Word Meanings - ROTARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Turning, as a wheel on its axis; pertaining to, or resembling, the motion of a wheel on its axis; rotatory; as, rotary motion. Rotary engine, steam engine in which the continuous rotation of the shaft is produced by the direct action of the steam

Additional info about word: ROTARY

Turning, as a wheel on its axis; pertaining to, or resembling, the motion of a wheel on its axis; rotatory; as, rotary motion. Rotary engine, steam engine in which the continuous rotation of the shaft is produced by the direct action of the steam upon rotating devices which serve as pistons, instead of being derived from a reciprocating motion, as in the ordinary engine; a steam turbine; -- called also rotatory engine. -- Rotary pump, a pump in which the fluid is impelled by rotating devices which take the place of reciprocating buckets or pistons. -- Rotary shears, shears, as for cloth, metal, etc., in which revolving sharp-edged or sharp-cornered wheels do the cutting. -- Rotary valve, a valve acting by continuous or partial rotation, as in the four-way cock.

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• PRODUCIBILITY
  The quality or state of being producible. Barrow.
• DIRECTER
  One who directs; a director. Directer plane , the plane to which all right-lined elements in a warped surface are parallel.
• ENGINER
  A contriver; an inventor; a contriver of engines. Shak.
• SHAFTING
  Shafts, collectivelly; a system of connected shafts for communicating motion.
• ENGINERY
  1. The act or art of managing engines, or artillery. Milton. 2. Engines, in general; instruments of war. Training his devilish enginery. Milton. 3. Any device or contrivance; machinery; structure or arrangement. Shenstone.
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• TURNINGNESS
  The quality of turning; instability; tergiversation. Sir P. Sidney.
• MOTIONER
  One who makes a motion; a mover. Udall.
• MOTIONIST
  A mover.
• TURNING
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• TURN-SICK
  Giddy. Bacon.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• TURNVEREIN
  A company or association of gymnasts and athletes.
• TURNHALLE
  A building used as a school of gymnastics.
• DIRECT ACTION
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• TURNSPIT
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• CIRCUMROTARY; CIRCUMROTATORY
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• RE-TURN
  To turn again.
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• NOCTURNAL
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  A rock shaft.
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• DIUTURNAL
  Of long continuance; lasting. Milton.