Word Meanings - UNUSED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Not used; as, an unused book; an unused apartment. 2. Not habituated; unaccustomed. Unused to bend, impatient of control. Thomson.
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- UNUSED
1. Not used; as, an unused book; an unused apartment. 2. Not habituated; unaccustomed. Unused to bend, impatient of control. Thomson. - CONTROLLABLENESS
Capability of being controlled. - CONTROLLABILITY
Capability of being controlled; controllableness. - APARTMENT HOUSE
A building comprising a number of suites designed for separate housekeeping tenements, but having conveniences, such as heat, light, elevator service, etc., furnished in common; -- often distinguished in the United States from a flat house. - THOMSONIANISM
An empirical system which assumes that the human body is composed of four elements, earth, air, fire, and water, and that vegetable medicines alone should be used; -- from the founder, Dr. Samuel Thomson, of Massachusetts. - HABITUATION
The act of habituating, or accustoming; the state of being habituated. - CONTROLLABLE
Capable of being controlled, checked, or restrained; amenable to command. Passion is the drunkeness of the mind, and, therefore, . . . not always controllable by reason. South. - APARTMENT
appartare to separate, set apart; all fr. L. ad + pars, partis, part. 1. A room in a building; a division in a house, separated from others by partitions. Fielding. 2. A set or suite of rooms. De Quincey. 3. A compartment. Pope. - HABITUATE
1. To make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize. Our English dogs, who were habituated to a colder clime. Sir K. Digby. Men are first corrupted . . . and next they habituate themselves to their vicious practices. Tillotson. 2. To settle as an - UNUSUALITY
Unusualness. Poe. - CONTROLLER
An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, controls - IMPATIENT
1. Not patient; not bearing with composure; intolerant; uneasy; fretful; restless, because of pain, delay, or opposition; eager for change, or for something expected; hasty; passionate; -- often followed by at, for, of, and under. A violent, - IMPATIENTLY
In an impatient manner. - UNACCUSTOMED
1. Not used; not habituated; unfamiliar; unused; -- which to. Chastened as a bullock unaccustomed to yoke. Jer. xxxi. 18. 2. Not usual; uncommon; strange; new. What unaccustomed cause procures her hither Shak. - THOMSON PROCESS
A process of electric welding in which heat is developed by a large current passing through the metal. - UNUSAGE
Want or lack of usage. Chaucer. - CONTROL
contr-rôle; contre + rôle roll, catalogue. See Counter 1. A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register. Johnson. 2. That which serves to check, restrain, or hinder; - CONTROLLERSHIP
The office of a controller. - CONTROLMENT
1. The power or act of controlling; the state of being rstrained; control; restraint; regulation; superintendence. You may do it without controlment. Shak. 2. Opposition; resistance; hostility. Here have we war for war, and blood for - UNUSUAL
Not usual; uncommon; rare; as, an unusual season; a person of unusual grace or erudition. -- Un*u"su*al*ly, adv. -- Un*u"su*al*ness, n. - COMPOUND CONTROL
A system of control in which a separate manipulation, as of a rudder, may be effected by either of two movements, in different directions, of a single lever, etc. - UNCONTROLLABLE
1. Incapable of being controlled; ungovernable; irresistible; as, an uncontrollable temper; uncontrollable events. 2. Indisputable; irrefragable; as, an uncontrollable maxim; an uncontrollable title. Swift. -- Un`con*trol"la*ble*ness, - THREE-TORQUE SYSTEM OF CONTROL
Any system of rudders by which the pilot can exert a turning moment about each of the three rectangular axes of an aëroplane or airship. - INCONTROLLABLE
Not controllable; uncontrollable. -- In`con*trol"la*bly, adv. South. - FAUNUS
See FAUN - BELL SYSTEM OF CONTROL
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To render unaccustomed.