Word Meanings - MICROSCOPICALLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

By the microscope; with minute inspection; in a microscopic manner.

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• MICROSCOPIC; MICROSCOPICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to the microscope or to microscopy; made with a microscope; as, microscopic observation. 2. Able to see extremely minute objects. Why has not man a microscopic eye Pope. 3. Very small; visible only by the aid of a microscope;
• MINUTELY
  In a minute manner; with minuteness; exactly; nicely.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• MINUTE
  1. The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (Abbrev. m.; as, 4 h. 30 m.) Four minutes, that is to say, minutes of an hour. Chaucer. 2. The sixtieth part of a degree; sixty seconds ; as,
• MINUTEMAN
  A militiaman who was to be ready to march at a moment's notice; -- a term used in the American Revolution.
• MINUTE-JACK
  1. A figure which strikes the hour on the bell of some fanciful clocks; -- called also jack of the clock house. 2. A timeserver; an inconstant person. Shak.
• MICROSCOPICALLY
  By the microscope; with minute inspection; in a microscopic manner.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• MINUTENESS
  The quality of being minute.
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• INSPECTION
  1. The act or process of inspecting or looking at carefully; a strict or prying examination; close or careful scrutiny; investigation. Spenser. With narrow search, and with inspection deep, Considered every creature. Milton. 2. The act
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• MANNERLY
  Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
• MICROSCOPE
  An optical instrument, consisting of a lens, or combination of lenses, for making an enlarged image of an object which is too minute to be viewed by the naked eye. Compound microscope, an instrument consisting of a combination of lenses such that
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• COMMINUTE
  To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth. Pennant. Comminuted fracture. See under Fracture.
• AMPERE HOUR; AMPERE MINUTE; AMPERE SECOND
  The quantity of electricity delivered in one hour by a current whose average strength is one ampère. It is used as a unit of quantity, and is equal to 3600 coulombs. The terms Ampère minute and Ampère second are sometimes similarly used.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.
• DIMINUTE
  Small; diminished; diminutive. Jer. Taylor.
• DIMINUTELY
  Diminutively.
• REINSPECTION
  The act of reinspecting.