Word Meanings - ANTIPLASTIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Preventing or checking the process of healing, or granulation. (more info) 1. Diminishing plasticity.

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• CHECKWORK
  Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.
• DIMINISH
  To make smaller by a half step; to make less than minor; as, a diminished seventh. 4. To take away; to subtract. Neither shall ye diminish aught from it. Deut. iv. 2. Diminished column, one whose upper diameter is less than the lower.
• HEAL
  To cover, as a roof, with tiles, slate, lead, or the like.
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• PROCESSIVE
  Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
• CHECKREIN
  1. A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein. 2. A branch rein connecting the driving rein of one horse of a span or pair with the bit of the other horse.
• PROCESSIONALIST
  One who goes or marches in a procession.
• DIMINISHER
  One who, or that which, diminishes anything. Clerke .
• HEALTHFULLY
  In health; wholesomely.
• PREVENTABLE
  Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.
• PREVENTINGLY
  So as to prevent or hinder.
• PREVENT
  1. To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct. We which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 1 Thess. iv. 15. We pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow
• HEALTHLESS
  1. Without health, whether of body or mind; in firm. "A healthless or old age." Jer. Taylor. 2. Not conducive to health; unwholesome.
• HEALTHFUL
  1. Full of health; free from illness or disease; well; whole; sound; healthy; as, a healthful body or mind; a healthful plant. 2. Serving to promote health of body or mind; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as, a healthful air, diet. The healthful
• CHECKLATON
  1. Ciclatoun. 2. Gilded leather. Spenser.
• PROCESSIONARY
  Pertaining to a procession; consisting in processions; as, processionary service. Processionary moth , any moth of the genus Cnethocampa, especially C. processionea of Europe, whose larvæ make large webs on oak trees, and go out to feed in regular
• HEALING
  Tending to cure; soothing; mollifying; as, the healing art; a healing salve; healing words. Here healing dews and balms abound. Keble.
• CHECKERBERRY
  A spicy plant and its bright red berry; the wintergreen . Also incorrectly applied to the partridge berry .
• PREVENTABILITY
  The quality or state of being preventable.
• HEALTHFULNESS
  The state of being healthful.
• SELF-HEAL
  A blue-flowered labiate plant ; the healall.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• REDIMINISH
  To diminish again.
• IMPREVENTABILITY
  The state or quality of being impreventable.
• ACID PROCESS
  That variety of either the Bessemer or the open-hearth process in which the converter or hearth is lined with acid, that is, highly siliceous, material. Opposed to basic process.
• BARREL PROCESS
  A process of extracting gold or silver by treating the ore in a revolving barrel, or drum, with mercury, chlorine, cyanide solution, or other reagent.
• BASIC PROCESS
  A Bessemer or open-hearth steel-making process in which a lining that is basic, or not siliceous, is used, and additions of basic material are made to the molten charge during treatment. Opposed to acid process, above. Called also Thomas process.