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Word Meanings - PHONOMOTOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An instrument in which motion is produced by the vibrations of a sounding body.

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  • PRODUCIBILITY
    The quality or state of being producible. Barrow.
  • INSTRUMENTAL
    Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music. "He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship." Macaulay. Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental
  • MOTIONER
    One who makes a motion; a mover. Udall.
  • MOTIONIST
    A mover.
  • SOUNDER
    One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
  • PRODUCEMENT
    Production.
  • SOUNDLESS
    Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable. Shak.
  • 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.
  • SOUNDLY
    In a sound manner.
  • SOUNDNESS
    The quality or state of being sound; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, etc.; the soundness of reasoning or argument; soundness of faith. Syn. -- Firmness; strength; solidity; healthiness; truth; rectitude.
  • PRODUCTIVITY
    The quality or state of being productive; productiveness. Emerson. Not indeed as the product, but as the producing power, the productivity. Coleridge.
  • PRODUCTUS
    An extinct genus of brachiopods, very characteristic of the Carboniferous rocks.
  • INSTRUMENTALITY
    The quality or condition of being instrumental; that which is instrumental; anything used as a means; medium; agency. The instrumentality of faith in justification. Bp. Burnet. The discovery of gunpowder developed the science of attack and defense
  • MOTION PICTURE
    A moving picture.
  • INSTRUMENTATION
    1. The act of using or adapting as an instrument; a series or combination of instruments; means; agency. Otherwise we have no sufficient instrumentation for our human use or handling of so great a fact. H. Bushnell. The arrangement of a musical
  • WHICH
    the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
  • MOTIONLESS
    Without motion; being at rest.
  • SOUNDING BALLOON
    An unmanned balloon sent aloft for meteorological or aƫronautic purposes.
  • SOUND-BOARD
    A sounding-board. To many a row of pipes the sound-board breathes. Milton.
  • PRODUCTILE
    Capable of being extended or prolonged; extensible; ductile.
  • HIGH-SOUNDING
    Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
  • RESOUND
    resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
  • EXCITO-MOTION
    Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
  • NERVIMOTION
    The movement caused in the sensory organs by external agents and transmitted to the muscles by the nerves. Dunglison.
  • OVERPRODUCTION
    Excessive production; supply beyond the demand. J. S. Mill.
  • IDEO-MOTION
    An ideo-motor movement.
  • MISSOUND
    To sound wrongly; to utter or pronounce incorrectly. E,Hall.
  • REPRODUCTORY
    Reproductive.

 

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