Word Meanings - METALEPTIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of, pertaining to, concerned in, or occurring by, metalepsy. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to a metalepsis. 2. Transverse; as, the metaleptic motion of a muscle.

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• MOTIONIST
  A mover.
• MOTIONER
  One who makes a motion; a mover. Udall.
• METALEPTIC
  Of, pertaining to, concerned in, or occurring by, metalepsy. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to a metalepsis. 2. Transverse; as, the metaleptic motion of a muscle.
• CONCERNEDLY
  In a concerned manner; solicitously; sympathetically.
• TRANSVERSELY
  In a transverse manner.
• MOTION PICTURE
  A moving picture.
• MOTIONLESS
  Without motion; being at rest.
• 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
• MOTION
  An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or rule directing some act to be done in favor of the applicant. Mozley & W. (more info) 1. The act, process, or state of changing place or position;
• CONCERNING
  Pertaining to; regarding; having relation to; respecting; as regards. I have accepted thee concerning this thing. Gen. xix. 21. The Lord hath spoken good concerning Israel. Num. x. 29.
• CONCERNED
  Disturbed; troubled; solicitous; as, to be much concerned for the safety of a friend.
• MUSCLE READING
  The art of making discriminations between objects of choice, of discovering the whereabouts of hidden objects, etc., by inference from the involuntary movements of one whose hand the reader holds or with whom he is otherwise in muscular contact.
• METALEPSIS
  The continuation of a trope in one word through a succession of significations, or the union of two or more tropes of a different kind in one word.
• OCCURRENCE
  1. A coming or happening; as, the occurence of a railway collision. Voyages detain the mind by the perpetual occurrence and expectation of something new. I. Watts. 2. Any incident or event; esp., one which happens without being designed
• MUSCLED
  Furnished with muscles; having muscles; as, things well muscled.
• METALEPSY
  Exchange; replacement; substitution; metathesis.
• METALEPTICAL
  Metaleptic. -- Met`a*lep"tic*al*ly, adv.
• MUSCLE
  See CONTRACTION (more info) An organ which, by its contraction, produces motion. See Illust. of Muscles of the Human Body, in Appendix. The contractile tissue of which muscles are largely made up. Note:
• TRANSVERSE
  Lying or being across, or in a crosswise direction; athwart; -- often opposed to Ant: longitudinal. Transverse axis (of an ellipse or hyperbola) , that axis which passes through the foci. -- Transverse partition , a partition, as of a pericarp,
• OCCURRENT
  Occurring or happening; hence, incidental; accidental.
• EXCITO-MOTION
  Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
• UNCONCERNMENT
  The state of being unconcerned, or of having no share or concern; unconcernedness. South.
• NERVIMOTION
  The movement caused in the sensory organs by external agents and transmitted to the muscles by the nerves. Dunglison.
• INTERTRANSVERSE
  Between the transverse processes of the vertebræ.
• IDEO-MOTION
  An ideo-motor movement.
• INCONCERNING
  Unimportant; trifling. "Trifling and inconcerning matters." Fuller.
• PREMOTION
  Previous motion or excitement to action.
• ELECTRO-MOTION
  The motion of electricity or its passage from one metal to another in a voltaic circuit; mechanical action produced by means of electricity.
• LINK MOTION
  A valve gear, consisting of two eccentrics with their rods, giving motion to a slide valve by an adjustable connecting bar, called the link, in such a way that the motion of the engine can be reversed, or the cut-off varied, at will; -- used very
• EMOTIONALIZE
  To give an emotional character to. Brought up in a pious family where religion was not talked about emotionalized, but was accepted as the rule of thought and conduct. Froude.