Word Meanings - BAROCYCLONOMETER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An aneroid barometer for use with accompanying graphic diagrams and printed directions designed to aid mariners to interpret the indications of the barometer so as to determine the existence of a violent storm at a distance of several hundred miles.

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• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• PRINTLESS
  Making no imprint. Milton.
• STORMING
  from Storm, v. Storming party , a party assigned to the duty of making the first assault in storming a fortress.
• MILESIAN
  Of or pertaining to Miletus, a city of Asia Minor, or to its inhabitants.
• INTERPRETABLE
  Admitting of interpretation; capable of being interpreted or explained.
• PRINTA-BLE
  Worthy to be published.
• INTERPRETATIVELY
  By interpretation. Ray.
• VIOLENT
  probably akin to Gr. 1. Moving or acting with physical strength; urged or impelled with force; excited by strong feeling or passion; forcible; vehement; impetuous; fierce; furious; severe; as, a violent blow; the violent attack of a disease. Float
• STORMGLASS
  A glass vessel, usually cylindrical, filled with a solution which is sensitive to atmospheric changes, indicating by a clouded appearance, rain, snow, etc., and by clearness, fair weather.
• STORM
  A violent assault on a fortified place; a furious attempt of troops to enter and take a fortified place by scaling the walls, forcing the gates, or the like. Note: Storm is often used in the formation of self-explained compounds; as, storm-presaging,
• INTERPRETIVE
  Interpretative.
• PRINT
  To strike off an impression or impressions of, from type, or from stereotype, electrotype, or engraved plates, or the like; in a wider sense, to do the typesetting, presswork, etc., of (a book or other publication); as, to print books, newspapers,
• DISTANCE
  A space marked out in the last part of a race course. The horse that ran the whole field out of distance. L'Estrange. Note: In trotting matches under the rules of the American Association, the distance varies with the conditions of the race, being
• DESIGNATOR
  An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies. 2. One who designates.
• GRAPHICNESS; GRAPHICALNESS
  The quality or state of being graphic.
• DESIGNATIVE
  Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out.
• GRAPHIC; GRAPHICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to the arts of painting and drawing. 2. Of or pertaining to the art of writing. 3. Written or engraved; formed of letters or lines. The finger of God hath left an inscription upon all his works, not graphical, or composed of
• DESIGNFUL
  Full of design; scheming. -- De*sign"ful*ness, n. Barrow.
• PRINTING IN
  A process by which cloud effects or other features not in the original negative are introduced into a photograph. Portions, such as the sky, are covered while printing and the blank space thus reserved is filled in by printing from another negative.
• MISINTERPRETABLE
  Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.
• PETROGRAPHIC; PETROGRAPHICAL
  Pertaining to petrography.
• STEREOGRAPHIC; STEREOGRAPHICAL
  Made or done according to the rules of stereography; delineated on a plane; as, a stereographic chart of the earth. Stereographic projection , a method of representing the sphere in which the center of projection is taken in the surface of the
• PENTAGRAPHIC; PENTAGRAPHICAL
  Pantographic. See Pantograph.
• PHOTOGRAPHIC; PHOTOGRAPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to photography; obtained by photography; used ib photography; as a photographic picture; a photographic camera. -- Pho`to*graph"ic*al*ly, adv. Photographic printing, the process of obtaining pictures, as on chemically
• PHYTOGRAPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to phytography.
• STEREOGRAPHICALLY
  In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane.
• NONEXISTENCE
  1. Absence of existence; the negation of being; nonentity. A. Baxter. 2. A thing that has no existence. Sir T. Browne.
• EPIGRAPHIC; EPIGRAPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to epigraphs or to epigraphy; as, an epigraphic style; epigraphical works or studies.
• HETEROGRAPHIC
  Employing the same letters to represent different sounds in different words or syllables; -- said of methods of spelling; as, the ordinary English orthography is heterographic.
• IMPRINT
  to imprint, fr. L. imprimere to impres, imprint. See 1st In-, Print, 1. To impress; to mark by pressure; to indent; to stamp. And sees his num'rous herds imprint her sands. Prior. 2. To stamp or mark, as letters on paper, by means of type, plates,
• SPRINT
  To run very rapidly; to run at full speed. A runner should be able to sprint the whole way. Encyc. Brit. (more info) Etym:
• WATER BAROMETER
  A barometer in which the changes of atmospheric pressure are indicated by the motion of a column of water instead of mercury. It requires a column of water about thirty-three feet in height.
• FOREDESIGN
  To plan beforehand; to intend previously. Cheyne.
• HYDROGRAPHIC; HYDROGRAPHICAL
  Of or relating to hydrography.
• PHONOGRAPHICALLY
  In a phonographic manner; by means of phonograph.
• GLOSSOGRAPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to glossography.