Word Meanings - INTERRUPTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Irregular; -- said of any arrangement whose symmetry is destroyed by local causes, as when leaflets are interposed among the leaves in a pinnate leaf. (more info) 1. Broken; intermitted; suddenly stopped.

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• WHOSESOEVER
  The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
• STOPPING
  A partition or door to direct or prevent a current of air. (more info) 1. Material for filling a cavity.
• IRREGULARITY
  The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.
• BROKEN WIND
  The heaves.
• BROKEN BREAST
  Abscess of the mammary gland.
• STOPPAGE
  The act of stopping, or arresting progress, motion, or action; also, the state of being stopped; as, the stoppage of the circulation of the blood; the stoppage of commerce.
• DESTROYABLE
  Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.
• BROKEN
  1. Separated into parts or pieces by violence; divided into fragments; as, a broken chain or rope; a broken dish. 2. Disconnected; not continuous; also, rough; uneven; as, a broken surface. 3. Fractured; cracked; disunited; sundered; strained;
• INTERPOSER
  One who, or that which, interposes or intervenes; an obstacle or interruption; a mediator or agent between parties. Shak.
• PINNATELY
  In a pinnate manner.
• INTERPOSURE
  Interposition.
• INTERPOSITION
  insertion, fr. interponere, interpositum: cf. F. interposition. See 1. The act of interposing, or the state of being interposed; a being, placing, or coming between; mediation. 2. The thing interposed.
• BROKEN-WINDED
  Having short breath or disordered respiration, as a horse.
• LOCALIZE
  To make local; to fix in, or assign to, a definite place. H. Spencer. Wordsworth.
• INTERMITTENTLY
  With intermissions; in an intermittent manner; intermittingly.
• LOCALLY
  With respect to place; in place; as, to be locally separated or distant.
• LOCAL
  A train which receives and deposits passengers or freight along the line of the road; a train for the accommodation of a certain district. 2. On newspaper cant, an item of news relating to the place where the paper is published.
• STOPPER
  A short piece of rope having a knot at one or both ends, with a lanyard under the knot, -- used to secure something. Totten. (more info) 1. One who stops, closes, shuts, or hinders; that which stops or obstructs; that which closes or fills a vent
• LOCALITY
  The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places. (more info) 1. The state, or condition, of belonging to a definite place, or of being contained within definite limits. It is thought that the soul
• LOCALIZATION
  Act of localizing, or state of being localized. Cerebral localization , the localization of the control of special functions, as of sight or of the various movements of the body, in special regions of the brain.
• SELF-DESTROYER
  One who destroys himself; a suicide.
• ASYMMETRY
  Incommensurability. Barrow. (more info) 1. Want of symmetry, or proportion between the parts of a thing, esp. want of bilateral symmetry.
• PARIPINNATE
  Pinnate with an equal number of leaflets on each side; having no odd leaflet at the end.
• HEARTBROKEN
  Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved.
• MISARRANGEMENT
  Wrong arrangement.
• IMPARIPINNATE
  Pinnate with a single terminal leaflet.
• TORPEDO-BOAT DESTROYER
  A larger, swifter, and more powerful armed type of torpedo boat, originally intended principally for the destruction of torpedo boats, but later used also as a more formidable torpedo boat.
• PARKLEAVES
  A European species of Saint John's-wort; the tutsan. See Tutsan.
• DISSYMMETRY
  Absence or defect of symmetry; asymmetry.