Crossword clues for synthetic
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Synthetic \Syn*thet"ic\, Synthetical \Syn*thet"ic*al\, a. [Gr. ?: cf. F. synth['e]tique.]
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Of or pertaining to synthesis; consisting in synthesis or composition; as, the synthetic method of reasoning, as opposed to analytical.
Philosophers hasten too much from the analytic to the synthetic method; that is, they draw general conclusions from too small a number of particular observations and experiments.
--Bolingbroke. (Chem.) Artificial. Cf. Synthesis, 2.
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(Zo["o]l.) Comprising within itself structural or other characters which are usually found only in two or more diverse groups; -- said of species, genera, and higher groups. See the Note under Comprehensive, 3.
Synthetic language, or Synthetical language, an inflectional language, or one characterized by grammatical endings; -- opposed to analytic language.
--R. Morris.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, as a term in logic, "deductive," from French synthétique (17c.) and directly from Modern Latin syntheticus, from Greek synthetikos "skilled in putting together, constructive," from synthetos "put together, constructed, compounded," past participle of syntithenai "to put together" (see synthesis). From 1874 in reference to products or materials made artificially by chemical synthesis; hence "artificial" (1930). As a noun, "synthetic material," from 1934. Related: Synthetical (1620s in logic).
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of, or relating to synthesis. 2 (context chemistry English) produced by synthesis instead of being isolated from a natural source (but may be identical to a product so obtained). n. A synthetic compound.
WordNet
adj. not of natural origin; prepared or made artificially; "man-made fibers"; "synthetic leather" [syn: man-made, semisynthetic]
involving or of the nature of synthesis (combining separate elements to form a coherent whole) as opposed to analysis; "limnology is essentially a synthetic science composed of elements...that extend well beyond the limits of biology"- P.S.Welch [syn: synthetical] [ant: analytic]
systematic combining of root and modifying elements into single words [ant: analytic]
of a proposition whose truth value is determined by observation or facts; "`all men are arrogant' is a synthetic proposition" [syn: synthetical] [ant: analytic]
artificial as if portrayed in a film; "a novel with flat celluloid characters" [syn: celluloid]
not genuine or natural; "counterfeit rhetoric that flourishes when passions are synthetic"- George Will
n. a compound made artificially by chemical reactions
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "synthetic".
When Elszabet was done with Ferguson and had looked in on the third cabin, where Alleluia, the synthetic woman, was being treated, she hurried back to A Cabin.
Dan Robinson brought her the news: Ed Ferguson and the synthetic woman Alleluia had run away.
John Bladdery away under cover of pretty-pastel synthetics and amorous squeals.
Each maniple of five men cooked for itself, did its own laundry, made its own shelters from woven synthetics and rope, and contributed men for work on the encampment revetments and palisades.
I was jumpy in my synthetic skin, twitching like a meth comedown, uncomfortable with who I physically was.
Ennet House residency, the agonizing desire to ingest synthetic narcotics had been mysteriously magically removed from Don Gately, just like the House Staff and the Crocodiles at the White Flag Group had said it would if he pounded out the nightly meetings and stayed minimally open and willing to persistently ask some extremely vague Higher Power to remove it.
If society moves away from the body-as-person concept, and instead accepts social personhood, it could lead to far-reaching changes, including granting personhood status to uploaded human consciousness and brains maintained outside of bodies, or transplanted into synthetic bodies.
Recalled with wry humour my own fury at Plex a couple of months back as I stood seeping synthetic body fluids in Tekitomura.
Bonded with a high-strength synthetic resin, a diamond fiber Bussard ramjet could travel those thirty-five hundred light-years in 15.
The large specular regions suggest shiny, most likely metallic, structures, consisting of synthetic, smoothed minerals or concrete, or glass-covered structures.
All the other thetes, coarcted into the tacky little claves belonging to their synthetic phyles, turning up their own mediatrons to drown out the Senderos, setting off firecrackers or guns- he could never tell them apart- and a few internal-combustion hobbyists starting up their primitive full-lane vehicles, the louder the better.
Carefully he placed his brush in a jam jar of synthetic turps and entered the house.
In his laboratory, Judson reminded Cranston, were the unpatented formulas for synthetic glass, synthetic rubber, and many other discoveries that would mean millions to a warlike nation.
The newly reopened synthetic antihydrogen plants were capable of producing virtually nothing at ten times the cost.
In alcoves beflowered girls offered synthetic love to wheezing old men, and elsewhere others lay stupefied by dream-powders.