English Dictionary: basal body temperature method | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bacilliform \Ba*cil"li*form\, a. [L. bacillum little staff + -form.] Rod-shaped. | |
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Basal \Ba"sal\, a. Relating to, or forming, the base. {Basal cleavage}. See under {Cleavage}. {Basal plane} (Crystallog.), one parallel to the lateral or horizontal axis. | |
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Bascule \Bas"cule\, n. [F., a seesaw.] In mechanics an apparatus on the principle of the seesaw, in which one end rises as the other falls. {Bascule bridge}, a counterpoise or balanced drawbridge, which is opened by sinking the counterpoise and thus lifting the footway into the air. | |
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Bridge \Bridge\, n. [OE. brig, brigge, brug, brugge, AS. brycg, bricg; akin to Fries. bregge, D. brug, OHG. brucca, G. br[81]cke, Icel. bryggja pier, bridge, Sw. brygga, Dan. brygge, and prob. Icel. br[umac] bridge, Sw. & Dan. bro bridge, pavement, and possibly to E. brow.] 1. A structure, usually of wood, stone, brick, or iron, erected over a river or other water course, or over a chasm, railroad, etc., to make a passageway from one bank to the other. 2. Anything supported at the ends, which serves to keep some other thing from resting upon the object spanned, as in engraving, watchmaking, etc., or which forms a platform or staging over which something passes or is conveyed. 3. (Mus.) The small arch or bar at right angles to the strings of a violin, guitar, etc., serving of raise them and transmit their vibrations to the body of the instrument. 4. (Elec.) A device to measure the resistance of a wire or other conductor forming part of an electric circuit. 5. A low wall or vertical partition in the fire chamber of a furnace, for deflecting flame, etc.; -- usually called a {bridge wall}. {Aqueduct bridge}. See {Aqueduct}. {Asses' bridge}, {Bascule bridge}, {Bateau bridge}. See under {Ass}, {Bascule}, {Bateau}. {Bridge of a steamer} (Naut.), a narrow platform across the deck, above the rail, for the convenience of the officer in charge of the ship; in paddlewheel vessels it connects the paddle boxes. {Bridge of the nose}, the upper, bony part of the nose. {Cantalever bridge}. See under {Cantalever}. {Draw bridge}. See {Drawbridge}. {Flying bridge}, a temporary bridge suspended or floating, as for the passage of armies; also, a floating structure connected by a cable with an anchor or pier up stream, and made to pass from bank to bank by the action of the current or other means. {Girder bridge} or {Truss bridge}, a bridge formed by girders, or by trusses resting upon abutments or piers. {Lattice bridge}, a bridge formed by lattice girders. {Pontoon bridge}, {Ponton bridge}. See under {Pontoon}. {Skew bridge}, a bridge built obliquely from bank to bank, as sometimes required in railway engineering. {Suspension bridge}. See under {Suspension}. {Trestle bridge}, a bridge formed of a series of short, simple girders resting on trestles. {Tubular bridge}, a bridge in the form of a hollow trunk or rectangular tube, with cellular walls made of iron plates riveted together, as the Britannia bridge over the Menai Strait, and the Victoria bridge at Montreal. {Wheatstone's bridge} (Elec.), a device for the measurement of resistances, so called because the balance between the resistances to be measured is indicated by the absence of a current in a certain wire forming a bridge or connection between two points of the apparatus; -- invented by Sir Charles Wheatstone. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bass \Bass\, a. Deep or grave in tone. {Bass clef} (Mus.), the character placed at the beginning of the staff containing the bass part of a musical composition. [See Illust. under {Clef}.] {Bass voice}, a deep-sounding voice; a voice fitted for singing bass. | |
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Clef \Clef\ (kl[ecr]f; 277), n. [F. clef key, a key in music, fr. L. clavis key. See {Clavicle}.] (Mus.) A character used in musical notation to determine the position and pitch of the scale as represented on the staff. Note: The clefs are three in number, called the C, F, and G clefs, and are probably corruptions or modifications of these letters. They indicate that the letters of absolute pitch belonging to the lines upon which they are placed, are respectively C, F, and G. The F or bass clef, and the G or treble clef, are fixed in their positions upon the staff. The C clef may have three positions. It may be placed upon the first or lower line of the staff, in which case it is called soprano clef, upon the third line, in which case it called alto clef, or upon the fourth line, in which case tenor clef. It rarely or never is placed upon the second line, except in ancient music. See other forms of C clef under C, 2. {Alto clef}, {Bass clef}. See under {Alto}, {Bass}. | |
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Beclap \Be*clap\, v. t. [OE. biclappen.] To catch; to grasp; to insnare. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Beclip \Be*clip"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Beclipped} ([?]).] [AS. beclyppan; pref. be + clyppan to embrace.] To embrace; to surround. [Obs.] --Wyclif. | |
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Beclip \Be*clip"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Beclipped} ([?]).] [AS. beclyppan; pref. be + clyppan to embrace.] To embrace; to surround. [Obs.] --Wyclif. | |
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Beslabber \Be*slab"ber\, v. t. To beslobber. | |
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Beslave \Be*slave"\, v. t. To enslave. [Obs.] --Bp. Hall. | |
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Beslaver \Be*slav"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Beslavered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Beslavering}.] To defile with slaver; to beslobber. | |
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Beslaver \Be*slav"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Beslavered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Beslavering}.] To defile with slaver; to beslobber. | |
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Beslaver \Be*slav"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Beslavered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Beslavering}.] To defile with slaver; to beslobber. | |
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Beslobber \Be*slob"ber\, v. t. To slobber on; to smear with spittle running from the mouth. Also Fig.: as, to beslobber with praise. | |
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Beslubber \Be*slub"ber\, v. t. To beslobber. | |
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Damiana \Da`mi*a"na\, n. [NL.; of uncertain origin.] (Med.) A Mexican drug, used as an aphrodisiac. Note: There are several varieties derived from different plants, esp. from a species of {Turnera} and from {Bigelovia veneta}. --Wood & Bache. | |
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Bisulphate \Bi*sul"phate\, n. [Pref. bi- + sulphate.] (Chem.) A sulphate in which but half the hydrogen of the acid is replaced by a positive element or radical, thus making the proportion of the acid to the positive or basic portion twice what it is in the normal sulphates; an acid sulphate. | |
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Bisulphide \Bi*sul"phide\, n. [Pref. bi- + sulphide.] (Chem.) A sulphide having two atoms of sulphur in the molecule; a disulphide, as in iron pyrites, FeS2; -- less frequently called bisulphuret. | |
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Bisulphite \Bi*sul"phite\, n. (Chem.) A salt of sulphurous acid in which the base replaces but half the hydrogen of the acid; an acid sulphite. | |
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Bisulphuret \Bi*sul"phu*ret\, n. [Pref. bi- + sulphuret.] (Chem.) See {Bisulphide}. | |
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Bookshelf \Book"shelf`\, n.; pl. {Bookshelves}. A shelf to hold books. | |
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Bookshelf \Book"shelf`\, n.; pl. {Bookshelves}. A shelf to hold books. | |
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Nylghau \Nyl"ghau\, Nylgau \Nyl"gau\, n. [Hind. & Per. n[c6]lg[be]w, prop., a blue cow; Per. n[c6]l blue + g[be]w cow. See {Lilac}, and {Cow} the animal.] (Zo[94]l.) A large Asiatic antelope ({Boselaphus, [or] Portax, tragocamelus}), found in Northern India. It has short horns, a black mane, and a bunch of long hair on the throat. The general color is grayish brown. [Written also {neelghau}, {nilgau}, and {nylghaie}.] | |
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Level \Lev"el\ (l[ecr]v"[ecr]l), n. [OE. level, livel, OF. livel, F. niveau, fr. L. libella level, water level, a plumb level, dim. of libra pound, measure for liquids, balance, water poise, level. Cf. {Librate}, {Libella}.] 1. A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is everywhere parallel to the surface of still water; -- this is the true level, and is a curve or surface in which all points are equally distant from the center of the earth, or rather would be so if the earth were an exact sphere. 2. A horizontal line or plane; that is, a straight line or a plane which is tangent to a true level at a given point and hence parallel to the horizon at that point; -- this is the apparent level at the given point. 3. An approximately horizontal line or surface at a certain degree of altitude, or distance from the center of the earth; as, to climb from the level of the coast to the level of the plateau and then descend to the level of the valley or of the sea. After draining of the level in Northamptonshire. --Sir M. Hale. Shot from the deadly level of a gun. --Shak. 4. Hence, figuratively, a certain position, rank, standard, degree, quality, character, etc., conceived of as in one of several planes of different elevation. Providence, for the most part, sets us on a level. --Addison. Somebody there of his own level. --Swift. Be the fair level of thy actions laid As temperance wills and prudence may persuade. --Prior. 5. A uniform or average height; a normal plane or altitude; a condition conformable to natural law or which will secure a level surface; as, moving fluids seek a level. When merit shall find its level. --F. W. Robertson. 6. (Mech. & Surv.) (a) An instrument by which to find a horizontal line, or adjust something with reference to a horizontal line. (b) A measurement of the difference of altitude of two points, by means of a level; as, to take a level. 7. A horizontal passage, drift, or adit, in a mine. {Air level}, {a spirit level}. See {Spirit level} (below). {Box level}, a spirit level in which a glass-covered box is used instead of a tube. {Carpenter's level}, {Mason's level}, either the plumb level or a straight bar of wood, in which is imbedded a small spirit level. {Level of the sea}, the imaginary level from which heights and depths are calculated, taken at a mean distance between high and low water. {Line of levels}, a connected series of measurements, by means of a level, along a given line, as of a railroad, to ascertain the profile of the ground. {Plumb level}, one in which a horizontal bar is placed in true position by means of a plumb line, to which it is at right angles. {Spirit level}, one in which the adjustment to the horizon is shown by the position of a bubble in alcohol or ether contained in a nearly horizontal glass tube, or a circular box with a glass cover. {Surveyor's level}, a telescope, with a spirit level attached, and with suitable screws, etc., for accurate adjustment, the whole mounted on a tripod, for use in leveling; -- called also {leveling instrument}. {Water level}, an instrument to show the level by means of the surface of water in a trough, or in upright tubes connected by a pipe. | |
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Boy \Boy\, n. [Cf. D. boef, Fries. boi, boy; akin to G. bube, Icel. bofi rouge.] A male child, from birth to the age of puberty; a lad; hence, a son. My only boy fell by the side of great Dundee. --Sir W. Scott. Note: Boy is often used as a term of comradeship, as in college, or in the army or navy. In the plural used colloquially of members of an associaton, fraternity, or party. {Boy bishop}, a boy (usually a chorister) elected bishop, in old Christian sports, and invested with robes and other insignia. He practiced a kind of mimicry of the ceremonies in which the bishop usually officiated. {The Old Boy}, the Devil. [Slang] {Yellow boys}, guineas. [Slang, Eng.] {Boy's love}, a popular English name of Southernwood ({Artemisia abrotonum}); -- called also {lad's love}. {Boy's play}, childish amusements; anything trifling. | |
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Bacliff, TX (CDP, FIPS 5180) Location: 29.50816 N, 94.99190 W Population (1990): 5549 (2508 housing units) Area: 7.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 77518 | |
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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
busy-loop {tight loop} |