visitation : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

   vegetate
         v 1: lead a passive existence without using one's body or mind
         2: establish vegetation on; "They vegetated the hills behind
            their house"
         3: produce vegetation; "The fields vegetate vigorously"
         4: grow like a plant; "This fungus usually vegetates vigorously"
         5: grow or spread abnormally; "warts and polyps can vegetate if
            not removed"
         6: propagate asexually; "The bacterial growth vegetated along"
         7: engage in passive relaxation; "After a hard day's work, I
            vegetate in front of the television" [syn: {vege out},
            {vegetate}]

English Dictionary: visitation	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vegetation n all the plant life in a particular region or period; "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China" Synonym(s): vegetation, flora, botany Antonym(s): fauna, zoology the process of growth in plants an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart) inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life; "their holiday was spent in sleep and vegetation"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vegetational adj composed of vegetation or plants; "regions rich in vegetal products"; "vegetational cover"; "the decaying vegetative layer covering a forest floor" Synonym(s): vegetal, vegetational, vegetative
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vegetative adj of or relating to an activity that is passive and monotonous; "a dull vegetative lifestyle" Synonym(s): vegetative, vegetive composed of vegetation or plants; "regions rich in vegetal products"; "vegetational cover"; "the decaying vegetative layer covering a forest floor" Synonym(s): vegetal, vegetational, vegetative relating to involuntary bodily functions; "vegetative functions such as digestion or growth or circulation" (of reproduction) characterized by asexual processes Synonym(s): vegetal, vegetative
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vegetative cell n any of the cells of a plant or animal except the reproductive cells; a cell that does not participate in the production of gametes; "somatic cells are produced from preexisting cells"; Synonym(s): somatic cell, vegetative cell
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vested adj fixed and absolute and without contingency; "a vested right"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vested interest n (law) an interest in which there is a fixed right to present or future enjoyment and that can be conveyed to another groups that seek to control a social system or activity from which they derive private benefit
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vestiture n an archaic term for clothing
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
viscidity n the property of being cohesive and sticky [syn: cohesiveness, glueyness, gluiness, gumminess, tackiness, ropiness, viscidity, viscidness]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
visitation n an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event; "his mother-in-law's visits were a great trial for him"; "life is full of tribulations"; "a visitation of the plague" Synonym(s): trial, tribulation, visitation any disaster or catastrophe; "a visitation of the plague" an official visit for inspection or supervision; "the commissioner made visitations to all the precinct stations"; "the recent visitation of the bishop to his diocese"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
visitation right n the right granted by a court to a parent (or other relative) who is deprived of custody of a child to visit the child on a regular basis
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vacate \Va"cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Vacated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Vacating}.] [L. vacare, vacatum, to be empty. See {Vacant}.] 1. To make vacant; to leave empty; to cease from filling or occupying; as, it was resolved by Parliament that James had vacated the throne of England; the tenant vacated the house. 2. To annul; to make void; to deprive of force; to make of no authority or validity; as, to vacate a commission or a charter; to vacate proceedings in a cause. That after act vacating the authority of the precedent. --Eikon Basilike. The necessity of observing the Jewish Sabbath was Vacated by the apostolical institution of the Lord's Day. --R. Nelson. 3. To defeat; to put an end to. [R.] He vacates my revenge. --Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vastation \Vas*ta"tion\, n. [L. vastatio, fr. vastare to lay waste, fr. vastus empty, waste.] A laying waste; waste; depopulation; devastation. [Obs.] --Bp. Hall.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vastidity \Vastid"ity\, n. [Cf. OF. vastit[82], L. vastitas.] Vastness; immensity. [Obs.] [bd]All the world's vastidity.[b8] --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vastitude \Vas"ti*tude\, n. [L. vastitudo.] 1. Vastness; immense extent. [R.] 2. Destruction; vastation. [Obs.] --Joye.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vastity \Vast"i*ty\, n. [L. vastitas.] Vastness. [Obs.] The huge vastity of the world. --Holland.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vectitation \Vec`ti*ta"tion\, n. [L. vectitatus born[?] about, fr. ve[?]tare, v. intens. fr. vehere, vectum, to carry.] The act of carrying, or state of being carried. [Obs.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vegetate \Veg"e*tate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Vegetated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Vegetating}.] [L. vegetatus, p. p. of vegetare to enliven. See {Vegetable}.] 1. To grow, as plants, by nutriment imbibed by means of roots and leaves; to start into growth; to sprout; to germinate. See dying vegetables life sustain, See life dissolving vegetate again. --Pope. 2. Fig.: To lead a live too low for an animate creature; to do nothing but eat and grow. --Cowper. Persons who . . . would have vegetated stupidly in the places where fortune had fixed them. --Jeffrey. 3. (Med.) To grow exuberantly; to produce fleshy or warty outgrowths; as, a vegetating papule.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vegetate \Veg"e*tate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Vegetated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Vegetating}.] [L. vegetatus, p. p. of vegetare to enliven. See {Vegetable}.] 1. To grow, as plants, by nutriment imbibed by means of roots and leaves; to start into growth; to sprout; to germinate. See dying vegetables life sustain, See life dissolving vegetate again. --Pope. 2. Fig.: To lead a live too low for an animate creature; to do nothing but eat and grow. --Cowper. Persons who . . . would have vegetated stupidly in the places where fortune had fixed them. --Jeffrey. 3. (Med.) To grow exuberantly; to produce fleshy or warty outgrowths; as, a vegetating papule.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vegetate \Veg"e*tate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Vegetated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Vegetating}.] [L. vegetatus, p. p. of vegetare to enliven. See {Vegetable}.] 1. To grow, as plants, by nutriment imbibed by means of roots and leaves; to start into growth; to sprout; to germinate. See dying vegetables life sustain, See life dissolving vegetate again. --Pope. 2. Fig.: To lead a live too low for an animate creature; to do nothing but eat and grow. --Cowper. Persons who . . . would have vegetated stupidly in the places where fortune had fixed them. --Jeffrey. 3. (Med.) To grow exuberantly; to produce fleshy or warty outgrowths; as, a vegetating papule.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vegetation \Veg`e*ta"tion\, n. [Cf. F. v[82]g[82]tation, L. vegetatio an enlivening. See {Vegetable}.] 1. The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth. 2. The sum of vegetable life; vegetables or plants in general; as, luxuriant vegetation. 3. (Med.) An exuberant morbid outgrowth upon any part, especially upon the valves of the heart. {Vegetation of salts} (Old Chem.), a crystalline growth of an arborescent form.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vegetation \Veg`e*ta"tion\, n. [Cf. F. v[82]g[82]tation, L. vegetatio an enlivening. See {Vegetable}.] 1. The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth. 2. The sum of vegetable life; vegetables or plants in general; as, luxuriant vegetation. 3. (Med.) An exuberant morbid outgrowth upon any part, especially upon the valves of the heart. {Vegetation of salts} (Old Chem.), a crystalline growth of an arborescent form.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vegetative \Veg"etative\, a. [Cf. F. v[82]g[82]tatif.] 1. Growing, or having the power of growing, as plants; capable of vegetating. 2. Having the power to produce growth in plants; as, the vegetative properties of soil. 3. (Biol.) Having relation to growth or nutrition; partaking of simple growth and enlargement of the systems of nutrition, apart from the sensorial or distinctively animal functions; vegetal. -- {Veg"etatively}, adv. -- {Veg"etativeness}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vegetative \Veg"etative\, a. [Cf. F. v[82]g[82]tatif.] 1. Growing, or having the power of growing, as plants; capable of vegetating. 2. Having the power to produce growth in plants; as, the vegetative properties of soil. 3. (Biol.) Having relation to growth or nutrition; partaking of simple growth and enlargement of the systems of nutrition, apart from the sensorial or distinctively animal functions; vegetal. -- {Veg"etatively}, adv. -- {Veg"etativeness}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vegetative \Veg"etative\, a. [Cf. F. v[82]g[82]tatif.] 1. Growing, or having the power of growing, as plants; capable of vegetating. 2. Having the power to produce growth in plants; as, the vegetative properties of soil. 3. (Biol.) Having relation to growth or nutrition; partaking of simple growth and enlargement of the systems of nutrition, apart from the sensorial or distinctively animal functions; vegetal. -- {Veg"etatively}, adv. -- {Veg"etativeness}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vest \Vest\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Vested}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Vesting}.] [Cf. L. vestire, vestitum, OF. vestir, F. v[88]tir. See {Vest}, n.] 1. To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely. Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. --Milton. With ether vested, and a purple sky. --Dryden. 2. To clothe with authority, power, or the like; to put in possession; to invest; to furnish; to endow; -- followed by with before the thing conferred; as, to vest a court with power to try cases of life and death. Had I been vested with the monarch's power. --Prior. 3. To place or give into the possession or discretion of some person or authority; to commit to another; -- with in before the possessor; as, the power of life and death is vested in the king, or in the courts. Empire and dominion was [were] vested in him. --Locke. 4. To invest; to put; as, to vest money in goods, land, or houses. [R.] 5. (Law) To clothe with possession; as, to vest a person with an estate; also, to give a person an immediate fixed right of present or future enjoyment of; as, an estate is vested in possession. --Bouvier.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vested \Vest"ed\, a. 1. Clothed; robed; wearing vestments. [bd]The vested priest.[b8] --Milton. 2. (Law) Not in a state of contingency or suspension; fixed; as, vested rights; vested interests. {Vested legacy} (Law), a legacy the right to which commences in pr[91]senti, and does not depend on a contingency; as, a legacy to one to be paid when he attains to twenty-one years of age is a vested legacy, and if the legatee dies before the testator, his representative shall receive it. --Blackstone. {Vested remainder} (Law), an estate settled, to remain to a determined person, after the particular estate is spent. --Blackstone. --Kent.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vested \Vest"ed\, a. 1. Clothed; robed; wearing vestments. [bd]The vested priest.[b8] --Milton. 2. (Law) Not in a state of contingency or suspension; fixed; as, vested rights; vested interests. {Vested legacy} (Law), a legacy the right to which commences in pr[91]senti, and does not depend on a contingency; as, a legacy to one to be paid when he attains to twenty-one years of age is a vested legacy, and if the legatee dies before the testator, his representative shall receive it. --Blackstone. {Vested remainder} (Law), an estate settled, to remain to a determined person, after the particular estate is spent. --Blackstone. --Kent.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vested \Vest"ed\, a. 1. Clothed; robed; wearing vestments. [bd]The vested priest.[b8] --Milton. 2. (Law) Not in a state of contingency or suspension; fixed; as, vested rights; vested interests. {Vested legacy} (Law), a legacy the right to which commences in pr[91]senti, and does not depend on a contingency; as, a legacy to one to be paid when he attains to twenty-one years of age is a vested legacy, and if the legatee dies before the testator, his representative shall receive it. --Blackstone. {Vested remainder} (Law), an estate settled, to remain to a determined person, after the particular estate is spent. --Blackstone. --Kent.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vested school \Vest"ed school\ In Ireland, a national school which has been built by the aid of grants from the board of Commissioners of National Education and is secured for educational purposes by leases to the commissioners themselves, or to the commissioners and the trustees.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vestiture \Ves"ti*ture\ (?; 135), n. [See {Vesture}.] In vestiture. [R.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Viscidity \Viscid"ity\, n. [Cf. F. viscidit[82].] The quality or state of being viscid; also, that which is viscid; glutinous concretion; stickiness.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Visitation \Vis`ita"tion\, n. [L. visitatio: cf. F. visitation.] 1. The act of visiting, or the state of being visited; access for inspection or examination. Nothing but peace and gentle visitation. --Shak. 2. Specifically: The act of a superior or superintending officer who, in the discharge of his office, visits a corporation, college, etc., to examine into the manner in which it is conducted, and see that its laws and regulations are duly observed and executed; as, the visitation* of a diocese by a bishop. 3. The object of a visit. [Obs.] [bd]O flowers, . . . my early visitation and my last.[b8] --Milton. 4. (Internat. Law) The act of a naval commander who visits, or enters on board, a vessel belonging to another nation, for the purpose of ascertaining her character and object, but without claiming or exercising a right of searching the vessel. It is, however, usually coupled with the right of search (see under {Search}), visitation being used for the purpose of search. 5. Special dispensation; communication of divine favor and goodness, or, more usually, of divine wrath and vengeance; retributive calamity; retribution; judgment. What will ye do in the day of visitation? --Isa. x. 3. 6. (Eccl.) A festival in honor of the visit of the Virgin Mary to Elisabeth, mother of John the Baptist, celebrated on the second of July. {The Order of the Visitation of Our Lady} (R. C. Ch.), a religious community of nuns, founded at Annecy, in Savoy, in 1610, and in 1808 established in the United States. In America these nuns are devoted to the education of girls.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Visitatorial \Vis`itato"ri*al\, a. [Cf. LL. visitator a bishop temporarily put in place of another.] Of or pertaining to visitation, or a judicial visitor or superintendent; visitorial. An archdeacon has visitatorial power. --Ayliffe. The queen, however, still had over the church a visitatorial power of vast and undefined extent. --Macaulay.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Visit \Vis"it\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Visited}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Visiting}.] [F. visiter, L. visitare, fr. visere to go to see, to visit, fr. videre, visum to see. See {Vision.}] 1. To go or come to see, as for the purpose of friendship, business, curiosity, etc.; to attend; to call upon; as, the physician visits his patient. 2. Specifically: To go or come to see for inspection, examination, correction of abuses, etc.; to examine, to inspect; as, a bishop visits his diocese; a superintendent visits persons or works under his charge. 3. (Script.) To come to for the purpose of chastising, rewarding, comforting; to come upon with reward or retribution; to appear before or judge; as, to visit in mercy; to visit one in wrath. [God] hath visited and redeemed his people. --Like i. 68.
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VAXstation A family of {workstation}s from {DEC} based on their {VAX} computer architecture. (1995-02-03)