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Word Meanings - PRECIPIENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Commanding; directing.

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  • DIRECT CURRENT
    A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the
  • DIRECTER
    One who directs; a director. Directer plane , the plane to which all right-lined elements in a warped surface are parallel.
  • COMMANDING
    1. Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer. 2. Fitted to impress or control; as, a commanding look or presence. 3. Exalted; overlooking; having superior strategic advantages; as, a commanding position. Syn.
  • DIRECT ACTION
    See BELOW
  • DIRECT NOMINATION
    The nomination or designation of candidates for public office by direct popular vote rather than through the action of a convention or body of elected nominating representatives or delegates. The term is applied both to the nomination of candidates
  • DIRECTRIX
    1. A directress. Jer. Taylor. A line along which a point in another line moves, or which in any way governs the motion of the point and determines the position of the curve generated by it; the line along which the generatrix moves in generating
  • COMMANDATORY
    Mandatory; as, commandatory authority.
  • COMMANDO
    In South Africa, a military body or command; also, sometimes, an expedition or raid; as, a commando of a hundred Boers. The war bands, called commandos, have played a great part in the . . . military history of the country. James Bryce.
  • DIRECT
    In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the signs; not retrograde; -- said of the motion of a celestial body. Direct action. See Direct-acting. -- Direct discourse , the language of any one quoted
  • DIRECTORY
    Containing directions; enjoining; instructing; directorial.
  • DIRECTRESS
    A woman who directs. Bp. Hurd.
  • COMMANDEER
    To compel to perform military service; to seize for military purposes; -- orig. used of the Boers. 2. To take arbitrary or forcible possession of.
  • COMMANDMENT
    One of the ten laws or precepts given by God to the Israelites at Mount Sinai. 3. The act of commanding; exercise of authority. And therefore put I on the countenance Of stern commandment. Shak. (more info) 1. An order or injunction given
  • COMMANDINGLY
    In a commanding manner.
  • COMMANDABLE
    Capable of being commanded.
  • COMMANDRY
    See COMMANDERY
  • DIRECTORSHIP
    The condition or office of a director; directorate.
  • COMMANDER
    An officer who ranks next below a captain, -- ranking with a lieutenant colonel in the army. 3. The chief officer of a commandery. 4. A heavy beetle or wooden mallet, used in paving, in sail lofts, etc. Commander in chief, the military title of
  • DIRECTORIAL
    1. Having the quality of a director, or authoritative guide; directive. 2. Pertaining to: director or directory; specifically, relating to the Directory of France under the first republic. See Directory, 3. Whoever goes to the directorial presence
  • DIRECTOIRE STYLE
    A style of dress prevalent at the time of the French Directory, characterized by great extravagance of design and imitating the Greek and Roman costumes.
  • GUINEA-PIG DIRECTOR
    A director who serves merely or mainly for the fee paid for attendance.
  • UNDIRECTLY
    Indirectly. Strype.
  • MISDIRECTION
    An error of a judge in charging the jury on a matter of law. Mozley & W. (more info) 1. The act of directing wrongly, or the state of being so directed.

 

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