English Dictionary: Vorbilder haben | by the DICT Development Group |
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Variability \Va`ri*a*bil"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. variabilit[82].] 1. The quality or state of being variable; variableness. 2. (Biol.) The power possessed by living organisms, both animal and vegetable, of adapting themselves to modifications or changes in their environment, thus possibly giving rise to ultimate variation of structure or function. | |
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Variable \Va"ri*a*ble\, n. 1. That which is variable; that which varies, or is subject to change. 2. (Math.) A quantity which may increase or decrease; a quantity which admits of an infinite number of values in the same expression; a variable quantity; as, in the equation x^{2} - y^{2} = R^{2}, x and y are variables. 3. (Naut.) (a) A shifting wind, or one that varies in force. (b) pl. Those parts of the sea where a steady wind is not expected, especially the parts between the trade-wind belts. {Independent variable} (Math.), that one of two or more variables, connected with each other in any way whatever, to which changes are supposed to be given at will. Thus, in the equation x^{2} - y^{2} = R^{2}, if arbitrary changes are supposed to be given to x, then x is the independent variable, and y is called a function of x. There may be two or more independent variables in an equation or problem. Cf. {Dependent variable}, under {Dependent}. | |
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Variable \Va"ri*a*ble\, a. [L. variabilis: cf. F. variable.] 1. Having the capacity of varying or changing; capable of alternation in any manner; changeable; as, variable winds or seasons; a variable quantity. 2. Liable to vary; too susceptible of change; mutable; fickle; unsteady; inconstant; as, the affections of men are variable; passions are variable. Lest that thy love prove likewise variable. --Shak. His heart, I know, how variable and vain! --Milton. {Variable exhaust} (Steam Eng.), a blast pipe with an adjustable opening. {Variable quantity} (Math.), a variable. {Variable stars} (Astron.), fixed stars which vary in their brightness, usually in more or less uniform periods. | |
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Variable \Va"ri*a*ble\, a. [L. variabilis: cf. F. variable.] 1. Having the capacity of varying or changing; capable of alternation in any manner; changeable; as, variable winds or seasons; a variable quantity. 2. Liable to vary; too susceptible of change; mutable; fickle; unsteady; inconstant; as, the affections of men are variable; passions are variable. Lest that thy love prove likewise variable. --Shak. His heart, I know, how variable and vain! --Milton. {Variable exhaust} (Steam Eng.), a blast pipe with an adjustable opening. {Variable quantity} (Math.), a variable. {Variable stars} (Astron.), fixed stars which vary in their brightness, usually in more or less uniform periods. | |
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Variable \Va"ri*a*ble\, a. [L. variabilis: cf. F. variable.] 1. Having the capacity of varying or changing; capable of alternation in any manner; changeable; as, variable winds or seasons; a variable quantity. 2. Liable to vary; too susceptible of change; mutable; fickle; unsteady; inconstant; as, the affections of men are variable; passions are variable. Lest that thy love prove likewise variable. --Shak. His heart, I know, how variable and vain! --Milton. {Variable exhaust} (Steam Eng.), a blast pipe with an adjustable opening. {Variable quantity} (Math.), a variable. {Variable stars} (Astron.), fixed stars which vary in their brightness, usually in more or less uniform periods. | |
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{Blazing star}, {Double star}, {Multiple star}, {Shooting star}, etc. See under {Blazing}, {Double}, etc. {Nebulous star} (Astron.), a small well-defined circular nebula, having a bright nucleus at its center like a star. {Star anise} (Bot.), any plant of the genus Illicium; -- so called from its star-shaped capsules. {Star apple} (Bot.), a tropical American tree ({Chrysophyllum Cainito}), having a milky juice and oblong leaves with a silky-golden pubescence beneath. It bears an applelike fruit, the carpels of which present a starlike figure when cut across. The name is extended to the whole genus of about sixty species, and the natural order ({Sapotace[91]}) to which it belongs is called the Star-apple family. {Star conner}, one who cons, or studies, the stars; an astronomer or an astrologer. --Gascoigne. {Star coral} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of stony corals belonging to {Astr[91]a}, {Orbicella}, and allied genera, in which the calicles are round or polygonal and contain conspicuous radiating septa. {Star cucumber}. (Bot.) See under {Cucumber}. {Star flower}. (Bot.) (a) A plant of the genus {Ornithogalum}; star-of-Bethlehem. (b) See {Starwort} (b) . (c) An American plant of the genus {Trientalis} ({Trientalis Americana}). --Gray. {Star fort} (Fort.), a fort surrounded on the exterior with projecting angles; -- whence the name. {Star gauge} (Ordnance), a long rod, with adjustable points projecting radially at its end, for measuring the size of different parts of the bore of a gun. {Star grass}. (Bot.) (a) A small grasslike plant ({Hypoxis erecta}) having star-shaped yellow flowers. (b) The colicroot. See {Colicroot}. {Star hyacinth} (Bot.), a bulbous plant of the genus {Scilla} ({S. autumnalis}); -- called also {star-headed hyacinth}. {Star jelly} (Bot.), any one of several gelatinous plants ({Nostoc commune}, {N. edule}, etc.). See {Nostoc}. {Star lizard}. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Stellion}. {Star-of-Bethlehem} (Bot.), a bulbous liliaceous plant ({Ornithogalum umbellatum}) having a small white starlike flower. {Star-of-the-earth} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Plantago} ({P. coronopus}), growing upon the seashore. {Star polygon} (Geom.), a polygon whose sides cut each other so as to form a star-shaped figure. {Stars and Stripes}, a popular name for the flag of the United States, which consists of thirteen horizontal stripes, alternately red and white, and a union having, in a blue field, white stars to represent the several States, one for each. With the old flag, the true American flag, the Eagle, and the Stars and Stripes, waving over the chamber in which we sit. --D. Webster. {Star showers}. See {Shooting star}, under {Shooting}. {Star thistle} (Bot.), an annual composite plant ({Centaurea solstitialis}) having the involucre armed with radiating spines. {Star wheel} (Mach.), a star-shaped disk, used as a kind of ratchet wheel, in repeating watches and the feed motions of some machines. {Star worm} (Zo[94]l.), a gephyrean. {Temporary star} (Astron.), a star which appears suddenly, shines for a period, and then nearly or quite disappears. These stars are supposed by some astronometers to be variable stars of long and undetermined periods. {Variable star} (Astron.), a star whose brilliancy varies periodically, generally with regularity, but sometimes irregularly; -- called {periodical star} when its changes occur at fixed periods. {Water star grass} (Bot.), an aquatic plant ({Schollera graminea}) with small yellow starlike blossoms. | |
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Variable \Va"ri*a*ble\, a. [L. variabilis: cf. F. variable.] 1. Having the capacity of varying or changing; capable of alternation in any manner; changeable; as, variable winds or seasons; a variable quantity. 2. Liable to vary; too susceptible of change; mutable; fickle; unsteady; inconstant; as, the affections of men are variable; passions are variable. Lest that thy love prove likewise variable. --Shak. His heart, I know, how variable and vain! --Milton. {Variable exhaust} (Steam Eng.), a blast pipe with an adjustable opening. {Variable quantity} (Math.), a variable. {Variable stars} (Astron.), fixed stars which vary in their brightness, usually in more or less uniform periods. | |
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Velocity \Ve*loc"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Velocities}. [L. velocitas, from velox, -ocis, swift, quick; perhaps akin to v[?]lare to fly (see {Volatile}): cf. F. v[82]locit[82].] 1. Quickness of motion; swiftness; speed; celerity; rapidity; as, the velocity of wind; the velocity of a planet or comet in its orbit or course; the velocity of a cannon ball; the velocity of light. Note: In such phrases, velocity is more generally used than celerity. We apply celerity to animals; as, a horse or an ostrich runs with celerity; but bodies moving in the air or in ethereal space move with greater or less velocity, not celerity. This usage is arbitrary, and perhaps not universal. 2. (Mech.) Rate of motion; the relation of motion to time, measured by the number of units of space passed over by a moving body or point in a unit of time, usually the number of feet passed over in a second. See the Note under {Speed}. {Angular velocity}. See under {Angular}. {Initial velocity}, the velocity of a moving body at starting; especially, the velocity of a projectile as it leaves the mouth of a firearm from which it is discharged. {Relative velocity}, the velocity with which a body approaches or recedes from another body, whether both are moving or only one. {Uniform velocity}, velocity in which the same number of units of space are described in each successive unit of time. {Variable velocity}, velocity in which the space described varies from instant, either increasing or decreasing; -- in the former case called accelerated velocity, in the latter, retarded velocity; the acceleration or retardation itself being also either uniform or variable. {Virtual velocity}. See under {Virtual}. Note: In variable velocity, the velocity, strictly, at any given instant, is the rate of motion at that instant, and is expressed by the units of space, which, if the velocity at that instant were continued uniform during a unit of time, would be described in the unit of time; thus, the velocity of a falling body at a given instant is the number of feet which, if the motion which the body has at that instant were continued uniformly for one second, it would pass through in the second. The scientific sense of velocity differs from the popular sense in being applied to all rates of motion, however slow, while the latter implies more or less rapidity or quickness of motion. Syn: Swiftness; celerity; rapidity; fleetness; speed. | |
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Variableness \Va"ri*a*ble*ness\, n. The quality or state of being variable; variability. --James i. 17. | |
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Variably \Va"ri*a*bly\, adv. In a variable manner. | |
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Varvel \Var"vel\, n. [F. vervelle.] In falconry, one of the rings secured to the ends of the jesses. [Written also {vervel}.] | |
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Varveled \Var"veled\, a. Having varvels, or rings. [Written also {varvelled}, and {vervelled}.] Note: In heraldry, when the jesses attached to the legs of hawks hang loose, or have pendent ends with rings at the tips, the blazon is a hawk (or a hawk's leg) jessed and varveled. | |
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Varveled \Var"veled\, a. Having varvels, or rings. [Written also {varvelled}, and {vervelled}.] Note: In heraldry, when the jesses attached to the legs of hawks hang loose, or have pendent ends with rings at the tips, the blazon is a hawk (or a hawk's leg) jessed and varveled. | |
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Verbal \Ver"bal\, n. (Gram.) A noun derived from a verb. | |
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Verbal \Ver"bal\, a. [F., fr. L. verbalis. See {Verb}.] 1. Expressed in words, whether spoken or written, but commonly in spoken words; hence, spoken; oral; not written; as, a verbal contract; verbal testimony. Made she no verbal question? --Shak. We subjoin an engraving . . . which will give the reader a far better notion of the structure than any verbal description could convey to the mind. --Mayhew. 2. Consisting in, or having to do with, words only; dealing with words rather than with the ideas intended to be conveyed; as, a verbal critic; a verbal change. And loses, though but verbal, his reward. --Milton. Mere verbal refinements, instead of substantial knowledge. --Whewell. 3. Having word answering to word; word for word; literal; as, a verbal translation. 4. Abounding with words; verbose. [Obs.] --Shak. 5. (Gram.) Of or pertaining to a verb; as, a verbal group; derived directly from a verb; as, a verbal noun; used in forming verbs; as, a verbal prefix. {Verbal inspiration}. See under {Inspiration}. {Verbal noun} (Gram.), a noun derived directly from a verb or verb stem; a verbal. The term is specifically applied to infinitives, and nouns ending in -ing, esp. to the latter. See {Gerund}, and {-ing}, 2. See also, {Infinitive mood}, under {Infinitive}. | |
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Inspiration \In`spi*ra"tion\, n. [F. inspiration, L. inspiratio. See {Inspire}.] 1. The act of inspiring or breathing in; breath; specif. (Physiol.), the drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevation of the chest walls and flattening of the diaphragm; -- the opposite of expiration. 2. The act or power of exercising an elevating or stimulating influence upon the intellect or emotions; the result of such influence which quickens or stimulates; as, the inspiration of occasion, of art, etc. Your father was ever virtuous, and holy men at their death have good inspirations. --Shak. 3. (Theol.) A supernatural divine influence on the prophets, apostles, or sacred writers, by which they were qualified to communicate moral or religious truth with authority; a supernatural influence which qualifies men to receive and communicate divine truth; also, the truth communicated. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God. --2 Tim. iii. 16. The age which we now live in is not an age of inspiration and impulses. --Sharp. {Plenary inspiration} (Theol.), that kind of inspiration which excludes all defect in the utterance of the inspired message. {Verbal inspiration} (Theol.), that kind of inspiration which extends to the very words and forms of expression of the divine message. | |
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Verbal \Ver"bal\, a. [F., fr. L. verbalis. See {Verb}.] 1. Expressed in words, whether spoken or written, but commonly in spoken words; hence, spoken; oral; not written; as, a verbal contract; verbal testimony. Made she no verbal question? --Shak. We subjoin an engraving . . . which will give the reader a far better notion of the structure than any verbal description could convey to the mind. --Mayhew. 2. Consisting in, or having to do with, words only; dealing with words rather than with the ideas intended to be conveyed; as, a verbal critic; a verbal change. And loses, though but verbal, his reward. --Milton. Mere verbal refinements, instead of substantial knowledge. --Whewell. 3. Having word answering to word; word for word; literal; as, a verbal translation. 4. Abounding with words; verbose. [Obs.] --Shak. 5. (Gram.) Of or pertaining to a verb; as, a verbal group; derived directly from a verb; as, a verbal noun; used in forming verbs; as, a verbal prefix. {Verbal inspiration}. See under {Inspiration}. {Verbal noun} (Gram.), a noun derived directly from a verb or verb stem; a verbal. The term is specifically applied to infinitives, and nouns ending in -ing, esp. to the latter. See {Gerund}, and {-ing}, 2. See also, {Infinitive mood}, under {Infinitive}. | |
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Verbal \Ver"bal\, a. [F., fr. L. verbalis. See {Verb}.] 1. Expressed in words, whether spoken or written, but commonly in spoken words; hence, spoken; oral; not written; as, a verbal contract; verbal testimony. Made she no verbal question? --Shak. We subjoin an engraving . . . which will give the reader a far better notion of the structure than any verbal description could convey to the mind. --Mayhew. 2. Consisting in, or having to do with, words only; dealing with words rather than with the ideas intended to be conveyed; as, a verbal critic; a verbal change. And loses, though but verbal, his reward. --Milton. Mere verbal refinements, instead of substantial knowledge. --Whewell. 3. Having word answering to word; word for word; literal; as, a verbal translation. 4. Abounding with words; verbose. [Obs.] --Shak. 5. (Gram.) Of or pertaining to a verb; as, a verbal group; derived directly from a verb; as, a verbal noun; used in forming verbs; as, a verbal prefix. {Verbal inspiration}. See under {Inspiration}. {Verbal noun} (Gram.), a noun derived directly from a verb or verb stem; a verbal. The term is specifically applied to infinitives, and nouns ending in -ing, esp. to the latter. See {Gerund}, and {-ing}, 2. See also, {Infinitive mood}, under {Infinitive}. | |
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Verbalism \Ver"bal*ism\, n. Something expressed verbally; a verbal remark or expression. | |
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Verbalist \Ver"bal*ist\, n. A literal adherent to, or a minute critic of, words; a literalist. | |
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Verbality \Ver*bal"i*ty\, n. The quality or state of being verbal; mere words; bare literal expression. [R.] [bd]More verbality than matter.[b8] --Bp. Hall. | |
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Verbalization \Ver`bal*i*za"tion\, n. The act of verbalizing, or the state of being verbalized. | |
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Verbalize \Ver"bal*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Verbalized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Verbalizing}.] [Cf. F. verbaliser.] To convert into a verb; to verbify. | |
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Verbalize \Ver"bal*ize\, v. i. To be verbose. | |
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Verbalize \Ver"bal*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Verbalized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Verbalizing}.] [Cf. F. verbaliser.] To convert into a verb; to verbify. | |
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Verbalize \Ver"bal*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Verbalized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Verbalizing}.] [Cf. F. verbaliser.] To convert into a verb; to verbify. | |
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Verbally \Ver"bal*ly\, adv. 1. In a verbal manner; orally. 2. Word for word; verbatim. --Dryden. | |
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Varvel \Var"vel\, n. [F. vervelle.] In falconry, one of the rings secured to the ends of the jesses. [Written also {vervel}.] | |
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Vervel \Ver"vel\, n. See {Varvel}. | |
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Varvel \Var"vel\, n. [F. vervelle.] In falconry, one of the rings secured to the ends of the jesses. [Written also {vervel}.] | |
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Vervel \Ver"vel\, n. See {Varvel}. | |
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Varveled \Var"veled\, a. Having varvels, or rings. [Written also {varvelled}, and {vervelled}.] Note: In heraldry, when the jesses attached to the legs of hawks hang loose, or have pendent ends with rings at the tips, the blazon is a hawk (or a hawk's leg) jessed and varveled. |