Word Meanings - POSITIONAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of or pertaining to position. Ascribing unto plants positional operations. Sir T. Browne.
Related words: (words related to POSITIONAL)
- ASCRIBE
1. To attribute, impute, or refer, as to a cause; as, his death was ascribed to a poison; to ascribe an effect to the right cause; to ascribe such a book to such an author. The finest that is ascribed to Satan in the whole poem. Addison. 2. To - 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 - ASCRIBABLE
Capable of being ascribed; attributable. - POSITION
A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; -- called also the rule of trial and error. Angle of position , the angle which any line makes with another fixed line, specifically with a circle of declination. -- Double position , - POSITIONAL
Of or pertaining to position. Ascribing unto plants positional operations. Sir T. Browne. - APPOSITION
The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first. Growth by apposition , a mode of growth characteristic - OPPOSITIONIST
One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed. - EXPOSITION
1. The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view. 2. The act of expounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put upon a passage; a law, or - DECOMPOSITION
1. The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of - SEPOSITION
The act of setting aside, or of giving up. Jer. Taylor. - CIRCUMPOSITION
The act of placing in a circle, or round about, or the state of being so placed. Evelyn. - ANTEPOSITION
The placing of a before another, which, by ordinary rules, ought to follow it. - PRESUPPOSITION
1. The act of presupposing; an antecedent implication; presumption. 2. That which is presupposed; a previous supposition or surmise. - DEPOSITION
The act of laying down one's testimony in writing; also, testimony laid or taken down in writting, under oath or affirmation, befor some competent officer, and in reply to interrogatories and cross-interrogatories. Syn. -- Deposition, Affidavit. - MISEXPOSITION
Wrong exposition. - INTERPOSITION
insertion, fr. interponere, interpositum: cf. F. interposition. See 1. The act of interposing, or the state of being interposed; a being, placing, or coming between; mediation. 2. The thing interposed. - MALPOSITION
A wrong position. - POSTPOSITION
1. The act of placing after, or the state of being placed after. "The postposition of the nominative case to the verb." Mede. 2. A word or particle placed after, or at the end of, another word; - - distinguished from preposition. - SUPERPOSITION
The act of superposing, or the state of being superposed; as, the superposition of rocks; the superposition of one plane figure on another, in geometry. - POSTPOSITIONAL
Of or pertaining to postposition. - INDISPOSITION
1. The state of being indisposed; disinclination; as, the indisposition of two substances to combine. A general indisposition towards believing. Atterbury. 2. A slight disorder or illness. Rather as an indisposition in health than as - PREDISPOSITION
1. The act of predisposing, or the state of being predisposed; previous inclination, tendency, or propensity; predilection; -- applied to the mind; as, a predisposition to anger. 2. Previous fitness or adaptation to any change, impression,