Word Meanings - TRIMETHYLAMINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A colorless volatile alkaline liquid, N. 3, obtained from herring brine, beet roots, etc., with a characteristic herringlike odor. It is regarded as a substituted ammonia containing three methyl groups.

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• 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.
• THREE-SQUARE
  Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file.
• HERR
  A title of respect given to gentlemen in Germany, equivalent to the English Mister.
• THREE-MILE
  Of or pertaining to three miles; as, the three-mile limit, or the limit of the marine belt of three miles included in territorial waters of a state.
• THREE-PILE
  An old name for the finest and most costly kind of velvet, having a fine, thick pile. I have served Prince Florizel and in my time wore three-pile. Shak.
• THREE-DECKER
  A vessel of war carrying guns on three decks.
• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• THREE-SIDED
  Having three sides, especially three plane sides; as, a three- sided stem, leaf, petiole, peduncle, scape, or pericarp.
• THREE-CORNERED
  Having three prominent longitudinal angles; as, a three- cornered stem. (more info) 1. Having three corners, or angles; as, a three-cornered hat.
• AMMONIATED
  Combined or impregnated with ammonia.
• HERRINGBONE
  Pertaining to, or like, the spine of a herring; especially, characterized by an arrangement of work in rows of parallel lines, which in the alternate rows slope in different directions. Herringbone stitch, a kind of cross-stitch in needlework,
• VOLATILENESS; VOLATILITY
  Quality or state of being volatile; disposition to evaporate; changeableness; fickleness. Syn. -- See Levity.
• OBTAINABLE
  Capable of being obtained.
• THREE-PORT
  Having three ports; specif.: Designating a type of two-cycle internal-combustion engine in which the mixture enters the crank case through a port uncovered by the piston near the end of its stroke.
• METHYLENE
  A hydrocarbon radical, CH2, not known in the free state, but regarded as an essential residue and component of certain derivatives of methane; as, methylene bromide, CH2Br2; -- formerly called also methene. Methylene blue , an artificial dyestuff
• LIQUIDATION
  The act or process of liquidating; the state of being liquidated. To go into liquidation , to turn over to a trustee one's assets and accounts, in order that the several amounts of one's indebtedness be authoritatively ascertained, and that the
• METHYLATED
  Impregnated with, or containing, methyl alcohol or wood spirit; as, methylated spirits.
• THREE-PLY
  Consisting of three distinct webs inwrought together in weaving, as cloth or carpeting; having three strands; threefold.
• THREE-PARTED
  Divided into, or consisting of, three parts; tripartite. Three- parted leaf , a leaf divided into three parts down to the base, but not entirely separate.
• THREE-FLOWERED
  Bearing three flowers together, or only three flowers.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• UNLIQUIDATED
  Not liquidated; not exactly ascertained; not adjusted or settled. Unliquidated damages , penalties or damages not ascertained in money. Burrill.
• CHOKECHERRY
  The astringent fruit of a species of wild cherry (Prunus Virginiana); also, the bush or tree which bears such fruit.
• REOBTAINABLE
  That may be reobtained.
• SHERRY
  A Spanish light-colored dry wine, made in Andalusia. As prepared for commerce it is colored a straw color or a deep amber by mixing with it cheap wine boiled down. Sherry cobbler, a beverage prepared with sherry wine, water, lemon or orange, sugar,
• COLUBRINE
  like or related to snakes of the genus Coluber. 2. Like a snake; cunning; crafty. Johnson.