Word Meanings - OBLATUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database
An oblate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its minor axis. Cf. Oblongum.
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- MINOR
Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third. Asia Minor , the Lesser Asia; that part of Asia which lies between the Euxine, or Black Sea, on the north, and the Mediterranean on the south. -- Minor mode , that mode, - ABOUT
On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info) - MINORAT
A custom or right, analogous to borough-English in England, formerly existing in various parts of Europe, and surviving in parts of Germany and Austria, by which certain entailed estates, as a homestead and adjacent land, descend to the youngest - MINORATION
A diminution. Sir T. Browne. - SPHEROIDAL
Having the form of a spheroid. -- Sphe*roid"al*ly, adv. Spheroidal state , the state of a liquid, as water, when, on being thrown on a surface of highly heated metal, it rolls about in spheroidal drops or masses, at a temperature several degrees - MINORATE
To diminish. Sir T. Browne. - OBLATENESS
The quality or state of being oblate. - MINORESS
See A - REVOLUTION
The motion of any body, as a planet or satellite, in a curved line or orbit, until it returns to the same point again, or to a point relatively the same; -- designated as the annual, anomalistic, nodical, sidereal, or tropical revolution, according - REVOLUTIONIZE
To change completely, as by a revolution; as, to revolutionize a government. Ames. The gospel . . . has revolutionized his soul. J. M. Mason. - REVOLUTIONIST
One engaged in effecting a change of government; a favorer of revolution. Burke. - DESCRIBER
One who describes. - DESCRIBENT
See GENERATRIX - OBLATE
Flattened or depressed at the poles; as, the earth is an oblate spheroid. 2. Offered up; devoted; consecrated; dedicated; -- used chiefly or only in the titles of Roman Catholic orders. See Oblate, n. Oblate ellipsoid or spheroid , a - REVOLUTIONARY
Of or pertaining to a revolution in government; tending to, or promoting, revolution; as, revolutionary war; revolutionary measures; revolutionary agitators. - DESCRIBABLE
That can be described; capable of description. - MINORITE
A Franciscan friar. - SPHEROIDIC; SPHEROIDICAL
See CHEYNE - MINORITY
1. The state of being a minor, or under age. 2. State of being less or small. Sir T. Browne. 3. The smaller number; -- opposed to Ant: majority; as, the minority must be ruled by the majority. - REVOLUTIONER
One who is engaged in effecting a revolution; a revolutionist. Smollett. - ROUNDABOUTNESS
The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness. - CONFIGURE
To arrange or dispose in a certain form, figure, or shape. Bentley. - WIDMANSTATTEN FIGURES; WIDMANSTAETTEN FIGURES
Certain figures appearing on etched meteoric iron; -- so called after A. B. Widmanstätten, of Vienna, who first described them in 1808. See the Note and Illust. under Meteorite. - ALLUMINOR
An illuminator of manuscripts and books; a limner. Cowell. - COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY; COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY
marked by opposition or antipathy to revolution; as, ostracized for his counterrevolutionary tendencies. Opposite of revolutionary. - RACEABOUT
A small sloop-rigged racing yacht carrying about six hundred square feet of sail, distinguished from a knockabout by having a short bowsprit. - NOMINOR
A nominator. Bentham. - STIRABOUT
A dish formed of oatmeal boiled in water to a certain consistency and frequently stirred, or of oatmeal and dripping mixed together and stirred about in a pan; a hasty pudding. - MISDESCRIBE
To describe wrongly. - HEMISPHEROID
A half of a spheroid.