Word Meanings - GRAPE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A well-known edible berry growing in pendent clusters or bunches on the grapevine. The berries are smooth-skinned, have a juicy pulp, and are cultivated in great quantities for table use and for making wine and raisins. (more info) grappe, akin
Additional info about word: GRAPE
A well-known edible berry growing in pendent clusters or bunches on the grapevine. The berries are smooth-skinned, have a juicy pulp, and are cultivated in great quantities for table use and for making wine and raisins. (more info) grappe, akin to F. grappin grapnel, hook; fr. OHG. chrapfo hook, G. krapfen, akin to E. cramp. The sense seems to have come from the idea
Related words: (words related to GRAPE)
- MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - SMOOTHEN
To make smooth. - TABLER
1. One who boards. 2. One who boards others for hire. B. Jonson. - GROWLER
The large-mouthed black bass. 3. A four-wheeled cab. (more info) 1. One who growls. - GROWL
To utter a deep guttural sound, sa an angry dog; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound. Gay. - TABLEAU VIVANT
See 2 - TABLEMAN
A man at draughts; a piece used in playing games at tables. See Table, n., 10. Bacon. - SMOOTHNESS
Quality or state of being smooth. - MAKING-IRON
A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in. - GREAT-HEARTED
1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble. - GREAT-GRANDFATHER
The father of one's grandfather or grandmother. - EDIBLENESS
Suitableness for being eaten. - CULTIVATABLE
Cultivable. - SKINNINESS
Quality of being skinny. - SMOOTH-CHINNED
Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton. - GREAT-GRANDSON
A son of one's grandson or granddaughter. - BERRYING
A seeking for or gathering of berries, esp. of such as grow wild. - GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity. - SMOOTHLY
In a smooth manner. - GROWAN
A decomposed granite, forming a mass of gravel, as in tin lodes in Cornwall. - IMPALATABLE
Unpalatable. - MOUNTABLE
Such as can be mounted. - MISINTERPRETABLE
Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood. - UNWARRANTABLE
Not warrantable; indefensible; not vindicable; not justifiable; illegal; unjust; improper. -- Un*war"rant*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*war"rant*a*bly, adv. - POSTABLE
Capable of being carried by, or as by, post. W. Montagu. - IMPREVENTABLE
Not preventable; invitable. - MANTUAMAKER
One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker. - ACCEPTABLE
Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us. - SUPPORTABLE
Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv. - INTESTABLE
Not capable of making a will; not legally qualified or competent to make a testament. Blackstone. - MARKETABLENESS
Quality of being marketable. - COUNTABLE
Capable of being numbered. - CONTRADICTABLE
Capable of being contradicting. - INEXPECTABLE
Not to be expected or anticipated. Bp. Hall.