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n. (context enzyme English) A transferase present on the surface of the retina
n. (context South Africa English) gnu.
n. A leather made from the skin of a young seal (often attributive). (from 20th c.)
n. The part of a bit which is put in a horse's mouth.
n. The act by which something is ratcheted. vb. (present participle of ratchet English)
n. (context legal English) An (l en agreement) in which a (l en creditor) promises not to (l en enforce) a (l en debt).
prep.phr. (context idiomatic English) Feeling sharp anticipation or anxiety; in a state of suspense.
alt. Synthetic fibers made from a polymer. n. Synthetic fibers made from a polymer.
a. 1 Describing text of a standard or routine nature. 2 Used to describe a non-functional spacecraft used to test configuration and procedures. n. 1 A sheet of steel used in the construction of a boiler. 2 The rating-plate or nameplate required to be affixed to a boiler by the (UK) Boiler Explosions Act (1882) 3 A plate attached to industrial machinery, identifying information such as manufacturer, model number, serial number, and power requirements. 4 (context computing English) Standard text or program code used routinely and added with a text editor or word processor; text of a legal or official nature added to documents or labels.
n. 1 The process of interpreting written language. 2 The process of interpreting a symbol, a sign or a measuring device. 3 A value indicated by a measuring device. 4 A meeting where written material is read aloud. 5 An interpretation. 6 (cx legislature English) One of several stages a bill passes through before becoming law. vb. (present participle of read English)
a. Dressed in sackcloth.
n. (context organic compound English) A diallyl biphenol, extracted from the bark of (taxlink Magnolia officinalis species noshow=1), that has antifungal activity
n. 1 The state of being permanent. 2 (context physics English) The reciprocal of magnetic inductance.
a. Resembling a hinge or some aspect of one.
Usage examples of "hingelike".
Principle not dwelling in the higher regions, one not powerful enough to ensure the permanence of the existences in which it is exhibited, one which in its coming into being and in its generative act is but an imitation of an antecedent Kind, and, as we have shown, cannot at every point possess the unchangeable identity of the Intellectual Realm.
All the navigators of the austral seas have been able to ascertain, as I myself have done, the permanence of this wind.
What is the ground for distinguishing between habit and disposition, seeing that no differentia of Quality is involved in permanence and non-permanence?
The longer these latter conditions obtain the longer will the ink retain its pristineness, its durability and permanence.
Lose the thought of thy particular evanescence in the thought of the universal permanence.
Rather you lie, and stain the relationship with your own sense of guile, or you accept the involvement, the emotional responsibility, the permanence she must by nature crave.
And as truly was the Japanese the type of permanence up to a generation ago, when he suddenly awoke and startled the world with a rejuvenescence the like of which the world had never seen before.
This Leniency, therefore, was, as it were, the very essence and quintessence of the Permanence and Stability of the plan of Creation, and part of the Very Nature of the Deity.
We were sitting in permanence, Carnot, Jules Favre, Michel de Bourges, and myself.
But there had been good moments too, carrying with them the promise of permanence in a Heraclitean universe.
And this was soldiering, the column of marching men that was George Company moving on out Kolekole Pass Road toward drill between the rows of tall old elms that lined the road on either side exuding an abiding permanence, but Pvt Robert E.
The youngest of the sibs was not tall, but he was built solidly, as if for permanence, and his head seemed slightly oversized for his body.
They established, therefore, in all the districts where it was possible Committees of Permanence in connection with us, the Central Committee, and composed either of Representatives or of faithful citizens.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE All blessings at their goodliest will grace The advent of this New Messiah, sire, Of fairer prospects than the former one, Whose coming at so apt an hour endues The widening glory of your high exploits With permanence, and flings the dimness far That cloaked the future of our chronicle!
As in nature the growth of trees and their proneness where undermined to fall across the slope and support the bank secures at some points a fair depth of channel and some degree of permanence, so in the project of the engineer the use of timber and brush and the encouragement of forest growth are the main features.