Word Meanings - NOZZLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The nose; the snout; hence, the projecting vent of anything; as, the nozzle of a bellows. 2. Specifically: A short tube, usually tapering, forming the vent of a hose or pipe. A short outlet, or inlet, pipe projecting from the end or side of

Additional info about word: NOZZLE

1. The nose; the snout; hence, the projecting vent of anything; as, the nozzle of a bellows. 2. Specifically: A short tube, usually tapering, forming the vent of a hose or pipe. A short outlet, or inlet, pipe projecting from the end or side of a hollow vessel, as a steam-engine cylinder or a steam boiler.

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• FORMALITY
  The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while
• SNOUTY
  Resembling a beast's snout. The nose was ugly, long, and big, Broad and snouty like a pig. Otway.
• PROJECTION
  The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction
• FORMICARY
  The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill.
• TAPERED
  Lighted with a taper or tapers; as, a tapered choir. T. Warton.
• FORMULIZE
  To reduce to a formula; to formulate. Emerson.
• PROJECTMENT
  Design; contrivance; projection. Clarendon.
• SHORT-WITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• FORMICAROID
  Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridæ or ant thrushes.
• FORMIDABLY
  In a formidable manner.
• SHORT CIRCUIT
  A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
• FORMICATE
  Resembling, or pertaining to, an ant or ants.
• FORME
  See PATTé
• SHORT-HANDED
  Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
• SHORTHEAD
  A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors.
• FORMEDON
  A writ of right for a tenant in tail in case of a discontinuance of the estate tail. This writ has been abolished.
• FORMAT
  The shape and size of a book; hence, its external form. The older manuscripts had been written in a much larger format than that found convenient for university work. G. H. Putnam. One might, indeed, protest that the format is a little
• FORMYL
  A univalent radical, H.C:O, regarded as the essential residue of formic acid and aldehyde. Formerly, the radical methyl, CH3.
• OMNIFORMITY
  The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More.
• FALCIFORM
  Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver.
• INFORMITY
  Want of regular form; shapelessness.
• DEFORMER
  One who deforms.
• DIVERSIFORM
  Of a different form; of varied forms.
• VARIFORM
  Having different shapes or forms.
• PREFORM
  To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak.
• RESINIFORM
  Having the form of resin.
• VILLIFORM
  Having the form or appearance of villi; like close-set fibers, either hard or soft; as, the teeth of perch are villiform.
• BIFORM
  Having two forms, bodies, or shapes. Croxall.
• REFORMALIZE
  To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
• FULL-FORMED
  Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh. The full-formed maids of Afric. Thomson.
• SCORIFORM
  In the form of scoria.
• PENNIFORM
  Having the form of a feather or plume.
• MALCONFORMATION
  Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts.
• REFORMATIVE
  Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good.
• DENDRIFORM
  Resembling in structure a tree or shrub.