Word Meanings - JAW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The inner end of a boom or gaff, hollowed in a half circle so as to move freely on a mast. (more info) One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth. Hence, also, the bone itself with the teeth and covering. In

Additional info about word: JAW

The inner end of a boom or gaff, hollowed in a half circle so as to move freely on a mast. (more info) One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth. Hence, also, the bone itself with the teeth and covering. In the plural, the mouth. 2. Fig.: Anything resembling the jaw of an animal in form or action; esp., pl., the mouth or way of entrance; as, the jaws of a pass; the jaws of darkness; the jaws of death. Shak. A notch or opening. A notched or forked part, adapted for holding an object in place; as, the jaw of a railway-car pedestal. See Axle guard. One of a pair of opposing parts which are movable towards or from each other, for grasping or crushing anything between them, as, the jaws of a vise, or the jaws of a stone-crushing machine.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of JAW)

• Bill
• Account
• reckoning
• score
• charges
• jaw
• mandible
• beak

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of JAW)

• Disesteem
• misestimate
• mystify
• understate
• undervalue
• perplex
• darken

Related words: (words related to JAW)

• DARKEN
  Etym: 1. To make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton.
• ACCOUNTANTSHIP
  The office or employment of an accountant.
• RECKON
  reckon, G. rechnen, OHG. rahnjan), and to E. reck, rake an implement; the original sense probably being, to bring together, count together. 1. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate. The priest shall reckon to him the
• SCORER
  One who, or that which, scores.
• RECKONER
  One who reckons or computes; also, a book of calculation, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning. Reckoners without their host must reckon twice. Camden.
• ACCOUNTANCY
  The art or employment of an accountant.
• DISESTEEMER
  One who disesteems. Boyle.
• PERPLEX
  1. To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with doubts. No artful wildness to perplex the scene. Pope. What was thought obscure, perplexed, and too hard for our
• DARKENING
  Twilight; gloaming. Wright.
• UNDERVALUE
  1. To value, rate, or estimate below the real worth; to depreciate. 2. To esteem lightly; to treat as of little worth; to hold in mean estimation; to despise. In comparison of it I undervalued all ensigns of authority. Atterbury. I write not this
• ACCOUNTABILITY
  The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account; accountableness. "The awful idea of accountability." R. Hall.
• PERPLEXLY
  Perplexedly. Milton.
• UNDERSTATE
  To state or represent less strongly than may be done truthfully.
• MYSTIFY
  1. To involve in mystery; to make obscure or difficult to understand; as, to mystify a passage of Scripture. 2. To perplex the mind of; to puzzle; to impose upon the credulity of ; as, to mystify an opponent. He took undue advantage of
• DISESTEEM
  Want of esteem; low estimation, inclining to dislike; disfavor; disrepute. Disesteem and contempt of the public affairs. Milton.
• ACCOUNTABLE
  1. Liable to be called on to render an account; answerable; as, every man is accountable to God for his conduct. 2. Capable of being accounted for; explicable. True religion . . . intelligible, rational, and accountable, -- not a burden
• ACCOUNT BOOK
  A book in which accounts are kept. Swift.
• MISESTIMATE
  To estimate erroneously. J. S. Mill.
• SCORE
  The original and entire draught, or its transcript, of a composition, with the parts for all the different instruments or voices written on staves one above another, so that they can be read at a glance; -- so called from the bar, which, in its
• DARKENER
  One who, or that which, darkens.
• UNPERPLEX
  To free from perplexity. Donne.
• DEAD-RECKONING
  See A
• FOURSCORE
  Four times twenty; eighty.
• OVERHEAD CHARGES; OVERHEAD EXPENSES
  Those general charges or expenses in any business which cannot be charged up as belonging exclusively to any particular part of the work or product, as where different kinds of goods are made, or where there are different departments in a business;
• EIGHTSCORE
  Eight times twenty; a hundred and sixty.
• UNDERSCORE
  To draw a mark or line under; to underline. J. Tucker.