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Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary
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It is not only important, but, in a degree necessary, that the people of this country, should have an American Dictionary of the English language; for, although the body of the language is the same as in England, and it is desirable to perpetuate that sameness, yet some differences must exist. Language is the expression of ideas; and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas, they cannot retain an identity of language. |
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1828 Definition
RAN'SOM, n.
RAN'SOM, v.t.
1913 Definition
The
release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a
consideration; redemption; as, prisoners hopeless of
ransom.
Dryden. The money or price paid for the redemption
of a prisoner, or for goods captured by an enemy; payment for freedom
from restraint, penalty, or forfeit.
Thy ransom paid, which man from death redeems. Milton. His captivity in Austria, and the heavy ransom he paid for his liberty. Sir J. Davies. A sum paid for the
pardon of some great offense and the discharge of the offender; also,
a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment.
Blackstone.
Ransom bill (Law), a war contract, valid by the law of nations, for the ransom of property captured at sea and its safe conduct into port. Kent. To redeem
from captivity, servitude, punishment, or forfeit, by paying a price;
to buy out of servitude or penalty; to rescue; to deliver; as, to
ransom prisoners from an enemy.
To exact a ransom for, or a payment
on.
[R.]
Such lands as he had rule of he ransomed them so grievously, and would tax the men two or three times in a year. Berners. | ||||||||
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Executives need vision to convert patented R&D into a profit center. Consider EMI, a london company that produces music (a music label company). In their Central Research Laboratories in Hayes, Godfrey Hounsfield had an idea to integrate X-ray slices to create a 3-D image (originally known as an EMI scan), today know as a CT or CAT scan. Godfrey was awared a Nobel Prize for his work, and later knighted. The idea came to him while picnicking in the park; however, the senior executives realized this was no picnic. They leveraged the technology (foundation patent #3,778,614), securing over 120 of the first 450 patents in this space. The legacy competitors (General Electric, Philips, Siemens) were playing catch-up with this innovator. Few executives would be brave enough to execute such a divergent business strategy.
