Word Meanings - GETTERUP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who contrives, makes, or arranges for, anything, as a book, a machine, etc. A diligent getter-up of miscellaneous works. W. Irving.

Related words: (words related to GETTERUP)

• MACHINER
  One who or operates a machine; a machinist.
• ANYTHINGARIAN
  One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
• WORKSHOP
  A shop where any manufacture or handiwork is carried on.
• MAKESHIFT
  That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.
• WORKSHIP
  Workmanship.
• GETTERUP
  One who contrives, makes, or arranges for, anything, as a book, a machine, etc. A diligent getter-up of miscellaneous works. W. Irving.
• IRVINGITE
  The common designation of one a sect founded by the Rev. Edward Irving , who call themselves the Catholic Apostolic Church. They are highly ritualistic in worship, have an elaborate hierarchy of apostles, prophets, etc., and look for the speedy
• MACHINE
  1. In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a
• MISCELLANEOUS
  Mixed; mingled; consisting of several things; of diverse sorts; promiscuous; heterogeneous; as, a miscellaneous collection. "A miscellaneous rabble." Milton. -- Mis`cel*la"ne*ous*ly, adv. -- Mis`cel*la"ne*ous*ness, n. (more info) fr. miscellus
• DILIGENTLY
  In a diligent manner; not carelessly; not negligently; with industry or assiduity. Ye diligently keep commandments of the Lord your God. Deut. vi. 17.
• GETTER
  One who gets, gains, obtains, acquires, begets, or procreates.
• MACHINERY
  1. Machines, in general, or collectively. 2. The working parts of a machine, engine, or instrument; as, the machinery of a watch. 3. The supernatural means by which the action of a poetic or fictitious work is carried on and brought to
• DILIGENT
  diligere, dilectum, to esteem highly, prefer; di- = dis- + legere to 1. Prosecuted with careful attention and effort; careful; painstaking; not careless or negligent. The judges shall make diligent inquisition. Deut. xix. 18. 2. Interestedly and
• ANYTHING
  1. Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; thing of any kind; something or other; aught; as, I would not do it for anything. Did you ever know of anything so unlucky A. Trollope. They do not know that anything is amiss with them. W. G.
• GRAMME MACHINE
  A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight.
• BURRING MACHINE
  A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.
• NIRVANA
  In the Buddhist system of religion, the final emancipation of the soul from transmigration, and consequently a beatific enfrachisement from the evils of wordly existence, as by annihilation or absorption into the divine. See Buddhism.
• GLIDING MACHINE
  A construction consisting essentially of one or more aëroplanes for gliding in an inclined path from a height to the ground.
• SIRVENTE
  A peculiar species of poetry, for the most part devoted to moral and religious topics, and commonly satirical, -- often used by the troubadours of the Middle Ages. (more info) originally, the poem of, or concerning, a sirvent, fr. sirvent,
• COPPER WORKS
  A place where copper is wrought or manufactured. Woodward.
• WAXWORKS
  An exhibition of wax figures, or the place of exhibition.
• VICKERS-MAXIM AUTOMATIC MACHINE GUN
  An automatic machine gun in which the mechanism is worked by the recoil, assisted by the pressure of gases from the muzzle, which expand in a gas chamber against a disk attached to the end of the barrel, thus moving the latter to the rear
• CLAIRVOYANCE
  A power, attributed to some persons while in a mesmeric state, of discering objects not perceptible by the senses in their normal condition.
• FORGETTER
  One who forgets; a heedless person. Johnson.
• SLOT MACHINE
  A machine the operation of which is started by dropping a coin into a slot, for delivering small articles of merchandise, showing one's weight, exhibiting pictures, throwing dice, etc.
• DEADWORKS
  The parts of a ship above the water when she is laden.
• COAL WORKS
  A place where coal is dug, including the machinery for raising the coal.