Word Meanings - INSPECTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Engaged in inspection; inspecting; involving inspection.

Related words: (words related to INSPECTIVE)

• INVOLVEDNESS
  The state of being involved.
• INSPECTOR
  One who inspects, views, or oversees; one to whom the supervision of any work is committed; one who makes an official view or examination, as a military or civil officer; a superintendent; a supervisor; an overseer. Inspector general , a staff
• INSPECTORSHIP
  1. The office of an inspector. 2. The district embraced by an inspector's jurisdiction.
• INSPECTIVE
  Engaged in inspection; inspecting; involving inspection.
• ENGAGING
  Tending to draw the attention or affections; attractive; as, engaging manners or address. -- En*ga"ging*ly, adv. -- En*ga"ging*ness, n. Engaging and disengaging gear or machinery, that in which, or by means of which, one part is alternately brought
• ENGAGEDNESS
  The state of being deeply interested; earnestness; zeal.
• INSPECTRESS
  A female inspector.
• INVOLVE
  To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of times; as, a quantity involved to the third or fourth power. Syn. -- To imply; include; implicate; complicate; entangle; embarrass; overwhelm. -- To Involve,
• INVOLVEMENT
  The act of involving, or the state of being involved. Lew Wallace.
• INSPECTORATE
  Inspectorship.
• ENGAGER
  One who enters into an engagement or agreement; a surety. Several sufficient citizens were engagers. Wood.
• INSPECTORIAL
  Of or pertaining to an inspector or to inspection.
• ENGAGEDLY
  With attachment; with interest; earnestly.
• ENGAGED
  1. Occupied; employed; busy. 2. Pledged; promised; especially, having the affections pledged; promised in marriage; affianced; betrothed. 3. Greatly interested; of awakened zeal; earnest. 4. Involved; esp., involved in a hostile encounter; as,
• INVOLVED
  See INVOLUTE
• INSPECT
  pref. in- in + specere to look at, to view: cf. F. inspecter, fr. L. 1. To look upon; to view closely and critically, esp. in order to ascertain quality or condition, to detect errors, etc., to examine; to scrutinize; to investigate; as, to inspect
• INSPECTION
  1. The act or process of inspecting or looking at carefully; a strict or prying examination; close or careful scrutiny; investigation. Spenser. With narrow search, and with inspection deep, Considered every creature. Milton. 2. The act
• ENGAGEMENT
  An action; a fight; a battle. In hot engagement with the Moors. Dryden. (more info) 1. The act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or entering into contest. 2. The state of being engaged, pledged or occupied; specif., a pledge to take
• ENGAGE
  To come into gear with; as, the teeth of one cogwheel engage those of another, or one part of a clutch engages the other part. (more info) Etym: 1. To put under pledge; to pledge; to place under obligations to do or forbear doing something, as
• REENGAGEMENT
  A renewed or repeated engagement.
• GREENGAGE
  A kind of plum of medium size, roundish shape, greenish flesh, and delicious flavor. It is called in France Reine Claude, after the queen of Francis I. See Gage.
• SUPERINSPECT
  To over see; to superintend by inspection. Maydman.
• REINSPECT
  To inspect again.
• DISENGAGING
  Loosing; setting free; detaching. Disengaging machinery. See under Engaging.
• PREENGAGEMENT
  Prior engagement, obligation, or attachment, as by contract, promise, or affection. My preëngagements to other themes were not unknown to those for whom I was to write. Boyle.
• DRENGAGE
  The tenure by which a drench held land. Burrill.