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collet
(encz) | collet,kleština n: Zdeněk Brož |
collet
(encz) | collet,svěrací objímka Zdeněk Brož |
Collet
(gcide) | Colet \Col"et\, Collet \Col"let\ [Corrupted fr. acolyte.]
An inferior church servant. [Obs.] See Acolyte.
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Collet
(gcide) | Collet \Col"let\, n. [F. collet, dim. fr. L. collum neck. See
Collar.]
1. A small collar or neckband. --Foxe.
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2. (Mech.) A small metal ring; a small collar fastened on an
arbor; as, the collet on the balance arbor of a watch; a
small socket on a stem, for holding a drill.
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3. (Jewelry)
(a) The part of a ring containing the bezel in which the
stone is set.
(b) The flat table at the base of a brilliant. See Illust.
of Brilliant.
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How full the collet with his jewel is! --Cowley.
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collet
(wn) | collet
n 1: a metal cap or band placed on a wooden pole to prevent
splitting [syn: ferrule, collet]
2: a cone-shaped chuck used for holding cylindrical pieces in a
lathe [syn: collet, collet chuck]
3: a band or collar that holds an individual stone in a jewelry
setting |
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collet
(encz) | collet,kleština n: Zdeněk Brožcollet,svěrací objímka Zdeněk Brož |
collet chuck
(encz) | collet chuck, n: |
decolletage
(encz) | decolletage, |
decollete
(encz) | decollete, |
Acacia colletioides
(gcide) | Wait-a-while \Wait"-a-while`\, n.
(a) One of the Australian wattle trees ({Acacia
colletioides}), so called from the impenetrability of the
thicket which it makes.
(b) same as Wait-a-bit.
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Colleterial
(gcide) | Colleterial \Col`le*te"ri*al\, a. (Zool.)
Of or pertaining to the colleterium of insects. --R. Owen.
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Colleterium
(gcide) | Colleterium \Col`le*te"ri*um\, n. [NL. See Colletic.] (Zool.)
An organ of female insects, containing a cement to unite the
ejected ova.
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Colletic
(gcide) | Colletic \Col*let"ic\, a. [L. colleticus suitable for gluing,
Gr. ?, fr. ? to glue, ko`lla glue.]
Agglutinant. -- n. An agglutinant.
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D'ecolletage
(gcide) | D'ecolletage \D['e]`col`le*tage"\ (d[=a]`k[-o]`l'*t[.a]zh), n.
[F. See D['e]collet['e].] (Costume)
1. The upper border or part of a low-cut (i.e.,
d['e]collet['e]) dress.
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2. The exposed upper parts of the breasts of a woman wearing
a low-cut dress; as, transfixed by her stunning
decolletage.
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D'ecollet'e
(gcide) | D'ecollet'e \D['e]`col`le*t['e]"\ (d[asl]`k[o^]l`le*t[asl]"), a.
[F., p. p. of d['e]colleter to bare the neck and shoulders;
d['e]- + collet collar, fr. L. collum neck.]
1. Leaving the neck and shoulders uncovered; cut low in the
neck, or low-necked, as a dress.
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2. Wearing a d['e]collet['e] gown.
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Lithocolletis geminatella
(gcide) | Leaf \Leaf\ (l[=e]f), n.; pl. Leaves (l[=e]vz). [OE. leef,
lef, leaf, AS. le['a]f; akin to S. l[=o]f, OFries. laf, D.
loof foliage, G. laub, OHG. loub leaf, foliage, Icel. lauf,
Sw. l["o]f, Dan. l["o]v, Goth. laufs; cf. Lith. lapas. Cf.
Lodge.]
1. (Bot.) A colored, usually green, expansion growing from
the side of a stem or rootstock, in which the sap for the
use of the plant is elaborated under the influence of
light; one of the parts of a plant which collectively
constitute its foliage.
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Note: Such leaves usually consist of a blade, or lamina,
supported upon a leafstalk or petiole, which, continued
through the blade as the midrib, gives off woody ribs
and veins that support the cellular texture. The
petiole has usually some sort of an appendage on each
side of its base, which is called the stipule. The
green parenchyma of the leaf is covered with a thin
epiderm pierced with closable microscopic openings,
known as stomata.
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2. (Bot.) A special organ of vegetation in the form of a
lateral outgrowth from the stem, whether appearing as a
part of the foliage, or as a cotyledon, a scale, a bract,
a spine, or a tendril.
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Note: In this view every part of a plant, except the root and
the stem, is either a leaf, or is composed of leaves
more or less modified and transformed.
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3. Something which is like a leaf in being wide and thin and
having a flat surface, or in being attached to a larger
body by one edge or end; as:
(a) A part of a book or folded sheet containing two pages
upon its opposite sides.
(b) A side, division, or part, that slides or is hinged,
as of window shutters, folding doors, etc.
(c) The movable side of a table.
(d) A very thin plate; as, gold leaf.
(e) A portion of fat lying in a separate fold or layer.
(f) One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
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Leaf beetle (Zool.), any beetle which feeds upon leaves;
esp., any species of the family Chrysomelid[ae], as the
potato beetle and helmet beetle.
Leaf bridge, a draw-bridge having a platform or leaf which
swings vertically on hinges.
Leaf bud (Bot.), a bud which develops into leaves or a
leafy branch.
Leaf butterfly (Zool.), any butterfly which, in the form
and colors of its wings, resembles the leaves of plants
upon which it rests; esp., butterflies of the genus
Kallima, found in Southern Asia and the East Indies.
Leaf crumpler (Zool.), a small moth (Phycis indigenella),
the larva of which feeds upon leaves of the apple tree,
and forms its nest by crumpling and fastening leaves
together in clusters.
Leaf fat, the fat which lies in leaves or layers within the
body of an animal.
Leaf flea (Zool.), a jumping plant louse of the family
Psyllid[ae].
Leaf frog (Zool.), any tree frog of the genus
Phyllomedusa.
Leaf green.(Bot.) See Chlorophyll.
Leaf hopper (Zool.), any small jumping hemipterous insect
of the genus Tettigonia, and allied genera. They live
upon the leaves and twigs of plants. See Live hopper.
Leaf insect (Zool.), any one of several genera and species
of orthopterous insects, esp. of the genus Phyllium, in
which the wings, and sometimes the legs, resemble leaves
in color and form. They are common in Southern Asia and
the East Indies.
Leaf lard, lard from leaf fat. See under Lard.
Leaf louse (Zool.), an aphid.
Leaf metal, metal in thin leaves, as gold, silver, or tin.
Leaf miner (Zool.), any one of various small lepidopterous
and dipterous insects, which, in the larval stages, burrow
in and eat the parenchyma of leaves; as, the pear-tree
leaf miner (Lithocolletis geminatella).
Leaf notcher (Zool.), a pale bluish green beetle ({Artipus
Floridanus}), which, in Florida, eats the edges of the
leaves of orange trees.
Leaf roller (Zool.), See leaf roller in the vocabulary.
Leaf scar (Bot.), the cicatrix on a stem whence a leaf has
fallen.
Leaf sewer (Zool.), a tortricid moth, whose caterpillar
makes a nest by rolling up a leaf and fastening the edges
together with silk, as if sewn; esp., {Phoxopteris
nubeculana}, which feeds upon the apple tree.
Leaf sight, a hinged sight on a firearm, which can be
raised or folded down.
Leaf trace (Bot.), one or more fibrovascular bundles, which
may be traced down an endogenous stem from the base of a
leaf.
Leaf tier (Zool.), a tortricid moth whose larva makes a
nest by fastening the edges of a leaf together with silk;
esp., Teras cinderella, found on the apple tree.
Leaf valve, a valve which moves on a hinge.
Leaf wasp (Zool.), a sawfly.
To turn over a new leaf, to make a radical change for the
better in one's way of living or doing. [Colloq.]
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They were both determined to turn over a new leaf.
--Richardson.
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Recollet
(gcide) | Recollect \Rec"ol*lect\ (r[e^]k"[o^]l*l[e^]kt), n. [See
Recollet.] (Eccl.)
A friar of the Strict Observance, -- an order of Franciscans.
[Written also Recollet.] --Addis & Arnold.
[1913 Webster]Recollet \Rec"ol*let\ (r?k"?l*l?t; F. r?`k?`l?"), n. [F.
r['e]collet, fr. L. recollectus, p. p. of recolligere to
gather again, to gather up; NL., to collect one's self, esp.
for religious contemplation.] (Eccl.)
Same as Recollect, n.
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collet
(wn) | collet
n 1: a metal cap or band placed on a wooden pole to prevent
splitting [syn: ferrule, collet]
2: a cone-shaped chuck used for holding cylindrical pieces in a
lathe [syn: collet, collet chuck]
3: a band or collar that holds an individual stone in a jewelry
setting |
collet chuck
(wn) | collet chuck
n 1: a cone-shaped chuck used for holding cylindrical pieces in
a lathe [syn: collet, collet chuck] |
decolletage
(wn) | decolletage
n 1: a low-cut neckline on a woman's dress |
decollete
(wn) | decollete
adj 1: (of a garment) having a low-cut neckline; "a low-cut
neckline" [syn: decollete, low-cut, low-necked] |
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