Word Meanings - AID-DE-CAMP - Book Publishers vocabulary database
An officer selected by a general to carry orders, also to assist or represent him in correspondence and in directing movements.
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- ASSISTANTLY
In a manner to give aid. - 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. - ASSISTANCE
1. The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support. Without the assistance of a mortal hand. Shak. 2. An assistant or helper; a body of helpers. Wat Tyler killed by valiant Walworth, the lord mayor of London, and his assistance, - ASSIST
To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor. Assist me, knight. I am undone! Shak. Syn. -- To help; aid; second; back; support; relieve; succor; befriend; sustain; favor. See Help. - REPRESENTABLE
Capable of being represented. - GENERALIZED
Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type. - GENERALIZABLE
Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge - REPRESENTANT
Appearing or acting for another; representing. - DIRECT ACTION
See BELOW - CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL
A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the - 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 - ASSISTER
An assistant; a helper. - GENERALTY
Generality. Sir M. Hale. - 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 - ASSISTLESS
Without aid or help. Pope. - DIRECTORY
Containing directions; enjoining; instructing; directorial. - CARRYK
A carack. Chaucer. - DIRECTRESS
A woman who directs. Bp. Hurd. - MAJOR GENERAL
. An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps. - INCORRESPONDENCE; INCORRESPONDENCY
Want of correspondence; disagreement; disproportion. - GUINEA-PIG DIRECTOR
A director who serves merely or mainly for the fee paid for attendance. - IRREPRESENTABLE
Not capable of being represented or portrayed. - SCARRY
Bearing scars or marks of wounds.