Word Meanings - ANTARCTIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Opposite to the northern or arctic pole; relating to the southern pole or to the region near it, and applied especially to a circle, distant from the pole 23º 28min. Thus we say the antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc.

Related words: (words related to ANTARCTIC)

• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• CIRCLED
  Having the form of a circle; round. "Monthly changes in her circled orb." Shak.
• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• NORTHERNMOST
  Farthest north.
• SOUTHERNLINESS
  Southerliness.
• APPLICATIVE
  Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
• DISTANT
  stand apart, be separate or distant; dis- + stare to stand. See 1. Separated; having an intervening space; at a distance; away. One board had two tenons, equally distant. Ex. xxxvi. 22. Diana's temple is not distant far. Shak. 2. Far separated;
• NORTHERN
  1. Of or pertaining to the north; being in the north, or nearer to that point than to the east or west. 2. In a direction toward the north; as, to steer a northern course; coming from the north; as, a northern wind. Northern diver. See Loon. --
• APPLICANCY
  The quality or state of being applicable.
• OPPOSITE
  1. One who opposes; an opponent; an antagonist. The opposites of this day's strife. Shak. 2. That which is opposed or contrary; as, sweetness and its opposite. The virtuous man meets with more opposites and opponents than any other. Landor.
• APPLICABILITY
  The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
• CURRENT
  1. A flowing or passing; onward motion. Hence: A body of fluid moving continuously in a certain direction; a stream; esp., the swiftest part of it; as, a current of water or of air; that which resembles a stream in motion; as, a current
• APPLICATORILY
  By way of application.
• RELATIVELY
  In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely. Consider the absolute affections of any being as it is in itself, before you consider it relatively. I. Watts.
• DISTANTIAL
  Distant. More distantial from the eye. W. Montagu.
• SOUTHERN
  A Southerner.
• OCEAN
  1. The whole body of salt water which covers more than three fifths of the surface of the globe; -- called also the sea, or great sea. Like the odor of brine from the ocean Comes the thought of other years. Longfellow. 2. One of the large bodies
• RELATE
  1. To bring back; to restore. Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next again Both light of heaven and strength of men relate. Spenser. 2. To refer; to ascribe, as to a source. 3. To recount; to narrate; to tell over. This heavy act with heavy
• RELATIVITY
  The state of being relative; as, the relativity of a subject. Coleridge.
• ARCTIC
  Pertaining to, or situated under, the northern constellation called the Bear; northern; frigid; as, the arctic pole, circle, region, ocean; an arctic expedition, night, temperature. Note: The arctic circle is a lesser circle, parallel
• PRELATIST
  One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.
• DIRECT CURRENT
  A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the
• JAPAN CURRENT
  A branch of the equatorial current of the Pacific, washing the eastern coast of Formosa and thence flowing northeastward past Japan and merging into the easterly drift of the North Pacific; -- called also Kuro-Siwo, or Black Stream, in allusion
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• PRELATISM
  Prelacy; episcopacy.
• PRELATIZE
  To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey.
• PHASING CURRENT
  The momentary current between two alternating-current generators when juxtaposed in parallel and not agreeing exactly in phase or period.
• MISRELATION
  Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.
• ALTERNATING CURRENT
  A current which periodically changes or reverses its direction of flow.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• PERCURRENT
  Running through the entire length.
• PHOTIC REGION
  The uppermost zone of the sea, which receives the most light.