Word Meanings - CONFORMATOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An apparatus for taking the conformation of anything, as of the head for fitting a hat, or, in craniometry, finding the largest horizontal area of the head.

Related words: (words related to CONFORMATOR)

• TAKING
  1. Apt to take; alluring; attracting. Subtile in making his temptations most taking. Fuller. 2. Infectious; contageous. Beau. & Fl. -- Tak"ing*ly, adv. -- Tak"ing*ness, n.
• FINDER
  One who, or that which, finds; specifically , a small telescope of low power and large field of view, attached to a larger telescope, for the purpose of finding an object more readily.
• HORIZONTALLY
  In a horizontal direction or position; on a level; as, moving horizontally.
• TAKE
  Taken. Chaucer.
• ANYTHINGARIAN
  One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
• TAKE-OFF
  An imitation, especially in the way of caricature.
• HORIZONTAL
  1. Pertaining to, or near, the horizon. "Horizontal misty air." Milton. 2. Parallel to the horizon; on a level; as, a horizontalline or surface. 3. Measured or contained in a plane of the horizon; as, horizontal distance. Horizontal drill,
• HORIZONTALITY
  The state or quality of being horizontal. Kirwan.
• FINDFAULTING
  Apt to censure or cavil; faultfinding; captious. Whitlock.
• TAKE-IN
  Imposition; fraud.
• FINDFAULT
  A censurer or caviler.
• CONFORMATION
  1. The act of conforming; the act of producing conformity. The conformation of our hearts and lives to the duties of true religion and morality. I. Watts. 2. The state of being conformed; agreement; hence; structure, as depending on
• FITTEDNESS
  The state or quality of being fitted; adaptation. Dr. H. More.
• FITTING
  Anything used in fitting up; especially ,
• FIND
  findan; akin to D. vinden, OS. & OHG. findan, G. finden, Dan. finde, icel. & Sw. finna, Goth. fin; and perh. to L. petere to seek, Gr. pat 1. To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new,
• TAKE-UP
  That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine for drawing up the slack thread as the needle rises, in completing a stitch.
• CRANIOMETRY
  The art or act of measuring skulls.
• FITTABLE
  Suitable; fit. Sherwood.
• TAKING-OFF
  Removal; murder. See To take off , under Take, v. t. The deep damnation of his taking-off. Shak.
• APPARATUS
  A collection of organs all of which unite in a common function; as, the respiratory apparatus. (more info) 1. Things provided as means to some end. 2. Hence: A full collection or set of implements, or utensils, for a given duty, experimental or
• MALCONFORMATION
  Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts.
• UNMISTAKABLE
  Incapable of being mistaken or misunderstood; clear; plain; obvious; evident. -- Un`mis*tak"a*bly, adv.
• LEAVE-TAKING
  Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.
• MISTAKING
  An error; a mistake. Shak.
• MISTAKINGLY
  Erroneously.
• OUTTAKE
  Except. R. of Brunne.
• STAKTOMETER
  A drop measurer; a glass tube tapering to a small orifice at the point, and having a bulb in the middle, used for finding the number of drops in equal quantities of different liquids. See Pipette. Sir D. Brewster.
• SIDE-TAKING
  A taking sides, as with a party, sect, or faction. Bp. Hall.
• OUTFITTER
  One who furnishes outfits for a voyage, a journey, or a business.
• MISTAKEN
  1. Being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion or a misconception; as, a mistaken man; he is mistaken. 2. Erroneous; wrong; as, a mistaken notion.
• UNDERTAKING
  1. The act of one who undertakes, or engages in, any project or business. Hakluyt. 2. That which is undertaken; any business, work, or project which a person engages in, or attempts to perform; an enterprise. 3. Specifically, the business of an
• RETAKE
  1. To take or receive again. 2. To take from a captor; to recapture; as, to retake a ship or prisoners.
• MISTAKER
  One who mistakes. Well meaning ignorance of some mistakers. Bp. Hall.