English Dictionary: annual ring | by the DICT Development Group |
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Ameliorable \A*mel"io*ra*ble\, a. Capable of being ameliorated. | |
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Ameliorate \A*mel"io*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ameliorated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ameliorating}.] [L. ad + meliorare to make better: cf. F. am[82]liorer. See {Meliorate}.] To make better; to improve; to meliorate. In every human being there is a wish to ameliorate his own condition. --Macaulay. | |
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Ameliorate \A*mel"io*rate\, v. i. To grow better; to meliorate; as, wine ameliorates by age. | |
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Ameliorate \A*mel"io*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ameliorated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ameliorating}.] [L. ad + meliorare to make better: cf. F. am[82]liorer. See {Meliorate}.] To make better; to improve; to meliorate. In every human being there is a wish to ameliorate his own condition. --Macaulay. | |
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Ameliorate \A*mel"io*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ameliorated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ameliorating}.] [L. ad + meliorare to make better: cf. F. am[82]liorer. See {Meliorate}.] To make better; to improve; to meliorate. In every human being there is a wish to ameliorate his own condition. --Macaulay. | |
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Amelioration \A*mel`io*ra"tion\, n. [Cf. F. am[82]lioration.] The act of ameliorating, or the state of being ameliorated; making or becoming better; improvement; melioration. [bd]Amelioration of human affairs.[b8] --J. S. Mill. | |
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Ameliorative \A*mel"io*ra*tive\, a. Tending to ameliorate; producing amelioration or improvement; as, ameliorative remedies, efforts. | |
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Ameliorator \A*mel"io*ra`tor\, n. One who ameliorates. | |
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Annealer \An*neal"er\, n. One who, or that which, anneals. | |
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Annueler \An"nu*el*er\, n. A priest employed in saying {annuals}, or anniversary Masses. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Annular \An"nu*lar\, a. [L. annularis, fr. annulis ring: cf. F. annulaire.] 1. Pertaining to, or having the form of, a ring; forming a ring; ringed; ring-shaped; as, annular fibers. 2. Banded or marked with circles. {Annular eclipse} (Astron.), an eclipse of the sun in which the moon at the middle of the eclipse conceals the central part of the sun's disk, leaving a complete ring of light around the border. | |
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Annular \An"nu*lar\, a. [L. annularis, fr. annulis ring: cf. F. annulaire.] 1. Pertaining to, or having the form of, a ring; forming a ring; ringed; ring-shaped; as, annular fibers. 2. Banded or marked with circles. {Annular eclipse} (Astron.), an eclipse of the sun in which the moon at the middle of the eclipse conceals the central part of the sun's disk, leaving a complete ring of light around the border. | |
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Eclipse \E*clipse"\, n. [F. [82]clipse, L. eclipsis, fr. Gr. [?], prop., a forsaking, failing, fr. [?] to leave out, forsake; [?] out + [?] to leave. See {Ex-}, and {Loan}.] 1. (Astron.) An interception or obscuration of the light of the sun, moon, or other luminous body, by the intervention of some other body, either between it and the eye, or between the luminous body and that illuminated by it. A lunar eclipse is caused by the moon passing through the earth's shadow; a solar eclipse, by the moon coming between the sun and the observer. A satellite is eclipsed by entering the shadow of its primary. The obscuration of a planet or star by the moon or a planet, though of the nature of an eclipse, is called an occultation. The eclipse of a small portion of the sun by Mercury or Venus is called a transit of the planet. Note: In ancient times, eclipses were, and among unenlightened people they still are, superstitiously regarded as forerunners of evil fortune, a sentiment of which occasional use is made in literature. That fatal and perfidious bark, Built in the eclipse, and rigged with curses dark. --Milton. 2. The loss, usually temporary or partial, of light, brilliancy, luster, honor, consciousness, etc.; obscuration; gloom; darkness. All the posterity of our fist parents suffered a perpetual eclipse of spiritual life. --Sir W. Raleigh. As in the soft and sweet eclipse, When soul meets soul on lovers' lips. --Shelley. {Annular eclipse}. (Astron.) See under {Annular}. {Cycle of eclipses}. See under {Cycle}. | |
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Annularity \An`nu*lar"i*ty\, n. Annular condition or form; as, the annularity of a nebula. --J. Rogers. | |
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Annularry \An"nu*lar*ry\, adv. In an annular manner. | |
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Annulary \An"nu*la*ry\, a. [L. annularis. See {Annular}.] Having the form of a ring; annular. --Ray. | |
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Annuller \An*nul"ler\, n. One who annuls. [R.] |