Word Meanings - TRIPLEX - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Havingthree principal operative parts or motions, so as to produce a three-fold effect.
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- PRINCIPALNESS
The quality of being principal. - THREE-SQUARE
Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file. - PRINCIPALITY
preëminence, excellence: cf. F. principalité, principauté. See 1. Sovereignty; supreme power; hence, superiority; predominance; high, or the highest, station. Sir P. Sidney. Your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory. - THREE-MILE
Of or pertaining to three miles; as, the three-mile limit, or the limit of the marine belt of three miles included in territorial waters of a state. - THREE-PILE
An old name for the finest and most costly kind of velvet, having a fine, thick pile. I have served Prince Florizel and in my time wore three-pile. Shak. - THREE-DECKER
A vessel of war carrying guns on three decks. - EFFECTUOSE; EFFECTUOUS
Effective. B. Jonson. - PRODUCEMENT
Production. - THREE-SIDED
Having three sides, especially three plane sides; as, a three- sided stem, leaf, petiole, peduncle, scape, or pericarp. - THREE-CORNERED
Having three prominent longitudinal angles; as, a three- cornered stem. (more info) 1. Having three corners, or angles; as, a three-cornered hat. - THREE-PORT
Having three ports; specif.: Designating a type of two-cycle internal-combustion engine in which the mixture enters the crank case through a port uncovered by the piston near the end of its stroke. - THREE-PLY
Consisting of three distinct webs inwrought together in weaving, as cloth or carpeting; having three strands; threefold. - THREE-PARTED
Divided into, or consisting of, three parts; tripartite. Three- parted leaf , a leaf divided into three parts down to the base, but not entirely separate. - THREE-FLOWERED
Bearing three flowers together, or only three flowers. - EFFECT
1. To produce, as a cause or agent; to cause to be. So great a body such exploits to effect. Daniel. 2. To bring to pass; to execute; to enforce; to achieve; to accomplish. To effect that which the divine counsels had decreed. Bp. Hurd. They sailed - THREEPENNY
Costing or worth three pence; hence, worth but little; poor; mean. - THREEFOLD
Consisting of three, or thrice repeated; triple; as, threefold justice. A threefold cord is not quickly broken. Eccl. iv. 12. - THREE-LOBED
Having three lobes. Three-lobed leaf , a leaf divided into three parts, the sinuses extending not more than half way to the middle, and either the parts of the sinuses being rounded. - OPERATIVE
A skilled worker; an artisan; esp., one who operates a machine in a mill or manufactory. - THREE-WAY
Connected with, or serving to connect, three channels or pipes; as, a three-way cock or valve. - INEFFECTIVENESS
Quality of being ineffective. - LATHEREEVE; LATHREEVE
Formerly, the head officer of a lathe. See 1st Lathe. - INEFFECTIVE
Not effective; ineffectual; futile; inefficient; useless; as, an ineffective appeal. The word of God, without the spirit, a dead and ineffective letter. Jer. Taylor.