Word Meanings - LIQUEFACTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The act, process, or method, of reducing a gas or vapor to a liquid by cold or pressure; as, the liquefaction of oxygen or hydrogen. (more info) 1. The act or operation of making or becoming liquid; especially, the conversion of a solid into a
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The act, process, or method, of reducing a gas or vapor to a liquid by cold or pressure; as, the liquefaction of oxygen or hydrogen. (more info) 1. The act or operation of making or becoming liquid; especially, the conversion of a solid into a liquid by the sole agency of heat. 2. The state of being liquid.
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- MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - SOLIDARE
A small piece of money. Shak. - HYDROGENIUM
Hydrogen; -- called also in view of its supposed metallic nature. Graham. - OXYGENIZE
To oxidize. - VAPORATE
To emit vapor; to evaporate. - 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. - REDUCEMENT
Reduction. Milton. - PROCESSIVE
Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge. - OXYGENATOR
An oxidizer. - VAPORY
1. Full of vapors; vaporous. 2. Hypochondriacal; splenetic; peevish. - PROCESSIONALIST
One who goes or marches in a procession. - OXYGENIC
Pertaining to, containing, or resembling, oxygen; producing oxygen. - REDUCE
To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from - SOLIDUNGULA
A tribe of ungulates which includes the horse, ass, and related species, constituting the family Equidæ. - VAPORIFORM
Existing in a vaporous form or state; as, steam is a vaporiform substance. - METHOD
Classification; a mode or system of classifying natural objects according to certain common characteristics; as, the method of Theophrastus; the method of Ray; the Linnæan method. Syn. -- Order; system; rule; regularity; way; manner; mode; course; - LIQUIDATION
The act or process of liquidating; the state of being liquidated. To go into liquidation , to turn over to a trustee one's assets and accounts, in order that the several amounts of one's indebtedness be authoritatively ascertained, and that the - REDUCTIVE
Tending to reduce; having the power or effect of reducing. -- n. - BECOME
happen; akin to D. bekomen, OHG.a piquëman, Goth. biquiman to come 1. To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional - HYDROGEN
A gaseous element, colorless, tasteless, and odorless, the lightest known substance, being fourteen and a half times lighter than air , and over eleven thousand times lighter than water. It is very abundant, being an ingredient of water and of - UNBECOMING
Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n. - MANTUAMAKER
One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker. - DEOXYGENATE
To deoxidize. - BOOTMAKER
One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n. - EVAPORATION
See VAPORIZATION (more info) 1. The process by which any substance is converted from a liquid state into, and carried off in, vapor; as, the evaporation of water, of ether, of camphor. 2. - UNLIQUIDATED
Not liquidated; not exactly ascertained; not adjusted or settled. Unliquidated damages , penalties or damages not ascertained in money. Burrill. - BRICKMAKER
One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n. - CONSOLIDATED
Having a small surface in proportion to bulk, as in the cactus. Consolidated plants are evidently adapted and designed for very dry regions; in such only they are found. Gray. The Consolidated Fund, a British fund formed by consolidating (in 1787)