Word Meanings - CALCULATING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Of or pertaining to mathematical calculations; performing or able to perform mathematical calculations. 2. Given to contrivance or forethought; forecasting; scheming; as, a cool calculating disposition. Calculating machine, a machine for the
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1. Of or pertaining to mathematical calculations; performing or able to perform mathematical calculations. 2. Given to contrivance or forethought; forecasting; scheming; as, a cool calculating disposition. Calculating machine, a machine for the mechanical performance of mathematical operations, for the most part invented by Charles Babbage and G. and E. Scheutz. It computes logarithmic and other mathematical tables of a high degree of intricacy, imprinting the results on a leaden plate, from which a stereotype plate is then directly made.
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- SAVELY
Safely. Chaucer. - SPAR-HUNG
Hung with spar, as a cave. - SPARPOIL
To scatter; to spread; to disperse. - SPARPIECE
The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt. - SAVE
Except; excepting; not including; leaving out; deducting; reserving; saving. Five times received I forty stripes save one. 2 Cor. xi. 24. Syn. -- See Except. - FRUGALNESS
, n. Quality of being frugal; frugality. - SAVORINESS
The quality of being savory. - SAVACIOUN
Salvation. - CALCULATED
1. Worked out by calculation; as calculated tables for computing interest; ascertained or conjectured as a result of calculation; as, the calculated place of a planet; the calculated velocity of a cannon ball. 2. Adapted by calculation, - CHARYBDIS
A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast. It is personified as a female monster. See Scylla. - FRUGALLY
Thriftily; prudently. - SPARSELY
In a scattered or sparse manner. - SAVINGLY
1. In a saving manner; with frugality or parsimony. 2. So as to be finally saved from eternal death. Savingly born of water and the Spirit. Waterland. - SAVOROUS
Having a savor; savory. Rom. of R. - SPARKER
A spark arrester. - SPARROWWORT
An evergreen shrub of the genus Erica . - SAVORLY
In a savory manner. Barrow. - SPARKLING
Emitting sparks; glittering; flashing; brilliant; lively; as, sparkling wine; sparkling eyes. -- Spar"kling*ly, adv. -- Spar"kling*ness, n. Syn. -- Brilliant; shining. See Shining. - SPARADRAP
Any adhesive plaster. (more info) 1. A cerecloth. - SPARK GAP
The space filled with air or other dielectric between high potential terminals (as of an electrostatic machine, induction coil, or condenser), through which the discharge passes; the air gap of a jump spark. - DESPARPLE
To scatter; to disparkle. Mandeville. - FLUOR SPAR
See FLUORITE - LABOR-SAVING
Saving labor; adapted to supersede or diminish the labor of men; as, laborsaving machinery. - MISAVIZE
To misadvise. - TRANSPARENT
transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent - OUTSPARKLE
To exceed in sparkling. - DISPARK
1. To throw ; to treat as a common. The Gentiles were made to be God's people when the Jews' inclosure was disparked. Jer. Taylor. 2. To set at large; to release from inclosure. Till his free muse threw down the pale, And did at once dispark - CESSAVIT
A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure. - SHIVER-SPAR
A variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar. - DISAVOWANCE
Disavowal. South. - DISPARAGEMENT
1. Matching any one in marriage under his or her degree; injurious union with something of inferior excellence; a lowering in rank or estimation. And thought that match a foul disparagement. Spenser. 2. Injurious comparison with an inferior; a - SEMISAVAGE
Half savage.