Word Meanings - THERMOMETRICALLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a thermometrical manner; by means of a thermometer.

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• THERMOMETER
  An instrument for measuring temperature, founded on the principle that changes of temperature in bodies are accompained by proportional changes in their volumes or dimensions. Note: The thermometer usually consists of a glass tube of capillary bore,
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• MANNERLY
  Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
• THERMOMETRICALLY
  In a thermometrical manner; by means of a thermometer.
• DIATHERMOMETER
  An instrument for examining the thermal resistance or heat- conducting power of liquids.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• GEOTHERMOMETER
  A thermometer specially constructed for measuring temperetures at a depth below the surface of the ground.
• UPSETTING THERMOMETER
  A thermometer by merely inverting which the temperature may be registered. The column of mercury is broken and, as it remains until the instrument is reset, the reading may be made at leisure.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• THERMOMETRIC; THERMOMETRICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to a thermometer; as, the thermometrical scale or tube. 2. Made, or ascertained, by means of a thermometer; as, thermometrical observations.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.
• TELETHERMOMETER
  An apparatus for determining the temperature of a distant point, as by a thermoelectric circuit or otherwise.
• WATER THERMOMETER
  A thermometer filled with water instead of mercury, for ascertaining the precise temperature at which water attains its maximum density. This is about 39º Fahr., or 4º Centigrade; and from that point down to 32º Fahr., or 0º Centigrade, or the
• MINIMUM THERMOMETER
  , a thermometer for recording the lowest temperature since its last adjustment.
• WET-BULB THERMOMETER
  That one of the two similar thermometers of a psychrometer the bulb of which is moistened; also, the entire instrument.