Word Meanings - BY-PRODUCT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A secondary or additional product; something produced, as in the course of a manufacture, in addition to the principal product.

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• PRINCIPALNESS
  The quality of being principal.
• PRODUCIBILITY
  The quality or state of being producible. Barrow.
• PRINCIPALITY
  preëminence, excellence: cf. F. principalité, principauté. See 1. Sovereignty; supreme power; hence, superiority; predominance; high, or the highest, station. Sir P. Sidney. Your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
• COURSED
  1. Hunted; as, a coursed hare. 2. Arranged in courses; as, coursed masonry.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• ADDITION
  That part of arithmetic which treats of adding numbers. (more info) 1. The act of adding two or more things together; -- opposed to subtraction or diminution. "This endless addition or addibility of numbers." Locke. 2. Anything added; increase;
• COURSE
  1. The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage. And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais. Acts xxi. 7. 2. THe ground or path traversed; track; way. The same horse also run the round course at Newmarket.
• ADDITIONALLY
  By way of addition.
• PRODUCTIVITY
  The quality or state of being productive; productiveness. Emerson. Not indeed as the product, but as the producing power, the productivity. Coleridge.
• PRODUCTUS
  An extinct genus of brachiopods, very characteristic of the Carboniferous rocks.
• COURSEY
  A space in the galley; a part of the hatches. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
• ADDITIONAL
  Added; supplemental; in the way of an addition.
• PRODUCTILE
  Capable of being extended or prolonged; extensible; ductile.
• PRODUCER
  A furnace for producing combustible gas which is used for fuel. (more info) 1. One who produces, brings forth, or generates. 2. One who grows agricultural products, or manufactures crude materials into articles of use.
• PRODUCENT
  One who produces, or offers to notice. Ayliffe.
• MANUFACTURE
  1. The operation of making wares or any products by hand, by machinery, or by other agency. 2. Anything made from raw materials by the hand, by machinery, or by art, as cloths, iron utensils, shoes, machinery, saddlery, etc.
• MANUFACTURER
  One who manufactures.
• SECONDARY
  Possessing some quality, or having been subject to some operation , in the second degree; as, a secondary salt, a secondary amine, etc. Cf. primary. (more info) 1. Suceeding next in order to the first; of second place, origin, rank, rank, etc.;
• PRINCIPALLY
  In a principal manner; primarily; above all; chiefly; mainly.
• PRODUCTRESS
  A female producer.
• RECOURSEFUL
  Having recurring flow and ebb; moving alternately. Drayton.
• SURADDITION
  Something added or appended, as to a name. Shak.
• OVERPRODUCTION
  Excessive production; supply beyond the demand. J. S. Mill.
• INTERCOURSE
  A This sweet intercourse Of looks and smiles. Milton. Sexual intercourse, sexual or carnal connection; coition. Syn. -- Communication; connection; commerce; communion; fellowship; familiarity; acquaintance. (more info) commerce, exchange,
• DISCOURSE
  fr. discurrere, discursum, to run to and fro, to discourse; dis- + 1. The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range
• REPRODUCTORY
  Reproductive.
• DISCOURSER
  1. One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer. In his conversation he was the most clear discourser. Milward. 2. The writer of a treatise or dissertation. Philologers and critical discoursers. Sir T. Browne.
• REPRODUCER
  One who, or that which, reproduces. Burke.
• BLOCKING COURSE
  The finishing course of a wall showing above a cornice.
• CONCOURSE
  1. A moving, flowing, or running together; confluence. The good frame of the universe was not the product of chance or fortuitous concourse of particles of matter. Sir M. Hale. 2. An assembly; a gathering formed by a voluntary or spontaneous moving