Word Meanings - ADRIATIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of or pertaining to a sea so named, the northwestern part of which is known as the Gulf of Venice.
Related words: (words related to ADRIATIC)
- NAMELESSLY
In a nameless manner. - NAMABLE
Capable of being named. - NAMELESS
1. Without a name; not having been given a name; as, a nameless star. Waller. 2. Undistinguished; not noted or famous. A nameless dwelling and an unknown name. Harte. 3. Not known or mentioned by name; anonymous; as, a nameless writer."Nameless - NAMER
One who names, or calls by name. - NAMAYCUSH
A large North American lake trout . It is usually spotted with red, and sometimes weighs over forty pounds. Called also Mackinaw trout, lake trout, lake salmon, salmon trout, togue, and tuladi. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - NAMESAKE
One that has the same name as another; especially, one called after, or named out of regard to, another. - NORTHWESTERN
Of, pertaining to, or being in, the northwest; in a direction toward the northwest; coming from the northwest; northwesterly; as, a northwestern course. - NAMBY-PAMBY
Affectedly pretty; weakly sentimental; finical; insipid. Thackeray. Namby-pamby madrigals of love. W. Gifford. - NAMELY
1. By name; by particular mention; specifically; especially; expressly. Chaucer. The solitariness of man ...God hath namely and principally ordered to prevent by marriage. Milton. 2. That is to say; to wit; videlicet; -- introducing a particular - NAMATION
A distraining or levying of a distress; an impounding. Burrill. (more info) Eng. & Scots Law) - WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who. - PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant - KNOWN
of Know. - NAM
Am not. - NAME
Icel. nafn, for namn, Dan. navn, Sw. namn, Goth. namo, L. nomen , Gr. 'o`mona, Scr. naman. sq. root267. Cf. Anonymous, Ignominy, Misnomer, 1. The title by which any person or thing is known or designated; a distinctive specific appellation, whether - NAMO
No more. Chaucer. - DYNAMO
A dynamo-electric machine. - DYNAMOMETRY
The art or process of measuring forces doing work. - ELECTRO-DYNAMIC; ELECTRO-DYNAMICAL
Pertaining to the movements or force of electric or galvanic currents; dependent on electric force. - DYNAMOMETER
An apparatus for measuring force or power; especially, muscular effort of men or animals, or the power developed by a motor, or that required to operate machinery. Note: It usually embodies a spring to be compressed or weight to be sustained by - SERIES DYNAMO
A series-wound dynamo. A dynamo running in series with another or others. - MONODYNAMISM
The theory that the various forms of activity in nature are manifestations of the same force. G. H. Lewes. - HEMADYNAMOMETER
An instrument by which the pressure of the blood in the arteries, or veins, is measured by the height to which it will raise a column of mercury; -- called also a hæmomanometer. - ADYNAMIC
Pertaining to, or characterized by, debility of the vital powers; weak. - ORNAMENTAL
Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing. Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. Sir T. Browne. - DYNAMO-ELECTRIC
Pertaining to the development of electricity, especially electrical currents, by power; producing electricity or electrical currents by mechanical power. - BIODYNAMICS
The doctrine of vital forces or energy. - BENAME
To promise; to name. - DYNAMIC; DYNAMICAL
1. Of or pertaining to dynamics; belonging to energy or power; characterized by energy or production of force. Science, as well as history, has its past to show, -- a past indeed, much larger; but its immensity is dynamic, not divine. J. Martineau. - TETRADYNAMIAN
A plant of the order Tetradynamia. - DIDYNAMOUS
Of or pertaining to the Didynamia; containing four stamens disposed in pairs of unequal length.