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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

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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.

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  • 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.
  • CONDITIONALITY
    The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.
  • PROGRESSIONAL
    Of or pertaining to progression; tending to, or capable of, progress.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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;
  • 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.
  • INANIMATION
    Want of animation; lifeless; dullness.
  • IMBORDER
    To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
  • GROUNDEN
    p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
  • DISPIRITED
    Depressed in spirits; disheartened; daunted. -- Dis*pir"it*ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*pir"it*ed, n.
  • RECOURSEFUL
    Having recurring flow and ebb; moving alternately. Drayton.
  • REESTATE
    To reëstablish. Walis.
  • OBDURATION
    A hardening of the heart; hardness of heart.

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