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Word Meanings - GLOBULAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Globe-shaped; having the form of a ball or sphere; spherical, or nearly so; as, globular atoms. Milton. Globular chart, a chart of the earth's surface constructed on the principles of the globular projection. -- Globular projection , a perspective

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Globe-shaped; having the form of a ball or sphere; spherical, or nearly so; as, globular atoms. Milton. Globular chart, a chart of the earth's surface constructed on the principles of the globular projection. -- Globular projection , a perspective projection of the surface of a hemisphere upon a plane parallel to the base of the hemisphere, the point of sight being taken in the axis produced beyond the surface of the opposite hemisphere a distance equal to the radius of the sphere into the sine of 45ยบ. -- Globular sailing, sailing on the arc of a great circle, or so as to make the shortest distance between two places; circular sailing.

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  • SMOOTHEN
    To make smooth.
  • CIRCULARLY
    In a circular manner.
  • ROUNDWORM
    A nematoid worm.
  • SMOOTHNESS
    Quality or state of being smooth.
  • ROUNDISH
    Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n.
  • ROUNDABOUTNESS
    The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
  • PLUMPNESS
    The quality or state of being plump.
  • ROUNDFISH
    Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes. A lake whitefish , less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska.
  • ROUND-UP
    The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in.
  • GLOBULARLY
    Spherically.
  • CIRCULARITY
    The quality or state of being circular; a circular form.
  • COMPLETE
    Having all the parts or organs which belong to it or to the typical form; having calyx, corolla, stamens, and pistil. Syn. -- See Whole. (more info) 1. Filled up; with no part or element lacking; free from deficienty; entire; perfect; consummate.
  • SMOOTH-CHINNED
    Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton.
  • ROUNDSMAN
    A patrolman; also, a policeman who acts as an inspector over the rounds of the patrolmen.
  • SMOOTHLY
    In a smooth manner.
  • ENTIRELY
    1. In an entire manner; wholly; completely; fully; as, the trace is entirely lost. Euphrates falls not entirely into the Persian Sea. Raleigh. 2. Without alloy or mixture; truly; sincerely. To highest God entirely pray. Spenser.
  • COMPLETENESS
    The state of being complete.
  • ROUNDHEADED
    Having a round head or top.
  • ROUNDHEAD
    A nickname for a Puritan. See Roundheads, the, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction. Toone.
  • GLOBULARNESS
    Sphericity; globosity.
  • MISGROUND
    To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
  • GROUNDWORK
    That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
  • UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
    Wildcat insurance.
  • PLAYGROUND
    A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
  • GROUNDEN
    p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
  • ATMOSPHERICALLY
    In relation to the atmosphere.
  • SUBSPHERICAL
    Nearly spherical; having a figure resembling that of a sphere.
  • QUARTER ROUND
    An ovolo.
  • FOREGROUND
    On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6.

 

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