Word Meanings - CENTROLINEAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Converging to a center; -- applied to lines drawn so as to meet in a point or center.
Related words: (words related to CENTROLINEAL)
- APPLICABLE
Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv. - APPLICATIVE
Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv. - APPLICANCY
The quality or state of being applicable. - POINT SWITCH
A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track. - POINTLESSLY
Without point. - APPLICABILITY
The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied. - POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis - POINTAL
The pistil of a plant. 2. A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages. "A pair of tablets . . . and a pointel." Chaucer. - POINTED
1. Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock. 2. Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing. His moral pleases, not his pointed wit. Pope. - APPLICATORILY
By way of application. - CENTERING
See 6 - POINT ALPHABET
An alphabet for the blind with a system of raised points corresponding to letters. - POINTSMAN
A man who has charge of railroad points or switches. - DRAWN
See PATTERN - POINTLESS
Having no point; blunt; wanting keenness; obtuse; as, a pointless sword; a pointless remark. Syn. -- Blunt; obtuse, dull; stupid. - CENTERBIT; CENTREBIT
An instrument turning on a center, for boring holes. See Bit, n., 3. - CENTERBOARD; CENTREBOARD
A movable or sliding keel formed of a broad board or slab of wood or metal which may be raised into a water-tight case amidships, when in shallow water, or may be lowered to increase the area of lateral resistance and prevent leeway when the vessel - CONVERGING
Tending to one point; approaching each other; convergent; as, converging lines. Whewell. Converging rays , rays of light, which, proceeding from different points of an object, tend toward a single point. -- Converging series , a series in which - POINTLETED
Having a small, distinct point; apiculate. Henslow. - POINT D'APPUI
See APPUI - CONCENTER; CONCENTRE
To come to one point; to meet in, or converge toward, a common center; to have a common center. God, in whom all perfections concenter. Bp. Beveridge. - CHURCHLINESS
Regard for the church. - FRIENDLINESS
The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney. - LORDLINESS
The state or quality of being lordly. Shak. - UNAPPLIABLE
Inapplicable. Milton. - STEELINESS
The quality of being steely. - COVER-POINT
The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point." - CHILLINESS
1. A state or sensation of being chilly; a disagreeable sensation of coldness. 2. A moderate degree of coldness; disagreeable coldness or rawness; as, the chilliness of the air. 3. Formality; lack of warmth. - REAPPLICATION
The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied. - SOUTHERNLINESS
Southerliness. - MELANCHOLINESS
The state or quality of being melancholy. Hallywell. - DEATHLINESS
The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey. - KINGLINESS
The state or quality of being kingly. - BEASTLINESS
The state or quality of being beastly. - SELF-CENTERING; SELF-CENTRING
Centering in one's self. - BRISTLINESS
The quality or state of having bristles.