Word Meanings - SCHISMA - Book Publishers vocabulary database
An interval equal to half a comma.
Related words: (words related to SCHISMA)
- INTERVALLUM
An interval. And a' shall laugh without intervallums. Shak. In one of these intervalla. Chillingworth. - COMMARK
The frontier of a country; confines. Shelton. - COMMANDING
1. Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer. 2. Fitted to impress or control; as, a commanding look or presence. 3. Exalted; overlooking; having superior strategic advantages; as, a commanding position. Syn. - EQUALIZER
One who, or that which, equalizes anything. - COMMANDATORY
Mandatory; as, commandatory authority. - EQUALIZE
1. To make equal; to cause to correspond, or be like, in amount or degree as compared; as, to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes. One poor moment can suffice To equalize the lofty and the low. Wordsworth. No system of instruction will completely - COMMANDO
In South Africa, a military body or command; also, sometimes, an expedition or raid; as, a commando of a hundred Boers. The war bands, called commandos, have played a great part in the . . . military history of the country. James Bryce. - INTERVAL
Difference in pitch between any two tones. At intervals, coming or happening with intervals between; now and then. "And Miriam watch'd and dozed at intervals." Tennyson. -- Augmented interval , an interval increased by half a step or half a tone. - COMMATISM
Conciseness in writing. Bp. Horsley. - EQUALITY
Exact agreement between two expressions or magnitudes with respect to quantity; -- denoted by the symbol =; thus, a = x signifies that a contains the same number and kind of units of measure that x does. Confessional equality. See under - COMMANDEER
To compel to perform military service; to seize for military purposes; -- orig. used of the Boers. 2. To take arbitrary or forcible possession of. - COMMANDMENT
One of the ten laws or precepts given by God to the Israelites at Mount Sinai. 3. The act of commanding; exercise of authority. And therefore put I on the countenance Of stern commandment. Shak. (more info) 1. An order or injunction given - COMMANDINGLY
In a commanding manner. - COMMANDABLE
Capable of being commanded. - COMMANDRY
See COMMANDERY - COMMATERIAL
Consisting of the same material. Bacon. - COMMANDER
An officer who ranks next below a captain, -- ranking with a lieutenant colonel in the army. 3. The chief officer of a commandery. 4. A heavy beetle or wooden mallet, used in paving, in sail lofts, etc. Commander in chief, the military title of - COMMA
A small interval (the difference beyween a major and minor half step), seldom used except by tuners. Comma bacillus , a variety of bacillus shaped like a comma, found in the intestines of patients suffering from cholera. It is considered by some - INTERVAL; INTERVALE
A tract of low ground between hills, or along the banks of a stream, usually alluvial land, enriched by the overflowings of the river, or by fertilizing deposits of earth from the adjacent hills. Cf. Bottom, n., 7. The woody intervale just beyond - EQUAL
Intended for voices of one kind only, either all male or all female; -- opposed to mixed. (more info) 1. Agreeing in quantity, size, quality, degree, value, etc.; having the same magnitude, the same value, the same degree, etc.; -- applied - UNEQUALABLE
Not capable of being equaled or paralleled. Boyle. - INEQUALITY
An expression consisting of two unequal quantities, with the sign of inequality between them; as, the inequality 2 < 3, or 4 > 1. (more info) 1. The quality of being unequal; difference, or want of equality, in any respect; lack of uniformity; - UNEQUALNESS
The quality or state of being unequal; inequality; unevenness. Jer. Taylor. - SUBEQUAL
Nearly equal. - MYOCOMMA
A myotome. - OSTEOCOMMA
A metamere of the vertebrate skeleton; an osteomere; a vertebra. Owen.