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fist
(mass) | fist
- päsť |
fist
(encz) | fist,pěst n: |
fist
(gcide) | Index \In"dex\, n.; pl. E. Indexes, L. Indices(?). [L.: cf.
F. index. See Indicate, Diction.]
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1. That which points out; that which shows, indicates,
manifests, or discloses; as, the increasing unemployment
rate is an index of how much the economy has slowed.
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Tastes are the indexes of the different qualities of
plants. --Arbuthnot.
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2. That which guides, points out, informs, or directs; a
pointer or a hand that directs to anything, as the hand of
a watch, a movable finger or other form of pointer on a
gauge, scale, or other graduated instrument. In
(printing), a sign [[hand]] (called also fist) used to
direct particular attention to a note or paragraph.
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3. A table for facilitating reference to topics, names, and
the like, in a book, usually giving the page on which a
particular word or topic may be found; -- usually
alphabetical in arrangement, and printed at the end of the
volume. Typically found only in non-fiction books.
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4. A prologue indicating what follows. [Obs.] --Shak.
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5. (Anat.) The second finger, that next to the pollex
(thumb), in the manus, or hand; the forefinger; {index
finger}.
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6. (Math.) The figure or letter which shows the power or root
of a quantity; the exponent. [In this sense the plural is
always indices.]
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7. The ratio, or formula expressing the ratio, of one
dimension of a thing to another dimension; as, the
vertical index of the cranium.
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8. A number providing a measure of some quantity derived by a
formula, usually a form of averaging, from multiple
quantities; -- used mostly in economics; as, the index of
leading indicators; the index of industrial production;
the consumer price index. See, for example, the {consumer
price index}.
[PJC]
9. (computers) A file containing a table with the addresses
of data items, arranged for rapid and convenient search
for the addresses.
[PJC]
10. (computers) A number which serves as a label for a data
item and also represents the address of a data item
within a table or array.
[PJC]
11. (R. C. Ch.), The Index prohibitorius, a catalogue of
books which are forbidden by the church to be read; also
called Index of forbidden books and {Index Librorum
Prohibitorum}.
[PJC]
Index error, the error in the reading of a mathematical
instrument arising from the zero of the index not being in
complete adjustment with that of the limb, or with its
theoretically perfect position in the instrument; a
correction to be applied to the instrument readings equal
to the error of the zero adjustment.
Index expurgatorius. [L.] See Index prohibitorius
(below).
Index finger. See Index, 5.
Index glass, the mirror on the index of a quadrant,
sextant, etc.
Index hand, the pointer or hand of a clock, watch, or other
registering machine; a hand that points to something.
Index of a logarithm (Math.), the integral part of the
logarithm, and always one less than the number of integral
figures in the given number. It is also called the
characteristic.
Index of refraction, or Refractive index (Opt.), the
number which expresses the ratio of the sine of the angle
of incidence to the sine of the angle of refraction. Thus
the index of refraction for sulphur is 2, because, when
light passes out of air into sulphur, the sine of the
angle of incidence is double the sine of the angle of
refraction.
Index plate, a graduated circular plate, or one with
circular rows of holes differently spaced; used in
machines for graduating circles, cutting gear teeth, etc.
Index prohibitorius [L.], or Prohibitory index (R. C.
Ch.), a catalogue of books which are forbidden by the
church to be read; the index expurgatorius [L.], or
expurgatory index, is a catalogue of books from which
passages marked as against faith or morals must be removed
before Catholics can read them. These catalogues are
published with additions, from time to time, by the
Congregation of the Index, composed of cardinals,
theologians, etc., under the sanction of the pope. --Hook.
Index rerum [L.], a tabulated and alphabetized notebook,
for systematic preservation of items, quotations, etc.
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Fist
(gcide) | Fist \Fist\ (f[i^]st), n. [OE. fist, fust, AS. f[=y]st; akin to
D. vuist, OHG. f[=u]st, G. faust, and prob. to L. pugnus, Gr.
pygmh` fist, py`x with the fist. Cf. Pugnacious, Pigmy.]
1. The hand with the fingers doubled into the palm; the
closed hand, especially as clinched tightly for the
purpose of striking a blow.
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Who grasp the earth and heaven with my fist.
--Herbert.
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2. The talons of a bird of prey. [Obs.]
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More light than culver in the falcon's fist.
--Spenser.
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3. (print.) the index mark [[hand]], used to direct special
attention to the passage which follows.
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Hand over fist (Naut.), rapidly; hand over hand.
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Fist
(gcide) | Fist \Fist\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fisted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Fisting.]
1. To strike with the fist. --Dryden.
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2. To gripe with the fist. [Obs.] --Shak.
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fist
(wn) | fist
n 1: a hand with the fingers clenched in the palm (as for
hitting) [syn: fist, clenched fist] |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
sofistikovaný
(msas) | sofistikovaný
- sophisticated |
sofistikovany
(msasasci) | sofistikovany
- sophisticated |
clenched fist
(encz) | clenched fist, n: |
close-fisted
(encz) | close-fisted,lakomý adj: Zdeněk Brožclose-fisted,škudlivý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
closefisted
(encz) | closefisted,lakomý adj: Zdeněk Brožclosefisted,škudlivý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
fista
(encz) | FISTA,Flying Infrared Signatures Technology Aircraft [zkr.]
[voj.] Zdeněk Brož a automatický překlad |
fistfight
(encz) | fistfight,pěstní souboj Zdeněk Brož |
fistful
(encz) | fistful,hrst n: Zdeněk Brožfistful,trocha n: Zdeněk Brož |
fisticuff
(encz) | fisticuff,rána pěstí n: Robert Svoboda |
fisticuffs
(encz) | fisticuffs,pěstní souboj Robert Svoboda |
fisting
(encz) | fisting,ruka v kundě web |
fistmele
(encz) | fistmele, n: |
fists
(encz) | fists,pěsti n: Zdeněk Brož |
fistula
(encz) | fistula,fistula n: Zdeněk Brožfistula,kanálek n: Zdeněk Brožfistula,píštěl n: [med.] xkomczax |
fistulae
(encz) | fistulae, |
fistular
(encz) | fistular, adj: |
fistulate
(encz) | fistulate, adj: |
fistulous
(encz) | fistulous, |
fistulous withers
(encz) | fistulous withers, n: |
ham-fisted
(encz) | ham-fisted,neobratný adj: Zdeněk Brožham-fisted,nešikovný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
hand over fist
(encz) | hand over fist, |
hardfisted
(encz) | hardfisted, adj: |
iron fist
(encz) | iron fist, n: |
pacifist
(encz) | pacifist,pacifista n: web |
pacifistic
(encz) | pacifistic,pacifistický adj: |
pacifistically
(encz) | pacifistically,pacifisticky adv: Petr Prášek |
tight fisted
(encz) | tight fisted, |
tight-fisted
(encz) | tight-fisted,lakomý adj: Zdeněk Brožtight-fisted,skoupý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
tightfisted
(encz) | tightfisted,lakomý adj: Zdeněk Brožtightfisted,skoupý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
tightfistedness
(encz) | tightfistedness, n: |
two-fisted
(encz) | two-fisted, |
two-fisted attack
(encz) | two-fisted attack, |
fistula
(czen) | fistula,fistulan: Zdeněk Brož |
fistule
(czen) | fistule,falsetton: Zdeněk Brož |
golfista
(czen) | golfista,golfern: Zdeněk Brož |
golfisté
(czen) | golfisté,golfers Zdeněk Brož |
gymnosofista
(czen) | gymnosofista,gymnosophist Zdeněk Brož |
harfista
(czen) | harfista,harpistn: Zdeněk Brož |
kaligrafista
(czen) | kaligrafista,calligraphistn: Zdeněk Brož |
klamná sofistika
(czen) | klamná sofistika,sophistry |
pacifista
(czen) | pacifista,pacificistn: Zdeněk Brožpacifista,pacifistn: web |
pacifisticky
(czen) | pacifisticky,pacifisticallyadv: Petr Prášek |
pacifistický
(czen) | pacifistický,pacifisticadj: |
sofista
(czen) | sofista,sophistn: Zdeněk Brož |
sofistický
(czen) | sofistický,sophisticadj: Zdeněk Brož |
sofistika
(czen) | sofistika,sophistry |
sofistikovanost
(czen) | sofistikovanost,sophisticationn: Zdeněk Brož |
telegrafista
(czen) | telegrafista,telegraphern: Zdeněk Brožtelegrafista,telegraphistn: Zdeněk Brož |
xifisternum
(czen) | xifisternum,xiphisternumn: [bio.] mamm |
záludná sofistika
(czen) | záludná sofistika,sophistry |
Allium fistulosum
(gcide) | Welsh \Welsh\, a. [AS. w[ae]lisc, welisc, from wealh a stranger,
foreigner, not of Saxon origin, a Welshman, a Celt, Gael;
akin to OHG. walh, whence G. w[aum]lsch or welsch, Celtic,
Welsh, Italian, French, Foreign, strange, OHG. walhisc; from
the name of a Celtic tribe. See Walnut.]
Of or pertaining to Wales, or its inhabitants. [Sometimes
written also Welch.]
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Welsh flannel, a fine kind of flannel made from the fleece
of the flocks of the Welsh mountains, and largely
manufactured by hand.
Welsh glaive, or Welsh hook, a weapon of war used in
former times by the Welsh, commonly regarded as a kind of
poleax. --Fairholt. --Craig.
Welsh mortgage (O. Eng. Law), a species of mortgage, being
a conveyance of an estate, redeemable at any time on
payment of the principal, with an understanding that the
profits in the mean time shall be received by the
mortgagee without account, in satisfaction of interest.
--Burrill.
Welsh mutton, a choice and delicate kind of mutton obtained
from a breed of small sheep in Wales.
Welsh onion (Bot.), a kind of onion (Allium fistulosum)
having hollow inflated stalks and leaves, but scarcely any
bulb, a native of Siberia. It is said to have been
introduced from Germany, and is supposed to have derived
its name from the German term w[aum]lsch foreign.
Welsh parsley, hemp, or halters made from hemp. [Obs. &
Jocular] --J. Fletcher.
Welsh rabbit. See under Rabbit.
[1913 Webster]Cibol \Cib"ol\, n. [F. ciboule, LL. cepula, cepola, dim. of L.
cepa, caepa, caepe, an onion. Cf. Chibbal, Cives.]
A perennial alliaceous plant (Allium fistulosum), sometimes
called Welsh onion. Its fistular leaves areused in cookery.
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bullfist
(gcide) | Puffball \Puff"ball`\, n. (Bot.)
A kind of ball-shaped fungus (Lycoperdon giganteum, and
other species of the same genus) full of dustlike spores when
ripe; -- called also bullfist, bullfice, puckfist,
puff, and puffin.
[1913 Webster]Bullfist \Bull"fist\, Bullfice \Bull"fice\, n. [Cf. G. bofist,
AS. wulfes fist puffball, E. fizz, foist.] (Bot.)
A kind of fungus. See Puffball.
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Bullfist
(gcide) | Puffball \Puff"ball`\, n. (Bot.)
A kind of ball-shaped fungus (Lycoperdon giganteum, and
other species of the same genus) full of dustlike spores when
ripe; -- called also bullfist, bullfice, puckfist,
puff, and puffin.
[1913 Webster]Bullfist \Bull"fist\, Bullfice \Bull"fice\, n. [Cf. G. bofist,
AS. wulfes fist puffball, E. fizz, foist.] (Bot.)
A kind of fungus. See Puffball.
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canafistola
(gcide) | canafistola \canafistola\, canafistula \canafistula\n.
a deciduous or semi-evergreen tree (Cassia fistula) having
scented sepia to yellow flowers in drooping racemes and pods
whose pulp is used medicinally; it grows in tropical Asia,
Central and South America, and Australia.
Syn: golden shower tree, drumstick tree, purging cassia,
pudding pipe tree, canafistola.
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canafistula
(gcide) | canafistola \canafistola\, canafistula \canafistula\n.
a deciduous or semi-evergreen tree (Cassia fistula) having
scented sepia to yellow flowers in drooping racemes and pods
whose pulp is used medicinally; it grows in tropical Asia,
Central and South America, and Australia.
Syn: golden shower tree, drumstick tree, purging cassia,
pudding pipe tree, canafistola.
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Cassia Fistula
(gcide) | Pudding \Pud"ding\, n. [Cf. F. boudin black pudding, sausage, L.
botulus, botellus, a sausage, G. & Sw. pudding pudding, Dan.
podding, pudding, LG. puddig thick, stumpy, W. poten, potten,
also E. pod, pout, v.]
1. A species of food of a soft or moderately hard
consistence, variously made, but often a compound of flour
or meal, with milk and eggs, etc.
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And solid pudding against empty praise. --Pope.
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2. Anything resembling, or of the softness and consistency
of, pudding.
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3. An intestine; especially, an intestine stuffed with meat,
etc.; a sausage. --Shak.
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4. Any food or victuals.
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Eat your pudding, slave, and hold your tongue.
--Prior.
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5. (Naut.) Same as Puddening.
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Pudding grass (Bot.), the true pennyroyal ({Mentha
Pulegium}), formerly used to flavor stuffing for roast
meat. --Dr. Prior.
Pudding pie, a pudding with meat baked in it. --Taylor
(1630).
Pudding pipe (Bot.), the long, cylindrical pod of the
leguminous tree Cassia Fistula. The seeds are separately
imbedded in a sweetish pulp. See Cassia.
Pudding sleeve, a full sleeve like that of the English
clerical gown. --Swift.
Pudding stone. (Min.) See Conglomerate, n., 2.
Pudding time.
(a) The time of dinner, pudding being formerly the dish
first eaten. [Obs.] --Johnson.
(b) The nick of time; critical time. [Obs.]
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Mars, that still protects the stout,
In pudding time came to his aid. --Hudibras.
[1913 Webster] Pudding fishcanafistola \canafistola\, canafistula \canafistula\n.
a deciduous or semi-evergreen tree (Cassia fistula) having
scented sepia to yellow flowers in drooping racemes and pods
whose pulp is used medicinally; it grows in tropical Asia,
Central and South America, and Australia.
Syn: golden shower tree, drumstick tree, purging cassia,
pudding pipe tree, canafistola.
[WordNet 1.5]Cassia \Cas"sia\ (k[a^]sh"[.a]), n. [L. cassia and casia, Gr.
kassi`a and kasi`a; of Semitic origin; cf. Heb.
qets[imac][=a]h, fr. q[=a]tsa' to cut off, to peel off.]
1. (Bot.) A genus of leguminous plants (herbs, shrubs, or
trees) of many species, most of which have purgative
qualities. The leaves of several species furnish the senna
used in medicine.
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2. The bark of several species of Cinnamomum grown in
China, etc.; Chinese cinnamon. It is imported as cassia,
but commonly sold as cinnamon, from which it differs more
or less in strength and flavor, and the amount of outer
bark attached.
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Note: The medicinal "cassia" (Cassia pulp) is the laxative
pulp of the pods of a leguminous tree (Cassia fistula
or Pudding-pipe tree), native in the East Indies but
naturalized in various tropical countries.
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Cassia bark, the bark of Cinnamomum cassia, etc. The
coarser kinds are called Cassia lignea, and are often
used to adulterate true cinnamon.
Cassia buds, the dried flower buds of several species of
cinnamon (Cinnamomum cassia, atc..).
Cassia oil, oil extracted from cassia bark and cassia buds;
-- called also oil of cinnamon.
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Cassia fistula
(gcide) | Pudding \Pud"ding\, n. [Cf. F. boudin black pudding, sausage, L.
botulus, botellus, a sausage, G. & Sw. pudding pudding, Dan.
podding, pudding, LG. puddig thick, stumpy, W. poten, potten,
also E. pod, pout, v.]
1. A species of food of a soft or moderately hard
consistence, variously made, but often a compound of flour
or meal, with milk and eggs, etc.
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And solid pudding against empty praise. --Pope.
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2. Anything resembling, or of the softness and consistency
of, pudding.
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3. An intestine; especially, an intestine stuffed with meat,
etc.; a sausage. --Shak.
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4. Any food or victuals.
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Eat your pudding, slave, and hold your tongue.
--Prior.
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5. (Naut.) Same as Puddening.
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Pudding grass (Bot.), the true pennyroyal ({Mentha
Pulegium}), formerly used to flavor stuffing for roast
meat. --Dr. Prior.
Pudding pie, a pudding with meat baked in it. --Taylor
(1630).
Pudding pipe (Bot.), the long, cylindrical pod of the
leguminous tree Cassia Fistula. The seeds are separately
imbedded in a sweetish pulp. See Cassia.
Pudding sleeve, a full sleeve like that of the English
clerical gown. --Swift.
Pudding stone. (Min.) See Conglomerate, n., 2.
Pudding time.
(a) The time of dinner, pudding being formerly the dish
first eaten. [Obs.] --Johnson.
(b) The nick of time; critical time. [Obs.]
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Mars, that still protects the stout,
In pudding time came to his aid. --Hudibras.
[1913 Webster] Pudding fishcanafistola \canafistola\, canafistula \canafistula\n.
a deciduous or semi-evergreen tree (Cassia fistula) having
scented sepia to yellow flowers in drooping racemes and pods
whose pulp is used medicinally; it grows in tropical Asia,
Central and South America, and Australia.
Syn: golden shower tree, drumstick tree, purging cassia,
pudding pipe tree, canafistola.
[WordNet 1.5]Cassia \Cas"sia\ (k[a^]sh"[.a]), n. [L. cassia and casia, Gr.
kassi`a and kasi`a; of Semitic origin; cf. Heb.
qets[imac][=a]h, fr. q[=a]tsa' to cut off, to peel off.]
1. (Bot.) A genus of leguminous plants (herbs, shrubs, or
trees) of many species, most of which have purgative
qualities. The leaves of several species furnish the senna
used in medicine.
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2. The bark of several species of Cinnamomum grown in
China, etc.; Chinese cinnamon. It is imported as cassia,
but commonly sold as cinnamon, from which it differs more
or less in strength and flavor, and the amount of outer
bark attached.
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Note: The medicinal "cassia" (Cassia pulp) is the laxative
pulp of the pods of a leguminous tree (Cassia fistula
or Pudding-pipe tree), native in the East Indies but
naturalized in various tropical countries.
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Cassia bark, the bark of Cinnamomum cassia, etc. The
coarser kinds are called Cassia lignea, and are often
used to adulterate true cinnamon.
Cassia buds, the dried flower buds of several species of
cinnamon (Cinnamomum cassia, atc..).
Cassia oil, oil extracted from cassia bark and cassia buds;
-- called also oil of cinnamon.
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Closefisted
(gcide) | Closefisted \Close"fist`ed\, a.
Covetous; niggardly. --Bp. Berkeley. "Closefisted
contractors." --Hawthorne.
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Clubfist
(gcide) | Clubfist \Club"fist`\, n.
1. A large, heavy fist.
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2. A coarse, brutal fellow. [Obs.] --Mir. for Mag.
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Clubfisted
(gcide) | Clubfisted \Club"fist`ed\, a.
Having a large fist. --Howell.
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Dry-fisted
(gcide) | Dry-fisted \Dry"-fist`ed\, a.
Niggardly.
Syn: stingy; cheap; miserly. [1913 Webster] |
Enanthe fistulosa
(gcide) | Water dropwort \Wa"ter drop"wort`\ (Bot.)
A European poisonous umbelliferous plant ({Enanthe
fistulosa}) with large hollow stems and finely divided
leaves.
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Fist
(gcide) | Index \In"dex\, n.; pl. E. Indexes, L. Indices(?). [L.: cf.
F. index. See Indicate, Diction.]
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1. That which points out; that which shows, indicates,
manifests, or discloses; as, the increasing unemployment
rate is an index of how much the economy has slowed.
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Tastes are the indexes of the different qualities of
plants. --Arbuthnot.
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2. That which guides, points out, informs, or directs; a
pointer or a hand that directs to anything, as the hand of
a watch, a movable finger or other form of pointer on a
gauge, scale, or other graduated instrument. In
(printing), a sign [[hand]] (called also fist) used to
direct particular attention to a note or paragraph.
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3. A table for facilitating reference to topics, names, and
the like, in a book, usually giving the page on which a
particular word or topic may be found; -- usually
alphabetical in arrangement, and printed at the end of the
volume. Typically found only in non-fiction books.
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4. A prologue indicating what follows. [Obs.] --Shak.
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5. (Anat.) The second finger, that next to the pollex
(thumb), in the manus, or hand; the forefinger; {index
finger}.
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6. (Math.) The figure or letter which shows the power or root
of a quantity; the exponent. [In this sense the plural is
always indices.]
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7. The ratio, or formula expressing the ratio, of one
dimension of a thing to another dimension; as, the
vertical index of the cranium.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
8. A number providing a measure of some quantity derived by a
formula, usually a form of averaging, from multiple
quantities; -- used mostly in economics; as, the index of
leading indicators; the index of industrial production;
the consumer price index. See, for example, the {consumer
price index}.
[PJC]
9. (computers) A file containing a table with the addresses
of data items, arranged for rapid and convenient search
for the addresses.
[PJC]
10. (computers) A number which serves as a label for a data
item and also represents the address of a data item
within a table or array.
[PJC]
11. (R. C. Ch.), The Index prohibitorius, a catalogue of
books which are forbidden by the church to be read; also
called Index of forbidden books and {Index Librorum
Prohibitorum}.
[PJC]
Index error, the error in the reading of a mathematical
instrument arising from the zero of the index not being in
complete adjustment with that of the limb, or with its
theoretically perfect position in the instrument; a
correction to be applied to the instrument readings equal
to the error of the zero adjustment.
Index expurgatorius. [L.] See Index prohibitorius
(below).
Index finger. See Index, 5.
Index glass, the mirror on the index of a quadrant,
sextant, etc.
Index hand, the pointer or hand of a clock, watch, or other
registering machine; a hand that points to something.
Index of a logarithm (Math.), the integral part of the
logarithm, and always one less than the number of integral
figures in the given number. It is also called the
characteristic.
Index of refraction, or Refractive index (Opt.), the
number which expresses the ratio of the sine of the angle
of incidence to the sine of the angle of refraction. Thus
the index of refraction for sulphur is 2, because, when
light passes out of air into sulphur, the sine of the
angle of incidence is double the sine of the angle of
refraction.
Index plate, a graduated circular plate, or one with
circular rows of holes differently spaced; used in
machines for graduating circles, cutting gear teeth, etc.
Index prohibitorius [L.], or Prohibitory index (R. C.
Ch.), a catalogue of books which are forbidden by the
church to be read; the index expurgatorius [L.], or
expurgatory index, is a catalogue of books from which
passages marked as against faith or morals must be removed
before Catholics can read them. These catalogues are
published with additions, from time to time, by the
Congregation of the Index, composed of cardinals,
theologians, etc., under the sanction of the pope. --Hook.
Index rerum [L.], a tabulated and alphabetized notebook,
for systematic preservation of items, quotations, etc.
[1913 Webster]Fist \Fist\ (f[i^]st), n. [OE. fist, fust, AS. f[=y]st; akin to
D. vuist, OHG. f[=u]st, G. faust, and prob. to L. pugnus, Gr.
pygmh` fist, py`x with the fist. Cf. Pugnacious, Pigmy.]
1. The hand with the fingers doubled into the palm; the
closed hand, especially as clinched tightly for the
purpose of striking a blow.
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Who grasp the earth and heaven with my fist.
--Herbert.
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2. The talons of a bird of prey. [Obs.]
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More light than culver in the falcon's fist.
--Spenser.
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3. (print.) the index mark [[hand]], used to direct special
attention to the passage which follows.
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Hand over fist (Naut.), rapidly; hand over hand.
[1913 Webster]Fist \Fist\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fisted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Fisting.]
1. To strike with the fist. --Dryden.
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2. To gripe with the fist. [Obs.] --Shak.
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