Word Meanings - ARTICLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the three words, a, an, the, used before nouns to limit or define their application. A is called the indefinite article, the the definite article. (more info) 1. A distinct portion of an instrument, discourse, literary work, or any other

Additional info about word: ARTICLE

One of the three words, a, an, the, used before nouns to limit or define their application. A is called the indefinite article, the the definite article. (more info) 1. A distinct portion of an instrument, discourse, literary work, or any other writing, consisting of two or more particulars, or treating of various topics; as, an article in the Constitution. Hence: A clause in a contract, system of regulations, treaty, or the like; a term, condition, or stipulation in a contract; a concise statement; as, articles of agreement. 2. A literary composition, forming an independent portion of a magazine, newspaper, or cyclopedia. 3. Subject; matter; concern; distinct. A very great revolution that happened in this article of good breeding. Addison. This last article will hardly be believed. De Foe. 4. A distinct part. "Upon each article of human duty." Paley. "Each article of time." Habington. The articles which compose the blood. E. Darwin. 5. A particular one of various things; as, an article of merchandise; salt is a necessary article. They would fight not for articles of faith, but for articles of food. Landor. 6. Precise point of time; moment. This fatal news coming to Hick's Hall upon the article of my Lord Russell's trial, was said to have had no little influence on the jury and all the bench to his prejudice. Evelyn.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ARTICLE)

• Clause
• Portion
• paragraph
• stipulation
• provision
• article
• condition
• chapter
• section
• passage
• Commodity
• Staple
• ware
• stock
• Doctrine
• Tenet
• belief
• creed
• dogma
• teaching
• precept
• principle
• Dogma
• doctrine
• opinion
• persuasion
• Treatise
• Tract
• essay
• paper
• pamphlet
• disquisition
• brochure
• dissertation
• tractate
• monograph

Related words: (words related to ARTICLE)

• CREAM-FACED
  White or pale, as the effect of fear, or as the natural complexion. Thou cream-faced loon. Shak.
• CREMASTERIC
  Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery.
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• DISQUISITION
  A formal or systematic inquiry into, or discussion of, any subject; a full examination or investigation of a matter, with the arguments and facts bearing upon it; elaborate essay; dissertation. For accurate research or grave disquisition he was
• DOGMATIC
  One of an ancient sect of physicians who went by general principles; -- opposed to the Empiric.
• TEACHER
  1. One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor. 2. One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination.
• DISQUISITIONARY
  Pertaining to disquisition; disquisitional.
• OPINIONATOR
  An opinionated person; one given to conjecture. South.
• CREDIBLY
  In a manner inducing belief; as, I have been credibly informed of the event.
• DISSERTATIONAL
  Relating to dissertations; resembling a dissertation.
• STOCKER
  One who makes or fits stocks, as of guns or gun carriages, etc.
• CREEP
  to D. kruipen, G. kriechen, Icel. krjupa, Sw. krypa, Dan. krybe. Cf. 1. To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl. Ye that walk The earth, and stately
• TEACHABLENESS
  Willingness to be taught.
• CRESYLIC
  Pertaining to, or derived from, cresol, creosote, etc. Cresylic acid. See Cresol.
• CREATURELY
  Creatural; characteristic of a creature. "Creaturely faculties." Cheyne.
• CREATIONAL
  Of or pertaining to creation.
• CREMOR
  Cream; a substance resembling cream; yeast; scum.
• MONOGRAPHIST
  One who writes a monograph.
• CRENELATION
  The act of crenelating, or the state of being crenelated; an indentation or an embrasure.
• CREATION
  1. The act of creating or causing to exist. Specifically, the act of bringing the universe or this world into existence. From the creation to the general doom. Shak. As when a new particle of matter dotn begin to exist, in rerum natura, which had
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• UNCREATED
  1. Deprived of existence; annihilated. Beau. & Fl. 2. Not yet created; as, misery uncreated. Milton. 3. Not existing by creation; self-existent; eternal; as, God is an uncreated being. Locke.
• UNDERSECRETARY
  A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
• INTRACTABILITY
  The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.
• IMPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportionate.
• INCREPATION
  A chiding; rebuke; reproof. Hammond.
• INCREMABLE
  Incapable of being burnt; incombustibe. Sir T. Browne.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• DECRESCENDO
  With decreasing volume of sound; -- a direction to performers, either written upon the staff , or indicated by the sign.
• PANCREATIN
  One of the digestive ferments of the pancreatic juice; also, a preparation containing such a ferment, made from the pancreas of animals, and used in medicine as an aid to digestion. Note: By some the term pancreatin is restricted to the amylolytic
• CONCRETIVELY
  In a concrete manner.
• INCREDULOUSLY
  In an incredulous manner; with incredulity.