English Dictionary: Vespula maculifrons | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Vespillo \Ves*pil"lo\, n.; pl. {Vespilloes}. [L.] (Rom. Antiq.) One who carried out the dead bodies of the poor at night for burial. Like vespilloes or grave makers. --Sir T. Browne. | |
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Vespillo \Ves*pil"lo\, n.; pl. {Vespilloes}. [L.] (Rom. Antiq.) One who carried out the dead bodies of the poor at night for burial. Like vespilloes or grave makers. --Sir T. Browne. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Visibility \Vis`i*bil"i*ty\, n. [L. visibilitas: cf. F. visibilit[82].] The quality or state of being visible. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Visible \Vis"i*ble\, a. [L. visibilis, fr. videre, visum, to see: cf. F. visible. See {Vision}.] 1. Perceivable by the eye; capable of being seen; perceptible; in view; as, a visible star; the least spot is visible on white paper. Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. --Bk. of Com. Prayer. Virtue made visible in outward grace. --Young. 2. Noticeable; apparent; open; conspicuous. --Shak. The factions at court were greater, or more visible, than before. --Clarendon. {Visible church} (Theol.), the apparent church of Christ on earth; the whole body of professed believers in Christ, as contradistinguished from the invisible, or real, church, consisting of sanctified persons. {Visible horizon}. Same as {Apparent horizon}, under {Apparent}. -- {Vis"i*ble*ness}, n. -- {Vis"i*bly}, adv. | |
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Visible \Vis"i*ble\, a. [L. visibilis, fr. videre, visum, to see: cf. F. visible. See {Vision}.] 1. Perceivable by the eye; capable of being seen; perceptible; in view; as, a visible star; the least spot is visible on white paper. Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. --Bk. of Com. Prayer. Virtue made visible in outward grace. --Young. 2. Noticeable; apparent; open; conspicuous. --Shak. The factions at court were greater, or more visible, than before. --Clarendon. {Visible church} (Theol.), the apparent church of Christ on earth; the whole body of professed believers in Christ, as contradistinguished from the invisible, or real, church, consisting of sanctified persons. {Visible horizon}. Same as {Apparent horizon}, under {Apparent}. -- {Vis"i*ble*ness}, n. -- {Vis"i*bly}, adv. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Visible \Vis"i*ble\, a. [L. visibilis, fr. videre, visum, to see: cf. F. visible. See {Vision}.] 1. Perceivable by the eye; capable of being seen; perceptible; in view; as, a visible star; the least spot is visible on white paper. Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. --Bk. of Com. Prayer. Virtue made visible in outward grace. --Young. 2. Noticeable; apparent; open; conspicuous. --Shak. The factions at court were greater, or more visible, than before. --Clarendon. {Visible church} (Theol.), the apparent church of Christ on earth; the whole body of professed believers in Christ, as contradistinguished from the invisible, or real, church, consisting of sanctified persons. {Visible horizon}. Same as {Apparent horizon}, under {Apparent}. -- {Vis"i*ble*ness}, n. -- {Vis"i*bly}, adv. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Horizon \Ho*ri"zon\, n. [F., fr. L. horizon, fr. Gr. [?] (sc. [?]) the bounding line, horizon, fr. [?] to bound, fr. [?] boundary, limit.] 1. The circle which bounds that part of the earth's surface visible to a spectator from a given point; the apparent junction of the earth and sky. And when the morning sun shall raise his car Above the border of this horizon. --Shak. All the horizon round Invested with bright rays. --Milton. 2. (Astron.) (a) A plane passing through the eye of the spectator and at right angles to the vertical at a given place; a plane tangent to the earth's surface at that place; called distinctively the sensible horizon. (b) A plane parallel to the sensible horizon of a place, and passing through the earth's center; -- called also {rational [or] celestial horizon}. (c) (Naut.) The unbroken line separating sky and water, as seen by an eye at a given elevation, no land being visible. 3. (Geol.) The epoch or time during which a deposit was made. The strata all over the earth, which were formed at the same time, are said to belong to the same geological horizon. --Le Conte. 4. (Painting) The chief horizontal line in a picture of any sort, which determines in the picture the height of the eye of the spectator; in an extended landscape, the representation of the natural horizon corresponds with this line. {Apparent horizon}. See under {Apparent}. {Artificial horizon}, a level mirror, as the surface of mercury in a shallow vessel, or a plane reflector adjusted to the true level artificially; -- used chiefly with the sextant for observing the double altitude of a celestial body. {Celestial horizon}. (Astron.) See def. 2, above. {Dip of the horizon} (Astron.), the vertical angle between the sensible horizon and a line to the visible horizon, the latter always being below the former. {Rational horizon}, and {Sensible horizon}. (Astron.) See def. 2, above. {Visible horizon}. See definitions 1 and 2, above. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Visible speech \Vis"i*ble speech"\ (Phon.) A system of characters invented by Prof. Alexander Melville Bell to represent all sounds that may be uttered by the speech organs, and intended to be suggestive of the position of the organs of speech in uttering them. | |
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Visible \Vis"i*ble\, a. [L. visibilis, fr. videre, visum, to see: cf. F. visible. See {Vision}.] 1. Perceivable by the eye; capable of being seen; perceptible; in view; as, a visible star; the least spot is visible on white paper. Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. --Bk. of Com. Prayer. Virtue made visible in outward grace. --Young. 2. Noticeable; apparent; open; conspicuous. --Shak. The factions at court were greater, or more visible, than before. --Clarendon. {Visible church} (Theol.), the apparent church of Christ on earth; the whole body of professed believers in Christ, as contradistinguished from the invisible, or real, church, consisting of sanctified persons. {Visible horizon}. Same as {Apparent horizon}, under {Apparent}. -- {Vis"i*ble*ness}, n. -- {Vis"i*bly}, adv. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Visible \Vis"i*ble\, a. [L. visibilis, fr. videre, visum, to see: cf. F. visible. See {Vision}.] 1. Perceivable by the eye; capable of being seen; perceptible; in view; as, a visible star; the least spot is visible on white paper. Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. --Bk. of Com. Prayer. Virtue made visible in outward grace. --Young. 2. Noticeable; apparent; open; conspicuous. --Shak. The factions at court were greater, or more visible, than before. --Clarendon. {Visible church} (Theol.), the apparent church of Christ on earth; the whole body of professed believers in Christ, as contradistinguished from the invisible, or real, church, consisting of sanctified persons. {Visible horizon}. Same as {Apparent horizon}, under {Apparent}. -- {Vis"i*ble*ness}, n. -- {Vis"i*bly}, adv. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Vocable \Vo"ca*ble\, n. [L. vocabulum an appellation, designation, name, fr. vocare to call, fr. vox, vocis, a voice, a word: cf. F. vocable. See {Voice}.] A word; a term; a name; specifically, a word considered as composed of certain sounds or letters, without regard to its meaning. Swamped near to drowning in a tide of ingenious vocables. --Carlyle. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Vocabulary \Vo*cab"u*la*ry\, n.; pl. {Vocabularies}. [LL. vocabularium, vocabularius: cf. F. vocabulaire. See {Vocable}.] 1. A list or collection of words arranged in alphabetical order and explained; a dictionary or lexicon, either of a whole language, a single work or author, a branch of science, or the like; a word-book. 2. A sum or stock of words employed. His vocabulary seems to have been no larger than was necessary for the transaction of business. --Macaulay. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Vocabulary \Vo*cab"u*la*ry\, n.; pl. {Vocabularies}. [LL. vocabularium, vocabularius: cf. F. vocabulaire. See {Vocable}.] 1. A list or collection of words arranged in alphabetical order and explained; a dictionary or lexicon, either of a whole language, a single work or author, a branch of science, or the like; a word-book. 2. A sum or stock of words employed. His vocabulary seems to have been no larger than was necessary for the transaction of business. --Macaulay. | |
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Vocabulist \Vo*cab"u*list\, n. [Cf. F. vocabuliste.] The writer or maker of a vocabulary; a lexicographer. | |
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Voiceful \Voice"ful\, a. Having a voice or vocal quality; having a loud voice or many voices; vocal; sounding. Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea. --Coleridge. | |
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Voyageable \Voy"age*a*ble\, a. [Cf. F. voyageable.] That may be sailed over, as water or air; navigable. | |
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Vacaville, CA (city, FIPS 81554) Location: 38.36227 N, 121.96605 W Population (1990): 71479 (23660 housing units) Area: 58.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 95687, 95688 | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
VCC filtering Frequency Interference} spread via power supply connections. {VCC} is a common name for the non-{ground} power supply line in circuits based on {bipolar transistors}. When part of a circuit generates lots of radio-frequency noise, that portion of the {power plane} can be isolated from the rest of the circuit and power delivered to it via a {low pass filter}, usually a {PI filter}, as shown in the diagram below. source ________inductor_________ load | | capacitor capacitor | | ground ground This helps to shield the rest of the circuit from the noise generated by the load. (1998-01-26) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
visible bell in a terminal program, {termcap} setting, or as a {stand-alone} program) which outputs the {bell} {character code} as a visual signal (e.g., a flashing status bar or menu bar). Generally intended for deaf or hearing-disabled users who couldn't hear the normal auditory beep; also widely used by users who simply don't want their machines {feep}ing at them or disturbing other users. [Implementations?] (1997-04-07) |