Word Meanings - BIPOLAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Doubly polar; having two poles; as, a bipolar cell or corpuscle.

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• CORPUSCLE
  A protoplasmic animal cell; esp., such as float free, like blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles; or such as are imbedded in an intercellular matrix, like connective tissue and cartilage corpuscles. See Blood. Virchow showed that the corpuscles of bone
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• POLESTAR
  1. Polaris, or the north star. See North star, under North. 2. A guide or director.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• POLARY
  Tending to a pole; having a direction toward a pole. Sir T. Browne.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• POLARISCOPY
  The art or rocess of making observations with the polariscope.
• BIPOLARITY
  Bipolar quality.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• HAVEN
  habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
• HAVANA
  Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
• HAVERSIAN
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
• POLAR
  Pertaining to, reckoned from, or having a common radiating point; as, polar coördinates. Polar axis, that axis of an astronomical instrument, as an equatorial, which is parallel to the earths axis. -- Polar bear , a large bear (Ursus,
• POLARIZER
  That which polarizes; especially, the part of a polariscope which receives and polarizes the light. It is usually a reflecting plate, or a plate of some crystal, as tourmaline, or a doubly refracting crystal.
• HAVING
  Possession; goods; estate. I 'll lend you something; my having is not much. Shak.
• POLARIZABLE
  Susceptible of polarization.
• HAVIOR
  Behavior; demeanor. Shak. (more info) having, of same origin as E. aver a work horse. The h is due to
• POLARISCOPE
  An instrument consisting essentially of a polarizer and an analyzer, used for polarizing light, and analyzing its properties.
• DOUBLY
  1. In twice the quantity; to twice the degree; as, doubly wise or good; to be doubly sensible of an obligation. Dryden. 2. Deceitfully. "A man that deals doubly." Huloet.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• ELECTRO-POLAR
  Possessing electrical polarity; positively electrified at one end, or on one surface, and negatively at the other; -- said of a conductor.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• IMPOLARILY; IMPOLARLY
  Not according to or in, the direction of the poles. Sir T. Browne.
• DRAWSHAVE
  See KNIFE
• MISBEHAVIOR
  Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct. Addison.
• SHAVING
  1. The act of one who, or that which, shaves; specifically, the act of cutting off the beard with a razor. 2. That which is shaved off; a thin slice or strip pared off with a shave, a knife, a plane, or other cutting instrument. "Shaving