Word Meanings - ANTIPARALLEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Running in a contrary direction. Hammond.
Related words: (words related to ANTIPARALLEL)
- 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