Word Meanings - CONVENTIONALIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. To make conventional; to bring under the influence of, or cause to conform to, conventional rules; to establish by usage. To represent by selecting the important features and those which are expressible in the medium employed, and omitting the
Additional info about word: CONVENTIONALIZE
1. To make conventional; to bring under the influence of, or cause to conform to, conventional rules; to establish by usage. To represent by selecting the important features and those which are expressible in the medium employed, and omitting the others. To represent according to an established principle, whether religious or traditional, or based upon certain artistic rules of supposed importance.
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- BRANDLING; BRANDLIN
See WORM - UNDERDOER
One who underdoes; a shirk. - BROKERY
The business of a broker. And with extorting, cozening, forfeiting, And tricks belonging unto brokery. Marlowe. - BREVIARY
summary, abridgment, neut. noun fr. breviarius abridged, fr. brevis 1. An abridgment; a compend; an epitome; a brief account or summary. A book entitled the abridgment or breviary of those roots that are to be cut up or gathered. Holland. 2. A - UNDERBRED
Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith. - BRITTLELY
In a brittle manner. Sherwood. - UNDERSECRETARY
A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury. - BRAND IRON
1. A branding iron. 2. A trivet to set a pot on. Huloet. 3. The horizontal bar of an andiron. - CAUSEFUL
Having a cause. - BRAZIL NUT
An oily, three-sided nut, the seed of the Bertholletia excelsa; the cream nut. Note: From eighteen to twenty-four of the seed or "nuts" grow in a hard and nearly globular shell. - UNDERPLOT
1. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. Dryden. 2. A clandestine scheme; a trick. Addison. - BRAST
To burst. And both his yën braste out of his face. Chaucer. Dreadfull furies which their chains have brast. Spenser. - UNDERNICENESS
A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety. - BREAKMAN
See BRAKEMAN - UNDERSOIL
The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil. - UNDERDOLVEN
p. p. of Underdelve. - BROID
To braid. Chaucer. - BROIDERER
One who embroiders. - BRUISEWORT
A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey. - CONVENTIONALLY
In a conventional manner. - BREATHE
Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3. - COUNTERBRACE
To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another. - UNEMPLOYMENT
Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent. - OPPROBRIOUS
1. Expressive of opprobrium; attaching disgrace; reproachful; scurrilous; as, opprobrious language. They . . . vindicate themselves in terms no less opprobrious than those by which they are attacked. Addison. 2. Infamous; despised; rendered - TECTIBRANCHIA
See TECTIBRANCHIATA - CREBRICOSTATE
Marked with closely set ribs or ridges. - MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - CAMBRIC
1. A fine, thin, and white fabric made of flax or linen. He hath ribbons of all the colors i' the rainbow; . . . inkles, caddises, cambrics, lawns. Shak. 2. A fabric made, in imitation of linen cambric, of fine, hardspun cotton, often with figures - BRASIER; BRAZIER
An artificer who works in brass. Franklin. - TOOTHBRUSH
A brush for cleaning the teeth.