Word Meanings - PLATTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One who plats or braids.
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- PLATEFUL
Enough to fill a plate; as much as a plate will hold. - COMPOUNDER
A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a - EXTRACTABLE; EXTRACTIBLE
Capable of being extracted. - COMPOUNDABLE
That may be compounded. - RESOLVENT
Having power to resolve; causing solution; solvent. - ANALYZER
The part of a polariscope which receives the light after polarization, and exhibits its properties. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, analyzes. - COMPOUND CONTROL
A system of control in which a separate manipulation, as of a rudder, may be effected by either of two movements, in different directions, of a single lever, etc. - PLATEN
The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made. Hence, an analogous part of a typewriter, on which the paper rests to receive an impression. The movable table of a machine tool, - PLATE-GILLED
Having flat, or leaflike, gills, as the bivalve mollusks. - ANALYZE
To subject to analysis; to resolve into its elements; to separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an examination of each separately; to examine in such a manner as to ascertain the elements or nature of the thing examined; as, to - PLATE
A piece of money, usually silver money. "Realms and islands were as plates dropp'd from his pocket." Shak. 7. A piece of metal on which anything is engraved for the purpose of being printed; hence, an impression from the engraved metal; as, a - RESOLVED
Having a fixed purpose; determined; resolute; -- usually placed after its noun; as, a man resolved to be rich. That makes him a resolved enemy. Jer. Taylor. I am resolved she shall not settle here. Fielding. - PLATERESQUE
Resembling silver plate; -- said of certain architectural ornaments. - EXTRACT
1. To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, a splinter from the finger. The bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid - RESOLVE
To solve, as a problem, by enumerating the several things to be done, in order to obtain what is required; to find the answer to, or the result of. Hutton. (more info) relax, enfeeble; pref. re- re- + solvere to loosen, dissolve: cf. F. résoudare - PLATTER
One who plats or braids. - EXTRACTIVE
1. Capable of being extracted. "Thirty grains of extractive matter." Kirwan. 2. Tending or serving to extract or draw out. Certain branches of industry are conveniently designated extractive: e.g., agriculture, pastoral and mining pursuits, cutting - EXTRACTIFORM
Having the form, appearance, or nature, of an extract. - DECOCTION
1. The act or process of boiling anything in a watery fluid to extract its virtues. In decoction . . . it either purgeth at the top or settleth at the bottom. Bacon. 2. An extract got from a body by boiling it in water. If the plant be boiled in - RESOLVER
1. That which decomposes, or dissolves. Boyle. 2. That which clears up and removes difficulties, and makes the mind certain or determined. Bp. Burnet. 3. One who resolves, or formal a firm purpose. - WET PLATE
A plate the film of which retains its sensitiveness only while wet. The film used in such plates is of collodion impregnated with bromides and iodides. Before exposure the plate is immersed in a solution of silver nitrate, and immediately after - CONTEMPLATE
contemplate; con- + templum a space for observation marked out by the 1. To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study. To love, - VEILED PLATE
A fogged plate. - SPLATTERDASH
Uproar. Jamieson. - FOOTPLATE
See - GOULARDS EXTRACT
An aqueous solution of the subacetate of lead, used as a lotion in cases of inflammation. Goulard's cerate is a cerate containing this extract. - TERNEPLATE
Thin iron sheets coated with an alloy of lead and tin; -- so called because made up of three metals. - PRERESOLVE
To resolve beforehand; to predetermine. Sir E. Dering. - BREASTPLATE
A part of the vestment of the high priest, worn upon the front of the ephod. It was a double piece of richly embroidered stuff, a span square, set with twelve precious stones, on which were engraved the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. See - BACKPIECE; BACKPLATE
A piece, or plate which forms the back of anything, or which covers the back; armor for the back.