Word Meanings - PROXIMAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Toward or nearest, as to a body, or center of motion of dependence; proximate. Situated near the point of attachment or origin; as, the proximal part of a limb. Of or pertaining to that which is proximal; as, the proximal bones of
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1. Toward or nearest, as to a body, or center of motion of dependence; proximate. Situated near the point of attachment or origin; as, the proximal part of a limb. Of or pertaining to that which is proximal; as, the proximal bones of a limb. Opposed to distal.
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- TOWARD; TOWARDS
1. In the direction of; to. He set his face toward the wilderness. Num. xxiv. 1. The waves make towards'' the pebbled shore. Shak. 2. With direction to, in a moral sense; with respect or reference to; regarding; concerning. His eye shall be evil - MOTIONIST
A mover. - MOTIONER
One who makes a motion; a mover. Udall. - TOWARDS
See TOWARD - POINT SWITCH
A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track. - POINTLESSLY
Without point. - POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis - PROXIMATELY
In a proximate manner, position, or degree; immediately. - TOWARDNESS
Quality or state of being toward. - ORIGINABLE
Capable of being originated. - POINTAL
The pistil of a plant. 2. A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages. "A pair of tablets . . . and a pointel." Chaucer. - POINTED
1. Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock. 2. Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing. His moral pleases, not his pointed wit. Pope. - SITUATE
To place. Landor. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - ORIGINATION
1. The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production. "The origination of the universe." Keill. What comes from spirit is a spontaneous origination. Hickok. 2. Mode of production, or bringing into being. This eruca - ORIGINANT
Originating; original. An absolutely originant act of self will. Prof. Shedd. - CENTERING
See 6 - POINT ALPHABET
An alphabet for the blind with a system of raised points corresponding to letters. - ORIGINATOR
One who originates. - POINTSMAN
A man who has charge of railroad points or switches. - CONCENTER; CONCENTRE
To come to one point; to meet in, or converge toward, a common center; to have a common center. God, in whom all perfections concenter. Bp. Beveridge. - EXCITO-MOTION
Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory. - ABORIGINALLY
Primarily. - COVER-POINT
The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point." - NERVIMOTION
The movement caused in the sensory organs by external agents and transmitted to the muscles by the nerves. Dunglison. - WHETTLEBONES
The vertebræ of the back. Dunglison. - SELF-CENTERING; SELF-CENTRING
Centering in one's self. - TROIS POINT
The third point from the outer edge on each player's home table. - BY-DEPENDENCE
An appendage; that which depends on something else, or is distinct from the main dependence; an accessory. Shak. - REAPPOINT
To appoint again. - STANDPOINT
A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged. - RACKABONES
A very lean animal, esp. a horse.