Word Meanings - CLOCHE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
An apparatus used in controlling certain kinds of aƫroplanes, and consisting principally of a steering column mounted with a universal joint at the base, which is bellshaped and has attached to it the cables for controlling the wing-warping
Additional info about word: CLOCHE
An apparatus used in controlling certain kinds of aƫroplanes, and consisting principally of a steering column mounted with a universal joint at the base, which is bellshaped and has attached to it the cables for controlling the wing-warping devices, elevator planes, and the like.
Related words: (words related to CLOCHE)
- MOUNTABLE
Such as can be mounted. - MOUNTING
1. The act of one that mounts. 2. That by which anything is prepared for use, or set off to advantage; equipment; embellishment; setting; as, the mounting of a sword or diamond. - MOUNTAINOUS
1. Full of, or containing, mountains; as, the mountainous country of the Swiss. 2. Inhabiting mountains. Bacon. 3. Large as, or resembling, a mountain; huge; of great bulk; as, a mountainous heap. Prior. - MOUNTAINOUSNESS
The state or quality of being mountainous. - STEER
A young male of the ox kind; especially, a common ox; a castrated taurine male from two to four years old. See the Note under Ox. (more info) OHG. stior, Icel. stjorr, , Sw. tjur, Dan. tyr, Goth. stiur, Russ. tur', Pol. tur, Ir. & Gael. tarbh, - CONSISTENTLY
In a consistent manner. - CONTROLLABLENESS
Capability of being controlled. - UNIVERSAL
Adapted or adaptable to all or to various uses, shapes, sizes, etc.; as, a universal milling machine. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to the universe; extending to, including, or affecting, the whole number, quantity, or space; unlimited; general; - JOINTWEED
A slender, nearly leafless, American herb (Polygonum articulatum), with jointed spikes of small flowers. - UNIVERSALNESS
The quality or state of being universal; universality. - UNIVERSALIZE
To make universal; to generalize. Coleridge. - COLUMN
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 an architecture; - CONSIST
1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col. - UNIVERSALLY
In a universal manner; without exception; as, God's laws are universally binding on his creatures. - CONSISTORIAN
Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton. - WARP KNITTING
A kind of knitting in which a number of threads are interchained each with one or more contiguous threads on either side. - MOUNTANT
Raised; high. - CONTROLLABILITY
Capability of being controlled; controllableness. - JOINTURELESS
Having no jointure. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - UNJOINT
To disjoint. - STRAIGHT-JOINT
Having straight joints. Specifically: Applied to a floor the boards of which are so laid that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves. Brandle & C. In the United States, applied to planking or flooring - DEMOUNT
To dismount. - ASCERTAINMENT
The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke. - INSURMOUNTABILITY
The state or quality of being insurmountable. - DISJOINT
Disjointed; unconnected; -- opposed to conjoint. Milton. - ASCERTAINABLE
That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv. - SEMICOLUMNAR
Like a semicolumn; flat on one side and round on the other; imperfectly columnar.