Word Meanings - CAREER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The fight of a hawk. (more info) 1. A race course: the ground run over. To go back again the same career. Sir P. Sidney. 2. A running; full speed; a rapid course. When a horse is running in his full career. Wilkins. 3. General course of action
Additional info about word: CAREER
The fight of a hawk. (more info) 1. A race course: the ground run over. To go back again the same career. Sir P. Sidney. 2. A running; full speed; a rapid course. When a horse is running in his full career. Wilkins. 3. General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part or calling in life, or in some special undertaking; usually applied to course or conduct which is of a pubic character; as, Washington's career as a soldier. An impartial view of his whole career. Macaulay.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CAREER)
- Course
- Order
- sequence
- continuity
- direction
- progress
- line
- way
- mode
- race
- career
- road
- route
- series
- passage
- succession
- round
- manner
- plan
- conduct
- method
- Flow
- Stream
- issue
- glide
- course
- run
- Life
- Vitality
- duration
- existence
- condition
- animation
- vivacity
- personality
- estate
- society
- morals
- spirit
- activity
- history
Related words: (words related to CAREER)
- SPIRITUOUS
1. Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure. 2. Containing, or of the nature of, alcoholic spirit; consisting of refined spirit; alcoholic; ardent; - ROUNDWORM
A nematoid worm. - ROUNDISH
Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n. - ROUNDABOUTNESS
The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness. - ACTIVITY
The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities. "The activity of toil." Palfrey. Syn. -- Liveliness; briskness; quickness. - SERIES DYNAMO
A series-wound dynamo. A dynamo running in series with another or others. - SPIRITUALIZE
To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit. (more info) 1. To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize - ROUNDFISH
Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes. A lake whitefish , less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska. - PROGRESSIONAL
Of or pertaining to progression; tending to, or capable of, progress. - CONDITIONALITY
The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms. - CONTINUITY
the state of being continuous; uninterupted connection or succession; close union of parts; cohesion; as, the continuity of fibers. Grew. The sight would be tired, if it were attracted by a continuity of glittering objects. Dryden. Law of continuity - PROGRESS
to go forth or forward; pro forward + gradi to step, go: cf. F. 1. A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance; specifically: In actual space, as the progress of a ship, carriage, etc. In the growth of an animal or plant; increase. - ROUND-UP
The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in. - COURSED
1. Hunted; as, a coursed hare. 2. Arranged in courses; as, coursed masonry. - SPIRITUOSITY
The quality or state of being spirituous; spirituousness. - SPIRITUAL-MINDED
Having the mind set on spiritual things, or filled with holy desires and affections. -- Spir"it*u*al-mind`ed*ness, n. - METHOD
Classification; a mode or system of classifying natural objects according to certain common characteristics; as, the method of Theophrastus; the method of Ray; the Linnæan method. Syn. -- Order; system; rule; regularity; way; manner; mode; course; - 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. - CONDITIONAL
Expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense. A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another. Whately. The words hypothetical and conditional may be . . . - SERIES MOTOR
A series-wound motor. A motor capable of being used in a series circuit. - PUBLIC-SPIRITED
1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men. 2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure. Addison. -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ly, - MISGROUND
To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall. - INCONSEQUENCE
The quality or state of being inconsequent; want of just or logical inference or argument; inconclusiveness. Bp. Stillingfleet. Strange, that you should not see the inconsequence of your own reasoning! Bp. Hurd. - SAFE-CONDUCT
That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak. - UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
Wildcat insurance. - GROUNDWORK
That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden. - NONEXISTENCE
1. Absence of existence; the negation of being; nonentity. A. Baxter. 2. A thing that has no existence. Sir T. Browne. - PLAYGROUND
A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school. - REISSUE
To issue a second time. - IMBORDER
To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton. - INANIMATION
Want of animation; lifeless; dullness. - DISPIRITED
Depressed in spirits; disheartened; daunted. -- Dis*pir"it*ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*pir"it*ed, n. - GROUNDEN
p. p. of Grind. Chaucer. - RECOURSEFUL
Having recurring flow and ebb; moving alternately. Drayton. - REESTATE
To reëstablish. Walis. - OBDURATION
A hardening of the heart; hardness of heart.