Word Meanings - MATRIX - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The womb. All that openeth the matrix is mine. Ex. xxxiv. 19. 2. Hence, that which gives form or origin to anything; as: The cavity in which anything is formed, and which gives it shape; a die; a mold, as for the face of a type. The earthy or stony

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The womb. All that openeth the matrix is mine. Ex. xxxiv. 19. 2. Hence, that which gives form or origin to anything; as: The cavity in which anything is formed, and which gives it shape; a die; a mold, as for the face of a type. The earthy or stony substance in which metallic ores or crystallized minerals are found; the gangue. pl.

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• SHAPE
  is from the strong verb, AS. scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, p. p. 1. To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to. I was shapen in iniquity. Ps. li. 5. Grace shaped her limbs, and
• FORMICARY
  The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill.
• FORMULIZE
  To reduce to a formula; to formulate. Emerson.
• GIVES
  Fetters.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• FORMICAROID
  Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridæ or ant thrushes.
• FORMIDABLY
  In a formidable manner.
• FORMICATE
  Resembling, or pertaining to, an ant or ants.
• ORIGINABLE
  Capable of being originated.
• FORME
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• STONY
  1. Of or pertaining to stone, consisting of, or abounding in, stone or stones; resembling stone; hard; as, a stony tower; a stony cave; stony ground; a stony crust. 2. Converting into stone; petrifying; petrific. The stony dart of senseless cold.
• FORMEDON
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• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• ORIGINATION
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  A univalent radical, H.C:O, regarded as the essential residue of formic acid and aldehyde. Formerly, the radical methyl, CH3.
• ANYTHINGARIAN
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• ORIGINATOR
  One who originates.
• INFORMITY
  Want of regular form; shapelessness.
• OMNIFORMITY
  The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More.
• FALCIFORM
  Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver.
• DEFORMER
  One who deforms.
• DIVERSIFORM
  Of a different form; of varied forms.
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• VARIFORM
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• RESINIFORM
  Having the form of resin.
• BIFORM
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• VILLIFORM
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• PENNIFORM
  Having the form of a feather or plume.
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• DENDRIFORM
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