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Word Meanings - DENOMINATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of naming or designating. 2. That by which anything is denominated or styled; an epithet; a name, designation, or title; especially, a general name indicating a class of like individuals; a category; as, the denomination of units, or

Additional info about word: DENOMINATION

1. The act of naming or designating. 2. That by which anything is denominated or styled; an epithet; a name, designation, or title; especially, a general name indicating a class of like individuals; a category; as, the denomination of units, or of thousands, or of fourths, or of shillings, or of tons. Those which are classed under the denomination of sublime. Burke. 3. A class, or society of individuals, called by the same name; a sect; as, a denomination of Christians. Syn. -- Name; appellation; title. See Name.

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  • HEADSTALL
    That part of a bridle or halter which encompasses the head. Shak.
  • TITLELESS
    Not having a title or name; without legitimate title. "A titleless tyrant." Chaucer.
  • HEADING
    A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift. (more info) 1. The act or state of one who, or that which, heads; formation of a head. 2. That which stands at the head; title; as, the heading of
  • COGNOMEN
    A surname. (more info) 1. The last of the three names of a person among the ancient Romans, denoting his house or family.
  • SUGGESTER
    One who suggests. Beau. & Fl.
  • TITLED
    Having or bearing a title.
  • HEADLAND
    1. A cape; a promontory; a point of land projecting into the sea or other expanse of water. "Sow the headland with wheat." Shak. 2. A ridge or strip of unplowed at the ends of furrows, or near a fence. Tusser.
  • SUGGEST
    1. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects. Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. Locke. 2. To propose with difference or modesty;
  • SHADOWY
    1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak. 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow. 3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. The moon
  • ASSOCIATION
    1. The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things. "Some . . . bond of association." Hooker. Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God. Boyle. 2. Mental connection, or that which is
  • HEADNOTE
    A note at the head of a page or chapter; in law reports, an abstract of a case, showing the principles involved and the opinion of the court.
  • TITLER
    A large truncated cone of refined sugar.
  • PATRONYMIC
    Derived from ancestors; as, a patronymic denomination.
  • ASSOCIATIONIST
    One who explains the higher functions and relations of the soul by the association of ideas; e. g., Hartley, J. C. Mill.
  • HEADFISH
    The sunfish .
  • STYLET
    A small poniard; a stiletto. An instrument for examining wounds and fistulas, and for passing setons, and the like; a probe, -- called also specillum. A stiff wire, inserted in catheters or other tubular instruments to maintain their shape
  • SUGGESTRESS
    A woman who suggests. "The suggestress of suicides." De Quincey.
  • UNIONISTIC
    Of or pertaining to union or unionists; tending to promote or preserve union.
  • SUGGESTION
    Information without oath; an entry of a material fact or circumstance on the record for the information of the court, at the death or insolvency of a party. (more info) 1. The act of suggesting; presentation of an idea. 2. That which is suggested;
  • HEADSTRONG
    1. Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn. Not let headstrong boy my will control. Dryden. 2. Directed by ungovernable will, or proceeding from obstinacy. Dryden. Syn. -- Violent; obstinate; ungovernable; unratable; stubborn;
  • FORESHADOW
    To shadow or typi Dryden.
  • BEASTLIHEAD
    Beastliness. Spenser.
  • THORN-HEADED
    Having a head armed with thorns or spines. Thorn-headed worm , any worm of the order Acanthocephala; -- called also thornhead.
  • DALLIANCE
    1. The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play. Look thou be true, do not give dalliance Too mnch the rein. Shak. O, the dalliance and the wit, The flattery and the strifeTennyson. 2. Delay or procrastination.
  • PRELUDE
    An introductory performance, preceding and preparing for the principal matter; a preliminary part, movement, strain, etc.; especially , a strain introducing the theme or chief subject; a movement introductory to a fugue, yet independent; -- with
  • INTERCOMMUNION
    Mutual communion; as, an intercommunion of deities. Faber.
  • TORSION HEAD
    That part of a torsion balance from which the wire or filament is suspended.
  • ADDLE-BRAIN; ADDLE-HEAD; ADDLE-PATE
    A foolish or dull-witted fellow.
  • ARAEOSTYLE
    See INTERCOLUMNIATION
  • BULLHEAD
    A small black water insect. E. Phillips. Bullhead whiting , the kingfish of Florida . (more info) A fresh-water fish of many species, of the genus Uranidea, esp. U. gobio of Europe, and U. Richardsoni of the United States; -- called also miller's
  • CYCLOSTYLE
    A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred
  • REALLIANCE
    A renewed alliance.
  • DUNDERHEAD
    A dunce; a numskull; a blockhead. Beau. & Fl.
  • STEELHEAD
    A North Pacific salmon found from Northern California to Siberia; -- called also hardhead, and preesil.

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