English Dictionary: efface | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Eaves \Eaves\, n. pl. [OE. evese, pl. eveses, AS. efese eaves, brim, brink; akin to OHG. obisa, opasa, porch, hall, MHG. obse eaves, Icel. ups, Goth. ubizwa porch; cf. Icel. upsar-dropi, OSw. ops[84]-drup water dropping from the eaves. Probably from the root of E. over. The s of eaves is in English regarded as a plural ending, though not so in Saxon. See {Over}, and cf. {Eavesdrop}.] 1. (Arch.) The edges or lower borders of the roof of a building, which overhang the walls, and cast off the water that falls on the roof. 2. Brow; ridge. [Obs.] [bd]Eaves of the hill.[b8] --Wyclif. 3. Eyelids or eyelashes. And closing eaves of wearied eyes. --Tennyson. {Eaves board} (Arch.), an arris fillet, or a thick board with a feather edge, nailed across the rafters at the eaves of a building, to raise the lower course of slates a little, or to receive the lowest course of tiles; -- called also {eaves catch} and {eaves lath}. {Eaves channel}, {Eaves gutter}, {Eaves trough}. Same as {Gutter}, 1. {Eaves molding} (Arch.), a molding immediately below the eaves, acting as a cornice or part of a cornice. {Eaves swallow} (Zo[94]l.). (a) The cliff swallow; -- so called from its habit of building retort-shaped nests of mud under the eaves of buildings. See {Cliff swallow}, under {Cliff}. (b) The European swallow. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Efface \Ef*face"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Effaced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Effacing}.] [F. effacer; pref. es- (L. ex) + face face; prop., to destroy the face or form. See {Face}, and cf. {Deface}.] 1. To cause to disappear (as anything impresses or inscribed upon a surface) by rubbing out, striking out, etc.; to erase; to render illegible or indiscernible; as, to efface the letters on a monument, or the inscription on a coin. 2. To destroy, as a mental impression; to wear away. Efface from his mind the theories and notions vulgarly received. --Bacon. Syn: To blot out; expunge; erase; obliterate; cancel; destroy. -- {Efface}, {Deface}. To deface is to injure or impair a figure; to efface is to rub out or destroy, so as to render invisible. | |
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Effigy \Ef"fi*gy\, n.; pl. {Effigies}. [L. effigies, fr. effingere to form, fashion; ex + fingere to form, shape, devise. See {Feign}.] The image, likeness, or representation of a person, whether a full figure, or a part; an imitative figure; -- commonly applied to sculptured likenesses, as those on monuments, or to those of the heads of princes on coins and medals, sometimes applied to portraits. {To burn}, [or] {To hang}, {in effigy}, to burn or to hang an image or picture of a person, as a token of public odium. | |
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Effuse \Ef*fuse"\, a. [L. effusus, p. p. of effundere to pour out; ex + fundere to pour. See {Fuse} to melt.] 1. Poured out freely; profuse. [Obs.] So should our joy be very effuse. --Barrow. 2. Disposed to pour out freely; prodigal. [Obs.] --Young. 3. (Bot.) Spreading loosely, especially on one side; as, an effuse inflorescence. --Loudon. 4. (Zo[94]l.) Having the lips, or edges, of the aperture abruptly spreading; -- said of certain shells. | |
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Effuse \Ef*fuse"\, n. Effusion; loss. [bd]Much effuse of blood.[b8] --Shak. | |
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Effuse \Ef*fuse"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Effused}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Effusing}.] To pour out like a stream or freely; to cause to exude; to shed. [R.] With gushing blood effused. --Milton. | |
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Effuse \Ef*fuse"\, v. i. To emanate; to issue. --Thomson. | |
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Epic \Ep"ic\, n. An epic or heroic poem. See {Epic}, a. | |
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Epic \Ep"ic\, a. [L. epicus, Gr. [?], from [?] a word, speech, tale, song; akin to L. vox voice: cf. F. [82]pique. See {Voice}.] Narrated in a grand style; pertaining to or designating a kind of narrative poem, usually called an heroic poem, in which real or fictitious events, usually the achievements of some hero, are narrated in an elevated style. The epic poem treats of one great, complex action, in a grand style and with fullness of detail. --T. Arnold. | |
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Perigee \Per"i*gee\, Perigeum \Per`i*ge"um\, n. [NL. perigeum, fr. Gr. [?] about, near + [?] the earth: cf. F. p[82]rig[82]e.] (Astron.) That point in the orbit of the moon which is nearest to the earth; -- opposed to {apogee}. It is sometimes, but rarely, used of the nearest points of other orbits, as of a comet, a planet, etc. Called also {epigee}, {epigeum}. | |
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Epigee \Ep"i*gee\, n. [NL. epigeum, fr. Gr. [?] upon the earth. See {Epig[91]a}.] See {Perigee}. [Obs.] | |
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Perigee \Per"i*gee\, Perigeum \Per`i*ge"um\, n. [NL. perigeum, fr. Gr. [?] about, near + [?] the earth: cf. F. p[82]rig[82]e.] (Astron.) That point in the orbit of the moon which is nearest to the earth; -- opposed to {apogee}. It is sometimes, but rarely, used of the nearest points of other orbits, as of a comet, a planet, etc. Called also {epigee}, {epigeum}. | |
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Epigee \Ep"i*gee\, n. [NL. epigeum, fr. Gr. [?] upon the earth. See {Epig[91]a}.] See {Perigee}. [Obs.] | |
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d8Epizo94n \[d8]Ep`i*zo"[94]n\, n.; pl. {Epizoa}. [NL., fr. Gr. 'epi` upon + [?] animal.] (Zo[94]l.) One of the artificial group of invertebrates of various kinds, which live parasitically upon the exterior of other animals; an ectozo[94]n. Among them are the lice, ticks, many acari, the lerneans, or fish lice, and other crustaceans. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Epoch \Ep"och\ (?; 277), n. [LL. epocha, Gr. [?] check, stop, an epoch of a star, an historical epoch, fr. [?] to hold on, check; 'epi` upon + [?] to have, hold; akin to Skr. sah to overpower, Goth. sigis victory, AS. sigor, sige, G. sieg: cf. F. [82]poque. See {Scheme}.] 1. A fixed point of time, established in history by the occurrence of some grand or remarkable event; a point of time marked by an event of great subsequent influence; as, the epoch of the creation; the birth of Christ was the epoch which gave rise to the Christian era. In divers ages, . . . divers epochs of time were used. --Usher. Great epochs and crises in the kingdom of God. --Trench. The acquittal of the bishops was not the only event which makes the 30th of June, 1688, a great epoch in history. --Macaulay. Note: Epochs mark the beginning of new historical periods, and dates are often numbered from them. 2. A period of time, longer or shorter, remarkable for events of great subsequent influence; a memorable period; as, the epoch of maritime discovery, or of the Reformation. [bd]So vast an epoch of time.[b8] --F. Harrison. The influence of Chaucer continued to live even during the dreary interval which separates from one another two important epochs of our literary history. --A. W. Ward. 3. (Geol.) A division of time characterized by the prevalence of similar conditions of the earth; commonly a minor division or part of a period. The long geological epoch which stored up the vast coal measures. --J. C. Shairp. 4. (Astron.) (a) The date at which a planet or comet has a longitude or position. (b) An arbitrary fixed date, for which the elements used in computing the place of a planet, or other heavenly body, at any other date, are given; as, the epoch of Mars; lunar elements for the epoch March 1st, 1860. Syn: Era; time; date; period; age. Usage: {Epoch}, {Era}. We speak of the era of the Reformation, when we think of it as a period, during which a new order of things prevailed; so also, the era of good feeling, etc. Had we been thinking of the time as marked by certain great events, or as a period in which great results were effected, we should have called the times when these events happened epochs, and the whole period an epoch. The capture of Constantinople is an epoch in the history of Mahometanism; but the flight of Mahomet is its era. --C. J. Smith. | |
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Euphuize \Eu"phu*ize\, v. t. To affect excessive refinement in language; to be overnice in expression. | |
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Evoke \E*voke"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Evoked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Evoking}.] [L. evocare; e out + vocare to call, fr. vox, vocis, voice: cf. F [82]voquer. See {Voice}, and cf. {Evocate}.] 1. To call out; to summon forth. To evoke the queen of the fairies. --T. Warton. A requlating discipline of exercise, that whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted. --De Quincey. 2. To call away; to remove from one tribunal to another. [R.] [bd]The cause was evoked to Rome.[b8] --Hume. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Eyepiece \Eye"piece`\, n. (Opt.) The lens, or combination of lenses, at the eye end of a telescope or other optical instrument, through which the image formed by the mirror or object glass is viewed. {Collimating eyepiece}. See under {Collimate}. {Negative}, or {Huyghenian}, {eyepiece}, an eyepiece consisting of two plano-convex lenses with their curved surfaces turned toward the object glass, and separated from each other by about half the sum of their focal distances, the image viewed by the eye being formed between the two lenses. it was devised by Huyghens, who applied it to the telescope. Campani applied it to the microscope, whence it is sometimes called {Campani's eyepiece}. {Positive eyepiece}, an eyepiece consisting of two plano-convex lenses placed with their curved surfaces toward each other, and separated by a distance somewhat less than the focal distance of the one nearest eye, the image of the object viewed being beyond both lenses; -- called also, from the name of the inventor, {Ramsden's eyepiece}. {terrestrial}, or {Erecting eyepiece}, an eyepiece used in telescopes for viewing terrestrial objects, consisting of three, or usually four, lenses, so arranged as to present the image of the object viewed in an erect position. | |
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Eyepiece \Eye"piece`\, n. (Opt.) The lens, or combination of lenses, at the eye end of a telescope or other optical instrument, through which the image formed by the mirror or object glass is viewed. {Collimating eyepiece}. See under {Collimate}. {Negative}, or {Huyghenian}, {eyepiece}, an eyepiece consisting of two plano-convex lenses with their curved surfaces turned toward the object glass, and separated from each other by about half the sum of their focal distances, the image viewed by the eye being formed between the two lenses. it was devised by Huyghens, who applied it to the telescope. Campani applied it to the microscope, whence it is sometimes called {Campani's eyepiece}. {Positive eyepiece}, an eyepiece consisting of two plano-convex lenses placed with their curved surfaces toward each other, and separated by a distance somewhat less than the focal distance of the one nearest eye, the image of the object viewed being beyond both lenses; -- called also, from the name of the inventor, {Ramsden's eyepiece}. {terrestrial}, or {Erecting eyepiece}, an eyepiece used in telescopes for viewing terrestrial objects, consisting of three, or usually four, lenses, so arranged as to present the image of the object viewed in an erect position. | |
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From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
epoch n. [Unix: prob. from astronomical timekeeping] The time and date corresponding to 0 in an operating system's clock and timestamp values. Under most Unix versions the epoch is 00:00:00 GMT, January 1, 1970; under VMS, it's 00:00:00 of November 17, 1858 (base date of the U.S. Naval Observatory's ephemerides); on a Macintosh, it's the midnight beginning January 1 1904. System time is measured in seconds or {tick}s past the epoch. Weird problems may ensue when the clock wraps around (see {wrap around}), which is not necessarily a rare event; on systems counting 10 ticks per second, a signed 32-bit count of ticks is good only for 6.8 years. The 1-tick-per-second clock of Unix is good only until January 18, 2038, assuming at least some software continues to consider it signed and that word lengths don't increase by then. See also {wall time}. Microsoft Windows, on the other hand, has an epoch problem every 49.7 days - but this is seldom noticed as Windows is almost incapable of staying up continuously for that long. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
EPCS {Experimental Physics Control Systems} | |
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epoch 1. [Unix: probably from astronomical timekeeping] The time and date corresponding to 0 in an operating system's clock and timestamp values. Under most Unix versions the epoch is 00:00:00 GMT, January 1, 1970; under VMS, it's 00:00:00 of November 17, 1858 (base date of the US Naval Observatory's ephemerides); on a Macintosh, it's the midnight beginning January 1 1904. System time is measured in seconds or {tick}s past the epoch. Weird problems may ensue when the clock wraps around (see {wrap around}), which is not necessarily a rare event; on systems counting 10 ticks per second, a signed 32-bit count of ticks is good only for 6.8 years. The 1-tick-per-second clock of Unix is good only until January 18, 2038, assuming at least some software continues to consider it signed and that word lengths don't increase by then. See also {wall time}. 2. (Epoch) A version of {GNU Emacs} for the {X Window System} from {NCSA}. [{Jargon File}] | |
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EPS {Encapsulated PostScript} | |
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EPSS {Electronic Performance Support System} | |
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EVGA {Extended Video Graphics Array} |