vacuole
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English Dictionary: vizsla	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vagal adj of or relating to the vagus nerve [syn: vagal, pneumogastric]
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vagile adj having freedom to move about; "vagile aquatic animals" Antonym(s): sessile
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vaguely adv in a vague way; "he looked vaguely familiar"; "he explained it somewhat mistily" Synonym(s): vaguely, mistily
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vassal n a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord Synonym(s): vassal, liege, liegeman, liege subject, feudatory
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vehicle n a conveyance that transports people or objects a medium for the expression or achievement of something; "his editorials provided a vehicle for his political views"; "a congregation is a vehicle of group identity"; "the play was just a vehicle to display her talents" any substance that facilitates the use of a drug or pigment or other material that is mixed with it any inanimate object (as a towel or money or clothing or dishes or books or toys etc.) that can transmit infectious agents from one person to another Synonym(s): fomite, vehicle
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vessel n a tube in which a body fluid circulates [syn: vessel, vas] a craft designed for water transportation Synonym(s): vessel, watercraft an object used as a container (especially for liquids)
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vigil n a period of sleeplessness the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival) Synonym(s): vigil, watch a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe Synonym(s): watch, vigil
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
visual adj relating to or using sight; "ocular inspection"; "an optical illusion"; "visual powers"; "visual navigation" Synonym(s): ocular, optic, optical, visual visible; "be sure of it; give me the ocular proof"- Shakespeare; "a visual presentation"; "a visual image" Synonym(s): ocular, visual
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
visually adv with respect to vision; "visually distorted"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vizsla n Hungarian hunting dog resembling the Weimaraner but having a rich deep red coat Synonym(s): vizsla, Hungarian pointer
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vocal adj relating to or designed for or using the singing voice; "vocal technique"; "the vocal repertoire"; "organized a vocal group to sing his compositions" Antonym(s): instrumental having or using the power to produce speech or sound; "vocal organs"; "all vocal beings hymned their praise" given to expressing yourself freely or insistently; "outspoken in their opposition to segregation"; "a vocal assembly" Synonym(s): outspoken, vocal full of the sound of voices; "a playground vocal with the shouts and laughter of children" n music intended to be performed by one or more singers, usually with instrumental accompaniment Synonym(s): vocal music, vocal a short musical composition with words; "a successful musical must have at least three good songs" Synonym(s): song, vocal
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vocally adv in a vocal manner; "she defended herself vocally"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Vogul n a member of a nomadic people of the northern Urals [syn: Vogul, Mansi] the Ugric language (related to Hungarian) spoken by the Vogul Synonym(s): Mansi, Vogul
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vacuole \Vac"u*ole\, n. [L. vacuus empty: cf. F. vacuole.]       (Biol.)       A small air cell, or globular space, in the interior of       organic cells, either containing air, or a pellucid watery       liquid, or some special chemical secretions of the cell       protoplasm.          {Contractile vacuole}. (Zo[94]l.) See under {Contractile},             and see Illusts. of {Infusoria}, and {Lobosa}.          {Food vacuole}. (Zo[94]l.) See under {Food}, and see Illust.             of {Infusoria}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vagal \Va"gal\, a. [See {Vagus}.] (Anat.)       Of or pertaining to the vagus, or pneumogastric nerves;       pneumogastric.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vaguely \Vague"ly\, adv.       In a vague manner.                   What he vaguely hinted at, but dared not speak.                                                                               --Hawthorne.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Vasculum \[d8]Vas"cu*lum\, n.; pl. {Vascula}. [L., a small       vessel.]       1. (Bot.) Same as {Ascidium}, n., 1.          2. A tin box, commonly cylindrical or flattened, used in             collecting plants.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vassal \Vas"sal\, v. t.       To treat as a vassal; to subject to control; to enslave.       [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vassal \Vas"sal\, n. [F., fr. LL. vassallus, vassus; of Celtic       origin; cf. W. & Corn. gwas a youth, page, servant, Arm. gwaz       a man, a male. Cf. {Valet}, {Varlet}, {Vavasor}.]       1. (Feud. Law) The grantee of a fief, feud, or fee; one who             holds land of superior, and who vows fidelity and homage             to him; a feudatory; a feudal tenant. --Burrill.          2. A subject; a dependent; a servant; a slave. [bd]The             vassals of his anger.[b8] --Milton.          {Rear vassal}, the vassal of a vassal; an arriere vassal.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vassal \Vas"sal\, a.       Resembling a vassal; slavish; servile.                   The sun and every vassal star.               --Keble.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vehicle \Ve"hi*cle\, n. [L. vehiculum, fr. vehere to carry; akin       to E. way, wain. See {Way}, n., and cf. {Convex}, {Inveigh},       {Veil}, {Vex}.]       1. That in or on which any person or thing is, or may be,             carried, as a coach, carriage, wagon, cart, car, sleigh,             bicycle, etc.; a means of conveyance; specifically, a             means of conveyance upon land.          2. That which is used as the instrument of conveyance or             communication; as, matter is the vehicle of energy.                         A simple style forms the best vehicle of thought to                      a popular assembly.                           --Wirt.          3. (Pharm.) A substance in which medicine is taken.          4. (Paint.) Any liquid with which a pigment is applied,             including whatever gum, wax, or glutinous or adhesive             substance is combined with it.          Note: Water is used in fresco and in water-color painting,                the colors being consolidated with gum arabic; size is                used in distemper painting. In oil painting, the fixed                oils of linseed, nut, and poppy, are used; in                encaustic, wax is the vehicle. --Fairholt.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vehicle \Ve"hi*cle\, n. (Chem.)       A liquid used to spread sensitive salts upon glass and paper       for use in photography.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vessel \Ves"sel\, n. [OF. vessel, veissel, vaissel, vaissiel, F.       vascellum, dim. of vasculum, dim. of vas a vessel. Cf.       {Vascular}, {Vase}.]       1. A hollow or concave utensil for holding anything; a hollow             receptacle of any kind, as a hogshead, a barrel, a firkin,             a bottle, a kettle, a cup, a bowl, etc.                         [They drank] out of these noble vessels. --Chaucer.          2. A general name for any hollow structure made to float upon             the water for purposes of navigation; especially, one that             is larger than a common rowboat; as, a war vessel; a             passenger vessel.                         [He] began to build a vessel of huge bulk. --Milton.          3. Fig.: A person regarded as receiving or containing             something; esp. (Script.), one into whom something is             conceived as poured, or in whom something is stored for             use; as, vessels of wrath or mercy.                         He is a chosen vessel unto me.            --Acts ix. 15.                         [The serpent] fit vessel, fittest imp of fraud, in                      whom To enter.                                    --Milton.          4. (Anat.) Any tube or canal in which the blood or other             fluids are contained, secreted, or circulated, as the             arteries, veins, lymphatics, etc.          5. (Bot.) A continuous tube formed from superposed large             cylindrical or prismatic cells (trache[91]), which have             lost their intervening partitions, and are usually marked             with dots, pits, rings, or spirals by internal deposition             of secondary membranes; a duct.          {Acoustic vessels}. See under {Acoustic}.          {Weaker vessel}, a woman; -- now applied humorously.             [bd]Giving honor unto the wife, as unto the weaker             vessel.[b8] --1 Peter iii. 7. [bd]You are the weaker             vessel.[b8] --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vessel \Ves"sel\, v. t.       To put into a vessel. [Obs.] --Bacon.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mortar \Mor"tar\, n. [OE. morter, AS. mort[c7]re, L. mortarium:       cf. F. mortier mortar. Cf. sense 2 (below), also 2d {Mortar},       {Martel}, {Morter}.]       1. A strong vessel, commonly in form of an inverted bell, in             which substances are pounded or rubbed with a pestle.          2. [F. mortier, fr. L. mortarium mortar (for trituarating).]             (Mil.) A short piece of ordnance, used for throwing bombs,             carcasses, shells, etc., at high angles of elevation, as             45[deg], and even higher; -- so named from its resemblance             in shape to the utensil above described.          {Mortar bed} (Mil.), a framework of wood and iron, suitably             hollowed out to receive the breech and trunnions of a             mortar.          {Mortar boat} [or] {vessel} (Naut.), a boat strongly built             and adapted to carrying a mortar or mortars for             bombarding; a bomb ketch.          {Mortar piece}, a mortar. [Obs.] --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Packet \Pack"et\, n. [F. paquet, dim. fr. LL. paccus, from the       same source as E. pack. See {Pack}.]       1. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a             packet of letters. --Shak.          2. Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey             dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying             dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed             days of sailing; a mail boat.          {Packet boat}, {ship}, [or] {vessel}. See {Packet}, n., 2.          {Packet day}, the day for mailing letters to go by packet; or             the sailing day.          {Packet note} [or] {post}. See under {Paper}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vessel \Ves"sel\, n. [OF. vessel, veissel, vaissel, vaissiel, F.       vascellum, dim. of vasculum, dim. of vas a vessel. Cf.       {Vascular}, {Vase}.]       1. A hollow or concave utensil for holding anything; a hollow             receptacle of any kind, as a hogshead, a barrel, a firkin,             a bottle, a kettle, a cup, a bowl, etc.                         [They drank] out of these noble vessels. --Chaucer.          2. A general name for any hollow structure made to float upon             the water for purposes of navigation; especially, one that             is larger than a common rowboat; as, a war vessel; a             passenger vessel.                         [He] began to build a vessel of huge bulk. --Milton.          3. Fig.: A person regarded as receiving or containing             something; esp. (Script.), one into whom something is             conceived as poured, or in whom something is stored for             use; as, vessels of wrath or mercy.                         He is a chosen vessel unto me.            --Acts ix. 15.                         [The serpent] fit vessel, fittest imp of fraud, in                      whom To enter.                                    --Milton.          4. (Anat.) Any tube or canal in which the blood or other             fluids are contained, secreted, or circulated, as the             arteries, veins, lymphatics, etc.          5. (Bot.) A continuous tube formed from superposed large             cylindrical or prismatic cells (trache[91]), which have             lost their intervening partitions, and are usually marked             with dots, pits, rings, or spirals by internal deposition             of secondary membranes; a duct.          {Acoustic vessels}. See under {Acoustic}.          {Weaker vessel}, a woman; -- now applied humorously.             [bd]Giving honor unto the wife, as unto the weaker             vessel.[b8] --1 Peter iii. 7. [bd]You are the weaker             vessel.[b8] --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vessel \Ves"sel\, v. t.       To put into a vessel. [Obs.] --Bacon.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mortar \Mor"tar\, n. [OE. morter, AS. mort[c7]re, L. mortarium:       cf. F. mortier mortar. Cf. sense 2 (below), also 2d {Mortar},       {Martel}, {Morter}.]       1. A strong vessel, commonly in form of an inverted bell, in             which substances are pounded or rubbed with a pestle.          2. [F. mortier, fr. L. mortarium mortar (for trituarating).]             (Mil.) A short piece of ordnance, used for throwing bombs,             carcasses, shells, etc., at high angles of elevation, as             45[deg], and even higher; -- so named from its resemblance             in shape to the utensil above described.          {Mortar bed} (Mil.), a framework of wood and iron, suitably             hollowed out to receive the breech and trunnions of a             mortar.          {Mortar boat} [or] {vessel} (Naut.), a boat strongly built             and adapted to carrying a mortar or mortars for             bombarding; a bomb ketch.          {Mortar piece}, a mortar. [Obs.] --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Packet \Pack"et\, n. [F. paquet, dim. fr. LL. paccus, from the       same source as E. pack. See {Pack}.]       1. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a             packet of letters. --Shak.          2. Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey             dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying             dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed             days of sailing; a mail boat.          {Packet boat}, {ship}, [or] {vessel}. See {Packet}, n., 2.          {Packet day}, the day for mailing letters to go by packet; or             the sailing day.          {Packet note} [or] {post}. See under {Paper}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vexil \Vex"il\, n.       A vexillum.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Vexillum \[d8]Vex*il"lum\, n.; pl. {Vexilla}. [L., a standard,       a flag.]       1. (Rom. Antiq.)             (a) A flag or standard.             (b) A company of troops serving under one standard.          2. (Eccl.)             (a) A banner.             (b) The sign of the cross.          3. (Bot.) The upper petal of a papilionaceous flower; the             standard.          4. (Zo[94]l.) The rhachis and web of a feather taken             together; the vane.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vigil \Vig"il\, n. [OE. vigile, L. vigilia, from vigil awake,       watchful, probably akin to E. wake: cf. F. vigile. See       {Wake}, v. i., and cf. {Reveille}, {Surveillance}, {Vedette},       {Vegetable}, {Vigor}.]       1. Abstinence from sleep, whether at a time when sleep is             customary or not; the act of keeping awake, or the state             of being awake, or the state of being awake;             sleeplessness; wakefulness; watch. [bd]Worn out by the             labors and vigils of many months.[b8] --Macaulay.                         Nothing wears out a fine face like the vigils of the                      card table and those cutting passions which attend                      them.                                                --Addison.          2. Hence, devotional watching; waking for prayer, or other             religious exercises.                         So they in heaven their odes and vigils tuned.                                                                               --Milton.                         Be sober and keep vigil, The Judge is at the gate.                                                                               --Neale                                                                               (Rhythm of St.                                                                               Bernard).          3. (Eccl.)             (a) Originally, the watch kept on the night before a                   feast.             (b) Later, the day and the night preceding a feast.                               He that shall live this day, and see old age,                            Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbors,                            And say, [bd]To-morrow is St. Crispian.[b8]                                                                               --Shak.             (c) A religious service performed in the evening preceding                   a feast.          {Vigils, [or] Watchings}, {of flowers} (Bot.), a peculiar             faculty belonging to the flowers of certain plants of             opening and closing their petals as certain hours of the             day. [R.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vigily \Vig"i*ly\, n. [L. vigilia.]       A vigil. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Visual \Vis"u*al\, a. [L. visualis, from visus a seeing, sight:       cf. F. visuel. See {Vision}.]       1. Of or pertaining to sight; used in sight; serving as the             instrument of seeing; as, the visual nerve.                         The air, Nowhere so clear, sharpened his visual ray.                                                                               --Milton.          2. That can be seen; visible. [R.]          {Visual angle}. (Opt.) See under {Angle}.          {Visual cone} (Persp.), a cone whose vertex is at the point             of sight, or the eye.          {Visual plane}, any plane passing through the point of sight.                      {Visual point}, the point at which the visual rays unite; the             position of the eye.          {Visual purple} (Physiol.), a photochemical substance, of a             purplish red color, contained in the retina of human eyes             and in the eyes of most animals. It is quickly bleached by             light, passing through the colors, red, orange, and             yellow, and then disappearing. Also called {rhodopsin},             and {vision purple}. See {Optography}.          {Visual ray}, a line from the eye, or point of sight.          {Visual white} (Physiol.), the final product in the action of             light on visual purple. It is reconverted into visual             purple by the regenerating action of the choroidal             epithelium.          {Visual yellow} (Physiol.), a product intermediate between             visual purple and visual white, formed in the             photochemical action of light on visual purple.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vocal \Vo"cal\, n. [Cf. F. vocal, LL. vocalis.]       1. (Phon.) A vocal sound; specifically, a purely vocal             element of speech, unmodified except by resonance; a vowel             or a diphthong; a tonic element; a tonic; -- distinguished             from a subvocal, and a nonvocal.          2. (R. C. Ch.) A man who has a right to vote in certain             elections.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vocal \Vo"cal\, a. [L. vocalis, fr. vox, vocis, voice: cf. F.       vocal. See {Voice}, and cf. {Vowel}.]       1. Of or pertaining to the voice or speech; having voice;             endowed with utterance; full of voice, or voices.                         To hill or valley, fountain, or fresh shade, Made                      vocal by my song.                              --Milton.          2. Uttered or modulated by the voice; oral; as, vocal melody;             vocal prayer. [bd]Vocal worship.[b8] --Milton.          3. Of or pertaining to a vowel or voice sound; also, [?]poken             with tone, intonation, and resonance; sonant; sonorous; --             said of certain articulate sounds.          4. (Phon.)             (a) Consisting of, or characterized by, voice, or tone                   produced in the larynx, which may be modified, either                   by resonance, as in the case of the vowels, or by                   obstructive action, as in certain consonants, such as                   v, l, etc., or by both, as in the nasals m, n, ng;                   sonant; intonated; voiced. See {Voice}, and {Vowel},                   also Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect] 199-202.             (b) Of or pertaining to a vowel; having the character of a                   vowel; vowel.          {Vocal cords} [or] {chords}. (Anat.) See {Larynx}, and the             Note under {Voice}, n., 1.          {Vocal fremitus} [L. fremitus a dull roaring or murmuring]             (Med.), the perceptible vibration of the chest wall,             produced by the transmission of the sonorous vibrations             during the act of using the voice.          {Vocal music}, music made by the voice, in distinction from             {instrumental music}; hence, music or tunes set to words,             to be performed by the human voice.          {Vocal tube} (Anat.), the part of the air passages above the             inferior ligaments of the larynx, including the passages             through the nose and mouth.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vocally \Vo"cal*ly\, adv.       1. In a vocal manner; with voice; orally; with audible sound.          2. In words; verbally; as, to express desires vocally.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vocule \Voc"ule\, n. [L. vocula, dim. of vox, vocis, voice.]       (Phon.)       A short or weak utterance; a faint or feeble sound, as that       heard on separating the lips in pronouncing p or b. --Rush.       -- {Voc"u*lar}, a.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vogle \Vo"gle\, n. (Mining)       Same as {Vugg}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vugg \Vugg\, Vugh \Vugh\, n. (Mining)       A cavity in a lode; -- called also {vogle}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vogle \Vo"gle\, n. (Mining)       Same as {Vugg}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vugg \Vugg\, Vugh \Vugh\, n. (Mining)       A cavity in a lode; -- called also {vogle}.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Vauxhall, NJ       Zip code(s): 07088
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Veseli, MN       Zip code(s): 55046
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Visalia, CA (city, FIPS 82954)       Location: 36.32540 N, 119.32057 W       Population (1990): 75636 (27154 housing units)       Area: 60.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 93277, 93291    Visalia, KY (city, FIPS 79878)       Location: 38.91501 N, 84.45125 W       Population (1990): 190 (65 housing units)       Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
VCL          {Visual Component Library}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
voxel          (By analogy with "{pixel}") Volume element.          The smallest distinguishable box-shaped part of a       three-dimensional space.   A particular voxel will be       identified by the x, y and z coordinates of one of its eight       corners, or perhaps its centre.   The term is used in three       dimensional modelling.          (1995-03-10)