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Word Meanings - PLUVIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Produced by the action of rain. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to rain; rainy.

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  • PRODUCIBILITY
    The quality or state of being producible. Barrow.
  • PRODUCEMENT
    Production.
  • ACTION
    Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun. (more info) 1. A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of
  • RAINY
    Abounding with rain; wet; showery; as, rainy day or season.
  • ACTIONABLE
    That may be the subject of an action or suit at law; as, to call a man a thief is actionable.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • PRODUCTILE
    Capable of being extended or prolonged; extensible; ductile.
  • PRODUCER
    A furnace for producing combustible gas which is used for fuel. (more info) 1. One who produces, brings forth, or generates. 2. One who grows agricultural products, or manufactures crude materials into articles of use.
  • PRODUCENT
    One who produces, or offers to notice. Ayliffe.
  • ACTIONABLY
    In an actionable manner.
  • PRODUCTRESS
    A female producer.
  • PRODUCER'S SURPLUS; PRODUCER'S RENT
    Any profit above the normal rate of interest and wages accruing to a producer on account of some monopoly of the means or materials of production; -- called also Producer's rent.
  • ACTIONARY; ACTIONIST
    A shareholder in joint-stock company.
  • PRODUCT
    The number or sum obtained by adding one number or quantity to itself as many times as there are units in another number; the number resulting from the multiplication of two or more numbers; as, the product of the multiplication of 7 by 5 is 35.
  • PRODUCTION
    1. The act or process or producing, bringing forth, or exhibiting to view; as, the production of commodities, of a witness. 2. That which is produced, yielded, or made, whether naturally, or by the application of intelligence and labor; as, the
  • PRODUCTIBILITY
    The state of being productible; producibility. Ruskin.
  • PRODUCTIBLE
    Capable of being produced; producible.
  • PRODUCIBLE
    Capable of being produced, brought forward, brought forth, generated, made, or extended. -- Pro*du"ci*ble*ness, n.
  • REACTIONIST
    A reactionary. C. Kingsley.
  • MADEFACTION; MADEFICATION
    The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. Bacon.
  • REDACTION
    The act of redacting; work produced by redacting; a digest.
  • CHYLIFACTION
    The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.
  • FACTION
    One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus. 2. A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority,
  • DISTRACTION
    1. The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation. To create distractions among us. Bp. Burnet. 2. That which diverts attention; a diversion. "Domestic distractions." G. Eliot. 3. A diversity of direction; detachment. His power went out in
  • REFACTION
    Recompense; atonemet; retribution. Howell.
  • COLLIQUEFACTION
    A melting together; the reduction of different bodies into one mass by fusion. The incorporation of metals by simple colliquefaction. Bacon.
  • DIRECT ACTION
    See BELOW
  • UNDERACTION
    Subordinate action; a minor action incidental or subsidiary to the main story; an episode. The least episodes or underactions . . . are parts necessary or convenient to carry on the main design. Dryden.
  • ABSTRACTION
    The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or
  • OVERPRODUCTION
    Excessive production; supply beyond the demand. J. S. Mill.
  • SUBSTRACTION
    See 3 (more info) 1. Subtraction; deduction.
  • SUBTRACTION
    The taking of a lesser number or quantity from a greater of the same kind or denomination; an operation for finding the difference between two numbers or quantities. (more info) 1. The act or operation of subtracting or taking away a part.
  • EXACTION
    1. The act of demanding with authority, and compelling to pay or yield; compulsion to give or furnish; a levying by force; a driving to compliance; as, the exaction to tribute or of obedience; hence, extortion. Take away your exactions from my
  • CONTACTION
    Act of touching.
  • UNSATISFACTION
    Dissatisfaction. Bp. Hall.

 

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