Word Meanings - TRUNCATED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Replaced, or cut off, by a plane, especially when equally inclined to the adjoining faces; as, a truncated edge. (more info) 1. Cut off; cut short; maimed.

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• PLANE TREE
  See PLANE
• SHORT-WITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• SHORT CIRCUIT
  A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
• MAIMEDNESS
  State of being maimed. Bolton.
• SHORT-HANDED
  Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
• SHORTHEAD
  A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors.
• PLANETULE
  A little planet. Conybeare.
• PLANE-PARALLEL
  Having opposite surfaces exactly plane and parallel, as a piece of glass.
• MAIM
  maimen, OF. mahaignier, mehaignier, meshaignier, cf. It. magagnare, LL. mahemiare, mahennare; perh. of Celtic origin; cf. Armor. mac'ha to mutilate, mac'ha to crowd, press; or cf. OHG. mang to lack, perh. 1. To deprive of the use of a limb, so
• SHORTCAKE
  An unsweetened breakfast cake shortened with butter or lard, rolled thin, and baked.
• SHORTLY
  1. In a short or brief time or manner; soon; quickly. Chaucer. I shall grow jealous of you shortly. Shak. The armies came shortly in view of each other. Clarendon. 2. In few words; briefly; abruptly; curtly; as, to express ideas more shortly in
• INCLINING
  See 3
• PLANETED
  Belonging to planets. Young.
• SHORT-JOINTED
  Having short intervals between the joints; -- said of a plant or an animal, especially of a horse whose pastern is too short.
• SHORT-DATED
  Having little time to run from the date. "Thy short-dated life." Sandys.
• MAIMEDLY
  In a maimed manner.
• PLANETOIDAL
  Pertaining to a planetoid.
• ADJOINANT
  Contiguous. Carew.
• INCLINED
  Making an angle with some line or plane; -- said of a line or plane. (more info) 1. Having a leaning or tendency towards, or away from, a thing; disposed or moved by wish, desire, or judgment; as, a man inclined to virtue. "Each pensively
• HYDROBIPLANE
  A hydro-aëroplane having two supporting planes.
• OBTRUNCATE
  To deprive of a limb; to lop.
• CONVEXO-PLANE
  Convex on one side, and flat on the other; plano-convex.
• DOORPLANE
  A plane on a door, giving the name, and sometimes the employment, of the occupant.
• CAPPING PLANE
  A plane used for working the upper surface of staircase rails.