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Word Meanings - DISTAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Remote from the point of attachment or origin; as, the distal end of a bone or muscle; -- opposed to proximal. Pertaining to that which is distal; as, the distal tuberosities of a bone.

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  • OPPOSABILITY
    The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace.
  • OPPOSITIONIST
    One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.
  • POINT SWITCH
    A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.
  • POINTLESSLY
    Without point.
  • POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
    Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis
  • ORIGINABLE
    Capable of being originated.
  • POINTAL
    The pistil of a plant. 2. A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages. "A pair of tablets . . . and a pointel." Chaucer.
  • POINTED
    1. Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock. 2. Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing. His moral pleases, not his pointed wit. Pope.
  • OPPOSITIVE
    Capable of being put in opposition. Bp. Hall.
  • OPPOSELESS
    Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak.
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • ORIGINATION
    1. The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production. "The origination of the universe." Keill. What comes from spirit is a spontaneous origination. Hickok. 2. Mode of production, or bringing into being. This eruca
  • ORIGINANT
    Originating; original. An absolutely originant act of self will. Prof. Shedd.
  • POINT ALPHABET
    An alphabet for the blind with a system of raised points corresponding to letters.
  • ORIGINATOR
    One who originates.
  • POINTSMAN
    A man who has charge of railroad points or switches.
  • OPPOSITIFOLIOUS
    Placed at the same node with a leaf, but separated from it by the whole diameter of the stem; as, an oppositifolious peduncle.
  • POINTLESS
    Having no point; blunt; wanting keenness; obtuse; as, a pointless sword; a pointless remark. Syn. -- Blunt; obtuse, dull; stupid.
  • PROXIMALLY
    On or toward a proximal part; proximad.
  • WHICH
    the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
  • ABORIGINALLY
    Primarily.
  • COVER-POINT
    The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
  • TROIS POINT
    The third point from the outer edge on each player's home table.
  • REAPPOINT
    To appoint again.
  • POSTREMOTE
    More remote in subsequent time or order.
  • STANDPOINT
    A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.
  • INTERPOINT
    To point; to mark with stops or pauses; to punctuate. Her sighs should interpoint her words. Daniel.
  • PREREMOTE
    More remote in previous time or prior order. In some cases two more links of causation may be introduced; one of them may be termed the preremote cause, the other the postremote effect. E. Darwin.
  • REATTACHMENT
    The act of reattaching; a second attachment.
  • PREAPPOINTMENT
    Previous appointment.

 

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