Word Meanings - TEAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moisten the parts and facilitate their motion. Ordinarily the secretion passes through the lachrymal duct

Additional info about word: TEAR

A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moisten the parts and facilitate their motion. Ordinarily the secretion passes through the lachrymal duct into the nose, but when it is increased by emotion or other causes, it overflows the lids. And yet for thee ne wept she never a tear. Chaucer. 2. Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins. Let Araby extol her happy coast, Her fragrant flowers, her trees with precious tears. Dryden. 3. That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge. "Some melodous tear." Milton. Note: Tear is sometimes used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, tear-distilling, tear-drop, tear-filled, tear-stained, and the like. (more info) Icel. tar, Sw. tår, Dan. taare, Goth. tagr, OIr. der, W. dagr, OW.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TEAR)

• Rend
• Tear
• lacerate
• divide
• separate
• split
• disintegrate
• disunite
• rive
• tear asunder
• Separate
• Part
• never
• disjoin
• divorce
• tear
• rend
• remove
• detach
• disconnect
• dissipate
• scatter
• segregate
• diverge

Related words: (words related to TEAR)

• SPLIT INFINITIVE
  A simple infinitive with to, having a modifier between the verb and the to; as in, to largely decrease. Called also cleft infinitive.
• DIVORCEABLE
  Capable of being divorced.
• DIVIDER
  An instrument for dividing lines, describing circles, etc., compasses. See Compasses. Note: The word dividers is usually applied to the instrument as made for the use of draughtsmen, etc.; compasses to the coarser instrument used by carpenters.
• DIVIDEND
  A number or quantity which is to be divided. (more info) 1. A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated
• NEVERTHELESS
  Not the less; notwithstanding; in spite of that; yet. No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous; nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness. Heb. xii. 11. Syn. -- However; at least; yet; still.
• LACERATE; LACERATED
  Jagged, or slashed irregularly, at the end, or along the edge. (more info) 1. Rent; torn; mangled; as, a lacerated wound. By each other's fury lacerate Southey.
• SPLITFEET
  The Fissipedia.
• DISCONNECT
  To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse. The commonwealth itself would . . . be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality. Burke. This restriction disconnects bank paper and the precious
• DISCONNECTION
  The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke.
• SPLIT SWITCH
  = Point switch.
• DISINTEGRATE
  To decompose into integrant parts; as, chalk rapidly disintegrates.
• LACERATE
  To tear; to rend; to separate by tearing; to mangle; as, to lacerate the flesh. Hence: To afflict; to torture; as, to lacerate the heart.
• DISJOINTED
  Separated at the joints; disconnected; incoherent. -- Dis*joint"ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*joint"ed*ness, n.
• SPLIT-TAIL
  A california market fish belonging to the Carp family. The pintail duck.
• SPLIT SHOT; SPLIT STROKE
  In croquet, etc., a shot or stroke in which one drives in different directions one's own and the opponent's ball placed in contact.
• DISSIPATED
  1. Squandered; scattered. "Dissipated wealth." Johnson. 2. Wasteful of health, money, etc., in the pursuit of pleasure; dissolute; intemperate. A life irregular and dissipated. Johnson.
• SPLIT DYNAMOMETER
  An electric dynamometer having two coils so arranged that one carries the primary current, and the other the secondary current, of a transformer.
• DETACHED
  Separate; unconnected, or imperfectly connected; as, detached parcels. "Extensive and detached empire." Burke. Detached escapement. See Escapement.
• SCATTERLING
  One who has no fixed habitation or residence; a vagabond. "Foreign scatterlings." Spenser.
• SPLIT WHEEL
  = Split pulley.
• WHENEVER
  At whatever time. "Whenever that shall be." Milton.
• BESCATTER
  1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
• INSEPARATE
  Not separate; together; united. Shak.
• DISJOINT
  Disjointed; unconnected; -- opposed to conjoint. Milton.
• DILACERATE
  To rend asunder; to tear to pieces. Sir T. Browne.
• SUBDIVIDE
  To divide the parts of into more parts; to part into smaller divisions; to divide again, as what has already been divided. The progenies of Cham and Japhet swarmed into colonies, and those colonies were subdivided into many others. Dryden.