Word Meanings - EXAMINER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who examines, tries, or inspects; one who interrogates; an officer or person charged with the duty of making an examination; as, an examiner of students for a degree; an examiner in chancery, in the patent office, etc.

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• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• PATENT
  Open; expanded; evident; apparent; unconcealed; manifest; public; conspicuous. He had received instructions, both patent and secret. Motley. 2. Open to public perusal; -- said of a document conferring some right or privilege; as, letters patent.
• CHARGEANT
  Burdensome; troublesome. Chaucer.
• PERSONNEL
  The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel.
• PERSONIFICATION
  A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying;
• MAKING-IRON
  A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
• CHARGEABLE
  1. That may be charged, laid, imposed, or imputes; as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man. 2. Subject to be charge or accused; liable or responsible; as, revenues chargeable with a claim; a man chargeable with murder. 3. Serving
• PERSONIZE
  To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson.
• PERSONATE
  To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton.
• CHARGE
  1. To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill. A carte that charged was with hay. Chaucer. The charging of children's memories with rules. Locke. 2. To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust; to command, instruct, or
• PERSONATOR
  One who personates. "The personators of these actions." B. Jonson.
• CHARGE D'AFFAIRES
  A diplomatic representative, or minister of an inferior grade, accredited by the government of one state to the minister of foreign affairs of another; also, a substitute, ad interim, for an ambassador or minister plenipotentiary.
• PATENTEE
  One to whom a grant is made, or a privilege secured, by patent. Bacon.
• OFFICE WIRE
  Copper wire with a strong but light insulation, used in wiring houses, etc.
• PATENTLY
  Openly; evidently.
• PERSONAL
  Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun. Personal action , a suit or action by which a man claims a debt or personal duty, or damages in lieu of it; or wherein he claims satisfaction in damages for an injury to his person or property,
• PERSONIFY
  1. To regard, treat, or represent as a person; to represent as a rational being. The poets take the liberty of personifying inanimate things. Chesterfield. 2. To be the embodiment or personification of; to impersonate; as, he personifies the law.
• MAKE
  A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife. For in this world no woman is Worthy to be my make. Chaucer.
• MAKED
  Made. Chaucer.
• MANTUAMAKER
  One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker.
• POST OFFICE
  See POST
• CROSS-EXAMINER
  One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination.
• MISCHARGE
  To charge erroneously, as in account. -- n.
• BOOTMAKER
  One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.
• ENCHARGE
  To charge ; to impose upon. His countenance would express the spirit and the passion of the part he was encharged with. Jeffrey.
• BRICKMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n.
• BOOKING OFFICE
  1. An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship. 2. An office where passage tickets are sold.
• UNIPERSONAL
  Used in only one person, especially only in the third person, as some verbs; impersonal. (more info) 1. Existing as one, and only one, person; as, a unipersonal God.
• CROWN OFFICE
  The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill.
• PREEXAMINATION
  Previous examination.
• SAILMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make or repair sails. -- Sail"mak`ing, n.
• WIDOW-MAKER
  One who makes widows by destroying husbands. Shak.