Word Meanings - CAVITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Hollowness. The cavity or hollowness of the place. Goodwin. 2. A hollow place; a hollow; as, the abdominal cavity. An instrument with a small cavity, like a small spoon. Arbuthot. Abnormal spaces or excavations are frequently formed

Additional info about word: CAVITY

1. Hollowness. The cavity or hollowness of the place. Goodwin. 2. A hollow place; a hollow; as, the abdominal cavity. An instrument with a small cavity, like a small spoon. Arbuthot. Abnormal spaces or excavations are frequently formed in the lungs, which are designated cavities or vomicæ. Quain. Body cavity, the coelum. See under Body.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CAVITY)

• Corner
• Cavity
• hole
• nook
• recess
• retreat
• Dent
• Indentation
• notch
• cavity
• Recess
• withdrawal
• retirement
• seclusion
• privacy
• vacation
• holiday

Related words: (words related to CAVITY)

• RECESS
  A sinus. (more info) 1. A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides. Every degree of ignorance being so far a recess and degradation from rationality. South. My recess hath given them confidence that I may be
• RECESSED
  1. Having a recess or recesses; as, a recessed arch or wall. 2. Withdrawn; secluded. "Comfortably recessed from curious impertinents." Miss Edgeworth. Recessed arch , one of a series of arches constructed one within another so as to correspond
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• NOTCH
  1. A hollow cut in anything; a nick; an indentation. And on the stick ten equal notches makes. Swift. 2. A narrow passage between two elevation; a deep, close pass; a defile; as, the notch of a mountain.
• RETREATMENT
  The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey.
• WITHDRAWAL
  The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction. Fielding.
• RECESSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to recession or withdrawal. Recessional hymn, a hymn sung in a procession returning from the choir to the robing room.
• RECESSION
  The act of receding or withdrawing, as from a place, a claim, or a demand. South. Mercy may rejoice upon the recessions of justice. Jer. Taylor.
• NOTCHWEED
  A foul-smelling weed, the stinking goosefoot (Chenopodium Vulvaria).
• RETIREMENT
  1. The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; withdrawal; seclusion; as, the retirement of an officer. O, blest Retirement, friend of life's decline. Goldsmith. Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books. Thomson. 2. A place of seclusion
• NOTCHING
  A method of joining timbers, scantling, etc., by notching them, as at the ends, and overlapping or interlocking the notched portions. (more info) 1. The act of making notches; the act of cutting into small hollows. 2. The small hollow, or hollows,
• VACATION
  Intermission of judicial proceedings; the space of time between the end of one term and the beginning of the next; nonterm; recess. "With lawyers in the vacation." Shak. The intermission of the regular studies and exercises of an educational
• PRIVACY
  1. The state of being in retirement from the company or observation of others; seclusion. 2. A place of seclusion from company or observation; retreat; solitude; retirement. Her sacred privacies all open lie. Rowe. 3. Concealment of what is said
• CORNERCAP
  The chief ornament. Thou makest the triumviry the cornercap of society. Shak.
• HOLIDAY
  A day fixed by law for suspension of business; a legal holiday. Note: In the United States legal holidays, so called, are determined by law, commonly by the statutes of the several States. The holidays most generally observed are: the 22d day of
• NOTCHBOARD
  The board which receives the ends of the steps in a staircase.
• RECESSIVE
  Going back; receding.
• INDENTATION
  1. The act of indenting or state of being indented. 2. A notch or recess, in the margin or border of anything; as, the indentations of a leaf, of the coast, etc. 3. A recess or sharp depression in any surface. The act of beginning a line or series
• CORNERWISE
  With the corner in front; diagonally; not square.
• CAVITY
  1. Hollowness. The cavity or hollowness of the place. Goodwin. 2. A hollow place; a hollow; as, the abdominal cavity. An instrument with a small cavity, like a small spoon. Arbuthot. Abnormal spaces or excavations are frequently formed
• PRECESSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to pression; as, the precessional movement of the equinoxes.
• THREE-CORNERED
  Having three prominent longitudinal angles; as, a three- cornered stem. (more info) 1. Having three corners, or angles; as, a three-cornered hat.
• SCORNER
  One who scorns; a despiser; a contemner; specifically, a scoffer at religion. "Great scorners of death." Spenser. Superly he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly. Prov. iii. 34.
• FOUR-CORNERED
  Having four corners or angles.
• CATER-CORNERED
  Diagonal.