Word Meanings - AVERAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc. 2. Etym: A tariff or duty on goods, etc. Any charge in addition to the regular charge for freight of goods shipped.

Additional info about word: AVERAGE

That service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc. 2. Etym: A tariff or duty on goods, etc. Any charge in addition to the regular charge for freight of goods shipped. A contribution to a loss or charge which has been imposed upon one of several for the general benefit; damage done by sea perils. The equitable and proportionate distribution of loss or expense among all interested. General average, a contribution made, by all parties concerned in a sea adventure, toward a loss occasioned by the voluntary sacrifice of the property of some of the parties in interest for the benefit of all. It is called general average, because it falls upon the gross amount of ship, cargo, and freight at risk and saved by the sacrifice. Kent. -- Particular average signifies the damage or partial loss happening to the ship, or cargo, or freight, in consequence of some fortuitous or unavoidable accident; and it is borne by the individual owners of the articles damaged, or by their insurers. -- Petty averages are sundry small charges, which occur regularly, and are necessarily defrayed by the master in the usual course of a voyage; such as port charges, common pilotage, and the like, which formerly were, and in some cases still are, borne partly by the ship and partly by the cargo. In the clause commonly found in bills of lading, "primage and average accustomed," average means a kind of composition established by usage for such charges, which were formerly assessed by way of average. Arnould. Abbott. Phillips. 3. A mean proportion, medial sum or quantity, made out of unequal sums or quantities; an arithmetical mean. Thus, if A loses 5 dollars, B 9, and C 16, the sum is 30, and the average 10. 4. Any medial estimate or general statement derived from a comparison of diverse specific cases; a medium or usual size, quantity, quality, rate, etc. "The average of sensations." Paley. 5. pl. (more info) F. avoir, property, horses, cattle, etc.; prop. infin., to have, from L. habere to have. Cf. F. avérage small cattle, and avarie (perh. of different origin) damage to ship or cargo, port dues. The first

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AVERAGE)

• Mean
• Middle
• intermediate
• average
• Medium
• moderation
• balance
• Mediocrity
• commonplace
• medium
• sufficiency

Related words: (words related to AVERAGE)

• MIDDLE
  1. Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age. 2. Intermediate; intervening.
• AVERAGE
  That service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc. 2. Etym: A tariff or duty on goods, etc. Any charge in addition to the regular charge for freight of goods shipped.
• MIDDLE-GROUND
  That part of a picture between the foreground and the background.
• BALANCEMENT
  The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise; even adjustment of forces. Darwin.
• MIDDLE-EARTH
  The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell. Shak.
• MIDDLEMAN
  The man who occupies a central position in a file of soldiers. (more info) 1. An agent between two parties; a broker; a go-between; any dealer between the producer and the consumer; in Ireland, one who takes land of the proprietors in large tracts,
• MODERATION
  The first public examinations for degrees at the University of Oxford; -- usually contracted to mods. (more info) 1. The act of moderating, or of imposing due restraint. 2. The state or quality of being mmoderate. In moderation placing
• MIDDLER
  One of a middle or intermediate class in some schools and seminaries.
• MIDDLE-AGE
  Of or pertaining to the Middle Ages; mediæval.
• COMMONPLACE
  Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation.
• MIDDLEMOST
  Being in the middle, or nearest the middle; midmost.
• MEDIOCRITY
  1. The quality of being mediocre; a middle state or degree; a moderate degree or rate. "A mediocrity of success." Bacon. 2. Moderation; temperance. Hooker.
• BALANCEABLE
  Such as can be balanced.
• INTERMEDIATELY
  In an intermediate manner; by way of intervention.
• BALANCER
  In Diptera, the rudimentary posterior wing. (more info) 1. One who balances, or uses a balance.
• BALANCE
  A balance wheel, as of a watch, or clock. See Balance wheel (in the Vocabulary). The constellation Libra. The seventh sign in the Zodiac, called Libra, which the sun enters at the equinox in September. 8. A movement in dancing. See Balance, v. i.,
• BALANCEREEF
  The last reef in a fore-and-aft sail, taken to steady the ship.
• INTERMEDIATE
  Lying or being in the middle place or degree, or between two extremes; coming or done between; intervening; interposed; interjacent; as, an intermediate space or time; intermediate colors. Intermediate state , the state or condition of the soul
• COMMONPLACENESS
  The quality of being commonplace; commonness.
• MEDIUM
  See PAPER (more info) 1. That which lies in the middle, or between other things; intervening body or quantity. Hence, specifically: Middle place or degree; mean. The just medium . . . lies between pride
• COUNTERBALANCE
  To oppose with an equal weight or power; to counteract the power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to balance. The remaining air was not able to counterbalance the mercurial cylinder. Boyle. The cstudy of mind is necessary
• OVERBALANCE
  1. To exceed equality with; to outweigh. Locke. 2. To cause to lose balance or equilibrium.
• UNSUFFICIENCE; UNSUFFICIENCY
  Insufficiency. Hooker.
• OUTBALANCE
  To outweight; to exceed in weight or effect. Let dull Ajax bear away my right When all his days outbalance this one night. Dryden.
• UNBALANCED
  Not adjusted; not settled; not brought to an equality of debt and credit; as, an unbalanced account; unbalanced books. 3. Being, or being thrown, out of equilibrium; hence, disordered or deranged in sense; unsteady; unsound; as, an unbalanced mind.
• EQUIBALANCE
  Equal weight; equiponderance.
• WEAL-BALANCED
  Balanced or considered with reference to public weal. Shak.