Word Meanings - SELF-STARTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A mechanism (usually one operated by electricity, compressed air, a spring, or an explosive gas), attached to an internal- combustion engine, as on an automobile, and used as a means of starting the engine without cranking it by hand.
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- OPERATIC; OPERATICAL
Of or pertaining to the opera or to operas; characteristic of, or resembling, the opera. - SPREADINGLY
, adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton. - SPRINGBOARD
An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising. - SPRINGE
A noose fastened to an elastic body, and drawn close with a sudden spring, whereby it catches a bird or other animal; a gin; a snare. As a woodcock to mine own springe. Shak. - SPRINGAL
An ancient military engine for casting stones and arrows by means of a spring. - ENGINER
A contriver; an inventor; a contriver of engines. Shak. - ENGINERY
1. The act or art of managing engines, or artillery. Milton. 2. Engines, in general; instruments of war. Training his devilish enginery. Milton. 3. Any device or contrivance; machinery; structure or arrangement. Shenstone. - SPRINT
To run very rapidly; to run at full speed. A runner should be able to sprint the whole way. Encyc. Brit. (more info) Etym: - STARTLINGLY
In a startling manner. - SPRIGHTLY
Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope. - CRANKLE
To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle. Old Veg's stream . . . drew her humid train aslope, Crankling her banks. J. Philips. - SPRINKLING
1. The act of one who, or that which, sprinkles. Baptism may well enough be performed by sprinkling or effusion of water. Ayliffe. 2. A small quantity falling in distinct drops or particles; as, a sprinkling of rain or snow. 3. Hence, a moderate - SPRINGY
1. Resembling, having the qualities of, or pertaining to, a spring; elastic; as, springy steel; a springy step. Though her little frame was slight, it was firm and springy. Sir W. Scott. 2. Abounding with springs or fountains; wet; spongy; as, - SPRIGGED
Having sprigs. - AUTOMOBILE
An automobile vehicle or mechanism; esp., a self-propelled vehicle suitable for use on a street or roadway. Automobiles are usually propelled by internal combustion engines (using volatile inflammable liquids, as gasoline or petrol, alcohol, - SPRUNTLY
In a sprunt manner; smartly; vigorously; youthfully. B. Jonson. - SPRINGHALT
A kind of lameness in horse. See Stringhalt. Shak. - SPRIGHTFUL
Full of spirit or of life; earnest; vivacious; lively; brisk; nimble; gay. -- Spright"ful*ly, adv. Shak. -- Spright"ful*ness, n. Spoke like a sprightful gentlemen. Shak. Steeds sprightful as the light. Cowley. - MECHANISM
An ideal machine; a combination of movable bodies constituting a machine, but considered only with regard to relative movements. (more info) 1. The arrangement or relation of the parts of a machine; the parts of a machine, taken collectively; the - SPRIT
To throw out with force from a narrow orifice; to eject; to spurt out. Sir T. Browne. - DISPROPORTIONALLY
In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally. - AIR ENGINE
An engine driven by heated or by compressed air. Knight. - DISPROPORTIONALITY
The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More. - DISPROPORTIONABLE
Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv. - HANDSPRING
A somersault made with the assistance of the hands placed upon the ground. - RADIANT ENGINE
A semiradial engine. See Radial engine, above. - PYROELECTRICITY
Electricity developed by means of heat; the science which treats of electricity thus developed. - MISPROPORTION
To give wrong proportions to; to join without due proportion. - RADIAL ENGINE
An engine, usually an internal-combustion engine of a certain type having several cylinders arranged radially like the spokes of a complete wheel. The semiradial engine has radiating cylinders on only one side of the crank shaft. - MISPRONOUNCE
To pronounce incorrectly.