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Word Meanings - COMPETITORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Acting in competition; competing; rival.

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  • ACTURE
    Action. Shak.
  • ACTURIENCE
    Tendency or impulse to act. Acturience, or desire of action, in one form or another, whether as restlessness, ennui, dissatisfaction, or the imagination of something desirable. J. Grote.
  • RIVALESS
    A female rival. Richardson.
  • ACTINOLITE
    A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses.
  • ACTINOSTOME
    The mouth or anterior opening of a coelenterate animal.
  • ACTINARIA
    A large division of Anthozoa, including those which have simple tentacles and do not form stony corals. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to all the Anthozoa, expert the Alcyonaria, whether forming corals or not.
  • ACTUARIAL
    Of or pertaining to actuaries; as, the actuarial value of an annuity.
  • ACTUALIZE
    To make actual; to realize in action. Coleridge.
  • ACTIVITY
    The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities. "The activity of toil." Palfrey. Syn. -- Liveliness; briskness; quickness.
  • ACTUATE
    Etym: 1. To put into action or motion; to move or incite to action; to influence actively; to move as motives do; -- more commonly used of persons. Wings, which others were contriving to actuate by the perpetual motion. Johnson. Men of the greatest
  • ACTINOPHOROUS
    Having straight projecting spines.
  • 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
  • ACTUAL
    1. Involving or comprising action; active. Her walking and other actual performances. Shak. Let your holy and pious intention be actual; that is . . . by a special prayer or action, . . . given to God. Jer. Taylor. 2. Existing in act or reality;
  • ACTINOST
    One of the bones at the base of a paired fin of a fish.
  • ACTOR
    1. One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer. 2. A theatrical performer; a stageplayer. After a well graced actor leaves the stage. Shak. An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes. Jacobs. One who institutes a suit; plaintiff or
  • ACTIONABLE
    That may be the subject of an action or suit at law; as, to call a man a thief is actionable.
  • ACTINOLITIC
    Of the nature of, or containing, actinolite.
  • ACTINIA
    An animal of the class Anthozoa, and family Actinidæ. From a resemblance to flowers in form and color, they are often called animal flowers and sea anemones. . A genus in the family Actinidæ.
  • ACTINOMETER
    An instrument for measuring the direct heating power of the sun's rays. An instrument for measuring the actinic effect of rays of light.
  • ACTINOPHONIC
    Pertaining to, or causing the production of, sound by means of the actinic, or ultraviolet, rays; as, actinophonic phenomena.
  • SELF-ACTIVE
    Acting of one's self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents.
  • PHYLACTERED
    Wearing a phylactery.
  • HEMIDACTYL
    Any species of Old World geckoes of the genus Hemidactylus. The hemidactyls have dilated toes, with two rows of plates beneath.
  • CHYLIFACTIVE
    Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle.
  • INACTUATE
    To put in action.
  • CHARACTERISTIC
    Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
  • INTRACTABILITY
    The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.
  • COUNTERACTIVE
    Tending to counteract.
  • RIPPER ACT; RIPPER BILL
    An act or a bill conferring upon a chief executive, as a governor or mayor, large powers of appointment and removal of heads of departments or other subordinate officials.
  • INEXACTLY
    In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.
  • LACTOSCOPE
    An instrument for estimating the amount of cream contained in milk by ascertaining its relative opacity.
  • OLFACTOR
    A smelling organ; a nose.
  • AUTODIDACT
    One who is self-taught; an automath.
  • PACTOLIAN
    Pertaining to the Pactolus, a river in ancient Lydia famous for its golden sands.

 

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