Word Meanings - INADEQUATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Want of exact correspondence. Puller.

Related words: (words related to INADEQUATION)

• EXACTOR
  One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands. Jer. Taylor.
• EXACTING
  Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe. "A temper so exacting." T. Arnold -- Ex*act"ing*ly, adv. -- Ex*act"ing*ness, n.
• EXACTLY
  In an exact manner; precisely according to a rule, standard, or fact; accurately; strictly; correctly; nicely. "Exactly wrought." Shak. His enemies were pleased, for he had acted exactly as their interests required. Bancroft.
• CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL
  A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the
• EXACTION
  1. The act of demanding with authority, and compelling to pay or yield; compulsion to give or furnish; a levying by force; a driving to compliance; as, the exaction to tribute or of obedience; hence, extortion. Take away your exactions from my
• EXACT
  drive out, to demand, enforce, finish, determine, measure; ex out + 1. Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; precise; as, the clock keeps
• EXACTRESS
  A woman who is an exactor. B. Jonson.
• PULLER
  One who, or that which, pulls. Proud setter up and puller down of kings. Shak.
• EXACTITUDE
  The quality of being exact; exactness.
• EXACTNESS
  1. The condition of being exact; accuracy; nicety; precision; regularity; as, exactness of jurgement or deportment. 2. Careful observance of method and conformity to truth; as, exactness in accounts or business. He had . . . that sort of exactness
• CORRESPONDENCE
  1. Friendly intercourse; reciprocal exchange of civilities; especially, intercourse between persons by means of letters. Holding also good correspondence with the other great men in the state. Bacon. To facilitate correspondence between one part
• EXACTER
  An exactor.
• INCORRESPONDENCE; INCORRESPONDENCY
  Want of correspondence; disagreement; disproportion.
• INEXACTLY
  In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.
• INEXACT
  Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate.
• WIRE-PULLER
  One who pulls the wires, as of a puppet; hence, one who operates by secret means; an intriguer. Political wire-pullers and convention packers. Lowell.
• HEXACTINELLID
  Having six-rayed spicules; belonging to the Hexactinellinæ.
• HEXACTINELLINE
  Belonging to the Hexactinellinæ, a group of sponges, having six-rayed siliceous spicules.
• UNDERPULLER
  One who underpulls.
• SPULLER
  One employed to inspect yarn, to see that it is well spun, and fit for the loom.
• INEXACTNESS
  Incorrectness; want of exactness.
• HEXACTINIA
  The Anthozoa.