| slovo | definícia |
tera-
(foldoc) | prefix
atto-
exa-
femto-
giga-
kilo-
mega-
micro-
milli-
peta-
pico-
tera-
yocto-
yotta-
zepto
zetta-
1. An SI prefix used to multiply the value of an {SI
(Système International)} unit by some power of ten.
2. In mathematics or programming, a
prefix operator is one that is written before its operand. In
a programming language using prefix notation, all operators
are prefix operators.
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tera-
(jargon) | tera-
/te'r@/, pref.
[SI] See quantifiers.
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alteration
(mass) | alteration
- zmena |
bilateral
(mass) | bilateral
- obojstranný |
counterattack
(mass) | counter-attack
- protiútok |
illiteracy
(mass) | illiteracy
- smola |
inalterable
(mass) | inalterable
- nezmeniteľný |
interact
(mass) | interact
- ovplyvňovať sa, vzájomne na seba pôsobiť, spolupôsobiť |
interative
(mass) | interative
- interaktívny |
iterate
(mass) | iterate
- opakovať |
lateral
(mass) | lateral
- bočný |
lepidopteran
(mass) | lepidopteran
- motýľ |
literally
(mass) | literally
- doslova, doslovne |
literary
(mass) | literary
- literárny, spisovný |
literature
(mass) | literature
- literatúra |
obliterate
(mass) | obliterate
- vymazal, vymazať |
reiterate
(mass) | reiterate
- opakovať, zopakovať |
semiliterate
(mass) | semi-literate
- pologramotný |
unalterable
(mass) | unalterable
- nezmeniteľný |
utterance
(mass) | utterance
- prehlásenie, prejav |
acetylcholinesterase
(gcide) | acetylcholinesterase \acetylcholinesterase\ n.
1. an enzyme which exists in nerve cells and hydrolyses
acetylcholine into choline and acetic acid.
Note: It is essential for neurotransmission at autonomous
synapses and neuromuscular junctions, and its
inhibition by acetylcholinesterase inhibitors can
paralyze or kill an animal.
Syn: ACE
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Adulterant
(gcide) | Adulterant \A*dul"ter*ant\, n. [L. adulterans, p. pr. of
adulterare.]
That which is used to adulterate anything. -- a.
Adulterating; as, adulterant agents and processes.
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Adulterate
(gcide) | Adulterate \A*dul"ter*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adulterated;
p. pr. & vb. n. Adulterating.] [L. adulteratus, p. p. of
adulterare, fr. adulter adulterer, prob. fr. ad + alter
other, properly one who approaches another on account of
unlawful love. Cf. Advoutry.]
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1. To defile by adultery. [Obs.] --Milton.
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2. To corrupt, debase, or make impure by an admixture of a
foreign or a baser substance; as, to adulterate food,
drink, drugs, coin, etc.
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The present war has . . . adulterated our tongue
with strange words. --Spectator.
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Syn: To corrupt; defile; debase; contaminate; vitiate;
sophisticate.
[1913 Webster]Adulterate \A*dul"ter*ate\, v. i.
To commit adultery. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]Adulterate \A*dul"ter*ate\, a.
1. Tainted with adultery.
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2. Debased by the admixture of a foreign substance;
adulterated; spurious.
[1913 Webster] -- A*dul"ter*ate*ly, adv. --
A*dul"ter*ate*ness, n.
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Adulterated
(gcide) | Adulterate \A*dul"ter*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adulterated;
p. pr. & vb. n. Adulterating.] [L. adulteratus, p. p. of
adulterare, fr. adulter adulterer, prob. fr. ad + alter
other, properly one who approaches another on account of
unlawful love. Cf. Advoutry.]
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1. To defile by adultery. [Obs.] --Milton.
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2. To corrupt, debase, or make impure by an admixture of a
foreign or a baser substance; as, to adulterate food,
drink, drugs, coin, etc.
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The present war has . . . adulterated our tongue
with strange words. --Spectator.
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Syn: To corrupt; defile; debase; contaminate; vitiate;
sophisticate.
[1913 Webster]adulterated \adulterated\ adj.
1. having been made impure by addition of inferior
ingredients; -- said of substances or foods
Note: used ususally of articles of commerce, dulted with less
costly materials so as to enhance profit; -- usually
imlying that the dilution is surreptitious and
unethical
Syn: adulterate, debased
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adulterated
(gcide) | Adulterate \A*dul"ter*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adulterated;
p. pr. & vb. n. Adulterating.] [L. adulteratus, p. p. of
adulterare, fr. adulter adulterer, prob. fr. ad + alter
other, properly one who approaches another on account of
unlawful love. Cf. Advoutry.]
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1. To defile by adultery. [Obs.] --Milton.
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2. To corrupt, debase, or make impure by an admixture of a
foreign or a baser substance; as, to adulterate food,
drink, drugs, coin, etc.
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The present war has . . . adulterated our tongue
with strange words. --Spectator.
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Syn: To corrupt; defile; debase; contaminate; vitiate;
sophisticate.
[1913 Webster]adulterated \adulterated\ adj.
1. having been made impure by addition of inferior
ingredients; -- said of substances or foods
Note: used ususally of articles of commerce, dulted with less
costly materials so as to enhance profit; -- usually
imlying that the dilution is surreptitious and
unethical
Syn: adulterate, debased
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Adulterately
(gcide) | Adulterate \A*dul"ter*ate\, a.
1. Tainted with adultery.
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2. Debased by the admixture of a foreign substance;
adulterated; spurious.
[1913 Webster] -- A*dul"ter*ate*ly, adv. --
A*dul"ter*ate*ness, n.
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Adulterateness
(gcide) | Adulterate \A*dul"ter*ate\, a.
1. Tainted with adultery.
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2. Debased by the admixture of a foreign substance;
adulterated; spurious.
[1913 Webster] -- A*dul"ter*ate*ly, adv. --
A*dul"ter*ate*ness, n.
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Adulterating
(gcide) | Adulterate \A*dul"ter*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adulterated;
p. pr. & vb. n. Adulterating.] [L. adulteratus, p. p. of
adulterare, fr. adulter adulterer, prob. fr. ad + alter
other, properly one who approaches another on account of
unlawful love. Cf. Advoutry.]
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1. To defile by adultery. [Obs.] --Milton.
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2. To corrupt, debase, or make impure by an admixture of a
foreign or a baser substance; as, to adulterate food,
drink, drugs, coin, etc.
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The present war has . . . adulterated our tongue
with strange words. --Spectator.
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Syn: To corrupt; defile; debase; contaminate; vitiate;
sophisticate.
[1913 Webster]adulterating \adulterating\ adj.
1. making impure or corrupt by virtue of extraneous origin;
-- of impurities. the adulterating effect of extraneous
materials purifying
Syn: adulterant
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2. making impure or corrupt by adding extraneous materials;
-- of people.
Syn: adulterant.
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adulterating
(gcide) | Adulterate \A*dul"ter*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adulterated;
p. pr. & vb. n. Adulterating.] [L. adulteratus, p. p. of
adulterare, fr. adulter adulterer, prob. fr. ad + alter
other, properly one who approaches another on account of
unlawful love. Cf. Advoutry.]
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1. To defile by adultery. [Obs.] --Milton.
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2. To corrupt, debase, or make impure by an admixture of a
foreign or a baser substance; as, to adulterate food,
drink, drugs, coin, etc.
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The present war has . . . adulterated our tongue
with strange words. --Spectator.
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Syn: To corrupt; defile; debase; contaminate; vitiate;
sophisticate.
[1913 Webster]adulterating \adulterating\ adj.
1. making impure or corrupt by virtue of extraneous origin;
-- of impurities. the adulterating effect of extraneous
materials purifying
Syn: adulterant
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2. making impure or corrupt by adding extraneous materials;
-- of people.
Syn: adulterant.
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Adulteration
(gcide) | Adulteration \A*dul`ter*a"tion\, n. [L. adulteratio.]
1. The act of adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp.
of food or drink) by foreign mixture.
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The shameless adulteration of the coin. --Prescott.
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2. An adulterated state or product.
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Adulterator
(gcide) | Adulterator \A*dul"ter*a`tor\, n. [L.]
One who adulterates or corrupts. [R.] --Cudworth.
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Alliteral
(gcide) | Alliteral \Al*lit"er*al\, a.
Pertaining to, or characterized by alliteration.
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Alliterate
(gcide) | Alliterate \Al*lit"er*ate\, v. t.
To employ or place so as to make alliteration. --Skeat.
[1913 Webster]Alliterate \Al*lit"er*ate\, v. i.
To compose alliteratively; also, to constitute alliteration.
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Alliteration
(gcide) | Alliteration \Al*lit`er*a"tion\, n. [L. ad + litera letter. See
Letter.]
The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or
more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short
intervals; as in the following lines:
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Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved
His vastness. --Milton.
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Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields. --Tennyson.
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Note: The recurrence of the same letter in accented parts of
words is also called alliteration. Anglo-Saxon poetry
is characterized by alliterative meter of this sort.
Later poets also employed it.
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In a somer seson whan soft was the sonne,
I shope me in shroudes as I a shepe were. --P.
Plowman.
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Alliterative
(gcide) | Alliterative \Al*lit"er*a*tive\ (?; 277), a.
Pertaining to, or characterized by, alliteration; as,
alliterative poetry. -- Al*lit"er*a*tive*ly, adv. --
Al*lit"er*a*tive*ness, n.
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Alliteratively
(gcide) | Alliterative \Al*lit"er*a*tive\ (?; 277), a.
Pertaining to, or characterized by, alliteration; as,
alliterative poetry. -- Al*lit"er*a*tive*ly, adv. --
Al*lit"er*a*tive*ness, n.
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Alliterativeness
(gcide) | Alliterative \Al*lit"er*a*tive\ (?; 277), a.
Pertaining to, or characterized by, alliteration; as,
alliterative poetry. -- Al*lit"er*a*tive*ly, adv. --
Al*lit"er*a*tive*ness, n.
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Alliterator
(gcide) | Alliterator \Al*lit"er*a`tor\, n.
One who alliterates.
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Alterability
(gcide) | Alterability \Al`ter*a*bil"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F.
alt['e]rabilit['e].]
The quality of being alterable; alterableness.
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Alterable
(gcide) | Alterable \Al"ter*a*ble\, a. [Cf. F. alt['e]rable.]
Capable of being altered.
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Our condition in this world is mutable and uncertain,
alterable by a thousand accidents. --Rogers.
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Alterableness
(gcide) | Alterableness \Al"ter*a*ble*ness\, n.
The quality of being alterable; variableness; alterability.
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Alterably
(gcide) | Alterably \Al"ter*a*bly\, adv.
In an alterable manner.
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Alterant
(gcide) | Alterant \Al"ter*ant\, a. [LL. alterans, p. pr.: cf. F.
alt['e]rant.]
Altering; gradually changing. --Bacon.
[1913 Webster]Alterant \Al"ter*ant\, n.
An alterative. [R.] --Chambers.
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Alteration
(gcide) | Alteration \Al`ter*a"tion\, n. [Cf. F. alt['e]ration.]
1. The act of altering or making different.
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Alteration, though it be from worse to better, hath
in it incoveniences. --Hooker.
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2. The state of being altered; a change made in the form or
nature of a thing; changed condition.
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Ere long might perceive
Strange alteration in me. --Milton.
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Appius Claudius admitted to the senate the sons of
those who had been slaves; by which, and succeeding
alterations, that council degenerated into a most
corrupt. --Swift.
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Alterative
(gcide) | Alterative \Al"ter*a*tive\, n.
A medicine or treatment which gradually induces a change, and
restores healthy functions without sensible evacuations.
[1913 Webster]Alterative \Al"ter*a*tive\, a. [L. alterativus: cf. F.
alt['e]ratif.]
Causing ateration. Specifically: Gradually changing, or
tending to change, a morbid state of the functions into one
of health. --Burton.
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Anas cyanoptera
(gcide) | Teal \Teal\ (t[=e]l), n. [OE. tele; akin to D. teling a
generation, production, teal, telen to breed, produce, and E.
till to cultivate. The English word probably once meant, a
brood or flock. See Till to cultivate.] (Zool.)
Any one of several species of small fresh-water ducks of the
genus Anas and the subgenera Querquedula and Nettion.
The male is handsomely colored, and has a bright green or
blue speculum on the wings.
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Note: The common European teal (Anas crecca) and the
European blue-winged teal, or garganey ({Anas
querquedula} or Anas circia), are well-known species.
In America the blue-winged teal (Anas discors), the
green-winged teal (Anas Carolinensis), and the
cinnamon teal (Anas cyanoptera) are common species,
valued as game birds. See Garganey.
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Goose teal, a goslet. See Goslet.
Teal duck, the common European teal.
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Aphaniptera
(gcide) | Aphaniptera \Aph`a*nip"te*ra\, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ? invisible
('a priv. + ? to appear) + ? a wing.] (Zool.)
A group of wingless insects, of which the flea in the type.
See Flea.
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Aptera
(gcide) | Aptera \Ap"te*ra\, n. pl. [NL. aptera, fr. Gr. ? without wings;
'a priv. + ? wing, ? to fly.] (Zool.)
Insects without wings, constituting the seventh Linn[ae]n
order of insects, an artificial group, which included
Crustacea, spiders, centipeds, and even worms. These animals
are now placed in several distinct classes and orders.
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Apteral
(gcide) | Apteral \Ap"ter*al\, a.
1. (Zool.) Apterous.
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2. (Arch.) Without lateral columns; -- applied to buildings
which have no series of columns along their sides, but are
either prostyle or amphiprostyle, and opposed to
peripteral. --R. Cyc.
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Apteran
(gcide) | Apteran \Ap"ter*an\, n. (Zool.)
One of the Aptera.
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Asplenium Ceterach
(gcide) | Miltwaste \Milt"waste`\, [1st milt + waste.] (Bot.)
A small European fern (Asplenium Ceterach) formerly used in
medicine.
[1913 Webster]Stone \Stone\, n. [OE. ston, stan, AS. st[=a]n; akin to OS. &
OFries. st[=e]n, D. steen, G. stein, Icel. steinn, Sw. sten,
Dan. steen, Goth. stains, Russ. stiena a wall, Gr. ?, ?, a
pebble. [root]167. Cf. Steen.]
1. Concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular
mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy
threw a stone; pebbles are rounded stones. "Dumb as a
stone." --Chaucer.
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They had brick for stone, and slime . . . for
mortar. --Gen. xi. 3.
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Note: In popular language, very large masses of stone are
called rocks; small masses are called stones; and the
finer kinds, gravel, or sand, or grains of sand. Stone
is much and widely used in the construction of
buildings of all kinds, for walls, fences, piers,
abutments, arches, monuments, sculpture, and the like.
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2. A precious stone; a gem. "Many a rich stone." --Chaucer.
"Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels." --Shak.
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3. Something made of stone. Specifically:
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(a) The glass of a mirror; a mirror. [Obs.]
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Lend me a looking-glass;
If that her breath will mist or stain the stone,
Why, then she lives. --Shak.
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(b) A monument to the dead; a gravestone. --Gray.
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Should some relenting eye
Glance on the where our cold relics lie. --Pope.
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4. (Med.) A calculous concretion, especially one in the
kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.
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5. One of the testes; a testicle. --Shak.
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6. (Bot.) The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a
cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.
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7. A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice
varies with the article weighed. [Eng.]
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Note: The stone of butchers' meat or fish is reckoned at 8
lbs.; of cheese, 16 lbs.; of hemp, 32 lbs.; of glass, 5
lbs.
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8. Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness;
insensibility; as, a heart of stone.
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I have not yet forgot myself to stone. --Pope.
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9. (Print.) A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of
stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a
book, newspaper, etc., before printing; -- called also
imposing stone.
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Note: Stone is used adjectively or in composition with other
words to denote made of stone, containing a stone or
stones, employed on stone, or, more generally, of or
pertaining to stone or stones; as, stone fruit, or
stone-fruit; stone-hammer, or stone hammer; stone
falcon, or stone-falcon. Compounded with some
adjectives it denotes a degree of the quality expressed
by the adjective equal to that possessed by a stone;
as, stone-dead, stone-blind, stone-cold, stone-still,
etc.
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Atlantic stone, ivory. [Obs.] "Citron tables, or Atlantic
stone." --Milton.
Bowing stone. Same as Cromlech. --Encyc. Brit.
Meteoric stones, stones which fall from the atmosphere, as
after the explosion of a meteor.
Philosopher's stone. See under Philosopher.
Rocking stone. See Rocking-stone.
Stone age, a supposed prehistoric age of the world when
stone and bone were habitually used as the materials for
weapons and tools; -- called also flint age. The {bronze
age} succeeded to this.
Stone bass (Zool.), any one of several species of marine
food fishes of the genus Serranus and allied genera, as
Serranus Couchii, and Polyprion cernium of Europe; --
called also sea perch.
Stone biter (Zool.), the wolf fish.
Stone boiling, a method of boiling water or milk by
dropping hot stones into it, -- in use among savages.
--Tylor.
Stone borer (Zool.), any animal that bores stones;
especially, one of certain bivalve mollusks which burrow
in limestone. See Lithodomus, and Saxicava.
Stone bramble (Bot.), a European trailing species of
bramble (Rubus saxatilis).
Stone-break. [Cf. G. steinbrech.] (Bot.) Any plant of the
genus Saxifraga; saxifrage.
Stone bruise, a sore spot on the bottom of the foot, from a
bruise by a stone.
Stone canal. (Zool.) Same as Sand canal, under Sand.
Stone cat (Zool.), any one of several species of small
fresh-water North American catfishes of the genus
Noturus. They have sharp pectoral spines with which they
inflict painful wounds.
Stone coal, hard coal; mineral coal; anthracite coal.
Stone coral (Zool.), any hard calcareous coral.
Stone crab. (Zool.)
(a) A large crab (Menippe mercenaria) found on the
southern coast of the United States and much used as
food.
(b) A European spider crab (Lithodes maia).
Stone crawfish (Zool.), a European crawfish ({Astacus
torrentium}), by many writers considered only a variety of
the common species (Astacus fluviatilis).
Stone curlew. (Zool.)
(a) A large plover found in Europe ({Edicnemus
crepitans}). It frequents stony places. Called also
thick-kneed plover or bustard, and thick-knee.
(b) The whimbrel. [Prov. Eng.]
(c) The willet. [Local, U.S.]
Stone crush. Same as Stone bruise, above.
Stone eater. (Zool.) Same as Stone borer, above.
Stone falcon (Zool.), the merlin.
Stone fern (Bot.), a European fern (Asplenium Ceterach)
which grows on rocks and walls.
Stone fly (Zool.), any one of many species of
pseudoneuropterous insects of the genus Perla and allied
genera; a perlid. They are often used by anglers for bait.
The larvae are aquatic.
Stone fruit (Bot.), any fruit with a stony endocarp; a
drupe, as a peach, plum, or cherry.
Stone grig (Zool.), the mud lamprey, or pride.
Stone hammer, a hammer formed with a face at one end, and a
thick, blunt edge, parallel with the handle, at the other,
-- used for breaking stone.
Stone hawk (Zool.), the merlin; -- so called from its habit
of sitting on bare stones.
Stone jar, a jar made of stoneware.
Stone lily (Paleon.), a fossil crinoid.
Stone lugger. (Zool.) See Stone roller, below.
Stone marten (Zool.), a European marten (Mustela foina)
allied to the pine marten, but having a white throat; --
called also beech marten.
Stone mason, a mason who works or builds in stone.
Stone-mortar (Mil.), a kind of large mortar formerly used
in sieges for throwing a mass of small stones short
distances.
Stone oil, rock oil, petroleum.
Stone parsley (Bot.), an umbelliferous plant ({Seseli
Labanotis}). See under Parsley.
Stone pine. (Bot.) A nut pine. See the Note under Pine,
and Pi[~n]on.
Stone pit, a quarry where stones are dug.
Stone pitch, hard, inspissated pitch.
Stone plover. (Zool.)
(a) The European stone curlew.
(b) Any one of several species of Asiatic plovers of the
genus Esacus; as, the large stone plover ({Esacus
recurvirostris}).
(c) The gray or black-bellied plover. [Prov. Eng.]
(d) The ringed plover.
(e) The bar-tailed godwit. [Prov. Eng.] Also applied to
other species of limicoline birds.
Stone roller. (Zool.)
(a) An American fresh-water fish (Catostomus nigricans)
of the Sucker family. Its color is yellowish olive,
often with dark blotches. Called also stone lugger,
stone toter, hog sucker, hog mullet.
(b) A common American cyprinoid fish ({Campostoma
anomalum}); -- called also stone lugger.
Stone's cast, or Stone's throw, the distance to which a
stone may be thrown by the hand; as, they live a stone's
throw from each other.
Stone snipe (Zool.), the greater yellowlegs, or tattler.
[Local, U.S.]
Stone toter. (Zool.)
(a) See Stone roller
(a), above.
(b) A cyprinoid fish (Exoglossum maxillingua) found in
the rivers from Virginia to New York. It has a
three-lobed lower lip; -- called also cutlips.
To leave no stone unturned, to do everything that can be
done; to use all practicable means to effect an object.
[1913 Webster]Ceterach \Cet"e*rach\, n. [F. c['e]t['e]rac, fr. Ar. shetrak.]
(Bot.)
A species of fern with fronds (Asplenium Ceterach).
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Asteraceae
(gcide) | Asteraceae \Asteraceae\ n.
1. a family of plants with heads composed of many florets,
including the aster; daisy; dandelion; goldenrod;
marigold; lettuces; ragweed; sunflower; thistle; zinnia.
Syn: Compositae, family Compositae, family Asteraceae,
aster family
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Balaenoptera
(gcide) | Balaenoptera \Balaenoptera\ n.
the type genus of the Balaenopteridae.
Syn: genus Balaenoptera.
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Balaenoptera physalus
(gcide) | Rorqual \Ror"qual\, n. [Norw. rorqualus a whale with folds.]
(Zool.)
A very large North Atlantic whalebone whale ({Physalus
antiquorum}, or Balaenoptera physalus). It has a dorsal
fin, and strong longitudinal folds on the throat and belly.
Called also razorback.
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Note: It is one of the largest of the whales, somethimes
becoming nearly one hundred feet long, but it is more
slender than the right whales, and is noted for its
swiftness. The name is sometimes applied to other
related species of finback whales.
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Balaenoptera rostrata
(gcide) | Pike \Pike\, n. [F. pique; perhaps of Celtic origin; cf. W. pig
a prick, a point, beak, Arm. pik pick. But cf. also L. picus
woodpecker (see Pie magpie), and E. spike. Cf. Pick, n. &
v., Peak, Pique.]
1. (Mil.) A foot soldier's weapon, consisting of a long
wooden shaft or staff, with a pointed steel head. It is
now superseded by the bayonet.
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2. A pointed head or spike; esp., one in the center of a
shield or target. --Beau. & Fl.
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3. A hayfork. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Tusser.
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4. A pick. [Prov. Eng.] --Wright. Raymond.
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5. A pointed or peaked hill. [R.]
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6. A large haycock. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
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7. A turnpike; a toll bar. --Dickens.
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8. (Zool.) sing. & pl. A large fresh-water fish ({Esox
lucius}), found in Europe and America, highly valued as a
food fish; -- called also pickerel, gedd, luce, and
jack.
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Note: Blue pike, grass pike, green pike, wall-eyed pike, and
yellow pike, are names, not of true pike, but of the
wall-eye. See Wall-eye.
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Gar pike. See under Gar.
Pike perch (Zool.), any fresh-water fish of the genus
Stizostedion (formerly Lucioperca). See Wall-eye,
and Sauger.
Pike pole, a long pole with a pike in one end, used in
directing floating logs.
Pike whale (Zool.), a finback whale of the North Atlantic
(Bal[ae]noptera rostrata), having an elongated snout; --
called also piked whale.
Sand pike (Zool.), the lizard fish.
Sea pike (Zool.), the garfish
(a) .
[1913 Webster]Doegling \D[oe]g"ling\, n. [Native name in Faroe Islands.]
(Zool.)
The beaked whale (Bal[ae]noptera rostrata), from which
d[oe]gling oil is obtained.
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Bilateral
(gcide) | Bilateral \Bi*lat"er*al\, a. [Pref. bi- + lateral: cf. F.
bilat['e]ral.]
1. Having two sides; arranged upon two sides; affecting two
sides or two parties.
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2. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to the two sides of a central
area or organ, or of a central axis; as, bilateral
symmetry in animals, where there is a similarity of parts
on the right and left sides of the body.
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Bilaterality
(gcide) | Bilaterality \Bi*lat`er*al"i*ty\, n.
State of being bilateral.
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Biliteral
(gcide) | Biliteral \Bi*lit"er*al\, a. [L. bis twice + littera letter.]
Consisting of two letters; as, a biliteral root of a Sanskrit
verb. --Sir W. Jones. -- n. A word, syllable, or root,
consisting of two letters.
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Biliteralism
(gcide) | Biliteralism \Bi*lit"er*al*ism\, n.
The property or state of being biliteral.
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Blatteration
(gcide) | Blatteration \Blat`ter*a"tion\, n. [L. blateratio a babbling.]
Blattering.
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blotted out obliterate obliterated
(gcide) | destroyed \destroyed\ adj.
1. p. p. of destroy. [Narrower terms: {annihilated,
exterminated, wiped out(predicate)}; {blasted, desolate,
desolated, devastated, ravaged, ruined, wasted};
blighted, spoilt; {blotted out, obliterate,
obliterated}; demolished, dismantled, razed; {done
for(predicate), kaput(predicate), gone(prenominal), lost,
finished(predicate)}; extinguished; {ruined, wiped
out(predicate), impoverished}; totaled, wrecked;
war-torn, war-worn; {despoiled, pillaged, raped,
ravaged, sacked}] Also See: damaged. Antonym:
preserved
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2. destroyed physically or morally.
Syn: ruined.
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Brachyptera
(gcide) | Brachyptera \Bra*chyp"te*ra\, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ?
short-winged; brachy`s short + ? feather, wing.] (Zool.)
A group of Coleoptera having short wings; the rove beetles.
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butter-and-eggs
(gcide) | Butter and eggs \Butter and eggs\, butter-and-eggs
\butter-and-eggs\n.(Bot.),
a name given to several perennial plants having showy flowers
of two shades of yellow, or of yellow and orange, such as
Narcissus incomparabilis in Europe, and the toadflax
(Linaria vulgaris) in the United States; the latter is a
naturalized weed in North America.
Syn: toadflax, wild snapdragon, devil's flax, Linaria
vulgaris.
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Canella winterana
(gcide) | Canella-alba \Canella-alba\ n.
A large evergreen shrub or small tree (Canella alba or
Canella winterana) having white aromatic bark and leathery
leaves and small purple to red flowers in terminal cymes. Its
bark is called wild cinnamon.
Syn: wild cinnamon, white cinnamon tree, Canella winterana.
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Casarca leucoptera
(gcide) | Sheldrake \Shel"drake`\, n. [Sheld + drake.]
1. (Zool.) Any one of several species of large Old World
ducks of the genus Tadorna and allied genera, especially
the European and Asiatic species. (Tadorna cornuta syn.
Tadorna tadorna), which somewhat resembles a goose in
form and habit, but breeds in burrows.
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Note: It has the head and neck greenish black, the breast,
sides, and forward part of the back brown, the
shoulders and middle of belly black, the speculum
green, and the bill and frontal bright red. Called also
shelduck, shellduck, sheldfowl, skeelduck,
bergander, burrow duck, and links goose.
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Note: The Australian sheldrake (Tadorna radja) has the
head, neck, breast, flanks, and wing coverts white, the
upper part of the back and a band on the breast deep
chestnut, and the back and tail black. The chestnut
sheldrake of Australia (Casarca tadornoides) is
varied with black and chestnut, and has a dark green
head and neck. The ruddy sheldrake, or Braminy duck
(Casarca rutila), and the white-winged sheldrake
(Casarca leucoptera), are related Asiatic species.
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2. Any one of the American mergansers.
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Note: The name is also loosely applied to other ducks, as the
canvasback, and the shoveler.
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Cateran
(gcide) | Cateran \Cat"e*ran\, n. [Gael. ceatharnach. Cf. Kern Irish
foot soldier.]
A Highland robber: a kind of irregular soldier. [Scot.] --Sir
W. Scott.
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Cauterant
(gcide) | Cauterant \Cau"ter*ant\, n.
A cauterizing substance.
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Cephaloptera
(gcide) | Cephaloptera \Ceph`a*lop"te*ra\
(s[e^]f`[.a]*l[o^]p"t[-e]*r[.a]), n. [NL., fr. Gr. kefalh`
head + ptero`n wing.] (Zool.)
One of the generic names of the gigantic ray ({Manta
birostris}) of the family Mobulidae, known as devilfish,
sea devil, manta and manta ray. It is common on the
coasts of South Carolina, Florida, and farther south, and is
sometimes found as far north as New York Bay. Some of them
grow to enormous size, becoming twenty feet of more across
the body, and weighing more than a ton.
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Cephaloptera vampyrus
(gcide) | Devilfish \Dev"il*fish`\, n. (Zool.)
(a) A huge ray (Manta birostris or Cephaloptera vampyrus)
of the Gulf of Mexico and Southern Atlantic coasts.
Several other related species take the same name. See
Cephaloptera.
(b) A large cephalopod, especially the very large species of
Octopus and Architeuthis. See Octopus.
(c) The gray whale of the Pacific coast. See Gray whale.
(d) The goosefish or angler (Lophius), and other allied
fishes. See Angler.
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Ceterach
(gcide) | Ceterach \Cet"e*rach\, n. [F. c['e]t['e]rac, fr. Ar. shetrak.]
(Bot.)
A species of fern with fronds (Asplenium Ceterach).
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Chatteration
(gcide) | Chatteration \Chat*ter*a"tion\, n.
The act or habit of chattering. [Colloq.]
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