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Definition of impedimenta in English: impedimentaplural noun ɪmˌpɛdɪˈmɛntəɪmˌpɛdəˈmɛn(t)ə Equipment for an activity or expedition, especially when considered as bulky or an encumbrance. 辎重；妨碍行进的重负，累赘 she collected her briefcase and other impedimenta Example sentencesExamples - I followed behind somewhat encumbered by our impedimenta.
- They filled two trolleys with crockery, kettles, pots and pans and all the other impedimenta needed to kit out a new home.
- However, a comment from him on his radio show has forced a different take on life's impedimenta.
- Zulu soldiers were followed by young herd boys, called Izindibi/udibi, carrying the army's impedimenta in the rear or on the flanks of the advance.
- Troops turned in surplus property, ‘useless impedimenta,’ and waited.
- So having wandered round the battlefield inspecting the impedimenta of the combatants, we come at last to the question from which it all started.
- Triumphs are claimed, disasters are someone else's concerns, and if there's trouble, there are union rules or some of the other impedimenta to the full implementation of ideas such as disclosure, transparency and responsibility.
- And even then, this detail is often lost, an accent overwhelmed by the loud plastic awnings, hawkers' kerb-spreads and squatters' impedimenta that define the metropolitan street.
- What happens when someone who's had a sex change, who is already receiving domestic partner benefits at work for his male partner, goes through sex reassignment surgery and acquires the physical impedimenta of the opposite sex?
- Fortunately the day was overcast, so we didn't have a scorching sun in which to carry around tiny twins and all their essential equipment, apparatuses, impedimenta, equipage and whatnot.
- Anyway, we went for a curry and it was good to see him again, although I would have preferred it if your mother hadn't come; and I think he might have preferred that too, having managed to evade his own impedimenta for the evening.
- You will see that there is a lot of impedimenta in even the highest level language.
- A few hours later, he had labored his way into the depths of the wilderness of miscellaneous impedimenta and found himself facing a cloudy window.
- Fascinating it was too: almost no plants, entirely taken over by garden impedimenta and decorative items for the home.
- The economics and limitations of technology (with some enormous intellectual property issues on the side) are serious, if temporary, impedimenta.
- ‘I want to prepare for my big raid,’ he explained on October 19 to a colonel in charge of supply, and with that Sherman arranged to send his impedimenta to the rear.
- It's an unavoidably communal experience; no matter how pointedly you pile shopping bags and assorted impedimenta on the seat beside you, sooner or later someone's going to insist on initiating a conversation.
- Somehow or another all concerned manage to avoid braining each other with guitars, mic stands and various other musical impedimenta.
- One must begin to question all of the bureaucratic impedimenta that a government-run space exploration program must carry with it when it tries to venture off the surface of the Earth.
- Cultural practices have survived or fallen only in part because of their effect on the strength of the group, and those which have survived are usually burdened with unnecessary impedimenta.
Synonyms paraphernalia, trappings, equipment, accoutrements, appurtenances, accessories, bits and pieces, bits and bobs, odds and ends, things, tackle, effects, possessions, belongings, goods, movables baggage, luggage informal stuff, gear, traps, junk, rubbish British informal clobber, gubbins, odds and sods archaic equipage
OriginEarly 17th century: from Latin, plural of impedimentum 'impediment', from impedire (see impede). Definition of impedimenta in US English: impedimentaplural nounimˌpedəˈmen(t)əɪmˌpɛdəˈmɛn(t)ə Equipment for an activity or expedition, especially when considered as bulky or an encumbrance. 辎重；妨碍行进的重负，累赘 she collected her briefcase and other impedimenta Example sentencesExamples - I followed behind somewhat encumbered by our impedimenta.
- And even then, this detail is often lost, an accent overwhelmed by the loud plastic awnings, hawkers' kerb-spreads and squatters' impedimenta that define the metropolitan street.
- Triumphs are claimed, disasters are someone else's concerns, and if there's trouble, there are union rules or some of the other impedimenta to the full implementation of ideas such as disclosure, transparency and responsibility.
- Zulu soldiers were followed by young herd boys, called Izindibi/udibi, carrying the army's impedimenta in the rear or on the flanks of the advance.
- ‘I want to prepare for my big raid,’ he explained on October 19 to a colonel in charge of supply, and with that Sherman arranged to send his impedimenta to the rear.
- The economics and limitations of technology (with some enormous intellectual property issues on the side) are serious, if temporary, impedimenta.
- Fortunately the day was overcast, so we didn't have a scorching sun in which to carry around tiny twins and all their essential equipment, apparatuses, impedimenta, equipage and whatnot.
- They filled two trolleys with crockery, kettles, pots and pans and all the other impedimenta needed to kit out a new home.
- Anyway, we went for a curry and it was good to see him again, although I would have preferred it if your mother hadn't come; and I think he might have preferred that too, having managed to evade his own impedimenta for the evening.
- A few hours later, he had labored his way into the depths of the wilderness of miscellaneous impedimenta and found himself facing a cloudy window.
- However, a comment from him on his radio show has forced a different take on life's impedimenta.
- Fascinating it was too: almost no plants, entirely taken over by garden impedimenta and decorative items for the home.
- It's an unavoidably communal experience; no matter how pointedly you pile shopping bags and assorted impedimenta on the seat beside you, sooner or later someone's going to insist on initiating a conversation.
- What happens when someone who's had a sex change, who is already receiving domestic partner benefits at work for his male partner, goes through sex reassignment surgery and acquires the physical impedimenta of the opposite sex?
- Somehow or another all concerned manage to avoid braining each other with guitars, mic stands and various other musical impedimenta.
- One must begin to question all of the bureaucratic impedimenta that a government-run space exploration program must carry with it when it tries to venture off the surface of the Earth.
- Troops turned in surplus property, ‘useless impedimenta,’ and waited.
- So having wandered round the battlefield inspecting the impedimenta of the combatants, we come at last to the question from which it all started.
- Cultural practices have survived or fallen only in part because of their effect on the strength of the group, and those which have survived are usually burdened with unnecessary impedimenta.
- You will see that there is a lot of impedimenta in even the highest level language.
Synonyms paraphernalia, trappings, equipment, accoutrements, appurtenances, accessories, bits and pieces, bits and bobs, odds and ends, things, tackle, effects, possessions, belongings, goods, movables
OriginEarly 17th century: from Latin, plural of impedimentum ‘impediment’, from impedire (see impede). |