Word Meanings - TORSIONAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to torsion; resulting from torsion, or the force with which a thread or wire returns to a state of rest after having been twisted round its axis; as, torsional force.

Related words: (words related to TORSIONAL)

• FORCE
  To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• TORSION HEAD
  That part of a torsion balance from which the wire or filament is suspended.
• AFTERCAST
  A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower.
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• ROUNDWORM
  A nematoid worm.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• AFTER
  To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. Note: It is often combined with its noun; as, after-bowlines, after- braces, after-sails, after-yards, those on the mainmasts
• TORSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to torsion; resulting from torsion, or the force with which a thread or wire returns to a state of rest after having been twisted round its axis; as, torsional force.
• ROUNDISH
  Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n.
• AFTERPAINS
  The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• ROUNDFISH
  Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes. A lake whitefish , less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska.
• TORSION INDICATOR
  An autographic torsion meter.
• ROUND-UP
  The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• RESULTIVE
  Resultant. Fuller.
• STATE SOCIALISM
  A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to
• TORSION GALVANOMETER
  A galvanometer in which current is measured by torsion.
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• OLD LINE STATE
  Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
• ENSTATE
  See INSTATE
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• REINFORCEMENT
  See REëNFORCEMENT
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• KATASTATE
  A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.
• BAYOU STATE
  Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous.