Word Meanings - CHRONOGRAPH - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. An instrument for measuring or recording intervals of time, upon a revolving drum or strip of paper moved by clockwork. The action of the stylus or pen is controlled by electricity. 2. Same as Chronogram, 1. 3. A chronoscope.
Related words: (words related to CHRONOGRAPH)
- CHRONOGRAMMATIC; CHRONOGRAMMATICAL
Belonging to a chronogram, or containing one. - MOVER
1. A person or thing that moves, stirs, or changes place. 2. A person or thing that imparts motion, or causes change of place; a motor. 3. One who, or that which, excites, instigates, or causes movement, change, etc.; as, movers of sedition. These - STRIPPING
The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking. (more info) 1. The act of one who strips. The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive. H. Spencer. Never were cows that required - MOVELESS
Motionless; fixed. "Moveless as a tower." Pope. - INSTRUMENTAL
Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music. "He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship." Macaulay. Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental - CONTROLLABLENESS
Capability of being controlled. - REVOLVABLE
That may be revolved. - MEASURING
Used in, or adapted for, ascertaining measurements, or dividing by measure. Measuring faucet, a faucet which permits only a given quantity of liquid to pass each time it is opened, or one by means of which the liquid which passes can be measured. - MOVABLE
1. Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; susceptible of motion; not fixed or stationary; as, a movable steam engine. 2. Changing from one time to another; as, movable - ACTION
Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun. (more info) 1. A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of - MOVE
To transfer from one space or position to another, according to the rules of the game; as, to move a king. 3. To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence. Minds desirous of - STRIP-LEAF
Tobacco which has been stripped of its stalks before packing. - CONTROLLABILITY
Capability of being controlled; controllableness. - MEASURER
One who measures; one whose occupation or duty is to measure commondities in market. - REVOLVENCY
The act or state of revolving; revolution. Its own revolvency upholds the world. Cowper. - REVOLVE
1. To turn or roll round on, or as on, an axis, like a wheel; to rotate, -- which is the more specific word in this sense. If the earth revolve thus, each house pear the equator must move a thousand miles an hour. I. Watts. 2. To move in a curved - STRIPLING
A youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad. Inquire thou whose son the stripling is. 1 Sam. xvii. 56. - MOVIE
A moving picture or a moving picture show; -- commonly used in pl. - CLOCKWORK
The machinery of a clock, or machinary resembling that of a clock; machinery which produced regularity of movement. - ACTIONABLE
That may be the subject of an action or suit at law; as, to call a man a thief is actionable. - ENMOVE
See EMMOVE - UNSTRIPED
Without marks or striations; nonstriated; as, unstriped muscle fibers. (more info) 1. Not striped. - REACTIONIST
A reactionary. C. Kingsley. - PROMOVE
To move forward; to advance; to promote. Bp. Fell. - IMMEASURABLY
In an immeasurable manner or degree. "Immeasurably distant." Wordsworth. - PYROELECTRICITY
Electricity developed by means of heat; the science which treats of electricity thus developed. - MADEFACTION; MADEFICATION
The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. Bacon. - IRREMOVABLE
Not removable; immovable; inflexible. Shak. -- Ir`re*mov"a*bly, adv. - REDACTION
The act of redacting; work produced by redacting; a digest. - CHYLIFACTION
The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process. - IMMEASURED
Immeasurable. Spenser. - FACTION
One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus. 2. A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority,