English Dictionary: calamari | by the DICT Development Group |
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Calamar \Cal"a*mar\ (k[acr]l"[adot]*m[aum]r), Calamary \Cal"a*ma*ry\, (-m[asl]*r[ycr]r)n. [LL. calamarium inkstand, fr. L. calamus a reed pen: cf. F. calmar, calemar, pen case, calamar.] (Zo[94]l.) A cephalopod, belonging to the genus {Loligo} and related genera. There are many species. They have a sack of inklike fluid which they discharge from the siphon tube, when pursued or alarmed, in order to confuse their enemies. Their shell is a thin horny plate, within the flesh of the back, shaped very much like a quill pen. In America they are called {squids}. See {Squid}. | |
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Calamar \Cal"a*mar\ (k[acr]l"[adot]*m[aum]r), Calamary \Cal"a*ma*ry\, (-m[asl]*r[ycr]r)n. [LL. calamarium inkstand, fr. L. calamus a reed pen: cf. F. calmar, calemar, pen case, calamar.] (Zo[94]l.) A cephalopod, belonging to the genus {Loligo} and related genera. There are many species. They have a sack of inklike fluid which they discharge from the siphon tube, when pursued or alarmed, in order to confuse their enemies. Their shell is a thin horny plate, within the flesh of the back, shaped very much like a quill pen. In America they are called {squids}. See {Squid}. | |
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Calmer \Calm"er\, n. One who, or that which, makes calm. | |
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Calm \Calm\ (k[aum]m), a. [Compar. {Calmer} (-[etil]r); super. {Calmest} (-[ecr]st)] 1. Not stormy; without motion, as of winds or waves; still; quiet; serene; undisturbed. [bd]Calm was the day.[b8] --Spenser. Now all is calm, and fresh, and still. --Bryant. 2. Undisturbed by passion or emotion; not agitated or excited; tranquil; quiet in act or speech. [bd]Calm and sinless peace.[b8] --Milton. [bd]With calm attention.[b8] --Pope. Such calm old age as conscience pure And self-commanding hearts ensure. --Keble. Syn: Still; quiet; undisturbed; tranquil; peaceful; serene; composed; unruffled; sedate; collected; placid. | |
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Claimer \Claim"er\, n. One who claims; a claimant. | |
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Clammy \Clam"my\, a. [Compar. {Clammier}; superl. {Clammiest}.] [Cf. AS. cl[be]m clay. See {Clam} to clog, and cf. {Clay}.] Having the quality of being viscous or adhesive; soft and sticky; glutinous; damp and adhesive, as if covered with a cold perspiration. | |
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Clamor \Clam"or\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Clamored}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Clamoring}.] 1. To salute loudly. [R.] The people with a shout Rifted the air, clamoring their god with praise. --Milton . 2. To stun with noise. [R.] --Bacon. 3. To utter loudly or repeatedly; to shout. Clamored their piteous prayer incessantly. --Longfellow. To clamor bells, to repeat the strokes quickly so as to produce a loud clang. --Bp. Warbur[?]ion. | |
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Clamor \Clam"or\, v. i. To utter loud sounds or outcries; to vociferate; to complain; to make importunate demands. The obscure bird Clamored the livelong night. --Shak. | |
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Clamor \Clam"or\, n. [OF. clamour, clamur, F. clameur, fr. L. clamor, fr. clamare to cry out. See {Claim}.] 1. A great outcry or vociferation; loud and continued shouting or exclamation. --Shak. 2. Any loud and continued noise. --Addison. 3. A continued expression of dissatisfaction or discontent; a popular outcry. --Macaulay. Syn: Outcry; exclamation; noise; uproar. | |
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Clamor \Clam"or\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Clamored}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Clamoring}.] 1. To salute loudly. [R.] The people with a shout Rifted the air, clamoring their god with praise. --Milton . 2. To stun with noise. [R.] --Bacon. 3. To utter loudly or repeatedly; to shout. Clamored their piteous prayer incessantly. --Longfellow. To clamor bells, to repeat the strokes quickly so as to produce a loud clang. --Bp. Warbur[?]ion. | |
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Clamorer \Clam"or*er\, n. One who clamors. | |
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Clamor \Clam"or\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Clamored}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Clamoring}.] 1. To salute loudly. [R.] The people with a shout Rifted the air, clamoring their god with praise. --Milton . 2. To stun with noise. [R.] --Bacon. 3. To utter loudly or repeatedly; to shout. Clamored their piteous prayer incessantly. --Longfellow. To clamor bells, to repeat the strokes quickly so as to produce a loud clang. --Bp. Warbur[?]ion. | |
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Clamorous \Clam"or*ous\, a. [LL. clamorosus, for L. Clamosus: cf. OF. clamoreux.] Speaking and repeating loud words; full of clamor; calling or demanding loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling; loud; turbulent. [bd]My young ones were clamorous for a morning's excursion.[b8] --Southey. -- {Clam"or*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Clam"or*ous*ness}, n. | |
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Clamorous \Clam"or*ous\, a. [LL. clamorosus, for L. Clamosus: cf. OF. clamoreux.] Speaking and repeating loud words; full of clamor; calling or demanding loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling; loud; turbulent. [bd]My young ones were clamorous for a morning's excursion.[b8] --Southey. -- {Clam"or*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Clam"or*ous*ness}, n. | |
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Clamorous \Clam"or*ous\, a. [LL. clamorosus, for L. Clamosus: cf. OF. clamoreux.] Speaking and repeating loud words; full of clamor; calling or demanding loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling; loud; turbulent. [bd]My young ones were clamorous for a morning's excursion.[b8] --Southey. -- {Clam"or*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Clam"or*ous*ness}, n. | |
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Claw \Claw\, n. [AS. clawu, cl[be], cle[a2]; akin to D. klaauw, G. Klaue, Icel. kl[d3], SW. & Dan. klo, and perh. to E. clew.] 1. A sharp, hooked nail, as of a beast or bird. 2. The whole foot of an animal armed with hooked nails; the pinchers of a lobster, crab, etc. 3. Anything resembling the claw of an animal, as the curved and forked end of a hammer for drawing nails. 4. (Bot.) A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, as the base of petals of the pink. --Gray. {Claw hammer}, a hammer with one end of the metallic head cleft for use in extracting nails, etc. {Claw hammer coat}, a dress coat of the swallowtail pattern. [Slang] {Claw sickness}, foot rot, a disease affecting sheep. | |
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Claw \Claw\, n. [AS. clawu, cl[be], cle[a2]; akin to D. klaauw, G. Klaue, Icel. kl[d3], SW. & Dan. klo, and perh. to E. clew.] 1. A sharp, hooked nail, as of a beast or bird. 2. The whole foot of an animal armed with hooked nails; the pinchers of a lobster, crab, etc. 3. Anything resembling the claw of an animal, as the curved and forked end of a hammer for drawing nails. 4. (Bot.) A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, as the base of petals of the pink. --Gray. {Claw hammer}, a hammer with one end of the metallic head cleft for use in extracting nails, etc. {Claw hammer coat}, a dress coat of the swallowtail pattern. [Slang] {Claw sickness}, foot rot, a disease affecting sheep. | |
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Clay \Clay\ (kl[amac]), n. [AS. cl[d6]g; akin to LG. klei, D. klei, and perh. to AS. cl[be]m clay, L. glus, gluten glue, Gr. gloio`s glutinous substance, E. glue. Cf. {Clog}.] 1. A soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. It is the result of the wearing down and decomposition, in part, of rocks containing aluminous minerals, as granite. Lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often present as impurities. 2. (Poetry & Script.) Earth in general, as representing the elementary particles of the human body; hence, the human body as formed from such particles. I also am formed out of the clay. --Job xxxiii. 6. The earth is covered thick with other clay, Which her own clay shall cover. --Byron. {Bowlder clay}. See under {Bowlder}. {Brick clay}, the common clay, containing some iron, and therefore turning red when burned. {Clay cold}, cold as clay or earth; lifeless; inanimate. {Clay ironstone}, an ore of iron consisting of the oxide or carbonate of iron mixed with clay or sand. {Clay marl}, a whitish, smooth, chalky clay. {Clay mill}, a mill for mixing and tempering clay; a pug mill. {Clay pit}, a pit where clay is dug. {Clay slate} (Min.), argillaceous schist; argillite. {Fatty clays}, clays having a greasy feel; they are chemical compounds of water, silica, and aluminia, as {halloysite}, {bole}, etc. {Fire clay}, a variety of clay, entirely free from lime, iron, or an alkali, and therefore infusible, and used for fire brick. {Porcelain clay}, a very pure variety, formed directly from the decomposition of feldspar, and often called {kaolin}. {Potter's clay}, a tolerably pure kind, free from iron. | |
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Claymore \Clay"more`\, n. [Gael. claidheamhmor a broadsword; Gael. claidheamh sword + mor great, large. Cf. {Claymore}.] A large two-handed sword used formerly by the Scottish Highlanders. | |
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Clean \Clean\, a. [Compar. {Cleaner}; superl. {Cleanest}.] [OE. clene, AS. cl[?]ne; akin to OHG. chleini pure, neat, graceful, small, G. klein small, and perh. to W. glan clean, pure, bright; all perh. from a primitive, meaning bright, shining. Cf. {Glair}.] 1. Free from dirt or filth; as, clean clothes. 2. Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects; as, clean land; clean timber. 3. Free from awkwardness; not bungling; adroit; dexterous; as, aclean trick; a clean leap over a fence. 4. Free from errors and vulgarisms; as, a clean style. 5. Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire. When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of corners of thy field. --Lev. xxiii. 22. 6. Free from moral defilement; sinless; pure. Create in me a clean heart, O God. --Ps. li. 10 That I am whole, and clean, and meet for Heaven --Tennyson. 7. (Script.) Free from ceremonial defilement. 8. Free from that which is corrupting to the morals; pure in tone; healthy. [bd]Lothair is clean.[b8] --F. Harrison. 9. Well-proportioned; shapely; as, clean limbs. {A clean bill of health}, a certificate from the proper authority that a ship is free from infection. {Clean breach}. See under {Breach}, n., 4. {To make a clean breast}. See under {Breast}. | |
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Cleaner \Clean"er\, n. One who, or that which, cleans. | |
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Clinorhombic \Cli`no*rhom"bic\, a. [Gr. kli`nein to incline + E. rhombic: cf. F. clinorhombique.] (Crystallog.) Possessing the qualities of a prism, obliquely inclined to a rhombic base; monoclinic. | |
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Clownery \Clown"er*y\ (-[etil]r*[ycr]), n. Clownishness. --L'Estrange. | |
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Coloner \Col"o*ner\, n. A colonist. [Obs.] --Holland | |
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Column \Col"umn\, n. [L. columna, fr. columen, culmen, fr. cellere (used only in comp.), akin to E. excel, and prob. to holm. See {Holm}, and cf. {Colonel}.] 1. (Arch.) A kind of pillar; a cylindrical or polygonal support for a roof, ceiling, statue, etc., somewhat ornamented, and usually composed of base, shaft, and capital. See {Order}. 2. Anything resembling, in form or position, a column in architecture; an upright body or mass; a shaft or obelisk; as, a column of air, of water, of mercury, etc.; the Column Vend[93]me; the spinal column. 3. (Mil.) (a) A body of troops formed in ranks, one behind the other; -- contradistinguished from {line}. Compare {Ploy}, and {Deploy}. (b) A small army. 4. (Naut.) A number of ships so arranged as to follow one another in single or double file or in squadrons; -- in distinction from [bd]line[b8], where they are side by side. 5. (Print.) A perpendicular set of lines, not extending across the page, and separated from other matter by a rule or blank space; as, a column in a newspaper. 6. (Arith.) A perpendicular line of figures. 7. (Bot.) The body formed by the union of the stamens in the Mallow family, or of the stamens and pistil in the orchids. {Attached column}. See under {Attach}, v. t. {Clustered column}. See under {Cluster}, v. t. {Column rule}, a thin strip of brass separating columns of type in the form, and making a line between them in printing. | |
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Columnar \Co*lum"*nar\, a. [L. columnaris, fr. columna.] Formed in columns; having the form of a column or columns; like the shaft of a column. {Columnar epithelium} (Anat.), epithelium in which the cells are prismatic in form, and set upright on the surface they cover. {Columnar structure} (Geol.), a structure consisting of more or less regular columns, usually six-sided, but sometimes with eight or more sides. The columns are often fractured transversely, with a cup joint, showing a concave surface above. This structure is characteristic of certain igneous rocks, as basalt, and is due to contraction in cooling. | |
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Columnar \Co*lum"*nar\, a. [L. columnaris, fr. columna.] Formed in columns; having the form of a column or columns; like the shaft of a column. {Columnar epithelium} (Anat.), epithelium in which the cells are prismatic in form, and set upright on the surface they cover. {Columnar structure} (Geol.), a structure consisting of more or less regular columns, usually six-sided, but sometimes with eight or more sides. The columns are often fractured transversely, with a cup joint, showing a concave surface above. This structure is characteristic of certain igneous rocks, as basalt, and is due to contraction in cooling. | |
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Structure \Struc"ture\, n. [L. structura, from struere, structum, to arrange, build, construct; perhaps akin to E. strew: cf. F. structure. Cf. {Construe}, {Destroy}, {Instrument}, {Obstruct}.] 1. The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction. [R.] His son builds on, and never is content Till the last farthing is in structure spent. --J. Dryden, Jr. 2. Manner of building; form; make; construction. Want of insight into the structure and constitution of the terraqueous globe. --Woodward. 3. Arrangement of parts, of organs, or of constituent particles, in a substance or body; as, the structure of a rock or a mineral; the structure of a sentence. It [basalt] has often a prismatic structure. --Dana. 4. (Biol.) Manner of organization; the arrangement of the different tissues or parts of animal and vegetable organisms; as, organic structure, or the structure of animals and plants; cellular structure. 5. That which is built; a building; esp., a building of some size or magnificence; an edifice. There stands a structure of majestic frame. --Pope. {Columnar structure}. See under {Columnar}. | |
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Columnar \Co*lum"*nar\, a. [L. columnaris, fr. columna.] Formed in columns; having the form of a column or columns; like the shaft of a column. {Columnar epithelium} (Anat.), epithelium in which the cells are prismatic in form, and set upright on the surface they cover. {Columnar structure} (Geol.), a structure consisting of more or less regular columns, usually six-sided, but sometimes with eight or more sides. The columns are often fractured transversely, with a cup joint, showing a concave surface above. This structure is characteristic of certain igneous rocks, as basalt, and is due to contraction in cooling. | |
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Columnarity \Col`um*nar"i*ty\, n. The state or quality of being columnar. | |
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Culinarily \Cu"li*na*ri*ly\ (k?`l?-n?-r?-l?), adv. In the manner of a kitchen; in connection with a kitchen or cooking. | |
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Culinary \Cu"li*na*ry\ (k?"l?-n?-r?), a. [L. culinarius, fr. culina kitchen, perh. akin to carbo coal: cf. F. culinare.] Relating to the kitchen, or to the art of cookery; used in kitchens; as, a culinary vessel; the culinary art. | |
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Locust \Lo"cust\, n. [L. locusta locust, grasshopper. Cf. {Lobster}.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of long-winged, migratory, orthopterous insects, of the family {Acridid[91]}, allied to the grasshoppers; esp., ({Edipoda, [or] Pachytylus, migratoria}, and {Acridium perigrinum}, of Southern Europe, Asia, and Africa. In the United States the related species with similar habits are usually called {grasshoppers}. See {Grasshopper}. Note: These insects are at times so numerous in Africa and the south of Asia as to devour every green thing; and when they migrate, they fly in an immense cloud. In the United States the harvest flies are improperly called locusts. See {Cicada}. {Locust beetle} (Zo[94]l.), a longicorn beetle ({Cyllene robini[91]}), which, in the larval state, bores holes in the wood of the locust tree. Its color is brownish black, barred with yellow. Called also {locust borer}. {Locust bird} (Zo[94]l.) the rose-colored starling or pastor of India. See {Pastor}. {Locust hunter} (Zo[94]l.), an African bird; the beefeater. 2. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Bot.) The locust tree. See {Locust Tree} (definition, note, and phrases). {Locust bean} (Bot.), a commercial name for the sweet pod of the carob tree. | |
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Calmar, IA (city, FIPS 10045) Location: 43.17940 N, 91.86690 W Population (1990): 1026 (438 housing units) Area: 2.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 52132 | |
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Chalmers, IN (town, FIPS 11944) Location: 40.66254 N, 86.86759 W Population (1990): 525 (205 housing units) Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 47929 | |
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Clymer, NY Zip code(s): 14724 Clymer, PA (borough, FIPS 14520) Location: 40.66829 N, 79.01402 W Population (1990): 1499 (647 housing units) Area: 1.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 15728 | |
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Chalmers University of Technology A Swedish university founded in 1829 offering master of science and doctoral degrees. Research is carried out in the main engineering sciences as well as in technology related mathematical and natural sciences. Five hundred faculty members work in more than 100 departments organised in nine schools. Chalmers collaborates with the University of Göteborg. Around 8500 people work and study on the Chalmers campus, including around 500 faculty members and some 600 teachers and doctoral students. About 4800 students follow the master degree programs. Every year 700 Masters of Science in Engineering and in Architecture graduate from Chalmers, and about 190 PhDs and licentiates are awarded. Some 40% of Sweden's engineers and architects are Chalmers graduates. About a thousand research projects are in progress and more than 1500 scientific articles and research reports are published every year. Chalmers is a partner in 80 EC research projects. {Home (http://www.chalmers.se/Home-E.html)}. Address: S-412 96 Göteborg, SWEDEN. Telephone: +46 (31) 772 10 00. Fax: +46 (31) 772 38 72. (1995-02-16) | |
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Cleanroom A software development approach aimed at producing software with the minimum number of errors. (1994-12-12) |