Word Meanings - DISLOCATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To displace; to put out of its proper place. Especially, of a bone: To remove from its normal connections with a neighboring bone; to put out of joint; to move from its socket; to disjoint; as, to dislocate your bones. Shak. After some time the
Additional info about word: DISLOCATE
To displace; to put out of its proper place. Especially, of a bone: To remove from its normal connections with a neighboring bone; to put out of joint; to move from its socket; to disjoint; as, to dislocate your bones. Shak. After some time the strata on all sides of the globe were dislocated. Woodward. And thus the archbishop's see, dislocated or out of joint for a time, was by the hands of his holiness set right again. Fuller.
Related words: (words related to DISLOCATE)
- AFTERCAST
A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower. - AFTER
To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. Note: It is often combined with its noun; as, after-bowlines, after- braces, after-sails, after-yards, those on the mainmasts - DISJOINT
Disjointed; unconnected; -- opposed to conjoint. Milton. - PLACEMENT
1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place. - AFTERPAINS
The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth. - PLACENTARY
Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification. - NEIGHBORING
Living or being near; adjacent; as, the neighboring nations or countries. - PLACE-KICK
To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n. - JOINTWEED
A slender, nearly leafless, American herb (Polygonum articulatum), with jointed spikes of small flowers. - JOINTURELESS
Having no jointure. - AFTERSHAFT
The hypoptilum. - AFTERPIECE
The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment. - DISJOINTED
Separated at the joints; disconnected; incoherent. -- Dis*joint"ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*joint"ed*ness, n. - PLACER
One who places or sets. Spenser. - PLACE
Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. Place of arms , a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe - AFTER DAMP
An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid. - JOINTING
The act or process of making a joint; also, the joints thus produced. Jointing machine, a planing machine for wood used in furniture and piano factories, etc. -- Jointing plane. See Jointer, 2. -- Jointing rule , a long straight rule, - AFTER-NOTE
One of the small notes occur on the unaccented parts of the measure, taking their time from the preceding note. - DISPLACER
The funnel part of the apparatus for solution by displacement. (more info) 1. One that displaces. - BONESET
A medicinal plant, the thoroughwort . Its properties are diaphoretic and tonic. - 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 - WHETTLEBONES
The vertebræ of the back. Dunglison. - IMPROPERLY
In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly. - REPLACEMENT
The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing. - IMPROPERATION
The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt. Improperatios and terms of scurrility. Sir T. Browne - UNJOINTED
Having no joint or articulation; as, an unjointed stem. (more info) 1. Disjointed; unconnected; hence, incoherent. Shak. 2. Etym: - COMPLACENCE; COMPLACENCY
1. Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification. The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously. Atterbury. Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like - RACKABONES
A very lean animal, esp. a horse. - CRAFTER
a creator of great skill in the manual arts. Syn. -- craftsman. - IMPROPERTY
Impropriety.