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Word Meanings - DISSECTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Cut deeply into many lobes or divisions; as, a dissected leaf. (more info) 1. Cut into several parts; divided into sections; as, a dissected map.

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  • DIVIDER
    An instrument for dividing lines, describing circles, etc., compasses. See Compasses. Note: The word dividers is usually applied to the instrument as made for the use of draughtsmen, etc.; compasses to the coarser instrument used by carpenters.
  • DIVIDEND
    A number or quantity which is to be divided. (more info) 1. A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated
  • DISSECT
    To divide into separate parts; to cut in pieces; to separate and expose the parts of, as an animal or a plant, for examination and to show their structure and relations; to anatomize. 2. To analyze, for the purposes of science or criticism;
  • DIVIDUOUS
    Divided; dividual. He so often substantiates distinctions into dividuous, selfsubsistent. Coleridge.
  • DIVIDEDLY
    Separately; in a divided manner.
  • DIVIDINGLY
    By division.
  • SEVERALITY
    Each particular taken singly; distinction. Bp. Hall.
  • SEVERALLY
    Separately; distinctly; apart from others; individually. There must be an auditor to check and revise each severally by itself. De Quincey.
  • DIVIDED
    Cut into distinct parts, by incisions which reach the midrib; - - said of a leaf. (more info) 1. Parted; disunited; distributed.
  • SEVERAL
    1. Separate; distinct; particular; single. Each several ship a victory did gain. Dryden. Each might his several province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand. Pope. 2. Diverse; different; various. Spenser. Habits and faculties,
  • DIVIDUALLY
    By dividing.
  • DIVIDUAL
    Divided, shared, or participated in, in common with others. Milton.
  • DIVIDANT
    Different; distinct. Shak.
  • SEVERALTY
    A state of separation from the rest, or from all others; a holding by individual right. Forests which had never been owned in severalty. Bancroft. Estate in severalty , an estate which the tenant holds in his own right, without being joined in
  • DISSECTING
    1. Dividing or separating the parts of an animal or vegetable body; as, a dissecting aneurism, one which makes its way between or within the coats of an artery. 2. Of or pertaining to, or received during, a dissection; as, a dissecting wound. 3.
  • DISSECTION
    1. The act of dissecting an animal or plant; as, dissection of the human body was held sacrilege till the time of Francis I. 2. Fig.: The act of separating or dividing for the purpose of critical examination. 3. Anything dissected; especially,
  • DIVIDING
    That divides; separating; marking divisions; graduating. Dividing engine, a machine for graduating circles (as for astronomical instruments) or bars ; also, for spacing off and cutting teeth in wheels. -- Dividing sinker. . See under Sinker.
  • DIVIDE
    To subject to arithmetical division. (more info) cf. Skr. vyadh to pierce; perh. akin to L. vidua widow, and E. widow. 1. To part asunder ; to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts. Divide the living child in
  • DEEPLY
    1. At or to a great depth; far below the surface; as, to sink deeply. 2. Profoundly; thoroughly; not superficially; in a high degree; intensely; as, deeply skilled in ethics. He had deeply offended both his nobles and people. Bacon. He
  • DISSECTIBLE
    Capable of being dissected, or separated by dissection. Paley.
  • SUBINDIVIDUAL
    A division of that which is individual. An individual can not branch itself into subindividuals. Milton.
  • INDIVIDUALIZER
    One who individualizes.
  • SUBDIVIDE
    To divide the parts of into more parts; to part into smaller divisions; to divide again, as what has already been divided. The progenies of Cham and Japhet swarmed into colonies, and those colonies were subdivided into many others. Dryden.
  • REDIVIDE
    To divide anew.
  • UNDIVIDUAL
    Indivisible. True courage and courtesy are undividual companions. Fuller.
  • MISDIVIDE
    To divide wrongly.
  • INDIVIDUATE
    Undivided.
  • INDIVIDUATOR
    One who, or that which, individuates. Sir K. Digby.
  • INDIVIDABLE
    Indivisible. Shak.

 

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