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Word Meanings - DETERMINATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Having defined limits; not uncertain or arbitrary; fixed; established; definite. Quantity of words and a determinate number of feet. Dryden. 2. Conclusive; decisive; positive. The determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God. Acts ii. 23. 3.

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1. Having defined limits; not uncertain or arbitrary; fixed; established; definite. Quantity of words and a determinate number of feet. Dryden. 2. Conclusive; decisive; positive. The determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God. Acts ii. 23. 3. Determined or resolved upon. My determinate voyage. Shak. 4. Of determined purpose; resolute. More determinate to do than skillful how to do. Sir P. Sidney. Determinate inflorescence , that in which the flowering commences with the terminal bud of a stem, which puts a limit to its growth; -- also called centrifugal inflorescence. -- Determinate problem , a problem which admits of a limited number of solutions. -- Determinate quantities, Determinate equations , those that are finite in the number of values or solutions, that is, in which the conditions of the problem or equation determine the number.

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  • STATUELESS
    Without a statue.
  • STATESMANLIKE
    Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
  • STATEHOOD
    The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
  • STATUED
    Adorned with statues. "The statued hall." Longfellow. "Statued niches." G. Eliot.
  • STATABLE
    That can be stated; as, a statablegrievance; the question at issue is statable.
  • STATIONARINESS
    The quality or state of being stationary; fixity.
  • PLAINTIVE
    1. Repining; complaining; lamenting. Dryden. 2. Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. "The most plaintive ditty." Landor. -- Plain"tive*ly, adv. -- Plain"tive*ness, n.
  • STATISTICS
    Classified facts respecting the condition of the people in a state, their health, their longevity, domestic economy, arts, property, and political strength, their resources, the state of the country, etc., or respecting any particular
  • STATANT
    In a standing position; as, a lion statant.
  • STATHMOGRAPH
    A contrivance for recording the speed of a railway train. Knight.
  • STATIONARY
    1. Not moving; not appearing to move; stable; fixed. Charles Wesley, who is a more stationary man, does not believe the story. Southey. 2. Not improving or getting worse; not growing wiser, greater, better, more excellent, or the contrary.
  • CATEGORICAL
    1. Of or pertaining to a category. 2. Not hypothetical or relative; admitting no conditions or exceptions; declarative; absolute; positive; express; as, a categorical proposition, or answer. The scriptures by a multitude of categorical
  • STATIONAL
    Of or pertaining to a station.
  • STATUARY
    The art of carving statues or images as representatives of real persons or things; a branch of sculpture. Sir W. Temple. 3. A collection of statues; statues, collectively. (more info) statuarius, a., of or belonging to statues, fr. statua statue:
  • STATUMINATE
    To prop or support. B. Jonson.
  • PLAINTIFF
    One who commences a personal action or suit to obtain a remedy for an injury to his rights; -- opposed to Ant: defendant. (more info) French equiv. to plaignant complainant, prosecutor, fr. plaindre. See
  • STATUA
    A statue. They spake not a word; But, like dumb statuas or breathing stones, Gazed each on other. Shak.
  • DEFINITE
    1. Having certain or distinct; determinate in extent or greatness; limited; fixed; as, definite dimensions; a definite measure; a definite period or interval. Elements combine in definite proportions. Whewell. 2. Having certain limits
  • STATE SOCIALISM
    A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to
  • STATUELIKE
    Like a statue; motionless.
  • CREBRICOSTATE
    Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
  • ESTATLICH; ESTATLY
    Stately; dignified. Chaucer.
  • SAGEBRUSH STATE
    Nevada; -- a nickname.
  • OLD LINE STATE
    Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
  • HEMASTATICS
    Laws relating to the equilibrium of the blood in the blood vessels.
  • MENOSTATION
    See MENOSTASIS
  • ENSTATE
    See INSTATE
  • BIOSTATICS
    The physical phenomena of organized bodies, in opposition to their organic or vital phenomena.
  • WEATHER STATION
    A station for taking meteorological observations, making weather forecasts, or disseminating such information. Such stations are of the first order when they make observations of all the important elements either hourly or by self-registering
  • TORPEDO STATION
    A headquarters for torpedo vessels and their supplies, usually having facilities for repairs and for instruction and experiments. The principal torpedo station of the United States is at Newport,
  • UNDISTINCTLY
    Indistinctly.
  • KATASTATE
    A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.
  • BAYOU STATE
    Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous.
  • INEXPLICIT
    Not explicit; not clearly stated; indefinite; vague.

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