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Word Meanings - CARTE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Bill of fare. 2. Short for Carte de visite.

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  • CARTEL
    An agreement between belligerents for the exchange of prisoners. Wilhelm. 2. A letter of defiance or challenge; a challenge to single combat. He is cowed at the very idea of a cartel., Sir W. Scott. Cartel, or Cartel ship, a ship employed in the
  • CARTESIAN
    Of or pertaining to the French philosopher René Descartes, or his philosophy. The Cartesion argument for reality of matter. Sir W. Hamilton. Cartesian coördinates , distance of a point from lines or planes; -- used in a system of representing
  • SHORT-WITED
    Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
  • SHORT CIRCUIT
    A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
  • SHORT-HANDED
    Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
  • SHORTHEAD
    A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors.
  • CARTE DE VISITE
    1. A visiting card. 2. A photographic picture of the size formerly in use for a visiting card.
  • SHORTCAKE
    An unsweetened breakfast cake shortened with butter or lard, rolled thin, and baked.
  • SHORTLY
    1. In a short or brief time or manner; soon; quickly. Chaucer. I shall grow jealous of you shortly. Shak. The armies came shortly in view of each other. Clarendon. 2. In few words; briefly; abruptly; curtly; as, to express ideas more shortly in
  • SHORT-JOINTED
    Having short intervals between the joints; -- said of a plant or an animal, especially of a horse whose pastern is too short.
  • CARTER
    1. A charioteer. Chaucer. 2. A man who drives a cart; a teamster. Any species of Phalangium; -- also called harvestman. A British fish; the whiff.
  • SHORT-DATED
    Having little time to run from the date. "Thy short-dated life." Sandys.
  • CARTESIANISM
    The philosophy of Descartes.
  • SHORT-WAISTED
    Having a short waist.
  • SHORT
    In a short manner; briefly; limitedly; abruptly; quickly; as, to stop short in one's course; to turn short. He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for such presumptuous language. Howell. To sell short , to sell, for future delivery,
  • CARTE
    1. Bill of fare. 2. Short for Carte de visite.
  • CARTE QUARTE
    A position in thrusting or parrying, with the inside of the hand turned upward and the point of the weapon toward the adversary's right breast.
  • SHORTENING
    That which renders pastry short or friable, as butter, lard, etc. (more info) 1. The act of making or becoming short or shorter.
  • SHORTSTOP
    The player stationed in the field bewtween the second and third bases.
  • SHORT-SPOKEN
    Speaking in a quick or short manner; hence, gruff; curt.
  • RED-SHORT
    Hot-short; brittle when red-hot; -- said of certain kinds of iron. -- Red"-short`ness, n.

 

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