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Word Meanings - ADDRESSION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of addressing or directing one's course. Chapman.

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  • DIRECT CURRENT
    A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the
  • DIRECTER
    One who directs; a director. Directer plane , the plane to which all right-lined elements in a warped surface are parallel.
  • COURSED
    1. Hunted; as, a coursed hare. 2. Arranged in courses; as, coursed masonry.
  • DIRECT ACTION
    See BELOW
  • DIRECT NOMINATION
    The nomination or designation of candidates for public office by direct popular vote rather than through the action of a convention or body of elected nominating representatives or delegates. The term is applied both to the nomination of candidates
  • DIRECTRIX
    1. A directress. Jer. Taylor. A line along which a point in another line moves, or which in any way governs the motion of the point and determines the position of the curve generated by it; the line along which the generatrix moves in generating
  • COURSE
    1. The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage. And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais. Acts xxi. 7. 2. THe ground or path traversed; track; way. The same horse also run the round course at Newmarket.
  • ADDRESS
    To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore. To address one's self to. To prepare one's self for; to apply one's self to. To direct one's speech or discourse to. (more
  • DIRECT
    In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the signs; not retrograde; -- said of the motion of a celestial body. Direct action. See Direct-acting. -- Direct discourse , the language of any one quoted
  • DIRECTORY
    Containing directions; enjoining; instructing; directorial.
  • DIRECTRESS
    A woman who directs. Bp. Hurd.
  • COURSEY
    A space in the galley; a part of the hatches. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
  • DIRECTORSHIP
    The condition or office of a director; directorate.
  • DIRECTORIAL
    1. Having the quality of a director, or authoritative guide; directive. 2. Pertaining to: director or directory; specifically, relating to the Directory of France under the first republic. See Directory, 3. Whoever goes to the directorial presence
  • DIRECTOIRE STYLE
    A style of dress prevalent at the time of the French Directory, characterized by great extravagance of design and imitating the Greek and Roman costumes.
  • ADDRESSEE
    One to whom anything is addressed.
  • DIRECT PRIMARY
    A primary by which direct nominations of candidates for office are made.
  • DIRECTION
    The pointing of a piece with reference to an imaginary vertical axis; -- distinguished from elevation. The direction is given when the plane of sight passes through the object. Wilhelm. Syn. -- Administration; guidance; management; superintendence;
  • DIRECT-ACTING
    Acting directly, as one part upon another, without the intervention of other working parts. Direct-acting steam engine, one in which motion is transmitted to the crank without the intervention of a beam or lever; -- also called direct-action steam
  • DIRECTORATE
    The office of director; also, a body of directors taken jointly.
  • RECOURSEFUL
    Having recurring flow and ebb; moving alternately. Drayton.
  • GUINEA-PIG DIRECTOR
    A director who serves merely or mainly for the fee paid for attendance.
  • INTERCOURSE
    A This sweet intercourse Of looks and smiles. Milton. Sexual intercourse, sexual or carnal connection; coition. Syn. -- Communication; connection; commerce; communion; fellowship; familiarity; acquaintance. (more info) commerce, exchange,
  • DISCOURSE
    fr. discurrere, discursum, to run to and fro, to discourse; dis- + 1. The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range
  • DISCOURSER
    1. One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer. In his conversation he was the most clear discourser. Milward. 2. The writer of a treatise or dissertation. Philologers and critical discoursers. Sir T. Browne.
  • BLOCKING COURSE
    The finishing course of a wall showing above a cornice.
  • UNDIRECTLY
    Indirectly. Strype.
  • CONCOURSE
    1. A moving, flowing, or running together; confluence. The good frame of the universe was not the product of chance or fortuitous concourse of particles of matter. Sir M. Hale. 2. An assembly; a gathering formed by a voluntary or spontaneous moving

 

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