Word Meanings - PLANKTON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

All the animals and plants, taken collectively, which live at or near the surface of salt or fresh waters. --Plank*ton"ic , a.

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• PLANKING
  1. The act of laying planks; also, planks, collectively; a series of planks in place, as the wooden covering of the frame of a vessel. 2. The act of splicing slivers. See Plank, v. t., 4.
• 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.
• FRESHNESS
  The state of being fresh. The Scots had the advantage both for number and freshness of men. Hayward. And breathe the freshness of the open air. Dryden. Her cheeks their freshness lose and wonted grace. Granville.
• FRESHET
  1. A stream of fresh water. Milton. 2. A flood or overflowing of a stream caused by heavy rains or melted snow; a sudden inundation. Cracked the sky, as ice in rivers When the freshet is at highest. Longfellow.
• PLANKTON
  All the animals and plants, taken collectively, which live at or near the surface of salt or fresh waters. --Plank*ton"ic , a.
• COLLECTIVELY
  In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
• FRESHLY
  In a fresh manner; vigorously; newly, recently; brightly; briskly; coolly; as, freshly gathered; freshly painted; the wind blows freshly. Looks he as freshly as he did Shak.
• FRESHMAN
  novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge; especially, a student during his fist year in a college or university. He drank his glass and cracked his joke, And freshmen wondered as he spoke. Goldsmith. Freshman class, the lowest of the four classes
• 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.
• FRESH-WATER
  1. Of, pertaining to, or living in, water not salt; as, fresh-water geological deposits; a fresh-water fish; fresh-water mussels. 2. Accustomed to sail on fresh water only; unskilled as a seaman; as, a fresh-water sailor. 3. Unskilled;
• FRESHMANSHIP
  The state of being a freshman.
• FRESH
  AS. fersc; akin to D. versch, G. frisch, OHG. frisc, Sw. frisk, Dan. frisk, fersk, Icel. fr frisky, brisk, ferskr fresh; cf. It. fresco, OF. fres, freis, fem. freske, fresche, F. frais, fem. fra, which are 1. Possessed of original life and vigor;
• 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.
• SURFACE TENSION
  That property, due to molecular forces, which exists in the surface film of all liquids and tends to bring the contained volume into a form having the least superficial area. The thickness of this film, amounting to less than a thousandth
• FRESHMENT
  Refreshment.
• FRESH-NEW
  Unpracticed. Shak.
• FRESHEN
  To relieve, as a rope, by change of place where friction wears it; or to renew, as the material used to prevent chafing; as, to freshen a hawse. Totten. To freshen ballast , to shift Or restore it. -- To freshen the hawse, to pay out a little more
• WATERSHED
  1. The whole region or extent of country which contributes to the supply of a river or lake. 2. The line of division between two adjacent rivers or lakes with respect to the flow of water by natural channels into them; the natural boundary of a
• WATERSPOUT
  A remarkable meteorological phenomenon, of the nature of a tornado or whirlwind, usually observed over the sea, but sometimes over the land. Note: Tall columns, apparently of cloud, and reaching from the sea to the clouds, are seen moving along,
• PLANK-SHEER
  The course of plank laid horizontally over the timberheads of a vessel's frame.
• AFRESH
  Anew; again; once more; newly. They crucify . . . the Son of God afresh. Heb. vi. 6.
• MISTAKEN
  1. Being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion or a misconception; as, a mistaken man; he is mistaken. 2. Erroneous; wrong; as, a mistaken notion.
• REFRESHMENT
  1. The act of refreshing, or the state of being refreshed; restoration of strength, spirit, vigor, or liveliness; relief after suffering; new life or animation after depression. 2. That which refreshes; means of restoration or reanimation;
• DOUBLE-SURFACED
  Having two surfaces; -- said specif. of aëroplane wings or aërocurves which are covered on both sides with fabric, etc., thus completely inclosing their frames.
• OUTTAKEN
  or prep. Excepted; save. Wyclif. Chaucer.
• ADJUSTING PLANE; ADJUSTING SURFACE
  A small plane or surface, usually capable of adjustment but not of manipulation, for preserving lateral balance in an aëroplane or flying machine.