Word Meanings - IMPLICATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. The act of implicating, or the state of being implicated. Three principal causes of firmness are. the grossness, the quiet contact, and the implication of component parts. Boyle. 2. An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an
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1. The act of implicating, or the state of being implicated. Three principal causes of firmness are. the grossness, the quiet contact, and the implication of component parts. Boyle. 2. An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference, or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words. Whatever things, therefore, it was asserted that the king might do, it was a necessary implication that there were other things which he could not do. Hallam.
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- CONTORTION
A twisting; a writhing; wry motion; a twist; as, the contortion of the muscles of the face. Swift. All the contortions of the sibyl, without the inspiration. Burke. - SPIRAL
Of or pertaining to a spiral; like a spiral. Spiral gear, or Spiral wheel , a gear resembling in general a spur gear, but having its teeth cut at an angle with its axis, or so that they form small portions of screws or spirals. -- Spiral gearing, - SPIRALITY
The quality or states of being spiral. - TWISTING
a. & n. from Twist. Twisting pair. See under Pair, n., 7. - MINGLEABLE
That can be mingled. Boyle. - COMPLICATION
A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it. (more info) 1. The act or process of complicating; the state of being complicated; intricate - MINGLEMENT
The act of mingling, or the state of being mixed. - INVOLUTION
The insertion of one or more clauses between the subject and the verb, in a way that involves or complicates the construction. (more info) 1. The act of involving or infolding. 2. The state of being entangled or involved; complication; - ENTANGLEMENT
State of being entangled; intricate and confused involution; that which entangles; intricacy; perplexity. - TWISTER
A girder. Craig. (more info) 1. One who twists; specifically, the person whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving. 2. The instrument used in twisting, or making twists. He, twirling his twister, - MINGLE-MANGLE
To mix in a disorderly way; to make a mess of. Udall. - IMPLICATION
1. The act of implicating, or the state of being implicated. Three principal causes of firmness are. the grossness, the quiet contact, and the implication of component parts. Boyle. 2. An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an - CONVOLUTION
An irregular, tortuous folding of an organ or part; as, the convolutions of the intestines; the cerebral convolutions. See Brain. (more info) 1. The act of rolling anything upon itself, or one thing upon another; a winding motion. O'er the calm - SPIRALOZOOID
One of the special defensive zooids of certain hydroids. They have the form of long, slender tentacles, and bear lasso cells. - TWIST
twi- two; akin to D. twist a quarrel, dissension, G. zwist, Dan. & Sw. tvist, Icel. twistr the deuce in cards, tvistr distressed. See 1. To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve. Twist it into a serpentine form. Pope. - MINGLE
1. To mix; intermix; to combine or join, as an individual or part, with other parts, but commonly so as to be distinguishable in the product; to confuse; to confound. There was... fire mingled with the hail. Ex. ix. 24. 2. To associate or unite - MINGLINGLY
In a mingling manner. - SPIRALLY
In a spiral form, manner, or direction. - TWISTED
Contorted; crooked spirally; subjected to torsion; hence, perverted. Twisted curve , a curve of double curvature. See Plane curve, under Curve. -- Twisted surface , a surface described by a straight line moving according to any law whatever, yet - MUSCULOSPIRAL
Of or pertaining to the muscles, and taking a spiral course; -- applied esp. to a large nerve of the arm. - BEMINGLE
To mingle; to mix. - INTERMINGLE
To mingle or mix together; to intermix. Hooker. - INTERTWIST
To twist together one with another; to intertwine. - UNTWIST
1. To separate and open, as twisted threads; to turn back, as that which is twisted; to untwine. If one of the twines of the twist do untwist, The twine that untwisteth, untwisteth the twist. Wallis. 2. To untie; to open; to disentangle. Milton. - CONCHO-SPIRAL
A kind of spiral curve found in certain univalve shells. Agassiz. - CONSUMINGLY
In a consuming manner. - SUSPIRAL
1. A breathing hole; a vent or ventiduct. 2. A spring of water passing under ground toward a cistern or conduit. - TRIMMINGLY
In a trimming manner. - FOAMINGLY
With foam; frothily. - FUMINGLY
In a fuming manner; angrily. "They answer fumingly." Hooker.