Word Meanings - PENEPLAIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A land surface reduced by erosion to the general condition of a plain, but not wholly devoid of hills; a base-level plain.

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• HILLSIDE
  The side or declivity of a hill.
• SURFACE LOADING
  The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface.
• PLAINTIVE
  1. Repining; complaining; lamenting. Dryden. 2. Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. "The most plaintive ditty." Landor. -- Plain"tive*ly, adv. -- Plain"tive*ness, n.
• REDUCEMENT
  Reduction. Milton.
• GENERALIZED
  Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type.
• CONDITIONALITY
  The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.
• GENERALIZABLE
  Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge
• 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
• LEVELER
  1. One who, or that which, levels. 2. One who would remove social inequalities or distinctions; a socialist.
• LEVEL
  libella level, water level, a plumb level, dim. of libra pound, measure for liquids, balance, water poise, level. Cf. Librate, 1. A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is
• PLAINTIFF
  One who commences a personal action or suit to obtain a remedy for an injury to his rights; -- opposed to Ant: defendant. (more info) French equiv. to plaignant complainant, prosecutor, fr. plaindre. See
• CONDITIONAL
  Expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense. A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another. Whately. The words hypothetical and conditional may be . . .
• GENERALTY
  Generality. Sir M. Hale.
• REDUCTIVE
  Tending to reduce; having the power or effect of reducing. -- n.
• REDUCTIVELY
  By reduction; by consequence.
• PLAINT
  A private memorial tendered to a court, in which a person sets forth his cause of action; the exhibiting of an action in writing. Blackstone. (more info) planctum , to beat, beat the breast, lament. Cf. 1. Audible expression of sorrow;
• PLAINLY
  In a plain manner; clearly.
• WHOLLY
  1. In a whole or complete manner; entirely; completely; perfectly. Nor wholly overcome, nor wholly yield. Dryden. 2. To the exclusion of other things; totally; fully. They employed themselves wholly in domestic life. Addison.
• PLAIN-SPOKEN
  Speaking with plain, unreserved sincerity; also, spoken sincerely; as, plain-spoken words. Dryden.
• PLAINTLESS
  Without complaint; unrepining. "Plaintless patience." Savage.
• MAJOR GENERAL
  . An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps.
• SEA LEVEL
  The level of the surface of the sea; any surface on the same level with the sea.
• IRREDUCIBLE
  Incapable of being reduced to a simpler form of expression; as, an irreducible formula. Irreducible case , a particular case in the solution of a cubic equation, in which the formula commonly employed contains an imaginary quantity, and therefore
• CHAMPLAIN PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Quaternary age immediately following the Glacial period; -- so named from beds near Lake Champlain. Note: The earlier deposits of this period are diluvial in character, as if formed in connection with floods attending
• EXPLAIN
  out+plandare to make level or plain, planus plain: cf. OF. esplaner, 1. To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand. The horse-chestnut is . . . ready to explain its leaf. Evelyn. 2. To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear