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Scale \Scale\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scaled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Scaling}.] To weigh or measure according to a scale; to measure; also, to grade or vary according to a scale or system. Scaling his present bearing with his past. --Shak. {To} {scale, [or] scale down}, {a debt, wages, etc.}, to reduce a debt, etc., according to a fixed ratio or scale. [U.S.] | |
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Tiptoe \Tip"toe`\, n.; pl. {Tiptoes}. The end, or tip, of the toe. He must . . . stand on his typtoon [tiptoes]. --Chaucer. Upon his tiptoes stalketh stately by. --Spenser. {To be}, [or] {To stand}, {a tiptoe} [or] {on tiptoe}, to be awake or alive to anything; to be roused; to be eager or alert; as, to be a tiptoe with expectation. | |
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Adapt \A*dapt"\, a. Fitted; suited. [Obs.] --Swift. | |
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Adapt \A*dapt"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Adapted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Adapting}.] [L. adaptare; ad + aptare to fit; cf. F. adapter. See {Apt}, {Adept}.] To make suitable; to fit, or suit; to adjust; to alter so as to fit for a new use; -- sometimes followed by to or for. For nature, always in the right, To your decays adapts my sight. --Swift. Appeals adapted to his [man's] whole nature. --Angus. Streets ill adapted for the residence of wealthy persons. --Macaulay. | |
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Adaptability \A*dapt`a*bil"i*ty\, Adaptableness \A*dapt"a*ble*ness\, n. The quality of being adaptable; suitableness. [bd]General adaptability for every purpose.[b8] --Farrar. | |
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Adaptable \A*dapt"a*ble\, a. Capable of being adapted. | |
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Adaptability \A*dapt`a*bil"i*ty\, Adaptableness \A*dapt"a*ble*ness\, n. The quality of being adaptable; suitableness. [bd]General adaptability for every purpose.[b8] --Farrar. | |
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Adaptation \Ad`ap*ta"tion\, n. [Cf. F. adaptation, LL. adaptatio.] 1. The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness. [bd]Adaptation of the means to the end.[b8] --Erskine. 2. The result of adapting; an adapted form. | |
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Adaptative \A*dapt"a*tive\, a. Adaptive. --Stubbs. | |
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Adapt \A*dapt"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Adapted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Adapting}.] [L. adaptare; ad + aptare to fit; cf. F. adapter. See {Apt}, {Adept}.] To make suitable; to fit, or suit; to adjust; to alter so as to fit for a new use; -- sometimes followed by to or for. For nature, always in the right, To your decays adapts my sight. --Swift. Appeals adapted to his [man's] whole nature. --Angus. Streets ill adapted for the residence of wealthy persons. --Macaulay. | |
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Meridian \Me*rid"i*an\, n. [F. m[82]ridien. See {Meridian}, a.] 1. Midday; noon. 2. Hence: The highest point, as of success, prosperity, or the like; culmination. I have touched the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting. --Shak. 3. (Astron.) A great circle of the sphere passing through the poles of the heavens and the zenith of a given place. It is crossed by the sun at midday. 4. (Geog.) A great circle on the surface of the earth, passing through the poles and any given place; also, the half of such a circle included between the poles. Note: The planes of the geographical and astronomical meridians coincide. Meridians, on a map or globe, are lines drawn at certain intervals due north and south, or in the direction of the poles. {Calculated for}, [or] {fitted to}, [or] {adapted to}, {the meridian of}, suited to the local circumstances, capabilities, or special requirements of. All other knowledge merely serves the concerns of this life, and is fitted to the meridian thereof. --Sir M. Hale. {First meridian}, the meridian from which longitudes are reckoned. The meridian of Greenwich is the one commonly employed in calculations of longitude by geographers, and in actual practice, although in various countries other and different meridians, chiefly those which pass through the capitals of the countries, are occasionally used; as, in France, the meridian of Paris; in the United States, the meridian of Washington, etc. {Guide meridian} (Public Land Survey), a line, marked by monuments, running North and South through a section of country between other more carefully established meridians called principal meridians, used for reference in surveying. [U.S.] {Magnetic meridian}, a great circle, passing through the zenith and coinciding in direction with the magnetic needle, or a line on the earth's surface having the same direction. {Meridian circle} (Astron.), an instrument consisting of a telescope attached to a large graduated circle and so mounted that the telescope revolves like the transit instrument in a meridian plane. By it the right ascension and the declination of a star may be measured in a single observation. {Meridian instrument} (Astron.), any astronomical instrument having a telescope that rotates in a meridian plane. {Meridian of a globe}, [or] {Brass meridian}, a graduated circular ring of brass, in which the artificial globe is suspended and revolves. | |
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Adaptedness \A*dapt"ed*ness\, n. The state or quality of being adapted; suitableness; special fitness. | |
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Adopter \A*dopt"er\, n. 1. One who adopts. 2. (Chem.) A receiver, with two necks, opposite to each other, one of which admits the neck of a retort, and the other is joined to another receiver. It is used in distillations, to give more space to elastic vapors, to increase the length of the neck of a retort, or to unite two vessels whose openings have different diameters. [Written also {adapter}.] | |
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Adapter \A*dapt"er\, n. 1. One who adapts. 2. (Chem.) A connecting tube; an adopter. | |
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Adopter \A*dopt"er\, n. 1. One who adopts. 2. (Chem.) A receiver, with two necks, opposite to each other, one of which admits the neck of a retort, and the other is joined to another receiver. It is used in distillations, to give more space to elastic vapors, to increase the length of the neck of a retort, or to unite two vessels whose openings have different diameters. [Written also {adapter}.] | |
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Adapter \A*dapt"er\, n. 1. One who adapts. 2. (Chem.) A connecting tube; an adopter. | |
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Adapt \A*dapt"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Adapted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Adapting}.] [L. adaptare; ad + aptare to fit; cf. F. adapter. See {Apt}, {Adept}.] To make suitable; to fit, or suit; to adjust; to alter so as to fit for a new use; -- sometimes followed by to or for. For nature, always in the right, To your decays adapts my sight. --Swift. Appeals adapted to his [man's] whole nature. --Angus. Streets ill adapted for the residence of wealthy persons. --Macaulay. | |
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Adaption \A*dap"tion\, n. Adaptation. --Cheyne. | |
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Adaptive \A*dapt"ive\, a. Suited, given, or tending, to adaptation; characterized by adaptation; capable of adapting. --Coleridge. -- {A*dapt"ive*ly}, adv. | |
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Adaptive \A*dapt"ive\, a. Suited, given, or tending, to adaptation; characterized by adaptation; capable of adapting. --Coleridge. -- {A*dapt"ive*ly}, adv. | |
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Adaptiveness \A*dapt"ive*ness\, n. The quality of being adaptive; capacity to adapt. | |
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Adaptly \A*dapt"ly\, adv. In a suitable manner. [R.] --Prior. | |
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Adaptness \A*dapt"ness\, n. Adaptedness. [R.] | |
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Adaptorial \Ad`ap*to"ri*al\, a. Adaptive. [R.] | |
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Adept \A*dept"\, n. [L. adeptus obtained (sc. artem), [?]he who has obtained an art, p. p. of adipsci to arrive [?]at, to obtain; ad + apisci to pursue. See {Apt}, and cf. {Adapt}.] One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy. | |
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Adept \A*dept"\, a. Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient. Beaus adept in everything profound. --Cowper. | |
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Adeption \A*dep"tion\, n. [L. adeptio. See {Adept}, a.] An obtaining; attainment. [Obs.] In the wit and policy of the capitain consisteth the chief adeption of the victory. --Grafton. | |
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Adeptist \A*dept"ist\, n. A skilled alchemist. [Obs.] | |
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Adeptness \A*dept"ness\, n. The quality of being adept; skill. | |
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Adhibit \Ad*hib"it\, v. t. [L. adhibitus, p. p. of adhibere to hold to; ad + habere to have.] 1. To admit, as a person or thing; to take in. --Muirhead. 2. To use or apply; to administer. --Camden. 3. To attach; to affix. --Alison. | |
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Adhibition \Ad`hi*bi"tion\, n. [L. adhibitio.] The act of adhibiting; application; use. --Whitaker. | |
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Adiabatic \Ad`i*a*bat"ic\, a. [Gr. [?] not passable; 'a priv. + [?] through + [?] to go.] (Physics) Not giving out or receiving heat. -- {Ad`i*a*bat`ic*al*ly}, adv. {Adiabatic line} or {curve}, a curve exhibiting the variations of pressure and volume of a fluid when it expands without either receiving or giving out heat. --Rankine. | |
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Adiabatic \Ad`i*a*bat"ic\, a. [Gr. [?] not passable; 'a priv. + [?] through + [?] to go.] (Physics) Not giving out or receiving heat. -- {Ad`i*a*bat`ic*al*ly}, adv. {Adiabatic line} or {curve}, a curve exhibiting the variations of pressure and volume of a fluid when it expands without either receiving or giving out heat. --Rankine. | |
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Adiabatic \Ad`i*a*bat"ic\, a. [Gr. [?] not passable; 'a priv. + [?] through + [?] to go.] (Physics) Not giving out or receiving heat. -- {Ad`i*a*bat`ic*al*ly}, adv. {Adiabatic line} or {curve}, a curve exhibiting the variations of pressure and volume of a fluid when it expands without either receiving or giving out heat. --Rankine. | |
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Adopt \A*dopt"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Adopted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Adopting}.] [L. adoptare; ad + optare to choose, desire: cf. F. adopter. See {Option}.] 1. To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child. 2. To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve; as, to adopt the view or policy of another; these resolutions were adopted. | |
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Adoptable \A*dopt"a*ble\, a. Capable of being adopted. | |
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Adopted \A*dopt"ed\, a. Taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; as, an adopted son, citizen, country, word. -- {A*dopt"ed*ly}, adv. | |
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Adopt \A*dopt"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Adopted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Adopting}.] [L. adoptare; ad + optare to choose, desire: cf. F. adopter. See {Option}.] 1. To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child. 2. To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve; as, to adopt the view or policy of another; these resolutions were adopted. | |
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Adopted \A*dopt"ed\, a. Taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; as, an adopted son, citizen, country, word. -- {A*dopt"ed*ly}, adv. | |
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Adopter \A*dopt"er\, n. 1. One who adopts. 2. (Chem.) A receiver, with two necks, opposite to each other, one of which admits the neck of a retort, and the other is joined to another receiver. It is used in distillations, to give more space to elastic vapors, to increase the length of the neck of a retort, or to unite two vessels whose openings have different diameters. [Written also {adapter}.] | |
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Adopt \A*dopt"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Adopted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Adopting}.] [L. adoptare; ad + optare to choose, desire: cf. F. adopter. See {Option}.] 1. To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child. 2. To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve; as, to adopt the view or policy of another; these resolutions were adopted. | |
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Adoption \A*dop"tion\, n. [L. adoptio, allied to adoptare to adopt: cf. F. adoption.] 1. The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child. 2. Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another. 3. The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions. --Jer. Taylor. | |
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Adoptionist \A*dop"tion*ist\, n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect which maintained that Christ was the Son of God not by nature but by adoption. | |
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Adoptious \A*dop"tious\, a. Adopted. [Obs.] | |
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Adoptive \A*dopt"ive\, a. [L. adoptivus: cf. F. adoptif.] Pertaining to adoption; made or acquired by adoption; fitted to adopt; as, an adoptive father, an child; an adoptive language. -- {A*dopt"ive*ly}, adv. | |
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Father \Fa"ther\, n. [OE. fader, AS. f[91]der; akin to OS. fadar, D. vader, OHG. fatar, G. vater, Icel. Fa[?]ir Sw. & Dan. fader, OIr. athir, L. pater, Gr. [?][?][?][?][?], Skr. pitr, perh. fr. Skr. p[be] protect. [?][?][?],[?][?][?]. Cf. {Papa}, {Paternal}, {Patriot}, {Potential}, {Pablum}.] 1. One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent. A wise son maketh a glad father. --Prov. x. 1. 2. A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor; a founder of a race or family; -- in the plural, fathers, ancestors. David slept with his fathers. --1 Kings ii. 10. Abraham, who is the father of us all. --Rom. iv. 16. 3. One who performs the offices of a parent by maintenance, affetionate care, counsel, or protection. I was a father to the poor. --Job xxix. 16. He hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house. --Gen. xiv. 8. 4. A respectful mode of address to an old man. And Joash the king og Israel came down unto him [Elisha], . . . and said, O my father, my father! --2 Kings xiii. 14. 5. A senator of ancient Rome. 6. A dignitary of the church, a superior of a convent, a confessor (called also {father confessor}), or a priest; also, the eldest member of a profession, or of a legislative assembly, etc. Bless you, good father friar ! --Shak. 7. One of the chief esslesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ; -- often spoken of collectively as the Fathers; as, the Latin, Greek, or apostolic Fathers. 8. One who, or that which, gives origin; an originator; a producer, author, or contriver; the first to practice any art, profession, or occupation; a distinguished example or teacher. The father of all such as handle the harp and organ. --Gen. iv. 21. Might be the father, Harry, to that thought. --Shak. The father of good news. --Shak. 9. The Supreme Being and Creator; God; in theology, the first person in the Trinity. Our Father, which art in heaven. --Matt. vi. 9. Now had the almighty Father from above . . . Bent down his eye. --Milton. {Adoptive father}, one who adopts the child of another, treating it as his own. {Apostolic father}, {Conscript fathers, etc.} See under {Apostolic}, {Conscript}, etc. {Father in God}, a title given to bishops. {Father of lies}, the Devil. {Father of the bar}, the oldest practitioner at the bar. {Fathers of the city}, the aldermen. {Father of the Faithful}. (a) Abraham. --Rom. iv. --Gal. iii. 6-9. (b) Mohammed, or one of the sultans, his successors. {Father of the house}, the member of a legislative body who has had the longest continuous service. {Most Reverend Father in God}, a title given to archbishops and metropolitans, as to the archbishops of Canterbury and York. {Natural father}, the father of an illegitimate child. {Putative father}, one who is presumed to be the father of an illegitimate child; the supposed father. {Spiritual father}. (a) A religious teacher or guide, esp. one instrumental in leading a soul to God. (b) (R. C. Ch.) A priest who hears confession in the sacrament of penance. {The Holy Father} (R. C. Ch.), the pope. | |
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Adoptive \A*dopt"ive\, a. [L. adoptivus: cf. F. adoptif.] Pertaining to adoption; made or acquired by adoption; fitted to adopt; as, an adoptive father, an child; an adoptive language. -- {A*dopt"ive*ly}, adv. | |
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Advoutrer \Ad*vou"trer\, n. [OF. avoutre, avoltre, fr. L. adulter. Cf. {Adulterer}.] An adulterer. [Obs.] | |
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Advoutress \Ad*vou"tress\, n. An adulteress. [Obs.] --Bacon. | |
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Advoutry \Ad*vou"try\, Advowtry \Ad*vow"try\, n. [OE. avoutrie, avouterie, advoutrie, OF. avoutrie, avulterie, fr. L. adulterium. Cf. {Adultery}.] Adultery. [Obs.] --Bacon. | |
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Advoutry \Ad*vou"try\, Advowtry \Ad*vow"try\, n. [OE. avoutrie, avouterie, advoutrie, OF. avoutrie, avulterie, fr. L. adulterium. Cf. {Adultery}.] Adultery. [Obs.] --Bacon. | |
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Bottom \Bot"tom\ (b[ocr]t"t[ucr]m), n. [OE. botum, botme, AS. botm; akin to OS. bodom, D. bodem, OHG. podam, G. boden, Icel. botn, Sw. botten, Dan. bund (for budn), L. fundus (for fudnus), Gr. pyqmh`n (for fyqmh`n), Skr. budhna (for bhudhna), and Ir. bonn sole of the foot, W. bon stem, base. [fb]257. Cf. 4th {Found}, {Fund}, n.] 1. The lowest part of anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page. Or dive into the bottom of the deep. --Shak. 2. The part of anything which is beneath the contents and supports them, as the part of a chair on which a person sits, the circular base or lower head of a cask or tub, or the plank floor of a ship's hold; the under surface. Barrels with the bottom knocked out. --Macaulay. No two chairs were alike; such high backs and low backs and leather bottoms and worsted bottoms. --W. Irving. 3. That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork. 4. The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea. 5. The fundament; the buttocks. 6. An abyss. [Obs.] --Dryden. 7. Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river; low-lying ground; a dale; a valley. [bd]The bottoms and the high grounds.[b8] --Stoddard. 8. (Naut.) The part of a ship which is ordinarily under water; hence, the vessel itself; a ship. My ventures are not in one bottom trusted. --Shak. Not to sell the teas, but to return them to London in the same bottoms in which they were shipped. --Bancroft. {Full bottom}, a hull of such shape as permits carrying a large amount of merchandise. 9. Power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom. 10. Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment. --Johnson. {At bottom}, {At the bottom}, at the foundation or basis; in reality. [bd]He was at the bottom a good man.[b8] --J. F. Cooper. {To be at the bottom of}, to be the cause or originator of; to be the source of. [Usually in an opprobrious sense.] --J. H. Newman. He was at the bottom of many excellent counsels. --Addison. {To go to the bottom}, to sink; esp. to be wrecked. {To touch bottom}, to reach the lowest point; to find something on which to rest. | |
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Bottom \Bot"tom\ (b[ocr]t"t[ucr]m), n. [OE. botum, botme, AS. botm; akin to OS. bodom, D. bodem, OHG. podam, G. boden, Icel. botn, Sw. botten, Dan. bund (for budn), L. fundus (for fudnus), Gr. pyqmh`n (for fyqmh`n), Skr. budhna (for bhudhna), and Ir. bonn sole of the foot, W. bon stem, base. [fb]257. Cf. 4th {Found}, {Fund}, n.] 1. The lowest part of anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page. Or dive into the bottom of the deep. --Shak. 2. The part of anything which is beneath the contents and supports them, as the part of a chair on which a person sits, the circular base or lower head of a cask or tub, or the plank floor of a ship's hold; the under surface. Barrels with the bottom knocked out. --Macaulay. No two chairs were alike; such high backs and low backs and leather bottoms and worsted bottoms. --W. Irving. 3. That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork. 4. The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea. 5. The fundament; the buttocks. 6. An abyss. [Obs.] --Dryden. 7. Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river; low-lying ground; a dale; a valley. [bd]The bottoms and the high grounds.[b8] --Stoddard. 8. (Naut.) The part of a ship which is ordinarily under water; hence, the vessel itself; a ship. My ventures are not in one bottom trusted. --Shak. Not to sell the teas, but to return them to London in the same bottoms in which they were shipped. --Bancroft. {Full bottom}, a hull of such shape as permits carrying a large amount of merchandise. 9. Power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom. 10. Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment. --Johnson. {At bottom}, {At the bottom}, at the foundation or basis; in reality. [bd]He was at the bottom a good man.[b8] --J. F. Cooper. {To be at the bottom of}, to be the cause or originator of; to be the source of. [Usually in an opprobrious sense.] --J. H. Newman. He was at the bottom of many excellent counsels. --Addison. {To go to the bottom}, to sink; esp. to be wrecked. {To touch bottom}, to reach the lowest point; to find something on which to rest. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Atafter \At`aft"er\, prep. After. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
A-tiptoe \A-tip"toe\, adv. On tiptoe; eagerly expecting. We all feel a-tiptoe with hope and confidence. --F. Harrison. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Autopathic \Au`to*path"ic\, a. [See {Auto-}, and {Pathic}, a.] (Med.) Dependent upon, or due or relating to, the structure and characteristics of the diseased organism; endopathic; as, an autopathic disease; an autopathic theory of diseases. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Autoptic \Au*top"tic\ ([add]*t[ocr]p"t[icr]k), Autoptical \Au*top"tic*al\ (-t[icr]k*[ait]l), a. [Gr. a'ytoptiko`s: cf. F. autoptique.] Seen with one's own eyes; belonging to, or connected with, personal observation; as, autoptic testimony or experience. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Autoptic \Au*top"tic\ ([add]*t[ocr]p"t[icr]k), Autoptical \Au*top"tic*al\ (-t[icr]k*[ait]l), a. [Gr. a'ytoptiko`s: cf. F. autoptique.] Seen with one's own eyes; belonging to, or connected with, personal observation; as, autoptic testimony or experience. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Autoptically \Au*top"tic*al*ly\ ([add]*t[ocr]p"t[icr]*k[ait]l*l[ycr]), adv. By means of ocular view, or one's own observation. --Sir T. Browne. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
ADAPT [Sammet 1969, p. 606]. (1995-02-14) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Adaptable User Interface allowing applications to be written which will be portable between different {windowing systems}. AUI provides one {call level interface} along with a resource manager and editor across a range of "standard" {GUI}s, including {Macintosh}, {Microsoft Windows} and the {X Window System}. (1995-03-16) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Adaptec data between computers. Adaptec designs hardware and software products to transfer data from a computer to a {peripheral} device or {network}. Founded in 1981, the company achieved profitability in 1984, went public in 1986, and to date has achieved 54 consecutive profitable quarters. Revenues for fiscal 1997 were $934 million, a 42% increase over the prior year. Net income, excluding acquisition charges, for fiscal year 1997 was $198 million or $1.72 per share. {Home (http://www.adaptec.com)}. (1999-08-25) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
adaptive answering the telephone and decide whether the incoming call is a fax or data call. Most {Class 1} faxmodems do this. The {U.S. Robotics} Class 1 implementation however seems not to do it, it must be set to answer as either one or the other. (1995-03-16) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Adaptive Communication Environment communications from the {University of California at Irvine}. (1995-03-16) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Adaptive Digital Pulse Code Modulation records only the difference between samples and adjusts the coding scale dynamically to accomodate large and small differences. ADPCM is simple to implement, but introduces much {noise}. [Used where? Does the {Sony} minidisk use ADPCM or {ATRAC}?] (1998-12-10) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
adaptive learning programs itself by adjusting weights or strengths until it produces the desired output. (1995-03-16) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
adaptive routing {dynamic routing} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Adaptive Server Enterprise "Sybase SQL Server". For a number of years {Microsoft} was a Sybase distributor, reselling the Sybase product for {OS/2} and (later) {Windows NT} under the name "Microsoft SQL Server". Around 1994, Microsoft basically bought a copy of the {source code} of Sybase SQL Server and then went its own way. As competitors, Sybase and Microsoft have been developing their products independently ever since. Microsoft has mostly emphasised ease-of-use and "Window-ising" the product, while Sybase has focused on maximising performance and reliability, and running on high-end hardware. When releasing version 11.5 in 1997, Sybase renamed its product to "ASE" to better distinguish its database from Microsoft's. Both ASE and MS SQL Server call their query language "Transact-SQL" and they are very similar. Sybase SQL Server was the first true {client-server} RDBMS which was also capable of handling real-world workloads. In contrast, other DBMSs have long been monolithic programs; for example, {Oracle} only "bolted on" client-server functionality in the mid-nineties. Also, Sybase SQL Server was the first commercially successful RDBMS supporting {stored procedures} and {triggers}, and a cost-based {query optimizer}. As with many other technology-driven competitors of Microsoft, Sybase has lost market share to MS's superior marketing, though many consider it has the superior system. {(http://www.sypron.nl/whatis_ase.html)}. (2003-07-02) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Adaptive Simulated Annealing generic {functions} by Lester Ingber Latest version: 20.5, as of 2000-02-29. {Home (http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~ingber/)}. {Home (http://www.ingber.com/)}. Mailing list: (2000-02-29) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Adaptive TRansform Acoustic Coding introduced by {Sony} for its {Mini Disk}, which relies on the masking of low-amplitude frequency components by temporaly adjacent high-amplitude components. ATRAC consists of a three-band {subband encoder} (0...5.5, 5.5...11, 11...22 kHz) and a {MDCT} based transformation encoder. [Does Sony Minidisk use {ADPCM}?] (2001-12-13) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Adaptor source transformation tool that transforms {data parallel} programs written in {Fortran 77} with {array} extensions, parallel loops, and layout directives to parallel programs with explicit {message passing}. ADAPTOR generates {Fortran 77} host and node programs with message passing. The new generated source codes have to be compiled by the compiler of the parallel computer. Version 1.0 runs on {CM-5}, {iPCS/860}, {Meiko CS1}/CS2, {KSR 1}, {SGI}, {Alliant} or a network of {Sun}s or {RS/6000}s. {(ftp://ftp.gmd.de/gmd/adaptor/adp_1.0.tar.Z)}. [Connection with Thomas Brandes and GMD?] (1993-06-01) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Adobe Type Manager {PostScript} {outline fonts} on screen and paper. There are versions that run under {Microsoft Windows} and on the {Macintosh}. ATM can do {hinting}, {multiple master} and {anti-aliasing}. (1998-03-10) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Audio Video Interleave {Microsoft}. Apparently proprietary and {Microsoft Windows}-specific. {(http://www2.echo.lu/oii/en/video.html#AVI)}. [Details?] (1996-09-08) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
autobaud {automatic baud rate detection} | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Adoption the giving to any one the name and place and privileges of a son who is not a son by birth. (1.) Natural. Thus Pharaoh's daughter adopted Moses (Ex. 2:10), and Mordecai Esther (Esther 2:7). (2.) National. God adopted Israel (Ex. 4:22; Deut. 7:6; Hos. 11:1; Rom. 9:4). (3.) Spiritual. An act of God's grace by which he brings men into the number of his redeemed family, and makes them partakers of all the blessings he has provided for them. Adoption represents the new relations into which the believer is introduced by justification, and the privileges connected therewith, viz., an interest in God's peculiar love (John 17:23; Rom. 5:5-8), a spiritual nature (2 Pet. 1:4; John 1:13), the possession of a spirit becoming children of God (1 Pet. 1:14; 2 John 4; Rom. 8:15-21; Gal. 5:1; Heb. 2:15), present protection, consolation, supplies (Luke 12:27-32; John 14:18; 1 Cor. 3:21-23; 2 Cor. 1:4), fatherly chastisements (Heb. 12:5-11), and a future glorious inheritance (Rom. 8:17,23; James 2:5; Phil. 3:21). |