The Collaborative International Dictionary
Saleswoman \Sales"wom`an\, n.; pl. Saleswomen. A woman whose occupation is to sell goods or merchandise.
Dead \Dead\ (d[e^]d), a. [OE. ded, dead, deed, AS. de['a]d; akin to OS. d[=o]d, D. dood, G. todt, tot, Icel. dau[eth]r, Sw. & Dan. d["o]d, Goth. daubs; prop. p. p. of an old verb meaning to die. See Die, and cf. Death.]
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Deprived of life; -- opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to perform their functions; as, a dead tree; a dead man. ``The queen, my lord, is dead.''
--Shak.The crew, all except himself, were dead of hunger.
--Arbuthnot.Seek him with candle, bring him dead or living.
--Shak. Destitute of life; inanimate; as, dead matter.
Resembling death in appearance or quality; without show of life; deathlike; as, a dead sleep.
Still as death; motionless; inactive; useless; as, dead calm; a dead load or weight.
So constructed as not to transmit sound; soundless; as, a dead floor.
Unproductive; bringing no gain; unprofitable; as, dead capital; dead stock in trade.
Lacking spirit; dull; lusterless; cheerless; as, dead eye; dead fire; dead color, etc.
Monotonous or unvaried; as, a dead level or pain; a dead wall. ``The ground is a dead flat.''
--C. Reade.-
Sure as death; unerring; fixed; complete; as, a dead shot; a dead certainty.
I had them a dead bargain.
--Goldsmith. Bringing death; deadly.
--Shak.Wanting in religious spirit and vitality; as, dead faith; dead works. ``Dead in trespasses.''
--Eph. ii. 1.-
(Paint.)
Flat; without gloss; -- said of painting which has been applied purposely to have this effect.
Not brilliant; not rich; thus, brown is a dead color, as compared with crimson.
(Law) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property; as, one banished or becoming a monk is civilly dead.
(Mach.) Not imparting motion or power; as, the dead spindle of a lathe, etc. See Spindle.
(Elec.) Carrying no current, or producing no useful effect; -- said of a conductor in a dynamo or motor, also of a telegraph wire which has no instrument attached and, therefore, is not in use.
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Out of play; regarded as out of the game; -- said of a ball, a piece, or a player under certain conditions in cricket, baseball, checkers, and some other games. [In golf], a ball is said to lie dead when it lies so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke. --Encyc. of Sport. Dead ahead (Naut.), directly ahead; -- said of a ship or any object, esp. of the wind when blowing from that point toward which a vessel would go. Dead angle (Mil.), an angle or space which can not be seen or defended from behind the parapet. Dead block, either of two wooden or iron blocks intended to serve instead of buffers at the end of a freight car. Dead calm (Naut.), no wind at all. Dead center, or Dead point (Mach.), either of two points in the orbit of a crank, at which the crank and connecting rod lie a straight line. It corresponds to the end of a stroke; as, A and B are dead centers of the crank mechanism in which the crank C drives, or is driven by, the lever L. Dead color (Paint.), a color which has no gloss upon it. Dead coloring (Oil paint.), the layer of colors, the preparation for what is to follow. In modern painting this is usually in monochrome. Dead door (Shipbuilding), a storm shutter fitted to the outside of the quarter-gallery door. Dead flat (Naut.), the widest or midship frame. Dead freight (Mar. Law), a sum of money paid by a person who charters a whole vessel but fails to make out a full cargo. The payment is made for the unoccupied capacity. --Abbott. Dead ground (Mining), the portion of a vein in which there is no ore. Dead hand, a hand that can not alienate, as of a person civilly dead. ``Serfs held in dead hand.'' --Morley. See Mortmain. Dead head (Naut.), a rough block of wood used as an anchor buoy. Dead heat, a heat or course between two or more race horses, boats, etc., in which they come out exactly equal, so that neither wins. Dead horse, an expression applied to a debt for wages paid in advance. [Law] Dead language, a language which is no longer spoken or in common use by a people, and is known only in writings, as the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. Dead plate (Mach.), a solid covering over a part of a fire grate, to prevent the entrance of air through that part. Dead pledge, a mortgage. See Mortgage. Dead point. (Mach.) See Dead center. Dead reckoning (Naut.), the method of determining the place of a ship from a record kept of the courses sailed as given by compass, and the distance made on each course as found by log, with allowance for leeway, etc., without the aid of celestial observations. Dead rise, the transverse upward curvature of a vessel's floor. Dead rising, an elliptical line drawn on the sheer plan to determine the sweep of the floorheads throughout the ship's length. Dead-Sea apple. See under Apple. Dead set. See under Set. Dead shot.
An unerring marksman.
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A shot certain to be made. Dead smooth, the finest cut made; -- said of files. Dead wall (Arch.), a blank wall unbroken by windows or other openings. Dead water (Naut.), the eddy water closing in under a ship's stern when sailing. Dead weight.
A heavy or oppressive burden.
--Dryden.(Shipping) A ship's lading, when it consists of heavy goods; or, the heaviest part of a ship's cargo.
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(Railroad) The weight of rolling stock, the live weight being the load.
--Knight.Dead wind (Naut.), a wind directly ahead, or opposed to the ship's course.
To be dead, to die. [Obs.]
I deme thee, thou must algate be dead.
--Chaucer.Syn: Inanimate; deceased; extinct. See Lifeless.
Gable \Ga"ble\, n. [OE. gable, gabil, F. gable, fr. LL. gabalum front of a building, prob. of German or Scand. origin; cf. OHG. gibil, G. giebel gable, Icel. gafl, Goth. gibla pinnacle; perh. akin to Gr. ? head, and E. cephalic, or to G. gabel fork, AS. geafl, E. gaffle, L. gabalus a kind of gallows.] (Arch.)
The vertical triangular portion of the end of a building, from the level of the cornice or eaves to the ridge of the roof. Also, a similar end when not triangular in shape, as of a gambrel roof and the like. Hence:
The end wall of a building, as distinguished from the front or rear side.
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A decorative member having the shape of a triangular gable, such as that above a Gothic arch in a doorway.
Bell gable. See under Bell.
Gable roof, a double sloping roof which forms a gable at each end.
Gable wall. Same as Gable (b) .
Gable window, a window in a gable.
Stipulate \Stip"u*late\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Stipulated; p. pr. & vb. n. Stipulating.] [L. stipulatus, p. p. of stipulari to stipulate, fr. OL. stipulus firm, fast; probably akin to L. stipes a post. Cf. Stiff.] To make an agreement or covenant with any person or company to do or forbear anything; to bargain; to contract; to settle terms; as, certain princes stipulated to assist each other in resisting the armies of France.
Adorner \A*dorn"er\, n. He who, or that which, adorns; a beautifier.
Restringe \Re*stringe"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Restringed; p. pr. & vb. n. Restringing.] [L. restringere. See Restrain.] To confine; to contract; to stringe. [Obs.]
Moot-hall \Moot"-hall`\, Moot-house \Moot"-house`\, n. [AS.
m[=o]th?s.]
A hall for public meetings; a hall of judgment. [Obs.] ``The
moot-hall of Herod.''
--Wyclif.
Trite \Trite\ (tr[imac]t), a. [L. tritus, p. p. of terere to rub, to wear out; probably akin to E. throw. See Throw, and cf. Contrite, Detriment, Tribulation, Try.] Worn out; common; used until so common as to have lost novelty and interest; hackneyed; stale; as, a trite remark; a trite subject. -- Trite"ly, adv. -- Trite"ness, n.
Completive \Com*ple"tive\, a. [L. completivus: cf. F.
compl['e]tif.]
Making complete. [R.]
--J. Harris.
Wiktionary
n. (cassette drive English)
a. 1 (context informal English) Associated with the outdoors, or suited to outdoor life. 2 (context informal English) Fond of the outdoors.
n. (context mineralogy English) A hexagonal mineral containing boron, calcium, hydrogen, magnesium, and oxygen.
vb. (en-third-person singular of: reperforate)
prep. (alternative form of umbe English)
n. (plural of freeway English)
n. A woman whose occupation it is to sell things.
n. (plural of fullerene English)
1 That has been given a higher rating 2 upgraded v
(en-past of: uprate)
n. 1 A Welsh team sport related to hockey, hurling, shinty, and bandy. 2 The curve-ended stick used in this game.
n. (plural of puerperal fever English)
vb. (present participle of stipulate English)
n. One who places adornments, who adorns.
n. (plural of phantasmagory English)
n. (plural of detector English)
a. Relating to nanotoxicology.
n. (dope fiend English)
vb. (context obsolete English) To confine; to contract; to stringe.
n. (context obsolete English) A hall for public meetings; a hall of judgment.
Etymology 1 a. Worn out; hackneyed; used so many times that it is no longer interesting or effective (often in reference to a word or phrase). Etymology 2
n. 1 A denomination of coinage in ancient Greece equivalent to one third of a stater. 2 (taxlink Trite genus noshow=1), a genus of spiders, found in Australia, New Zealand and Oceania, of the family Salticidae.
n. (plural of dendrogram English)
vb. (cx informal English) To swear with the pinky fingers entwined.
a. resembling incest
n. (plural of titanotherium English)
n. (plural of nasheed English)
vb. (context idiomatic US automotive English) To start abruptly from a standing stop, accelerating rapidly, especially so as to produce skid marks.
vb. (en-third-person singulardish out)
n. (jail lock English)
vb. (en-pastdish out)
n. (plural of denominator English)
a. Making complete.
Usage examples of "completive".
By His transfiguration Christ manifested to His disciples the glory of His body, which belongs to men only.
It followed that soon -- any day now, perhaps -- the marmor history must arrive at the point of my death and overtake my present transfiguration.
This is on the highest ground of the Sacro Monte, the Transfiguration being supposed to have happened on Mount Sinai.
Objection 1: It would seem that the witnesses of the transfiguration were unfittingly chosen.
Since, therefore, it is in baptism that we acquire grace, while the clarity of the glory to come was foreshadowed in the transfiguration, therefore both in His baptism and in His transfiguration the natural sonship of Christ was fittingly made known by the testimony of the Father: because He alone with the Son and Holy Ghost is perfectly conscious of that perfect generation.
Transfiguration, in the Garden of Gethsemane - these are crisis moments in which God confirmed to him who he was and what his mission was.
Judge stepped on in his Szyrk opinion while Szyrk himself is out there somewhere right now hearing it exalted in terms of death and transfiguration, of the sacred seizing the profane in an embrace seething with sexual ferment saying it all 'makes him puke' with these 'hints of Christian sacrifice and suffering, its suggestions of journeys without end as the sculptor seems to turn away, smitten to the point where its beams buckle in shyness yet remain as firm and vigilant as a dog who has cornered his prey' to coin a phrase, as Christina broke off with the front page picture of the thing itself, towering over the new dining area at Mel's Kandy Kitchen like the one at Babel rising toward heaven till the Old Testament Sculptor up there was smitten to the point of sending down a confusion of tongues so that nobody knew what anyone else was talking about where the judge below explicated the Village defense resting on an act of God in his charge to the jury while assorted Baptists sang Amazing Grace and the high .
Dyne had been in training for since puberty, crawling between the bedraggled tomato plants in his indulgent parents' backyard garden, homemade cross lashed to his bleeding back, impressive crown of thorns digging into his scalp, a series of Polaroids memorializing the event now circulating among the rowdy and the randy gathered to witness the transfiguration of those crude rehearsals into an elaborate full-dress and somewhat revised version of the four Gospels.
Til tell her Peeves is smashing up the Transfiguration department or something, it's miles away from her office.
The legend has it that one of us, a good man, discovered a way to free man’s soul and intellect, to free him of bodily ills and melancholies, of deaths and transfigurations, of ill humors and senilities, and so we took on the look of lightning and blue fire and have lived in the winds and skies and hills forever after that, neither prideful nor arrogant, neither rich nor poor, passionate nor cold.
By nightfall, Harry felt discouraged and anxious, and a supper composed largely of moldy bread, upon which Hermione had tried a variety of unsuccessful Transfigurations, did nothing to help.