Word Meanings - PLANE-PARALLEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having opposite surfaces exactly plane and parallel, as a piece of glass.

Related words: (words related to PLANE-PARALLEL)

• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• PLANE TREE
  See PLANE
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• GLASSEN
  Glassy; glazed. And pursues the dice with glassen eyes. B. Jonson.
• EXACTLY
  In an exact manner; precisely according to a rule, standard, or fact; accurately; strictly; correctly; nicely. "Exactly wrought." Shak. His enemies were pleased, for he had acted exactly as their interests required. Bancroft.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• GLASSINESS
  The quality of being glassy.
• PIECER
  1. One who pieces; a patcher. 2. A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
• GLASSWORT
  A seashore plant of the Spinach family , with succulent jointed stems; also, a prickly plant of the same family , both formerly burned for the sake of the ashes, which yield soda for making glass and soap.
• GLASS-ROPE
  A remarkable vitreous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, first brought from Japan. It has a long stem, consisting of a bundle of long and large, glassy, siliceous fibers, twisted together.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• PLANETULE
  A little planet. Conybeare.
• GLASSILY
  So as to resemble glass.
• PARALLELOGRAMMIC; PARALLELOGRAMMICAL
  Having the properties of a parallelogram.
• PLANE-PARALLEL
  Having opposite surfaces exactly plane and parallel, as a piece of glass.
• GLASS MAKER; GLASSMAKER
  One who makes, or manufactures, glass. -- Glass" mak`ing, or Glass"mak`ing, n.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• PARALLEL SULCUS
  A sulcus parallel to, but some distance below, the horizontal limb of the fissure of Sylvius.
• PIECEMEALED
  Divided into pieces.
• GLASS-SPONGE
  A siliceous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, and allied genera; -- so called from their glassy fibers or spicules; -- called also vitreous sponge. See Glass-rope, and Euplectella.
• INEXACTLY
  In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.
• SPARPIECE
  The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
• SPYGLASS
  A small telescope for viewing distant terrestrial objects.
• HYDROBIPLANE
  A hydro-aëroplane having two supporting planes.
• DRIFTPIECE
  An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
• CODPIECE
  A part of male dress in front of the breeches, formerly made very conspicuous. Shak. Fosbroke.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.