Word Meanings - JARGONIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the mineral jargon.

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• JARGON
  Confused, unintelligible language; gibberish; hence, an artificial idiom or dialect; cant language; slang. "A barbarous jargon." Macaulay. "All jargon of the schools." Prior. The jargon which serves the traffickers. Johnson.
• MINERALIZATION
  The conversion of a cell wall into a material of a stony nature. (more info) 1. The process of mineralizing, or forming a mineral by combination of a metal with another element; also, the process of converting into a mineral, as a bone or a plant.
• MINERALOGICALLY
  According to the principles of, or with reference to, mineralogy.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• JARGONELLE
  A variety of pear which ripens early.
• MINERALOGY
  1. The science which treats of minerals, and teaches how to describe, distinguish, and classify them. 2. A treatise or book on this science.
• MINERALIST
  One versed in minerals; mineralogist.
• JARGONIC
  Of or pertaining to the mineral jargon.
• JARGONIST
  One addicted to jargon; one who uses cant or slang. Macaulay.
• MINERALOGIZE
  To study mineralogy by collecting and examining minerals. Miss Edgeworth.
• MINERALIZER
  An element which is combined with a metal, thus forming an ore. Thus, in galena, or lead ore, sulphur is a mineralizer; in hematite, oxygen is a mineralizer.
• MINERALIZE
  1. To transform into a mineral. In these caverns the bones are not mineralized. Buckland. 2. To impregnate with a mineral; as, mineralized water.
• MINERALOGIST
  A carrier shell . (more info) 1. One versed in mineralogy; one devoted to the study of minerals.
• MINERAL
  1. An inorganic species or substance occurring in nature, having a definite chemical composition and usually a distinct crystalline form. Rocks, except certain glassy igneous forms, are either simple minerals or aggregates of minerals. 2. A mine.
• MINERALOGICAL
  Of or pertaining to mineralogy; as, a mineralogical table.
• AETHIOPS MINERAL
  See MINERAL
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach