Word Meanings - CRETAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to Crete, or Candia. -- n.

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• CRETE
  A Cretan
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• CONCRETE
  grow together; con- + crescere to grow; cf. F. concret. See 1. United in growth; hence, formed by coalition of separate particles into one mass; united in a solid form. The first concrete state, or consistent surface, of the chaos must be of the
• SECRETE
  To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion. Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not known. Carpenter. Syn. -- To conceal; hide. See
• INCONCRETE
  Not concrete. L. Andrews.
• INDISCRETE
  1. Indiscreet. Boyle. 2. Not discrete or separated; compact; homogenous. An indiscrete mass of confused matter. Pownall.
• DISCRETE
  Separate; not coalescent; -- said of things usually coalescent. Discrete movement. See Concrete movement of the voice, under Concrete, a. -- Discrete proportion, proportion where the ratio of the means is different from that of either couplet; as,
• CONCRETELY
  In a concrete manner.
• REENFORCED CONCRETE
  Concrete having within its mass a system of strengthening iron or steel supports. = Ferro-concrete.
• FERRO-CONCRETE
  Concrete strengthened by a core or foundation skeleton of iron or steel bars, strips, etc. Floors, columns, piles, water pipes, etc., have been successfully made of it. Called also armored concrete steel, and reënforced concrete.
• DECRETE
  A decree. Chaucer.
• ACCRETE
  1. To grow together. 2. To adhere; to grow ; to be added; -- with to.
• EXCRETE
  To separate and throw off; to excrete urine. "The mucus thus excreted." Hooper.
• SCANDIA
  A chemical earth, the oxide of scandium.
• DISCRETELY
  Separately; disjunctively.
• CONCRETENESS
  The quality of being concrete.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach