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- English Word Asymmetry Definition Incommensurability.
- English Word Asymptote Definition A line which approaches nearer to some curve than assignable distance, but, though infinitely extended, would never meet it. Asymptotes may be straight lines or curves. A rectilinear asymptote may be conceived as a tangent to the curve at an infinite distance.
- English Word Asynartete Definition Disconnected; not fitted or adjusted.
- English Word Asyndetic Definition Characterized by the use of asyndeton; not connected by conjunctions.
- English Word Asyndeton Definition A figure which omits the connective; as, I came, I saw, I conquered. It stands opposed to polysyndeton.
- English Word Asystole Definition A weakening or cessation of the contractile power of the heart.
- English Word Asystolism Definition The state or symptoms characteristic of asystole.
- English Word At Definition Primarily, this word expresses the relations of presence, nearness in place or time, or direction toward; as, at the ninth hour; at the house; to aim at a mark. It is less definite than in or on; at the house may be in or near the house. From this original import are derived all the various uses of at.
- English Word At Definition A relation of proximity to, or of presence in or on, something; as, at the door; at your shop; at home; at school; at hand; at sea and on land.
- English Word At Definition The relation of some state or condition; as, at war; at peace; at ease; at your service; at fault; at liberty; at risk; at disadvantage.
- English Word At Definition The relation of some employment or action; occupied with; as, at engraving; at husbandry; at play; at work; at meat (eating); except at puns.
- English Word At Definition The relation of a point or position in a series, or of degree, rate, or value; as, with the thermometer at 80¡; goods sold at a cheap price; a country estimated at 10,000 square miles; life is short at the longest.
- English Word At Definition The relations of time, age, or order; as, at ten o'clock; at twenty-one; at once; at first.
- English Word At Definition The relations of source, occasion, reason, consequence, or effect; as, at the sight; at this news; merry at anything; at this declaration; at his command; to demand, require, receive, deserve, endure at your hands.
- English Word At Definition Relation of direction toward an object or end; as, look at it; to point at one; to aim at a mark; to throw, strike, shoot, wink, mock, laugh at any one.
- English Word At one Definition In concord or friendship; in agreement (with each other); as, to be, bring, make, or set, at one, i. e., to be or bring in or to a state of agreement or reconciliation.
- English Word At one Definition Of the same opinion; agreed; as, on these points we are at one.
- English Word At one Definition Together.
- English Word Atabal Definition A kettledrum; a kind of tabor, used by the Moors.
- English Word Atacamite Definition An oxychloride of copper, usually in emerald-green prismatic crystals.
- English Word Atafter Definition After.
- English Word Ataghan Definition See Yataghan.
- English Word Atake Definition To overtake.
- English Word Ataman Definition A hetman, or chief of the Cossacks.
- English Word Ataraxia Definition Alt. of Ataraxy
- English Word Ataraxy Definition Perfect peace of mind, or calmness.
- English Word Ataunt Definition Alt. of Ataunto
- English Word Ataunto Definition Fully rigged, as a vessel; with all sails set; set on end or set right.
- English Word Atavic Definition Pertaining to a remote ancestor, or to atavism.
- English Word Atavism Definition The recurrence, or a tendency to a recurrence, of the original type of a species in the progeny of its varieties; resemblance to remote rather than to near ancestors; reversion to the original form.