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n. 1 The formal performance of a solemn rite, such as Christian sacrament 2 The observance of a holiday or feast day, as by solemnities 3 The act, process of showing appreciation, gratitude and/or remembrance, notably as a social event. 4 A social gathering for entertainment and fun; a party.
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The inability to read. 2 (context uncountable English) The portion of a population unable to read, generally given as a percentage. 3 (context countable English) A word, phrase(,) or grammatical turn thought to be characteristic of an illiterate person.
n. (plural of dimestore English)
n. (plural of identikit English)
vb. (context archaic English) (en-third-person singular of: sprawl)
n. 1 (context British informal English) Short form of pantomime 2 (context rail transport informal English) Short form of pantograph
n. The quality of being alible; nourishingness.
n. (plural of shovelard English)
n. (plural of positronium English)
a. Pertaining to anaphylaxis.
vb. To conjure back; to bring something back as if by magic
vb. (en-past of: demineralise)
a. (en-comparativefabby)
n. (plural of substudy English)
interj. (context British colloquial dated English) A greeting.
n. (plural of seminist English)
n. The scientific study correlate ethnic groups, their health, and how it relates to their physical habits and methodology in creating and using medicines.
n. (context enzyme English) amidoligase
vb. (en-past of: consternate)
n. 1 The small spiked wheel on the end of a spur. 2 A little flat ring or wheel on a horse's bit. 3 A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of a horse in the manner of a seton in human surgery. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To use a rowel on something, especially to drain fluid. 2 (context transitive English) To incite, to goad.
n. (plural of translavation English)
a. (context chemistry English) Of, relating to, derived from, or resembling, phenyl or phenol.
vb. (en-archaic third-person singular of: inhabit)
n. interchange, exchange
n. 1 (context pathology English) An open sore of the skin, eyes or mucous membrane, often caused by an initial abrasion and generally maintained by an inflammation and/or an infection. 2 (context pathology English) peptic ulcer 3 (context figurative English) Anything that festers and corrupts like an open sore; a vice in character.
n. (plural of divergence English)
a. dominated or plagued by violence.
vb. (en-past of: encage)
n. The belief that dualism or dichotomy are illusory phenomena, that things such as mind and body may remain distinct while not actually being separate.
n. (plural of nanowall English)
n. (context rare English) A counter bond, or a surety to secure one who has given security.
n. 1 (context linguistics English) A sound change in which [b] (the voiced bilabial plosive) shifts to [v] (the voiced labiodental fricative). 2 A speech disorder involving excessive use of the [b] sound, or conversion of other sounds into it.
abbr. engineering
n. Storage space on a ship.
n. (plural of clergywoman English)
n. (context physics English) an idealized solid whose size and shape are fixed and remain unaltered when forces are applied; used in Newtonian mechanics to model real objects
n. 1 Wet sand that things readily sink in, often found near rivers or coasts 2 Anything that pulls one down or buries one metaphorically
a. Not feline, or not pertaining to felines. n. A creature that is not feline.
n. 1 (context legal English) A written order, issued by a court, ordering someone to do (or stop doing) something. 2 authority, power to enforce compliance 3 (context obsolete English) that which is written; writing vb. (context dated nonstandard English) (past participle of write English)
a. Pertaining to erosion.
a. Having exaggerated articulation.
vb. (en-third-person singular of: unindent)
1 dark, faint or indistinct. 2 hidden, out of sight or inconspicuous. 3 Difficult to understand. v
(label en transitive) To render obscure; to darken; to make dim; to keep in the dark; to hide; to make less visible, intelligible, legible, glorious, beautiful, or illustrious.
n. A meteorite consisting of rock containing chondrules
adv. In an intercurrent way.
n. (plural of ambisexual English)
n. (eight-thousander English)
n. (plural of catchword English)
vb. (en-third-person singular of: eventuate)
n. (alternative form of potichomania English)
a. Referring or relating to real estate.
n. (chain gang English)
a. Not implied; unimplied.
n. (plural of zigzagging English)
n. The quality of being intrinsical; intrinsicality.
vb. 1 To make angry. 2 To make insane; to inflame with passion. 3 (context obsolete English) To become furious.
n. (plural of elbaite English)
n. A phenothiazine used for the treatment of migraine.
vb. (present participle of repunctuate English)
n. (plural of pretest English)
vb. (en-third-person singular of: bedaub)
n. (plural of downgrader English)
a. (alternative form of metaphrastic English)
alt. 1 (context British Canada informal English) A dense, yellowish fog. 2 (context Canada slang derogatory English) A French-Canadian person, especially a Francophone from the province of Québec. n. 1 (context British Canada informal English) A dense, yellowish fog. 2 (context Canada slang derogatory English) A French-Canadian person, especially a Francophone from the province of Québec.
a. (context poetic English) Marked with crow's feet, wrinkles about the eyes.
n. 1 A traditional Scottish garment, usually worn by men, having roughly the same morphology as a wrap-around skirt, with overlapping front aprons and pleated around the sides and back, and usually made of twill-woven worsted wool with a tartan pattern. (from 18th c.) 2 (label en historical) Any Scottish garment from which the above lies in a direct line of descent, such as the philibeg, or the great kilt or belted plaid; 3 A plaid, pleated school uniform skirt sometimes structured as a wrap around, sometimes pleated throughout the entire circumference; also used as boys' wear in 19th century USA. vb. To gather up (skirts) around the body. (from 14th c.)
n. (plural of auscultation English)
n. (plural of defibrillator English)
vb. (en-third-person singular of: endark)
a. 1 Of or pertaining to the exterior of the nose 2 Of or pertaining to that part of the brain exterior to the entorhinal cortex
n. Any of several species of fish in the genus (taxlink Brevoortia genus noshow=1) and (taxlink Ethmidium genus noshow=1), used for fish meal, fish oil, fertilizer, and bait.
n. (context geology English) The mechanics of rocks and soil
n. (context biochemistry English) Either of a pair of subunits of a complex
a. (context philosophy English) Of or pertaining to reliabilism n. (context philosophy English) A person who supports the doctrine of reliabilism
n. A fish, the three-bearded rockling.
n. (context organic chemistry English) Any salt or ester of diazoacetic acid; the esters react with alkenes to form cyclopropane derivatives
Not set; not fixed or appointed. v
(label en transitive) To make not set.
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To accuse or bring criminal charges against. 2 (context transitive English) To indicate the guilt of.
adv. (misspelling of in fact English)
n. (alternative form of catastasis English)
a. of, pertaining to or situated on a waterside n. The land bordering a body of water
n. (context zoology English) Any member of the Rajidae.
n. (plural of vigily English)
a. Of or pertaining to erythropoiesis.
a. (alternative form of unhandseled English)
n. (context music English) A non-musician who is active in a particular musical scene.
vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To perform an action which is illegal, prohibited, forbidden or proscribed and to become subject to punishment for such action. 2 (context intransitive English) To fall into difficulty. 3 (context slang English) (Usually said of an unmarried woman) to become pregnant.
n. (misspelling of kindergarten English)
vb. 1 In card playing, to accidentally reveal one's cards or hand. 2 (context idiomatic English) To inadvertently reveal any secret, particularly a secret that puts one at an advantage or disadvantage.
n. (plural of coowner English)
n. (plural of typo English)
a. Not waived.
n. An antiplatelet drug.
n. (alternative spelling of vidéo vérité English)
a. dominated or plagued by crime.
n. a mermaid, a maiden of the sea; siren
n. (plural of schlich English)
n. (plural of decorament English)
vb. To drag one's feet.
n. (plural of lipidoid English)
n. 1 (context countable English) One of several natural languages, typically used by the deaf, where the words and phrases consist of hand shapes, motions, positions, and facial expressions. 2 (context uncountable English) The sign language (sense 1) that is used locally or that is mistakenly believed to be the only one. 3 (context uncountable English) Sign languages (sense 1) considered collectively. 4 (context countable or uncountable English) communication through gestures used when speech is impossible, for example, between monks under a vow of silence or people speaking different languages.
n. (context finance English) A schedule defining the dates and amounts of payments to be made for a financial instrument such as a bond and a derivative.
vb. (context biology English) To transform solitary insects etc. into a swarm or gregaria due to rapid growth in population
n. (alternate form of lang=en AC72s) (plural of lang=en AC72)
vb. (en-third-person singular of: survive)
vb. (en-past of: entice)
a. Of, pertaining to, or suffering from cirrhosis.
a. (en-superlative of: slight).
n. ''Ginkgo biloba.
n. (plural of abomasus English)
vb. To drag one's feet.
n. (context pathology English) Inflammation of one or both adrenal glands, leading to an insufficiency of cortisol and/or aldosterone.
vb. (en-third-person singular of: laconize)
vb. (en-third-person singular of: emblaze)
n. (plural of filtride English)
n. An individual daily combat food ration introduced by the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20Army during World War II and comprising three courses for breakfast, dinner and supper.
n. (context legal English) Any portion of the testator's estate that is not specifically devised to someone in the will, or any property that is part of such a specific devise that fails (for example, due to the death of the intended beneficiary preceding that of the testator).
n. (alternative spelling of ziggurat English)
n. A brief slump in performance
vb. To clear or excuse.
a. Resembling an intestine or intestines.
a. (context simile English) Very quiet, so as to not be heard
n. A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation. vb. (context intransitive English) To interrupt an activity and wait.
n. (alternative spelling of indomethacin English)
n. (micro-organism English)
n. (context colloquial English) A type of slang used by geeks, especially computer geeks. It incorporates several terms derived from science fiction, as well as neologisms and grammar quirks, and is frequently found in combination with computer jargon.
a. Having the characteristics of a blog; resembling a blog
n. 1 (context architecture English) An ornamental figure, often on an oval shield. 2 (context Egyptian hieroglyphics English) an oval figure containing characters that represent the names of royal or divine people. 3 A paper cartridge. 4 A wooden case filled with balls, to be shot from a cannon. 5 A gunner's bag for ammunition. 6 A military pass for a soldier on furlough.
n. The regnal year, reign period, or regnal title used when traditionally numbering years in a Chinese emperor's reign and in name certain Chinese rulers.
vb. (context intransitive English) To jump on one leg while moving the other back and forth, a motion sometimes employed by guitar players in popular music.
n. (context physics English) a theory that organizes subatomic particles into octets
n. (plural of spanning English)
n. (context organic compound English) The diketone CH3-CO-CO-CH3 that is used in organic synthesis
n. (context linguistics English) A generative grammar, especially of a natural language, developed in the Chomskyan tradition of phrase structure grammars (as opposed to dependency grammars), and involving the use of defined operations called transformations to produce new sentences from existing ones.
a. (attributive of metabolic pathway lang=en nodot=1), ''noun''.
n. A β2-agonist.
n. (plural of superhumeral English)
n. (plural of spillage English)
n. (context obsolete English) A courting of favor or applause, by flattery or address; a captivating quality; an attraction.
n. An ophthalmic instrument that is used to test for glaucoma by blowing a puff of air at the cornea and measuring the subsequent flattening
Usage examples of "pneumotonometer".
The water boiled around Abo as the shark thrashed, but Abo stayed on and, holding the stick like handlebars, he pulled back to keep the shark from diving and steered him into the shallow water of the reef, where the other men waited with their knives drawn.
In diving, the addled serpent whacked the hull so hard that Adira felt the blow at the stern.
The Diving Officer and bowplanesman were struggling to maintain depth control in spite of the odd effects of their rooster-tail wake aft and the shallow-bottom venturi force amidships.
To get them, he needed Carlos Alcazar, the commander of El Diablo prison, who provided him with slaves for diving.
We have managed once, briefly, to send humans to that depth in a sturdy diving vessel, yet it is home to colonies of amphipods, a type of crustacean similar to shrimp but transparent, which survive without any protection at all.
We learned that another man had been with him, a man carrying an aqualung diving outfit.
At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam.
A small, flat-bottomed green-anodized aluminum bateau approached from a side channel, the harsh drone of its outboard motor enough to shoo the diving pelican away.
Bel diving over the intervening Betan and landing on him in a smothering clutch.
Then man burst his bidimensional limits, and invaded the third dimension, soaring with Montgolfier into the clouds, and sinking with a diving bell into the purple treasure-caves of the waters.
He realized it even before the diving boat pulled out from the Flamingo Hotel in Bonaire, a flat jewel of an island in the Netherlands Antilles.
As Chubby and I freed the motors, Angelo and Sherry lashed the folds of the tarpaulin over the open deck to secure the equipment, and then used the nylon diving lines to tie down the irreplaceable scuba sets and the waterproof cases that contained my medical kit and tools.
He learned sword-fighting and riding, swimming and diving, how to shoot with the bow and play on the recorder and the theorbo, how to hunt the stag and cut him up when he was dead, besides Cosmography, Rhetoric, Heraldry, Versification, and of course History, with a little Law, Physic, Alchemy, and Astronomy.
Free of the confining womb of stone, the drack gracefully climbed higher in the sky, before folding its wings close to its body and diving down the mountain path.
One of these evaginations followed the route they had taken on their way to the diving party, and Kerans felt his step quicken as they approached the planetarium.