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Word Meanings - ANTIPARALLEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Running in a contrary direction. Hammond.

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  • CONTRARY
    Affirming the opposite; so opposed as to destroy each other; as, contrary propositions. Contrary motion , the progression of parts in opposite directions, one ascending, the other descending. Syn. -- Adverse; repugnant; hostile; inimical;
  • RUNNINGLY
    In a running manner.
  • RUNNING
    Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem; as, a running vine. (more info) 1. Moving or advancing by running. Specifically, of a horse; Having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer. trained and kept for running races; as, a running horse.
  • DIRECTION
    The pointing of a piece with reference to an imaginary vertical axis; -- distinguished from elevation. The direction is given when the plane of sight passes through the object. Wilhelm. Syn. -- Administration; guidance; management; superintendence;
  • RUNNET
    See RENNET
  • RUNNER
    A slender trailing branch which takes root at the joints or end and there forms new plants, as in the strawberry and the common cinquefoil. 7. The rotating stone of a set of millstones. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, runs; a racer. 2. A
  • RUNNEL
    A rivulet or small brook. Buddling rundels joined the sound. Collins. By the very sides of the way . . . there are slow runnels, in which one can see the minnows swimming. Masson.
  • RUNNING LOAD
    The air pressure supported by each longitudinal foot segment of a wing. Commonly, the whole weight of aƫroplane and load divided by the span, or length from tip to tip.
  • RUNNION
    See RONION
  • RIGHT-RUNNING
    Straight; direct.
  • MISDIRECTION
    An error of a judge in charging the jury on a matter of law. Mozley & W. (more info) 1. The act of directing wrongly, or the state of being so directed.
  • STONERUNNER
    The ring plover, or the ringed dotterel. The dotterel.
  • INDIRECTION
    Oblique course or means; dishonest practices; indirectness. "By indirections find directions out." Shak.
  • OVERRUNNER
    One that overruns. Lovelace.
  • TRUNNEL
    A trundle.
  • INRUNNING
    The act or the place of entrance; an inlet. Tennyson.
  • TRUNNIONED
    Provided with trunnions; as, the trunnioned cylinder of an oscillating steam engine.
  • SUBCONTRARY
    Having, or being in, a contrary order; -- said of a section of an oblique cone having a circular base made by a plane not parallel to the base, but so inclined to the axis that the section is a circle; applied also to two similar triangles when
  • SCRATCH PLAYER; SCRATCH RUNNER
    One that starts from the scratch; hence, one of first-rate ability.
  • TRUNNION
    A cylindrical projection on each side of a piece, whether gun, mortar, or howitzer, serving to support it on the cheeks of the carriage. See Illust. of Cannon.
  • FORERUNNER
    A piece of rag terminating the log line. (more info) 1. A messenger sent before to give notice of the approach of others; a harbinger; a sign foreshowing something; a prognostic; as, the forerunner of a fever. Whither the forerunner in

 

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