Word Meanings - CONCHOID - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A curve, of the fourth degree, first made use of by the Greek geometer, Nicomedes, who invented it for the purpose of trisecting an angle and duplicating the cube.
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- INVENTIVE
Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius. Dryden. -- In*vent"ive*ly, adv. -- In*vent"ive*ness, n. - FIRST
Sw. & Dan. förste, OHG. furist, G. fürst prince; a superlatiye form 1. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign. 2. Foremost; in front of, or in advance of, - PURPOSELESS
Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n. - INVENTRESS
A woman who invents. Dryden. - ANGLE
A name given to four of the twelve astrological "houses." Chaucer. 5. Etym: (more info) 1. The inclosed space near the point where two lines; a corner; a nook. Into the utmost angle of the world. Spenser. To search the tenderest angles - TRISECT
To cut or divide into three equal parts. (more info) 1. To cut or divide into three parts. - PURPOSE
1. That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan. He will his firste purpos modify. Chaucer. - CURVE
Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface. - GREEK CALENDS; GREEK KALENDS
A time that will never come, as the Greeks had no calends. - GREEKLING
A little Greek, or one of small esteem or pretensions. B. Jonson. - GREEKISH
Peculiar to Greece. - INVENTFUL
Full of invention. J. Gifford. - INVENTOR
One who invents or finds out something new; a contriver; especially, one who invents mechanical devices. - FIRST-CLASS
Of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope. First- class car or First-class railway carriage, any passenger car of the highest regular class, and intended - FOURTHLY
In the fourth place. - ANGLEWISE
In an angular manner; angularly. - ANGLED
Having an angle or angles; -- used in compounds; as, right- angled, many-angled, etc. The thrice three-angled beechnut shell. Bp. Hall. - INVENTIBLE
Capable of being invented. - INVENTORIAL
Of or pertaining to an inventory. -- In`ven*to"ri*al*ly, adv. Shak. - FIRST-RATE
Of the highest excellence; preëminent in quality, size, or estimation. Our only first-rate body of contemporary poetry is the German. M. Arnold. Hermocrates . . . a man of first-rate ability. Jowett . - BRANGLE
A wrangle; a squabble; a noisy contest or dispute. A brangle between him and his neighbor. Swift. (more info) brangle to shake, menace; probably a variant of wrangle, confused - UNTANGLE
To loose from tangles or intricacy; to disentangle; to resolve; as, to untangle thread. Untangle but this cruel chain. Prior. - REDUPLICATION
The doubling of a stem or syllable , with the effect of changing the time expressed, intensifying the meaning, or making the word more imitative; also, the syllable thus added; as, L. tetuli; poposci. (more info) 1. The act of doubling, or the - QUINQUEANGLED
Having five angles; quinquangular. - TRIANGLE
A figure bounded by three lines, and containing three angles. Note: A triangle is either plane, spherical, or curvilinear, according as its sides are straight lines, or arcs of great circles of a sphere, or any curved lines whatever. A - WIDE-ANGLE
Having or covering an angle wider than the ordinary; -- applied to certain lenses of relatively short focus. Lenses for ordinary purposes have an angle of 50º or less. Wide-angle lenses may cover as much as 100º and are useful for photographing - FANGLE
Something new-fashioned; a foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament. - CONDUPLICATE
Folded lengthwise along the midrib, the upper face being within; -- said of leaves or petals in vernation or æstivation. - NEWFANGLENESS
Newfangledness. Chaucer. Proud newfangleness in their apparel. Robynson . - RECURVE
To curve in an opposite or unusual direction; to bend back or down. - ACUTE-ANGLED
Having acute angles; as, an acute-angled triangle, a triangle with every one of its angles less than a right angle. - STRANGLE HOLD
In wrestling, a hold by which one's opponent is choked. It is usually not allowed. - NEWFANGLED
1. Newmade; formed with the affectation of novelty. "A newfangled nomenclature." Sir W. Hamilton. 2. Disposed to change; inclined to novelties; given to new theories or fashions. "Newfangled teachers." 1 Tim. vi. . "Newfangled men." Latimer.