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Word Meanings - AFFILIATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally. Is the soul affiliated to God, or is it estranged and in rebellion I. Taylor. 2. To fix the paternity of; -- said of an illegitimate child;
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1. To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally. Is the soul affiliated to God, or is it estranged and in rebellion I. Taylor. 2. To fix the paternity of; -- said of an illegitimate child; as, to affiliate the child to one man rather than another. 3. To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to. How do these facts tend to affiliate the faculty of hearing upon the aboriginal vegetative processes H. Spencer. 4. To attach or unite ; to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.; -- followed by to or with. Affiliated societies, societies connected with a central society, or with each other.
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- ELECTRO-MUSCULAR
Pertaining the reaction of the muscles under electricity, or their sensibility to it. - CONFOUNDED
1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott. - ELECTROTYPER
One who electrotypes. - ELECTREPETER
An instrument used to change the direction of electric currents; a commutator. - ENDORSER
See INDORSER - APPROPRIATENESS
The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude. - ELECTRO-DYNAMIC; ELECTRO-DYNAMICAL
Pertaining to the movements or force of electric or galvanic currents; dependent on electric force. - ELECTRO-CAPILLARITY
The occurrence or production of certain capillary effects by the action of an electrical current or charge. - ELECTRONIC
Of or pertaining to an electron or electrons. - ELECTRO-BIOLOGIST
One versed in electro-biology. - ELECTORATE
1. The territory, jurisdiction, or dignity of an elector, as in the old German empire. 2. The whole body of persons in a nation or state who are entitled to vote in an election, or any distinct class or division of them. The middle-class electorate - ELECTROLOGY
That branch of physical science which treats of the phenomena of electricity and its properties. - ELECTRICIAN
An investigator of electricity; one versed in the science of electricity. - ELECTRO-CHRONOGRAPH
An instrument for obtaining an accurate record of the time at which any observed phenomenon occurs, or of its duration. It has an electro-magnetic register connected with a clock. See Chronograph. - ELECTROTYPE
A facsimile plate made by electrotypy for use in printing; also, an impression or print from such plate. Also used adjectively. Note: The face of an electrotype consists of a shell of copper, silver, or the like, produced by the action - ELECTRO-GILDING
The art or process of gilding copper, iron, etc., by means of voltaic electricity. - ELECTRO-POLAR
Possessing electrical polarity; positively electrified at one end, or on one surface, and negatively at the other; -- said of a conductor. - ELECTROTONIZE
To cause or produce electrotonus. - ADOPT
1. To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc. ; esp. to take voluntarily to be in the place of, or as, one's own child. 2. To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve; - ASSUMEDLY
By assumption. - ANELECTRIC
Not becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to idioelectric. -- n. - ENSWEEP
To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly. Thomson. - PYROELECTRICITY
Electricity developed by means of heat; the science which treats of electricity thus developed. - MISCHOOSE
To choose wrongly. Milton.