Word Meanings - AIR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

10 the French has taking a meaning fr. It. aria atmosphere, air, fr. the same Latin word; and in senses 11, 12, 13 the French meaning is either fr. L. aria, or due to confusion with F. aire, in an older 1. The fluid which we breathe, and which

Additional info about word: AIR

10 the French has taking a meaning fr. It. aria atmosphere, air, fr. the same Latin word; and in senses 11, 12, 13 the French meaning is either fr. L. aria, or due to confusion with F. aire, in an older 1. The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, and ponderable. Note: By the ancient philosophers, air was regarded as an element; but modern science has shown that it is essentially a mixture of oxygen and nitrogen, with a small amount of carbon dioxide, the average proportions being, by volume: oxygen, 20.96 per cent.; nitrogen, 79.00 per cent.; carbon dioxide, 0.04 per cent. These proportions are subject to a very slight variability. Air also always contains some vapor of water. 2. Symbolically: Something unsubstantial, light, or volatile. "Charm ache with air." Shak. He was still all air and fire. Macaulay 3. A particular state of the atmosphere, as respects heat, cold, moisture, etc., or as affecting the sensations; as, a smoky air, a damp air, the morning air, etc. 4. Any aëriform body; a gas; as, oxygen was formerly called vital air. 5. Air in motion; a light breeze; a gentle wind. Let vernal airs through trembling osiers play. Pope. 6. Odoriferous or contaminated air. 7. That which surrounds and influences. The keen, the wholesome air of poverty. Wordsworth. 8. Utterance abroad; publicity; vent. You gave it air before me. Dryden. 9. Intelligence; information. Bacon.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AIR)

• Appearance
• Advent
• coming
• arrival
• presence
• apparition
• aspect
• Manifestatlon
• probability
• likeness
• exhibition
• mien
• manner
• semblance
• air
• show
• look
• pretense
• likelihood
• presumption
• Aspect
• Front
• face
• phase
• side
• appearance
• presentation
• exposure
• feature
• view
• deportment
• countenance
• bearing
• complexion
• sight
• Breeding
• Nurture
• education
• training
• discipline
• instruction
• manners
• demeanor
• decorum
• Cast
• Mould
• stamp
• kind
• figure
• form
• style
• character
• Climate
• Air
• atmosphere
• temperature
• weather
• clime
• sky
• region
• sphere
• latitude

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of AIR)

• Oppose
• confront
• discourage
• discountenance
• browbeat

Related words: (words related to AIR)

• COMBER
  1. One who combs; one whose occupation it is to comb wool, flax, etc. Also, a machine for combing wool, flax, etc. 2. A long, curling wave.
• COMMENDATOR
  One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers.
• COMPATIENT
  Suffering or enduring together. Sir G. Buck.
• COMMISSARY
  An officer on the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop. Ayliffe. An officer having charge of a special sevice; as, the commissary of musters. An officer
• WEATHERING
  The action of the elements on a rock in altering its color, texture, or composition, or in rounding off its edges.
• COMMERCIALLY
  In a commercial manner.
• 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.
• COMPOSITOUS
  Belonging to the Compositæ; composite. Darwin.
• COMMISERATION
  The act of commiserating; sorrow for the wants, afflictions, or distresses of another; pity; compassion. And pluck commiseration of his state From brassy bosoms and rough hearts of flint. Shak. Syn. -- See Sympathy.
• COMMENSURABILITY
  The quality of being commersurable. Sir T. Browne.
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• WEATHERWISER
  Something that foreshows the weather. Derham.
• COMPROMISE
  promise to abide by the decision of an arbiter, fr. compromittere to 1. A mutual agreement to refer matters in dispute to the decision of arbitrators. Burrill. 2. A settlement by arbitration or by mutual consent reached by concession on both
• FRONTIERSMAN
  A man living on the frontier.
• WEATHER STATION
  A station for taking meteorological observations, making weather forecasts, or disseminating such information. Such stations are of the first order when they make observations of all the important elements either hourly or by self-registering
• COMPENSATOR
  An iron plate or magnet placed near the compass on iron vessels to neutralize the effect of the ship's attraction on the needle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, compensates; -- a name applied to various mechanical devices.
• CONFRONT
  1. To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness. We four, indeed, confronted were with four In Russian habit. Shak. He spoke and then confronts the bull. Dryden. Hester caught hold of Pearl, and drew
• COMPREHENSIVENESS
  The quality of being comprehensive; extensiveness of scope. Compare the beauty and comprehensiveness of legends on ancient coins. Addison.
• WEATHERBOARDING
  The covering or siding of a building, formed of boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc. Boards adapted or intended for such use.
• EXHIBITION
  The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art,
• WATER-BEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• INDECOMPOSABLENESS
  Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability.
• ENSTAMP
  To stamp; to mark as It is the motive . . . which enstamps the character. Gogan.
• INTERCOMMUNION
  Mutual communion; as, an intercommunion of deities. Faber.
• WHITE-FRONTED
  Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur. White- fronted goose , the white brant, or snow goose. See Snow goose, under Snow.
• UNBECOMING
  Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n.
• ENCOMBERMENT
  Hindrance; molestation. Spenser.
• INCOMMENSURABLE
  Not commensurable; having no common measure or standard of comparison; as, quantities are incommensurable when no third quantity can be found that is an aliquot part of both; the side and diagonal of a square are incommensurable with each other;
• PEEP SIGHT
  An adjustable piece, pierced with a small hole to peep through in aiming, attached to a rifle or other firearm near the breech; -- distinguished from an open sight.