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Word Meanings - MACERATER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who, or that which, macerates; an apparatus for converting paper or fibrous matter into pulp.

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  • CONVERTIBILITY
    The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness. The mutual convertibility of land into money, and of money into land. Burke.
  • CONVERTIBLY
    In a convertible manner.
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • WHICH
    the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
  • CONVERTIBLE
    1. Capable of being converted; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable. Minerals are not convertible into another species, though of the same genus. Harvey. 2. Capable of being exchanged or interchanged; reciprocal; interchangeable.
  • CONVERTEND
    Any proposition which is subject to the process of conversion; -- so called in its relation to itself as converted, after which process it is termed the conversae. See Converse, n. .
  • MATTERLESS
    1. Not being, or having, matter; as, matterless spirits. Davies 2. Unimportant; immaterial.
  • PAPERY
    Like paper; having the thinness or consistence of paper. Gray.
  • FIBROUS
    Containing, or consisting of, fibers; as, the fibrous coat of the cocoanut; the fibrous roots of grasses. -- Fi"brous*ness, n.
  • MATTER-OF-FACT
    Adhering to facts; not turning aside from absolute realities; not fanciful or imaginative; commonplace; dry.
  • CONVERTIBLENESS
    The state of being convertible; convertibility.
  • CONVERTER
    A retort, used in the Bessemer process, in which molten cast iron is decarburized and converted into steel by a blast of air forced through the liquid metal. (more info) 1. One who converts; one who makes converts.
  • MATTERY
    1. Generating or containing pus; purulent. 2. Full of substance or matter; important. B. Jonson.
  • CONVERT
    To change into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second. 8. To turn into another language; to translate. Which story . . . Catullus more elegantly converted. B. Jonson. Converted guns, cast-iron guns
  • PAPER
    1. A substance in the form of thin sheets or leaves intended to be written or printed on, or to be used in wrapping. It is made of rags, straw, bark, wood, or other fibrous material, which is first reduced to pulp, then molded, pressed, and dried.
  • APPARATUS
    A collection of organs all of which unite in a common function; as, the respiratory apparatus. (more info) 1. Things provided as means to some end. 2. Hence: A full collection or set of implements, or utensils, for a given duty, experimental or
  • MATTER
    That which is permanent, or is supposed to be given, and in or upon which changes are effected by psychological or physical processes and relations; -- opposed to form. Mansel. (more info) 1. That of which anything is composed; constituent
  • CONVERTITE
    A convert. Shak.
  • PAPERWEIGHT
    See N
  • INCONVERTED
    Not turned or changed about. Sir T. Browne.
  • RECONVERTIBLE
    Capable of being reconverted; convertible again to the original form or condition.
  • UNCONVERTED
    1. Not converted or exchanged. 2. Not changed in opinion, or from one faith to another. Specifically: -- Not persuaded of the truth of the Christian religion; heathenish. Hooker. Unregenerate; sinful; impenitent. Baxter.
  • PHASE CONVERTER
    A machine for converting an alternating current into an alternating current of a different number of phases and the same frequency.
  • INCONVERTIBLE
    Not convertible; not capable of being transmuted, changed into, or exchanged for, something else; as, one metal is inconvertible into another; bank notes are sometimes inconvertible into specie. Walsh.
  • CARBORUNDUM CLOTH; CARBORUNDUM PAPER
    Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum.
  • BROMIDE PAPER; BROMID PAPER
    A sensitized paper coated with gelatin impregnated with bromide of silver, used in contact printing and in enlarging.
  • CAPPAPER
    See N
  • INTERCONVERTIBLE
    Convertible the one into the other; as, coin and bank notes are interconvertible.
  • INCONVERTIBLENESS
    Inconvertibility.
  • INCONVERTIBLY
    In an inconvertible manner.
  • BLOTTING PAPER
    A kind of thick, bibulous, unsized paper, used to absorb superfluous ink from freshly written manuscript, and thus prevent blots.
  • NOTE PAPER
    Writing paper, not exceeding in size, when folded once, five by eight inches.
  • SUBFIBROUS
    Somewhat fibrous.
  • CASSE PAPER
    Broken paper; the outside quires of a ream.
  • SMATTERER
    One who has only a slight, superficial knowledge; a sciolist.

 

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