the power or authority of another: to submit to a conqueror.
4. to allow oneself to be subjected to some kind of treatment

Obey:
1. to comply with or follow the commands, restrictions, wishes, or instructions of: to obey one's parents.
2. to comply with or follow (a command, restriction, wish, instruction, etc.).
3. (of things) to respond conformably in action to: The car obeyed the slightest touch of the steering wheel.
4. to submit or conform in action to (some guiding principle, impulse, one's conscience, etc.).
–verb (used without object)
5. to be obedient: to agree to obey.

Serving:
1. to be a servant to : ATTEND b : to give the service and respect due to (a superior) c : to comply with the commands or demands of : GRATIFY d : to give military or naval service to e : to perform the duties of (an office or post)
2. to act as server at (mass)
3. to work through (a term of service ) b : to put in (a term of imprisonment)
4. to wait on at table b : to bring (food) to a diner c : PRESENT, PROVIDE -- usually used with up
5 . to furnish or supply with something needed or desired b : to wait on (a customer) in a store c : to furnish professional service to
6. to answer the needs of b : to be enough for : SUFFICE c : to contribute or conduce to : PROMOTE
7. to treat or act toward in a specified way
8 : to provide services that benefit or help

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