Word Meanings - TELEMECHANIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Designating, or pert. to, any device for operating mechanisms at a distance. --Tel`e*mech"a*nism , n.

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• OPERATIC; OPERATICAL
  Of or pertaining to the opera or to operas; characteristic of, or resembling, the opera.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• DEVICEFUL
  Full of devices; inventive. A carpet, rich, and of deviceful thread. Chapman.
• DISTANCE
  A space marked out in the last part of a race course. The horse that ran the whole field out of distance. L'Estrange. Note: In trotting matches under the rules of the American Association, the distance varies with the conditions of the race, being
• DESIGNATOR
  An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies. 2. One who designates.
• DESIGNATIVE
  Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out.
• OPERATION
  Something to be done; some transformation to be made upon quantities, the transformation being indicated either by rules or symbols. (more info) 1. The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
• DEVICEFULLY
  In a deviceful manner.
• OPERATIVE
  Based upon, or consisting of, an operation or operations; as, operative surgery. (more info) 1. Having the power of acting; hence, exerting force, physical or moral; active in the production of effects; as, an operative motive. It holds in all
• OPERATOR
  One who performs some act upon the human body by means of the hand, or with instruments. 3. A dealer in stocks or any commodity for speculative purposes; a speculator. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, operates or produces an effect.
• OPERATORY
  A laboratory.
• OPERATE
  To perform some manual act upon a human body in a methodical manner, and usually with instruments, with a view to restore soundness or health, as in amputation, lithotomy, etc. 5. To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative
• DESIGNATORY
  Serving to designate; designative; indicating.
• DEVICE
  invention, fr. F. devis architect's plan and estimates (in OF., division, plan, wish), devise device , in OF. also, division, wish, last will, fr. deviser. See Devise, v. t., and cf. 1. That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance;
• DESIGNATION
  1. The act of designating; a pointing out or showing; indication. 2. Selection and appointment for a purpose; allotment; direction. 3. That which designates; a distinguishing mark or name; distinctive title; appellation. The usual designation of
• OPERATIVELY
  In an operative manner.
• IMPROPERATION
  The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt. Improperatios and terms of scurrility. Sir T. Browne
• 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
• PROPERATE
  To hasten, or press forward.
• COOPERATOR
  One who labors jointly with others to promote the same end. "Coöperators with the truth." Boyle.
• PREDESIGNATE
  A term used by Sir William Hamilton to define propositions having their quantity indicated by a verbal sign; as, all, none, etc.; -- contrasted with preindesignate, defining propositions of which the quantity is not so indicated.
• UNOPERATIVE
  Producing no effect; inoperative. South.
• INOPERATIVE
  Not operative; not active; producing no effects; as, laws renderd inoperative by neglect; inoperative remedies or processes.
• EQUIDISTANCE
  Equal distance.
• PREINDESIGNATE
  Having no sign expressive of quantity; indefinite. See Predesignate.