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Word Meanings - SITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position; as, the site of a city or of a house. Chaucer. 2. A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation; as, a site for a church. 3. The posture or position of a thing.

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1. The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position; as, the site of a city or of a house. Chaucer. 2. A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation; as, a site for a church. 3. The posture or position of a thing. The semblance of a lover fixed In melancholy site. Thomson.

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  • PLACEMENT
    1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
  • FOOTMARK
    A footprint; a track or vestige. Coleridge.
  • OFFICEHOLDER
    An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
  • PLACENTARY
    Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
  • PLACE-KICK
    To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
  • CONDITIONALITY
    The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.
  • FOOTPLATE
    See
  • FOOTBRIDGE
    A narrow bridge for foot passengers only.
  • FOOTHOLD
    A holding with the feet; firm L'Estrange.
  • STANDARD
    The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver. Arbuthnot. (more info) extendere to spread out, extend,
  • 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.
  • CONDITIONAL
    Expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense. A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another. Whately. The words hypothetical and conditional may be . . .
  • STANDPIPE
    A vertical pipe, open at the top, between a hydrant and a reservoir, to equalize the flow of water; also, a large vertical pipe, near a pumping engine, into which water is forced up, so as to give it sufficient head to rise to the required level
  • FOOTFIGHT
    A conflict by persons on foot; -- distinguished from a fight on horseback. Sir P. Sidney.
  • PREDICAMENTAL
    Of or pertaining to a predicament. John Hall .
  • FOOTROPE
    The rope rigged below a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling; -- formerly called a horse. That part of the boltrope to which the lower edge of a sail is sewed.
  • FOOTBATH
    A bath for the feet; also, a vessel used in bathing the feet.
  • FOOTBOARD
    1. A board or narrow platfrom upon which one may stand or brace his feet; as: The platform for the engineer and fireman of a locomotive. The foot-rest of a coachman's box. 2. A board forming the foot of a bedstead. 3. A treadle.
  • FOOTHALT
    A disease affecting the feet of sheep.
  • FOOTPACE
    1. A walking pace or step. 2. A dais, or elevated platform; the highest step of the altar; a landing in a staircase. Shipley.
  • GOOSEFOOT
    A genus of herbs mostly annual weeds; pigweed.
  • POST OFFICE
    See POST
  • SURFOOT
    Tired or sore of foot from travel; lamed. Nares.
  • SALTFOOT
    A large saltcellar formerly placed near the center of the table. The superior guests were seated above the saltfoot.
  • BYSTANDER
    One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.
  • STILLBIRTH
    The birth of a dead fetus.
  • FOURFOOTED
    Having four feet; quadruped; as, fourfooted beasts.
  • CHILDBIRTH
    The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor. Jer. Taylor.
  • AGAINSTAND
    To withstand.
  • APPOSITION
    The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first. Growth by apposition , a mode of growth characteristic
  • REPLACEMENT
    The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
  • FOALFOOT
    See COLTSFOOT
  • PLOWFOOT; PLOUGHFOOT
    An adjustable staff formerly attached to the plow beam to determine the depth of the furrow. Piers Plowman.
  • SHEEP'S-FOOT
    A printer's tool consisting of a metal bar formed into a hammer head at one end and a claw at the other, -- used as a lever and hammer.
  • LOBEFOOT
    A bird having lobate toes; esp., a phalarope.

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