Word Meanings - SINGLE-ACTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having simplicity of action; especially , acting or exerting force during strokes in one direction only; -- said of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.

Related words: (words related to SINGLE-ACTING)

• ACTURE
  Action. Shak.
• ACTURIENCE
  Tendency or impulse to act. Acturience, or desire of action, in one form or another, whether as restlessness, ennui, dissatisfaction, or the imagination of something desirable. J. Grote.
• FORCE
  To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
• ACTINOLITE
  A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses.
• ACTINOSTOME
  The mouth or anterior opening of a coelenterate animal.
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• ACTINARIA
  A large division of Anthozoa, including those which have simple tentacles and do not form stony corals. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to all the Anthozoa, expert the Alcyonaria, whether forming corals or not.
• DURAMEN
  The heartwood of an exogenous tree.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• ACTUARIAL
  Of or pertaining to actuaries; as, the actuarial value of an annuity.
• EXERT
  out; ex out + serere to join or bind together. See Series, and cf. 1. To thrust forth; to emit; to push out. So from the seas exerts his radiant head The star by whom the lights of heaven are led. Dryden. 2. To put force, ability, or anything of
• 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.
• ACTUALIZE
  To make actual; to realize in action. Coleridge.
• DURIO
  A fruit tree of the Indian Archipelago. It bears the durian.
• ACTIVITY
  The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities. "The activity of toil." Palfrey. Syn. -- Liveliness; briskness; quickness.
• ACTUATE
  Etym: 1. To put into action or motion; to move or incite to action; to influence actively; to move as motives do; -- more commonly used of persons. Wings, which others were contriving to actuate by the perpetual motion. Johnson. Men of the greatest
• DUROUS
  Hard.
• ACTINOPHOROUS
  Having straight projecting spines.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• SELF-ACTIVE
  Acting of one's self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents.
• PHYLACTERED
  Wearing a phylactery.
• CHYLIFACTIVE
  Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle.
• HEMIDACTYL
  Any species of Old World geckoes of the genus Hemidactylus. The hemidactyls have dilated toes, with two rows of plates beneath.
• INACTUATE
  To put in action.
• INTRACTABILITY
  The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.
• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• AIR ENGINE
  An engine driven by heated or by compressed air. Knight.
• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• RIPPER ACT; RIPPER BILL
  An act or a bill conferring upon a chief executive, as a governor or mayor, large powers of appointment and removal of heads of departments or other subordinate officials.
• REVERDURE
  To cover again with verdure. Ld. Berners.
• LACTOSCOPE
  An instrument for estimating the amount of cream contained in milk by ascertaining its relative opacity.