Word Meanings - ASTOOP - Book Publishers vocabulary database
In a stooping or inclined position. Gay.
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- INCLINING
See 3 - STOOPER
One who stoops. - INCLINED
Making an angle with some line or plane; -- said of a line or plane. (more info) 1. Having a leaning or tendency towards, or away from, a thing; disposed or moved by wish, desire, or judgment; as, a man inclined to virtue. "Each pensively - INCLINATORY
Having the quality of leaning or inclining; as, the inclinatory needle. -- In*clin"a*to*ri*ly, adv. Sir T. Browne. - STOOPING
from Stoop. -- Stoop"ing*ly, adv. - POSITION
A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; -- called also the rule of trial and error. Angle of position , the angle which any line makes with another fixed line, specifically with a circle of declination. -- Double position , - INCLINATION
The angle made by two lines or planes; as, the inclination of the plane of the earth's equator to the plane of the ecliptic is about 23ยบ 28'; the inclination of two rays of light. 5. A leaning or tendency of the mind, feelings, preferences, or - INCLINNOMETER
An apparatus to determine the inclination of the earth's magnetic force to the plane of the horizon; -- called also inclination compass, and dip circle. - POSITIONAL
Of or pertaining to position. Ascribing unto plants positional operations. Sir T. Browne. - INCLINABLENESS
The state or quality of being inclinable; inclination. - INCLINER
One who, or that which, inclines; specifically, an inclined dial. - INCLINABLE
1. Leaning; tending. Likely and inclinable to fall. Bentley. 2. Having a propensity of will or feeling; leaning in disposition; disposed; propense; as, a mind inclinable to truth. Whatsoever other sins he may be inclinable to. South. - INCLINE
L. inclinare; pref. in- in + clinare to bend, incline; akin to E. 1. To deviate from a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean; to tend; as, converging lines incline toward each other; a road inclines to the north or south. 2. Fig.: - STOOP
Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to fourteen steps, with platform and parapets, leading to an entrance door - APPOSITION
The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first. Growth by apposition , a mode of growth characteristic - OPPOSITIONIST
One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed. - EXPOSITION
1. The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view. 2. The act of expounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put upon a passage; a law, or - DECOMPOSITION
1. The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of - SEPOSITION
The act of setting aside, or of giving up. Jer. Taylor. - CIRCUMPOSITION
The act of placing in a circle, or round about, or the state of being so placed. Evelyn. - ANTEPOSITION
The placing of a before another, which, by ordinary rules, ought to follow it. - PRESUPPOSITION
1. The act of presupposing; an antecedent implication; presumption. 2. That which is presupposed; a previous supposition or surmise. - DEPOSITION
The act of laying down one's testimony in writing; also, testimony laid or taken down in writting, under oath or affirmation, befor some competent officer, and in reply to interrogatories and cross-interrogatories. Syn. -- Deposition, Affidavit. - MISEXPOSITION
Wrong exposition. - INTERPOSITION
insertion, fr. interponere, interpositum: cf. F. interposition. See 1. The act of interposing, or the state of being interposed; a being, placing, or coming between; mediation. 2. The thing interposed. - MALPOSITION
A wrong position. - POSTPOSITION
1. The act of placing after, or the state of being placed after. "The postposition of the nominative case to the verb." Mede. 2. A word or particle placed after, or at the end of, another word; - - distinguished from preposition. - SUPERPOSITION
The act of superposing, or the state of being superposed; as, the superposition of rocks; the superposition of one plane figure on another, in geometry. - POSTPOSITIONAL
Of or pertaining to postposition. - INDISPOSITION
1. The state of being indisposed; disinclination; as, the indisposition of two substances to combine. A general indisposition towards believing. Atterbury. 2. A slight disorder or illness. Rather as an indisposition in health than as - PREDISPOSITION
1. The act of predisposing, or the state of being predisposed; previous inclination, tendency, or propensity; predilection; -- applied to the mind; as, a predisposition to anger. 2. Previous fitness or adaptation to any change, impression,