Word Meanings - INRUSH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A rush inwards; as, the inrush of the tide. G. Eliot.

Related words: (words related to INRUSH)

• INRUSH
  A rush inwards; as, the inrush of the tide. G. Eliot.
• INWARDS
  See INWARD
• INWARD; INWARDS
  1. Toward the inside; toward the center or interior; as, to bend a thing inward. 2. Into, or toward, the mind or thoughts; inwardly; as, to turn the attention inward. So much the rather, thou Celestial Light, Shine inward. Milton.
• HELIOTROPE
  An instrument or machine for showing when the sun arrived at the tropics and equinoctial line.
• HELIOTROPIC
  Manifesting heliotropism; turning toward the sun.
• APHELIOTROPIC
  Turning away from the sun; -- said of leaves, etc. Darwin.
• HELIOTROPISM
  The phenomenon of turning toward the light, seen in many leaves and flowers.
• HELIOTYPIC
  Relating to, or obtained by, heliotypy.
• HELIOTYPY
  A method of transferring pictures from photographic negatives to hardened gelatin plates from which impressions are produced on paper as by lithography.
• HELIOTYPE
  A picture obtained by the process of heliotypy.
• APHELIOTROPISM
  The habit of bending from the sunlight; -- said of certain plants.
• DIAHELIOTROPISM
  A tendency of leaves or other organs of plants to have their dorsal surface faced towards the rays of light.
• DIAHELIOTROPIC
  Relating or, or manifesting, diaheliotropism.
• HELIOTROPER
  The person at a geodetic station who has charge of the heliotrope.