Word Meanings - FLOATER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. One who floats or swims. 2. A float for indicating the height of a liquid surface.
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- SURFACE LOADING
The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface. - FLOATATION
See FLOTATION - LIQUIDATION
The act or process of liquidating; the state of being liquidated. To go into liquidation , to turn over to a trustee one's assets and accounts, in order that the several amounts of one's indebtedness be authoritatively ascertained, and that the - INDICATOR
A pressure gauge; a water gauge, as for a steam boiler; an apparatus or instrument for showing the working of a machine or moving part; as: An instrument which draws a diagram showing the varying pressure in the cylinder of an engine or pump at - INDICATIVELY
In an indicative manner; in a way to show or signify. - LIQUIDIZE
To render liquid. - FLOATABLE
That may be floated. - SURFACE TENSION
That property, due to molecular forces, which exists in the surface film of all liquids and tends to bring the contained volume into a form having the least superficial area. The thickness of this film, amounting to less than a thousandth - LIQUIDLY
In a liquid manner; flowingly. - LIQUIDATOR
1. One who, or that which, liquidates. 2. An officer appointed to conduct the winding up of a company, to bring and defend actions and suits in its name, and to do all necessary acts on behalf of the company. Mozley & W. - FLOATY
Swimming on the surface; buoyant; light. Sir W. Raleigh. - FLOATINGLY
In a floating manner. - INDICATED
Shown; denoted; registered; measured. Indicated power. See Indicated horse power, under Horse power. - FLOATAGE
See FLOTAGE - HEIGHT
AS. heáh, fr. heah high; akin to D. hoogte, Sw. höjd, Dan. höide, 1. The condition of being high; elevated position. Behold the height of the stars, how high they are! Job xxii. 12. 2. The distance to which anything rises above its foot, above - LIQUIDAMBER
See LIQUIDAMBAR - INDICATORY
Serving to show or make known; showing; indicative; signifying; implying. - LIQUIDNESS
The quality or state of being liquid; liquidity; fluency. - HEIGHTEN
1. To make high; to raise higher; to elevate. 2. To carry forward; to advance; to increase; to augment; to aggravate; to intensify; to render more conspicuous; -- used of things, good or bad; as, to heighten beauty; to heighten a flavor or a tint. - LIQUIDAMBAR
A genus consisting of two species of tall trees having star- shaped leaves, and woody burlike fruit. Liquidambar styraciflua is the North American sweet qum, and L. Orientalis is found in Asia Minor. 2. The balsamic juice which is obtained from - COINDICATION
One of several signs or sumptoms indicating the same fact; as, a coindication of disease. - UNLIQUIDATED
Not liquidated; not exactly ascertained; not adjusted or settled. Unliquidated damages , penalties or damages not ascertained in money. Burrill. - TORSION INDICATOR
An autographic torsion meter. - REFLOAT
Reflux; ebb. Bacon. - VINDICATION
The claiming a thing as one's own; the asserting of a right or title in, or to, a thing. Burrill. (more info) 1. The act of vindicating, or the state of being vindicated; defense; justification against denial or censure; as, the vindication of - DOUBLE-SURFACED
Having two surfaces; -- said specif. of aëroplane wings or aërocurves which are covered on both sides with fabric, etc., thus completely inclosing their frames. - VINDICATOR
One who vindicates; one who justifies or maintains. Locke. - CONTRAINDICATE
To indicate, as by a symptom, some method of treatment contrary to that which the general tenor of the case would seem to require. Contraindicating symptoms must be observed. Harvey. - VINDICATE
1. To lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim. Is thine alone the seed that strews the plain The birds of heaven shall vindicate their grain. Pope. 2. To maintain or defend with success; to prove to be valid; to assert convincingly; to sustain - AFLOAT
1. Borne on the water; floating; on board ship. On such a full sea are we now afloat. Shak. 2. Moving; passing from place to place; in general circulation; as, a rumor is afloat. 3. Unfixed; moving without guide or control; adrift; as, our affairs - SEMILIQUIDITY
The quality or state of being semiliquid; partial liquidity.