Word Meanings - DOORSTOP - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The block or strip of wood or similar material which stops, at the right place, the shutting of a door.
Related words: (words related to DOORSTOP)
- RIGHT-RUNNING
Straight; direct. - BLOCKISH
Like a block; deficient in understanding; stupid; dull. "Blockish Ajax." Shak. -- Block"ish*ly, adv. -- Block"ish*ness, n. - STRIPPING
The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking. (more info) 1. The act of one who strips. The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive. H. Spencer. Never were cows that required - BLOCKING
1. The act of obstructing, supporting, shaping, or stamping with a block or blocks. 2. Blocks used to support temporarily. - PLACEMENT
1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place. - PLACENTARY
Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification. - PLACE-KICK
To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n. - RIGHTEOUSNESS
The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground justification. There are two kinds of Christian righteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith, - BLOCK TIN
See TIN - BLOCK SIGNAL
One of the danger signals or safety signals which guide the movement of trains in a block system. The signal is often so coupled with a switch that act of opening or closing the switch operates the signal also. - SIMILARY
Similar. Rhyming cadences of similarly words. South. - STRIP-LEAF
Tobacco which has been stripped of its stalks before packing. - 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. - RIGHT-ANGLED
Containing a right angle or right angles; as, a right-angled triangle. - STRIPLING
A youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad. Inquire thou whose son the stripling is. 1 Sam. xvii. 56. - RIGHTEOUS
Doing, or according with, that which is right; yielding to all their due; just; equitable; especially, free from wrong, guilt, or sin; holy; as, a righteous man or act; a righteous retribution. Fearless in his righteous cause. Milton. - MATERIALNESS
The state of being material. - PLACER
One who places or sets. Spenser. - STRIPPER
One who, or that which, strips; specifically, a machine for stripping cards. - SHUTTLEWISE
Back and forth, like the movement of a shuttle. - CAUTIONARY BLOCK
A block in which two or more trains are permitted to travel, under restrictions imposed by a caution card or the like. - BRIGHT
See I - UNSTRIPED
Without marks or striations; nonstriated; as, unstriped muscle fibers. (more info) 1. Not striped. - CARTWRIGHT
An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker. - TAILBLOCK
A block with a tail. See Tail, 9. - REPLACEMENT
The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing. - FRIGHTFUL
1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn. - SPRIGHTLY
Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope. - SHRIGHT
imp. & p. p. of Shriek. She cried alway and shright. Chaucer. - DISSIMILARLY
In a dissimilar manner; in a varied style. With verdant shrubs dissimilarly gay. C. Smart. - UPRIGHTNESS
the quality or state of being upright.